Experience life as a microbe!
Your goal is to survive as long as possible and divide as many times as you can to repopulate your species after a disturbance in the soil.
You’ll navigate a dynamic, continuously changing ecosystem with a variety of predators, hazards, and resources you can use strategically to your advantage.
Cellscape is a little different each time you play, with populations and the structure of the landscape around you all shifting in response to one another. Bacteria build soil clusters, which create the foundations for an increasingly complex habitat, and they provide food for smaller flagellates like yourself, which in turn provide food for larger predators. Some predators are active, while others are passive. Some have preferences, others are generalists.
All artwork is hand-drawn by myself, inspired by real microbes.
Explore a developing ecosystem
A dynamic soil environment that starts as loose mineral particles and gradually develops into increasingly large soil clusters. As the habitat develops, you'll encounter more unique species and environmental features that can affect you in different ways.
Gameplay gets more complex and strategic as the ecosystem develops
Break open special clusters and collect bonus bacteria
NPC flagellates wander, eat bacteria, and divide to grow their own populations
Predators and other creatures with unique behaviours depending on the species
Populations rise and fall naturally based on ecological interactions
Various types of bacteria with different effects when you eat them (many more to come!)
Some bacteria form biofilms with effects that can help or harm you. Sticky biofilms can slow you down, some have chemical effects that cause confusion, make you more attractive to predators, or poison you, while others can have healing or shielding effects. Biofilms can be a great resource, but only if you learn how to navigate them safely!
Planned features:
Many more types of bacteria, flagellates, and predators
Hunger mechanic
More unique hazards such as parasites which will reduce your growth stage
Fungi
Plant roots creating special zones with various effects on the microbial community
Steam achievements!
