ported2browserTHE INDEPENDENT FIELD GUIDE

INCREMENTAL / WEB-NATIVE

Evolve.

Begin as protoplasm and work through an incremental civilization game. Evolve combines clicking, idle production and resource management. Its opening RNA action is a small starting point for a much larger system.

Web-nativePointer first
Open original game ↗ (opens a new tab)

Opens the project’s game host.

Evolve project illustration
Actual opening interface of Evolve, captured October 26, 2026. It records the entry screen, not a completed session. Source & credits (opens a new tab)
EXPLORE THIS COLLECTIONStrategy & simulation ↗Incremental & story ↗Build & experiment ↗Growing worlds ↗

YOUR FIRST SESSION

Your first few moves.

Jump to controls ↓
  1. 01

    Use the RNA action

    Watch the opening counter change before looking for a later-game route.

  2. 02

    Read the next available choice

    Let the game introduce the next resource or upgrade.

  3. 03

    Inspect Settings early

    Locate a backup option before a long session.

KEEP THIS HANDY

Controls at a glance.

Action buttons
Read the cost and result, then choose the resource or development action.
Resource panel / message log
Inspect amounts, capacity, production and recent changes.
Settings
Find saving, export/import and display controls.

Use the opening to learn the panels

The first screen separates a resource panel, a message log and the available action. Follow one click across those regions. A changing amount, a storage limit and a production rate answer different questions. Learning where to read them helps when later screens offer many more actions.

Expand around the next constraint

The maintainer describes both idle mechanics and micromanagement. Waiting is useful only when the needed resource can still accumulate. As a planning habit, identify whether the next purchase lacks stock, capacity or a prerequisite before changing several systems at once. This is a general diagnostic approach, not a prescribed optimal evolution path.

Read reset labels before using them

The current Settings interface distinguishes ordinary save functions from reset actions. Its warning explicitly says that a full wipe is not a prestige mechanic. Use an export as a backup and leave destructive controls alone while learning. This guide does not promise that a save from another fork or version will import correctly.

BEFORE YOU CLOSE THE TAB

What happens to your progress?

Settings exposes save and export/import controls. Keep a separate export and read the distinction between prestige and destructive resets.

Check the save and backup guide ↗

A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS

Before the next click.

Is it only a clicker?

The project describes clicking, idle production and micromanagement across a civilization’s development.

Can I reset just to get unstuck?

Read the exact control. A destructive wipe and a prestige action have different consequences; keep an export first.

Follow the source.

Demagorddon / pmotschmann and Evolve contributors. Licence notice. MPL-2.0.

Latest collected source change: 1.4.1 (opens a new tab) . Repository activity does not identify the hosted game version.

All media and source credits ↗
KEEP EXPLORING

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