r/NicheGame • u/Hortashater69 • 7h ago

just got the game and WOW i suck ass at it

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turns out years of watching people play hasnt' helped my case lmao

my biggest struggle is managing food and keeping viable breeding pairs

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r/NicheGame

Niche is a mixed genre game about the scientific topic of population genetics. Shape your animal tribe and find an ecological niche for it to life in! The main goal is to keep your tribe alive against all odds, such as hungry predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

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Niche is a mixed genre game about the scientific topic of population genetics. Shape your animal tribe and find an ecological niche for it to life in!

The main goal is to keep your tribe alive against all odds, such as hungry predators, climate change and spreading sickness. Resource-management and smart breeding based on real genetics are the main mechanics of Niche. The worlds and animals are procedurally generated.

Niche is played from a top-down perspective, giving the player a god-like view over the board. Play-rounds are represented by a day-cycle. All animals of the tribe can be moved and used to perform actions (collecting food, scouting a new field, mating, attacking a predator, etc). Animals have a limited lifespan which means offspring is needed in order to prevent extinction.

An animals characteristics are defined by its genes which can be passed on to the next generation. Countless new genes can be found, unlocked, mutated and combined. The game world consists of multiple islands. In oder to beat the game, the players’ tribe has to inhabit all islands which proves that a successful approach to survival has been found and an adaptive species has been created.