Loopbound
Escheria · 2026 · Incremental, Idler, Time Management, Resource Management, Time Travel
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 32 📉 Recent reviews down 63%
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About Loopbound
Loopbound is a narrative incremental game where you play as a traveller trapped in a time loop. Each cycle brings you a little closer to unravelling the mystery of your existence as you explore different eras and dimensions and make choices that shape your path.In each cycle you gather resources, face decay and survival, and unlock new actions and worlds. What you achieve in one cycle carries over to the next, so each run takes you further. The story unfolds through the places you visit and the events you encounter along the way.Key features:
- Loops with persistent progression: Die, respawn, and try again; permanent upgrades and unlocked automation carry over between cycles.
- Survival and decay: Manage hunger, poison, and resources; time and your actions affect your condition and your options.
- Multiple worlds: Journey through different worlds, each with its own rules and possibilities.
- Skill system: Level up skills that speed up actions and unlock new options.
- Automation: After repeating tasks manually, you can automate them to progress while you plan your next move.
- Integrated narrative: The story is built from world states, events, and the choices you make in each loop.
- Cloud save: Your save syncs with Steam Cloud so you can continue on another device.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise this early access automation incremental as a solid successor to Increlution with polished UI/UX, engaging mechanics that evolve across playthroughs, and a responsive developer, offering good content value for the price. The main complaints revolve around excessive downtime between runs and linear early progression—issues inherent to the genre—along with desires for more varied content areas and the ability to use unlocked features across all worlds sooner to reduce waiting periods.
Thank for making this game. Increlution is one of my all time favorite and this game have potential to be better than that. However it suffer the same problem as game of this type and that is too much waiting time between run and too linear in early game. My suggestion is 1. Fluidity is good idea but I think it should work with all world after unlock included the world the not complete yet. This should reduce wait time between run significantly. 2. Extra action that reward risky play. For example in green world, collect 8 item without using them should unlock new crafting item that very powerful.2 found this helpful
Surprisingly well-done automation incremental title. Still in development, but a lot of a decent amount of content for the price point. Looking forward to it's success. Great UI and UX.1 found this helpful
Increlution fan here. Enjoying the game right now, can't wait to see future updates.1 found this helpful
Boring plot, no real visuals, and unexciting gameplay that boils down to pressing the same buttons on repeat until you've done it enough times that the game lets you progress. Even the supposed "difficult area" only has a basic traversal restriction, which matters very little since you'll just spam training then make a loop. The incentives to do past areas again are abysmally low, so much so that until you have several unlocked for greater time skip speed it is never better to do them. From the forum post on AI usage the dev seems to think that they've got a good enough grasp on interesting mechanics to forego the story and visuals to a large extent, but they really don't. It doesn't matter how complicated the different resources are to keep track of in your head when any player can easily beat almost any section through sheer brute force. Terrible.
It's a game heavily inspired by Increlution, if you've played that, you know what this is. I think the dev themselves are a fan of Increlution too so that's awesome. The dev is also very involved in the community. Just remember, before you buy, it's an EA, so it's not finished yet. The game does have its shortcomings, and I do feel some areas could be worked more - as well as also introduce more areas. On the other hand, it's still like, 0.5.10 or something, so there's bound to be more gameplay. Anyway, I just wanted to leave my own review, this is one of those games that you cannot say an objective single "yes" or "no", it's "yes if you liked Increlution - but no if you don't like time-loop-related idlers", or "not yet if you are afraid your saves might get reset - but yes if you wait for a more stable version". Also keep in mind that this is *inspired* by Increlution, it's *not* that game. It's its own game. Anyway, hope the dev makes more stuff in the future, so I'm supporting this.
if you like increlution, you will like this game
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