It Hungers

A GMTK jam 2024 game about growing a meat host.

Start:

You start as a weak maggot, being able only to eat rotting corpses. Slowly but surely you will gain enough points to upgrade your host and unlock new characters.

There are 4 max tiers (starting at 0). The last one being a "god mode" where you can buy infinite amounts of creatures.

Tips & Mechanics:

Points - everything in this game has points. Starting from the berries that get eaten by bunnies, and ending with you and your host. If an entity overeats (reaches it's point maximum) it will die, but will remain as a rotting corpse with half of their points removed, so your maggots can eat that corpse to gain leftover points. When your meat counter at the top becomes yellow that means you are ready to get devoured by the host.

Passive Income - as your host grows, spawn points of food and animals that are close to it will get taken over and be turned in to passive income.

Animals will automatically eat anything in their eat area, so you can try and make them run away from you towards their food, because food gives them points.