Guiding Spirit

Guiding Spirit is a tribe management game set in the Paleolithic, where you guide a tribe of ancient humans through technological advancement towards the Neolithic.

Use a detailed jobs system to define tasks for your tribe members, like gathering resources or crafting items with a complex crafting system where each input can change the outcome.

Assign the jobs you've created to individual tribe members and watch them work based on their schedule.

As they work, your tribe gains lore cards representing knowledge about various aspects of the world around them.

Use these lore cards to improve efficiency of gathering or crafting for specific objects. Use a combination of multiple cards with appropriate lore aspects to unlock new technologies.

Featuring a complex status effects system to represent basic needs like food and sleep as well as injuries from combat, that applies not only to your tribe members but also to the wildlife.

The game is currently in the prototyping stage, so the amount of content is very limited. The goal of this free demo is to gauge interest and gather feedback on the game's mechanics to make them as fun and engaging as possible, so please don't hesitate to post your impressions. Full release of the game will be a paid product, but it might take a while to get there because it's a solo dev project.

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