Working Class Monsters
Recruit goblins, zombies, and yetis for your monster farm! Open packs, assign workers, clear tiles to expand, discover powerful altars, and climb the talent tree. Casual incremental management!
Working Class Monsters is a casual incremental game where explore and build as much wealth as possible. Buy packs, expand your randomly generated lands & place monsters to gain rich bonuses.
- Buy packs
- Choose & place monsters on the grid
- Collect their gold
- Clear mountains to reveal new lands
- Level up & pick powerful perks in the talent tree
- Check the collection book to see your progress
- 18 monsters to unlock
- 21 tiles to exploit
- 17 perks to unlock in the talent tree
- Hundreds of combinations to create the most broken economy!
This is a short demo of the first game build. The Steam page is currently waiting approval. Full development of the 1.0 version is underway. But any feedback, suggestions or issues discovered should be shared in the comments.
Your name & contributions will be mentioned in the 1.0 version's credits.
Thanks for helping bring the game to life!
Development log
- Version 0.1.228 days ago
- Version 0.1.139 days ago
- Version 0.140 days ago
Comments
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Looking good! Seems it needs a little gloss here and there*. Not sure what to do with the produced goods...but maybe I'm still discovering. Looking forward to see more!
*multiple menus open at the same time.
* Full scale UI needs work
* Click off - close modals
*Coin icons cover tiles - not sure what to do there...
Hey! Thanks for checking it out & appreicate the feedback a lot!
I'd like to see this grow to its' potential. You have the power!
Love to hear that! I've got some exciting updates & features dropping next week
does the satyr forager collect/do anything? because it doesn't seem to
I'll take a look. But it places elk, cactus, bluecap mushrooms & fish in adjacent tiles (if the adjacent tile is the correct type)
my only problem with the game is that it doesn't save, and sometimes bugs happen that require you to reload the page, losing all progress
fun game otherwise!
Hey, thanks for checking it out & I agree. I'll be releasing a big update this weekend. Saved progress will be coming shortly after that. Hope you'll check out the new updates!
I really, really, REALLY want a "collect all" button PLEASE!!
I agree with this, would be a nice qol addition
It's incoming! :D
Yaaayyy!!! Super looking forward to it!
I've tried the new update! Storage is a great addition! I think the altars are too common, I got like 8 altars next to each other. One huge upgrade would be a monster or an altar that collects gold automatically. Maybe a monster with a radius of collecting? What are the same type monsters do with each other when they are happy for each other? Is there a game mechanic behind it or it's just a little fun feature?
Cheers for checking it out. Yeah there's some issues with the buildings. I'm gonna be reworking that a fair bit. It doesn't feel special enough to find those.
There's bonuses behind creature types being adjacent yeah, it's just not well illustrated in game! But it results in +work speed / quantity of items produced
Cool feature! Thanks for the answer! Also I forgot to write, but I cannot pick up zombies from grass tiles for some reason. Keep up the good work, waiting for the new update! <3
Oh, that's strange! Thanks for the report & sticking with me for the updates :)
Very fun! Didnt realize I could click on mountains to buy them. Also if you buy a unit and dont want to place it, is the idea that you have to? The pack is a random chance to see the options but I didnt see a way to reroll (buy new pack w/o choosing a unit). Hit a bug after 3 of choosing a unit, not placing it, and then trying to buy a third but the UI was open and I couldnt click it... I could buy more tiles by clicking on the mountains however.
Currently yeah, you need to place the monster. But I'm posting an update in the next couple of days that will allow you to discard the pack for a partial refund. Thanks for that bug report, I'll check it out! I appreciate you checking out the game :)
Great game! I'm really curious about the continuation! I also agree with other people on having a mechanic to store the monsters. Also I was thinking about the gold process and I think it would be cool if the monsters themselves would turn into full gold, and you can pick up the gold when they are gold - so the pop up will not bother the view of other tiles above.
That's a really cool idea. Thanks a bunch for mocking that one up!
Also if you need any help in the design front, just let me know and I can help!
Activating buildings that increase efficiency of monsters production (ex, golden teapot) does not seem to use up any gold
Great catch! Thanks for playing :)
Make a way to store a monster, and then place them elsewhere. Easiest way to allow both moving and "removal". (and let us sell from monster storage)
Right clicking on the world monsters, moves to storage, and then clicking on them in storage, lets us place them on the map, same as when bought. Right click in storage, sells one.
The collection book can double as monster storage?
I love this idea. I'm toying with having a hand of cards that you can mov and the monsters back to when you want to store them. Then perhaps some bonus/synergy effects when monsters are in your hand Vs on the grid.
Thanks for your suggestions and for playing!
great concept, easy and fun to play
Appreciate you playing! Thanks!
wishlist:
- collect all (clicking on gold gets tedious)
- move monster (it is so unsatisfying having no way to optimize my monster positioning)
- sell monster
Solid wishlist. Thanks for that one!
A way to remove unwanted monsters would be good
Agreed. This is top priority. Cheers for checking it out
any way to sell monsters
Not currently but incoming with the next update
Nice game, loved to play it, great progression. But i would love if the game dont pause when i change tab or unfocus the screen, i would like to let the game farming while i do other stuff on my pc like work. but congrats!
Great idea. Thanks for the feedback and for playing!
Love it, only suggestion is a monster removal button, sometimes packs have a monster that cant go anywhere and does nothing forever. or a button to skip selecting a monster from a pack.
Cheers for playing. I agree it feels shit to pack a monster you don't want. I'm playing about with a 'partial refund' button for the next build.
Played the game again. The game lacks a goal. Its just expand your territory and place more monsters and collect more gold. There is no threat, no goal, no quest, no story, nothing. This removes the motivation to play the game for more than 10 minutes (at least for me!).
Thanks for checking it out. That's definitely something I want to improve. Appreciate the feedback!
Lovely game! I love the art, animations, and sounds. One suggestion: please make it easier to click on squares that are above the hired creatures. Currently it can be very hard to expand because the gold buttons block the ability to click on a mountain tile.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely take a look at that :)
The game looks nice, but the moment i click on the gold icon above the creature to get it, the game crashes. dunno if its my problem or a game bug.
Same for me
Thanks. Issue is resolved!
Thanks for this one folks. This issue is resolved now.