
A dark-fantasy incremental game about confronting a rising cult. Seek out worshipers who turned to darker gods and smite them back to the light. Harness their devotion to grow stronger and purge the land of evil - one click at a time.
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Idle Chapel is a dark-fantasy incremental game about confronting a rising cult.
Use your cross to confront cultists and turn them into worshipers:
Worshipers pray and produce devotion, which you can spend on upgrades and new areas:
Reset your run to unlock powerful penance upgrades:
Place ornaments and choose chapel colors to make it your own:
Atmospheric idle/clicker gameplay (3-4h to complete)
12 areas to explore and purify
Dark-fantasy pixel art aesthetic
Penance upgrades for long-term progression
A light narrative thread uncovering what happened
Lo-fi synth soundtrack for a moody vibe
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Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Spain
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Essentially a reskin of digseum with essentially the same gameplay loop and brings nothing new to the table. Not worth wasting money or time on.
Did 100%. Would not recommend. Graphic is nice but there really is no gameplay. One of the most boring idle/incrementals. Nothing to upgrade. Here is the complete list: -dmg -move per round count -dig area (you will max it within 15min) -cash per min Prestige system might as well not exist at all. Feels more like chore than a game.
Idle Chapel propose une approche originale du jeu incrémental en l'enrobant d'une ambiance dark fantasy particulièrement réussie. Derrière son concept simple se cache une boucle de progression fluide et satisfaisante. Les améliorations, les nouvelles zones à purifier et le système de pénitence offrent un bon rythme de progression. Même si l'aventure reste relativement courte, le jeu ne cherche pas à s'étirer artificiellement. Son léger fil narratif apporte une touche de contexte bienvenue. Les amateurs de jeux incrémentaux à l'ambiance atypique y trouveront une expérience concise, efficace et pleine de charme, idéale pour quelques soirées de progression détendue.
I feel like rewiews for this are unfair, and perhaps this is because it is presented as an idle game. It's more like a puzzle game realy, with incremental progression and some idle elements. Because you almost never idle, and your actions reward you beyond what you get by just waiting. Very good and very well designed game. The gameplay is unique and interesting, it genuinely amazed me with how it introduces new mechanics to the same gameplay loop every level. Every time i thought i've seen every possible way to interact with the board, it would throw something new. Presentation is good, music and sounddesign especialy. I enjoyed it very much, and i don't even like puzzle games.
Idle Chapel takes the familiar incremental-idler formula and builds something surprisingly engaging with it. What begins as a straightforward clicker gradually unfolds into a surprisingly deep blend of minimalist strategy and resource management, all wrapped around a genuinely unique premise: An Evil Cult has swayed the populace to its evil ways and its up to you sway them back into the good graces of the Lord(?). This game caught me completely off guard. Every new mechanic adds another layer of decision-making without ever becoming overwhelming, making progression consistently satisfying. I've only just scratched the surface, but I can already tell this is one of those games that's going to quietly consume far more hours than I intended. If you're a fan of incremental games and minimalist dungeon crawlers with a dose of resource management, than look no further, this is an easy recommendation.
I really liked this game, but I feel like it's really bare bones. I don't know why "Resource Management" is a tag, cause there's none of that. I feel like this game would be a lot better if there wasn't a prestige system. It just pads the time of the game, which is dumb and I don't like. The better system would be is, once you get to level 5 and can prestige, you just get the points, and keep going. I HATE HATE [b] H A T E [/b] prestige systems that add NOTHING to the game and this is one of them. I had fun...for about an hour. I just left the game on to get the achievements. I wish there was more to the game and the prestige system being done away with. For 7 bucks, it's not the worst thing ever, but it's just boring. Honestly, if there wasn't the prestige system, I'd be rating this positively, but it just ruins the game and makes it a slog. Also the Hall of Mirrors level was the dumbest ♥♥♥♥ ever. There was no way to find out accurately where to click, you just click, click, click until you get it. TL:DR: So many of the systems in this game are pointless. If not the whole game is pointless.
It's alright, I'm not sure if I can recommend it but I don't think it deserves a negative review. I don't think there's anything exceptional about the game but its overall quite good, the visuals are nice, so is the sound design, and I generally like the ideas and their implementations. Near the end it felt a bit boring but thankfully that didn't last long since it was the end game, plus the Unmaker fight is kind of cool. As others pointed out, the game is very similar to Digseum though, but I haven't played that one so I can't really speak on it. There were some visual errors here and there that were fixed by alt tabbing.
Tad too repetitive. Prestige adds no other system or gameplay.
100% achievements in ~2.5h Heavily inspired by Digseum This game's mechanics are different for the sake of being different, it's not done in an interesting way Penance is half baked and way too little content
Great art. Pretty low impact for an incremental game.
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