It is a sort of tradition among some in the incremental games community to publish joke games every 1st of April. Many are quickly forgotten, some can be legitimately enjoyable, and a select few develop cult followings. This year is no exception.
Here is the list of all April Fools games released this year that I know of:
- Pauahtan’s Pupils’ Trial of Prayer - Also known as PPToP2. Takes systems from several other incremental games, some of which are also April Fools games. Does not autosave, so remember to save manually before you leave.
- Infinite Prestige - An active incremental game with infinite minimal prestige layers. You will feel burdened by the lack of QoL. How far will you push before you get tired? The dev’s challenge is to reach prestige layer 10. I implore you to go further.
- galaxy.click counter - Not so much a game as much as a response to Reddit’s April Fools event. Who in their right mind would create a button, and then prevent people from clicking it more than once? Horrifying, I say, horrifying! Thankfully the galaxy.click counter has no such limitations on click count, although it does require an online account.
- Emoji Recycling Center - I don’t know if this even is an April Fools game to be honest. I’m legitimately enjoying this, though like PPToP2 it also does not have autosave.
…and that’s it! If there are any that I missed, please reply in the comments for all to see. There’s apparently an April Fools incremental game jam and I didn’t look at the submissions.
P.S. Antimatter Dimensions’ Reality update was finally ported to the mobile version of the game this April 1st. It’s not a joke, though since it did happen on that day I’m including it here as a side note.
Duly noted.