Beggar's Life

Beggar's Life is an idle incremental game about begging for food and scavenging to survive. You start with nothing and gather resources to unlock skills, power-ups and different paths through life, which can lead you to become a priest, thief, rat lover or pyromaniac.

Gather and use resources

You can beg for food, forage for trinkets, pray for forgiveness or imagine resources into being. What you collect can be concrete, such as breadcrumbs, living, such as cats, or abstract, such as sadness and gratitude. You use resources to craft power-ups: weave a basket to carry more food, sharpen your mind to think faster and endure more guilt, learn to read and study, or build a bond with sewer rats.

Develop your skills

You train in skills including Scavenging, Beggarhood, Animal Love, Cunning, Catkinship, Ratkinship and Introspection. Improving skills makes you more versatile, though some can clash. New actions and power-ups may become available as you develop, but skills do not always guarantee rewards, and some paths can close off others.

Unlock classes

You do not choose a class at the start. Instead, you unlock multi-tiered classes as you meet their requirements, then choose one; each tier grows in scope. You might begin on the streets and serve the church as an Alms Collector, then become an Acolyte or Priest. You can also change paths partway through your life in the Church, moving to the sewers to become a Rat Warden, Pickpocket or Street Philosopher.