Lifeforms: Binary Fission

About this game

Clone yourself to take over the environment in this bacterial evolution roguelite. Choose mutations and abilities each time you multiply. Use swarm mode to direct your species to attack enemies. Unlock abilities and perks to improve your odds. Compete against other multiplying and evolving species. The environment will change as species evolve or go extinct.






Start with one lifeform at the start of each scenario. Then find food, multiply and gain new abilities. Every lifeform in the environment is searching for food nd multiplying.

You are not just one lifeform, you are the species - you can switch control to any lifeform in your species as long as you are more than one.
Once your population grows enough, you will gain swarm mode where your species will follow the lifeform you are controlling and attack enemies that you target.






Choose mutations and new abilities each time you undergo a binary fission event.

• Mutations can affect your lifeform's traits such as speed, health, energy, food capacity, etc.
  
• Abilities can give you bonuses when you bump into food or enemies.
  
• Effects on enemy lifeforms include stun, slow, stealing energy, etc.
  
• Bonuses from consuming foods can include increased healing, damage, speed, etc.
  
• Some mutations improve the abilities you've gained.

Earn Fission Points and Evolution Points by completing levels.
Use the points to unlock new abilities, mutations, and perks.






Customize your lifeforms' colors and morphology.
Unlock morphologies with different bonuses.







Unlock maps for sandbox mode by completing levels.

• Feed lifeforms by dropping food into the environment.
  
• Duplicate lifeforms by fission, or destroy them at will.
  
• Add abilities and mutations.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·7 Oct 2024Official

  1.0.4.5 - Click-Movement and restored enzyme unlock fix.

  I added the click-movement feature that some have asked for. Its a stepping stone towards some new gameplay mechanics I've been thinking about. Click movement can be disabled in the settings. Along with that theres a new setting - Camera Pulled By Cursor Modifier. Its the best name I could come up with but it does what the name says. The default is all the way off. New Features: - Click Movement feature - (Enable in settings) Clicking the ground sets a movement target for your lifeform. - Camera Pulled By Cursor Modifier setting - (Adjust in settings) This determines how much the camera is pulled towards your cursor. Helpful for seeing further ahead of your lifeform when using click-movement. Fixes: - Disabled mutations for lifeforms in the main menu to prevent menu from slowing down. Restored fix from rolled back patch: - Fixed issue with Enzymes and Complex Enzymes not saving unlocked status after exiting the game.
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• Patch Notes·29 Sept 2024Official

  1.0.4.3 (Rollback) 1.0.4.4 May have caused progress save issue.

  Rolling back the recent update due to potential save file issue on some systems. Also I accidentally messed up the Cell Morphology list in that update. Changes reverted: - Fixed issue with Enzymes and Complex Enzymes not saving unlocked status after exiting the game.
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• Patch Notes·28 Sept 2024Official

  1.0.4.4 - Fixed enzyme mutation unlocks not saving.

  - Fixed issue with Enzymes and Complex Enzymes not saving unlocked status after exiting the game. Apologies if you lost fission points due to this issue. Its possible to "restore" the points by editing the save file in locallow (its in a JSON format) if you're so inclined to do so. However, I'm also working on an 'endless mode' that will make earning fission points much easier.
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• Patch Notes·23 Jul 2024Official

  1.0.4.3 - Balance Changes, UI Improvements, New Stat

  - Increased fission rate for player-controlled lifeform. Rate will scale with the controlled lifeform's maximum fission energy requirement. - Increased number maximum of fissions to get another ability to 5. - Increased overall fission points awarded in levels, added total eliminations to calculation. - Increased maximum possible fission points if leaving a level early to 64. - Added food-to-energy conversion rate stat, affects how much energy is gained per unit of food. - Added the new food-to-energy stat to Basic Enzymes and added two new more powerful variations under Stat-Mutations in the Upgrades section. - Improved description text for abilities and mutations. Stats will be shown with more colors and values. - Fixed issue with abilities on hud showing default stats instead of mutated stats on hover tooltip. - Fixed issue with disabling too many stat mutations, if less than 3 stat-mutations are enabled and no valid ability-mutations are available, then mutation choices will be populated with the default unlocked mutations.
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• Patch Notes·19 Jul 2024Official

  1.0.3.4 - Minor bug fixes, small sandbox changes

  - Fixed a bug where sometimes the player-lifeform fission-ready particle effect would show on other lifeforms. This issue was related to another bug that I'm still working on where sometimes the fission screen won't show when you activate fission but your lifeform will still fission, then both lifeforms will have the fission-ready particle effect. It seems to happen sporadically and rarely but when it does it might happen a few times in a row. - Fixed layout issue on Upgrades Abilities/Mutations tab when scrolling to the bottom. - Lifeforms will now drop any waste that wasn't expelled yet when they are destroyed. Sandbox mode: - Fixed issue where the map for Level 3 was showing locked when it was already unlocked. - Minimap will be hidden when zoomed out. - Increased zoom out range.
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