Idle · strategy · beta

Hyphelia Idle

One thread in a wound in a tree. The tree does not know.

A fungal colony of alien origin, inside a living tree. The network is the interface, the tree is the stake: break it down too fast and it dies.

Play now, free Screenshots

Genre: Slow idle, strategy
Runs on: Browser, on desktop; also playable on a phone
Language: Hungarian only
Price: Free, no sign-up
Saves: Every 30 seconds, portable with a text export
Offline progress: For 8–12 hours, at 25% efficiency
Status: Beta: the first two hosts are playable

5tissues

2hosts in the beta

12upgrades

5inherited traits

8–12hours offline

About the game

The spore arrived inside a meteorite and ended up in a wound in a tree. You are the colony: there is no avatar and no narrator, only the network, growing from tissue to tissue. Upgrades are nodes on the network, a thread takes minutes to reach them, and what has grown stays grown.

The colony cannot see the tree, it only measures its sap pressure. Living tissue pays fast, but the tree feels the pace of the decay, and it does not recover from a pace that is too fast. Progress is slow on purpose: one tree lasts several sessions, and every direction is a decision.

In the end the colony grows a fruiting body, sheds its spores and carries on in a new host. The tree stays behind alive or dead, and that has consequences.

Features

The network is the interface

Upgrades are not in a list, they are nodes on the network. The picture is generated by code, and every save gets a colony of its own shape.

Pace kills

Sap pressure reacts to the pace of the decay, with the square of it. The same biomass taken slowly does not kill the tree.

Shape matters

Direction decides the tissue, depth the transport loss, branching the enzyme output.

Five tissues

Bark, sapwood, root, heartwood and soil. Harder tissue needs enzymes and gives more, but more slowly.

Spores and a new host

The network inside the host is lost. Spores, inherited traits and the soil network stay, and a tree left alive gives a lasting bonus.

Glimpses

Now and then a sentence or two from the outside world: foresters, hikers, a lab note. They see the tree, you never do.

Screenshots

click an image to enlarge it

The network in the first half hour: bark branches, upgrade nodes and the panel of a selected node. — The first half hour

Four tissues in one network, and a glimpse from the outside world. — Tissues and a glimpse

The tree is dying: the living tissue fades, sap pressure is below 25. — A dying host

After the spores: the dead host, the soil network, neighbouring roots and inherited traits. — After the spores

Good to know

Beta. The first two hosts are playable; further hosts and the endings come in a later update. Very few people have tried the numbers so far, so they may change. Bugs and ideas are welcome on Discord.

The game itself is in Hungarian only; the screenshots show the Hungarian interface.

Your save is stored in your browser, on this site. Clearing your browser data also clears the save, so it is worth using the game’s own save export.

The game is silent. With a mouse or a finger: click a node and decide on its panel. Zoom with the mouse wheel or two fingers.

Try it now

Hyphelia Idle runs in your browser, with no install and no sign-up.

Launch the game

More games

all in one place

DrugDealer ProTrading strategy · economic sim

WeedCremental IncIdle · growing simulator

NomalyHero RPG IdleIdle party RPG

PyramidleIdle · Egyptian management

KitörésIdle · a volcano from below

Diótörő IdleClicker · idle

DOOMARIOArcade · FPS and platformer