You have been sent to another galaxy with the objective of creating a sample containing all six traits that is required for humanity's survival.

Mine alien ores, bring them back to your laboratory, reveal their hidden traits and combine them into increasingly valuable samples. But some ores are unstable. Attuning them also causes samples to go unstable as well. If you are too slow to process them, they disappear. 

Combining two samples are almost never compatible. Some traits cancel each other. Others cause negative effects. One trait even makes the resulting sample unstable!

You have to experiment to learn more. Upgrade your equipment. Automate your operation.

How to Play

Almost everything in the game uses left click to operate. Mining, buttons, drag-n-drop elements. New ore deposits continously appear and increased tiers become available as you upgrade.

Right clicking in the laboratory will reclaim a machine you do not want for full materia cost.

  • Resonator reveals the traits of mined ores and attunes them to create samples. Unstable minerals need to be analyzed before they dissipate. They also sometimes contain extra traits you might need!
  • Reclaimer is the main source of economy. Consumes attuned samples to generate materia (game's currency). Powerful traits multiply the amount gained.
  • Harmonizer is used to combine two samples and inherit their traits. They are not always compatible. You have to figure out what each trait does yourself.
  • Augmenter consumes samples to boost your mining capabilities. Each trait in a sample does something different. You can experiment to see what each trait does.

The Goal

There are six (gibberish) traits to discover in total. Your objective is to create one sample containing all six at the same time. Creating such a sample ends the game (for the jam version)

The Team

Programming and design -@tharky

Pixel art - @dedos-demos

Music and sounds - @SecondPlaced

Fonts - @managore, @kenney

Made for Wanna Jam 2026 (Theme: Unstable)
Built a web version using 2dog. Thanks to all of its contributors.
Completely human-made. Expect bugs. It's a jam game. It's as unstable as the theme suggests.
Published 5 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
Rating
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorsTharky, Dedos Demos, SecondPlaced
Made withGodot
Tags2D, Godot, Incremental, Pixel Art
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
ContentNo generative AI was used

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