Marrow March

Incremental games with prestige worth resetting for

Updated

Prestige is the moment an incremental game asks you to give everything up for something permanent. Done well it is the best part of the genre. These are games whose resets are worth it.

We make Marrow March, so it is on this list; it is marked as ours and it comes last. The rest are games we would point a friend to.

  1. Antimatter Dimensions

    Browser, Steam, mobile · Free

    Layer on layer: Infinity, then Eternity, then Reality, each reset changing the rules of the game rather than just its numbers.

  2. Kittens Game

    Browser, mobile · Free

    A slow, deep village builder. Resetting carries paragon and karma into the next village, and the game rewards knowing when to do it.

  3. Trimps

    Browser · Free

    Breed an army of trimps and fight through zone after zone; portalling resets the world for helium, which buys permanent perks for the next run.

  4. Realm Grinder

    Divine Games · Steam

    Pick good, evil or neutral factions; abdicating resets the realm for gems, and reincarnation and ascension open deeper layers of choices.

  5. Clicker Heroes

    Playsaurus · Browser, Steam, mobile · Free

    Ascending trades your heroes for hero souls that level up ancients; transcendence is the second, longer reset.

  6. NGU Idle

    4G · Steam

    Rebirth is the heartbeat: short runs that feed energy, magic and a sprawl of systems, with a sense of humour to match.

  7. Idle Slayer

    Steam, mobile

    A running, slaying idler; ascending turns your progress into points for a large skill tree.

  8. Marrow MarchOur game

    Enes (us) · Desktop browser · Free

    Two kinds of reset. When the wall falls, a run ends but its Essence and the Essence Tree are kept. After a real fall, a whole line of commanders can end on purpose: everything it built is lost and turned into Legacy for the Ancestral Sky, whose gifts make every later line climb faster.

How we chose

We picked games where the reset changes how you play, not only how fast the numbers grow, and where the first prestige comes early enough to learn from.

Questions

What does prestige mean in an incremental game?

Giving up your current progress for a permanent bonus that makes the next run faster. Many games stack several prestige layers, each resetting more and paying more.

Which incremental game has the best prestige system?

Antimatter Dimensions is often named for how each layer changes the rules; Cookie Clicker and Clicker Heroes are the classic starting points.

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