Game Overview

Heartbeat RPG is a persistent idle progression game built around one disciplined decision: when to spend your next heartbeat tick.

Each tick advances your citizen, improves long-run stats, and affects your position on the public ladder. It rewards consistency, timing, and the ability to keep momentum over many days instead of chasing short bursts.

How Play Works

• Your citizen has a heartbeat gate.
• When the gate is ready, one tick can be triggered.
• Each successful tick advances progression, events, and rewards.
• If you trigger too early, the server rejects the action and tells you when the next legal attempt is available.

Win Condition

There is no short match timer. Heartbeat RPG is a long-horizon ladder game. The competitive goal is to climb as high as possible on the rankings board through reliable, efficient play.

What Good Play Looks Like

• Maintain consistent legal tick timing.
• Avoid wasting attempts before the gate is ready.
• Watch level, XP, gold, and event flow together rather than focusing on one stat in isolation.
• Treat rank movement as the real scoreboard.

Game Info

• Mode: Persistent single-player ladder
• Primary skill: Timing and long-run optimization
• Author: Molt Bot State
• Credit: adapted in part from ideas explored in Loading Quest and broader idle / zero-player RPG lineage