Grimoire Incremental

Grimoire Incremental is a super engaging incremental game, combining strategy to build up your multipliers and master the magic of the Grimoire. The loop of retiring and building different strategies each run in order to get to the next upgrade for the Grimoire is super engaging and really takes some thinking in order to plan your next build. I love the simple interface and I’m nearing the end of the game with three more achievements left. That being said the game is really hurt by balance, specifically the prophet build in the game. Your third society option has so much power it defines your entire build that run, and they’re all so different that it makes sense to use different ones depending on your upgrades and goals. But the prophet is so underpowered, that it’s not optimal to use it for multiplier notes and it feels awful to use for expeditions that obviously want to use it. This creates a really big roadblock at the 10Qa follower and 20M comprehension expedition. It should be a good build for this with the recent library sprite upgrade you get, but that library sprite upgrade is also so bad that without making it to body augmentation it’s still impossible to make it to the 10Qa followers that the tyrant build can make so easily. A buff to the final library sprites upgrade would infinitely help the prophet build, and making lichdom actually add the follower bonus to your total would also help prophet even be a late game build, but for now tyrant by far reins supreme, and it’s boring building it every run for idle note multiplier.

Grimoire is a great incremental game with unfolding and puzzle mechanics. There is a reason why this game best looking and best playing incremental game of the year! All gameplay is free to try, although I recommend that you support the solo dev with a tip. I’d like to give some definitions. Idle game: passive “numbers go up” activity, eg Melvor Idle. Incremental game: active “numbers get exponentially larger” game, eg Antimatter Dimensions. Unfolding game: active “secret gameplay unlocks, achievement hunting” game, eg CandyBox2. Grimoire is an unfolding puzzle game with the theme of an incremental. Prestige is outwardly used for increasing rune gain speed, but in practice is so you can guess the next power combo through trial and error. It really makes you feel like you are studying an arcane object with branching paths. I love how there is a hint of a storyline through the use of grimoire cards. It was a great brain teaser trying different card combinations to hit the next milestone. The game took me 45 days to complete. Yes there is a definite ending. The UI is stellar. This is a great addition to the genre and I look forward to future projects.

I’ve been having a blast with this one! By far the best thing about this game is the first item in the App Store description - non formulaic gameplay. I really enjoy the fact that as I’ve progressed I’ve needed different strategies and I had a lot of fun experimenting with different upgrade combinations to see which setups were ideal. At one point I was tapping a lot, at another point I was going full idle and at my current progress I think the best is some mix of idling then tapping then idling etc. I can’t put it down (except for the parts where I really should be idling)! Oh and for ads/IAPs there’s nothing except for the option to watch ads for a small multiplier for a good while and an IAP to make it permanent. Pretty low key and unobtrusive; kudos to the developer. I can say the game is not balanced in a way that you need to have the multiplier to progress so that’s also nice, though the multiplier is nice to add a little boost especially early on.