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Wasted Signals

by jordan-the-human
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.47
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.29
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.83
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Submitted as part of the Ludum Dare 59 Game Jam!

Theme : Signal

A small incremental game where you are in a wasteland and you're looking for the source of a signal.
Try not to run out of supplies. Find other survivors and get on the road!

Playable on itch.io : https://jordan-the-human.itch.io/wasted-signals

If link can't be see, you can go on itch.io and go to "jordan-the-human.itch.io/wasted-signals".

This game was created solo.

Please, play this game in fullscreen.

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Tags: #idle, #incremental, #ludum-dare-59, #post-apocalyptic
Genres: strategy
Tools: Unity

Comments17

Jacat
Jacat20 Apr 2026, 13:43
nice try !
Fifut
Fifut20 Apr 2026, 17:27
A good incremental game 👍
TasakaSama
TasakaSama20 Apr 2026, 21:09
Perhaps a bit long for a game jam experience. Well done for your participation!
Sharky3188
Sharky318821 Apr 2026, 12:47
Really simple, but told a fun story of survival and choice. I was a lot more engaged in this than i expected. Really great job. Would have loved to see a tiny bit more polish on the art side to increase the atmosphere, but otherwise really solid.
Acid Infinitely
Acid Infinitely21 Apr 2026, 21:08
Incremental games are always interesting, but this one lacks graphics and a story to understand what’s going on.
Floonace
Floonace23 Apr 2026, 13:43
It's difficult to understand. A little more information or a tutorial would be helpful.
Phlip45
Phlip4524 Apr 2026, 19:02
Balancing food and water was interesting. I think the thing that brings it down the most is I can't actually idle. Clicking outside the window stops the timer from what I can tell (Firefox) and the events that occur also seem to pause the timer. The ability to redistribute points and balance them going up and down is very Armory & Machine, a mobile idle game that is one of the best, so you are in good company there. Have fun out there!
mathemagics25 Apr 2026, 10:58
A pretty good incremental game with a hint of story. Overall, it was interesting to play, but at the beginning nothing is clear, even though the mechanics aren't revealed all at once.
Thank you for the game!
baknik26 Apr 2026, 06:53
Got a few survivors and was fun time
PanDuplan
PanDuplan26 Apr 2026, 09:27
Suprisingly varied game, solid amount of content! Could use some kind of simple map of places found to have at least some visualisation. Interesting to play though!
BushFire29 Apr 2026, 15:58
It's super annoying that the assignments reset when a survivor leaves. I had about 100 survivors, and unlocks an extra, leading me to going into minus, resulting in all my survivors being unassigned. I try to spamclick to reassign, but before I get them back on track, I'm so much in minus that another leave. Rinse and repeat while I try to spam assign people back in line, and survivors leaving one by one. When I finally get out of the death spiral, most of my survivors have left, and I only about 20 left.

I had no clue what the point of starting and stopping the car was?

The trading offers don't reflect the amount actually being traded.
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GanonsSpirit
GanonsSpirit2 May 2026, 05:26
You managed to do a lot with a little. Good job!
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