🥔 Root of the Cult 🕯️

A game by André Castro "Simpleskill" (Tech Lead) & Arhipcev Alex "Sw4p" (Art Lead)
Created for the IGA x Unity Game Jam 2024

(Please play the game in FULLSCREEN for a better player experience)

In the darkest soil, something stirs...
You are the Necrotato — a sentient, unholy potato rooted at the heart of an ancient cult.
From your rotting roots, you grow humans using soul seeds, blood, and black ritual.

Rebuild the cult.
Harvest blood.
Grow life.
And sacrifice it.

🌱 Gameplay Features:

  • 🏗️ Build incubators to grow humans from mystical soul seeds.

  • 🧠 Buy souls from mysterious NPC acolytes, each offering different soul levels.

  • 🩸 Gather blood from the cursed well and feed it to your incubations.

  • 💀 Sacrifice humans for gold to unlock new NPCs and stronger souls.

  • 🧬 Each soul gives your humans unique looks and value — grow wisely.

This game was made in just a few days for the IGA x Unity Game Jam with the theme:
"Potatoes".

We took the theme literally: you are a root... of evil.
A potato with dark power. A Necrotato.

How deep will your roots grow?
And how many must you sacrifice to rise again?

🎮 Controls:

  • WASD – Move

  • Shift – Sprint

  • Ctrl – Crouch

  • Space – Jump

  • E – Interact

  • 1 / 2 / 3 – Select dialogue or interaction options

More information
Published 2 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorsAndré Castro, Sw4py
Made withUnity

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G.C. Katz1 day ago

The song had me HOWLING. I can't believe you composed that just for this jam! Overall really great gameplay as well--intuitive loop and everything worked very smoothly. Could use some balance tweaks--blood felt like it was always the limiting factor--but that's typical of sim games; they just need a lot of iteration and it's hard to do enough in a jam. Terrific work overall.

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