Dwarfs: There and Back Again

Play:

Full screen Touch: Tap to draft dwarfs and buy upgrades — pinch-zoom in first on a phone, the layout is not scaled for small screens · Keyboard: Mouse click (no keyboard required)

About:

A js13k 2019 competition entry (ranked 8th of 200) that dresses a standard idle-clicker loop in a genuine authored arc: each upgrade visibly reshapes the forest, and the tech tree ends in a scripted turn nobody sees coming. Reviewed on leetdom — the page's fixed-width viewport meta renders everything at roughly 40% scale on a phone, so pinch-zoom in for easier tapping on the smaller upgrade buttons.

Credits:

Made by Mark Vasilkov, 2019. Published here under the MIT licence. Source code.

Phone check: 2026-09-07

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Tags:

idle · incremental · js13k · clicker