Oh, my apologies, I wasn't meaning to suggest it was *misleading*, just a bit miscategorized. You are right though, there are incrementals that don't have a prestige, either at all or because the "reset" is something forced on you (see games like Increlution, Groundhog Life, Progress Knight, etc)
I think it's also a little fuzzier because it's an RPG, so there has to be *something* seperating the two genres for sanity's sake, but it's hardly a formalized thing!
Ah no worries, though I'd go all the way and say all RPGs with leveling systems have incremental mechanics! After all, progress quest is probably the first thing we could call a incremental/idle game, and is fundamentally just an RPG that plays itself.
Some genres are just vague. I call this incremental because it scratches the same itch other active play incremental games scratch for me. Us gamers like to call anything with a leveling system an RPG, but when you look at the history of table top RPGs, there's a lot more to it than number go up. Action RPGs on the other hand are very much focused on number go up.
I did want to add a new game+ where the enemies and upgrades keep scaling, but I ran out of time. If that were in place, would it firmly place the game in the genre for you? Don't mean to come across argumentative, just curious where we draw the line
Heh, that is a fair point, there's just a myriad of connotations behind the genre of "incremental" that an action RPG doesn't necessarily meet, even though it absolutely satisfies the technical definitions!
I'm not sure if the NG+ option would change where this game stands for me, genre-wise, although it's certainly interesting to try to think of *why* it doesn't change anything, and perhaps I'll end up with an answer that helps me figure out my design crutches and biases, but for now I unfortunately have to say "I don't know why exactly I have this opinion/stance, just that it is the conclusion I'm currently drawing".
Either way, I can at the very least say it was a fun game, unless someone decides to contest the definition of game or something XD
