Evolving Civilization
Evolving Civilization begins in a pool of primordial ooze with nothing but a button that makes RNA. Click by click you grow a cell, add parts to it and steer it toward intelligence. Once your creature becomes sentient, the screen turns into a town to manage.
This is Peter Motschmann's open-source incremental game Evolve, listed here under a new name. It is almost entirely text and buttons, so it loads quickly in a browser tab and keeps running while you plan your next step.
How to play Evolving Civilization
Click RNA to collect it, then use Form DNA to turn two RNA into one DNA. Spend both on cell parts. Membranes raise how much RNA you can hold, Organelles make RNA automatically, Nuclei convert RNA into DNA, and Eukaryotic Cells raise your DNA cap. Mitochondria make the storage parts stronger.
Next you buy one-time milestones. At some points the game makes you choose a branch, such as Phagocytosis, Chloroplasts or Chitin, and that choice shapes the species and traits you end up with. Buy Sentience to found your first camp.
In the town stage you start by collecting food, lumber and stone with clicks, and later build homes, farms and storage, put citizens to work and start research. Each discovery unlocks new buildings and tabs. Much later, resets give Plasmids that speed up your next run.
Controls
| Action | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gather, build or research | — | Click the button | Tap the button |
| Buy 10, 25 or 100 at once | Hold Ctrl, Shift or Alt and click | — | — |
| Switch tabs | Number keys 1 to 7 | Click the tab | — |
| Check a cost | — | Hover over a button | — |
| Pause | — | Click the pause icon in the top bar | Tap the pause icon |
Tips
- Get a few Organelles before stacking Membranes. Producers keep working while you are away, but extra storage is wasted until you can fill it.
- Prices go up with every copy you buy. Buying dozens of cheap parts can starve you of the RNA you need for the next milestone.
- Hold Shift while clicking in the camp stage to gather or build 25 at a time. It saves a huge number of clicks.
- Read the tooltip carefully before a branch choice. Some paths rule each other out for the whole run.
- Keep an eye on the message log. New discoveries, events and warnings appear there before anywhere else.
If you like Evolving Civilization, try these
Prestige Tree RewrittenDeep idle progress again, with reset layers that feed into one another across a branching tree.
Realm of Ages ClickerGrowing a society from nothing continues here, beginning with a bucket of water and building through the ages.
Questions
Does Evolving Civilization save automatically?
Yes, it saves to your browser as you play. You can also copy your save out as text from Settings to keep a backup.
What happens while I am away?
After a break of at least two minutes, the time you missed comes back as accelerated time. The game then runs at double speed until that time is used up.
Why is a button dark?
Dimmed buttons are ones you lack the resources for right now. Point at one to read its price, and build producers so the resources come in on their own.
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