Kill the Lich

Kill the Lich is an incremental game about compressing time and routing resources through a growing network of actions. Resources accumulate automatically, but you can speed their growth by optimizing downstream flow ratios or manually pushing resources along. Each action grants attributes that lower the requirements of other actions, helping you progress further.

Route resources

Your primary resource, Momentum, generates and increases automatically. You direct it toward current goals, such as boosting its generation or unlocking action nodes. Secondary resources add further choices as you decide how to route flows through the network. As you loop, the available actions expand into a web of more than 300 actions, and your goals and strategies change.

The game exposes every formula so you can see how its systems work. A scrollable map with multiple zoom levels shows the state of the network, from individual details to a broader view. You also unlock automation tools that let you set when and by how much downstream flow dials shift, tailoring their behavior to your stats and situation.

Idle progression

Kill the Lich is designed to be played over weeks and months. You can configure your flows, step away and let resources accumulate; unlocks and hints provide new goals as you continue. Time spent offline or paused banks Bonus Time at 100% efficiency, which you can use to multiply the simulation speed.

Resets and upgrades

After a few hours of building up, you can head north to fight the Lich's Forces in an automated Phase 2. This resets your current progress and pushes as far as your build allows, while gathering three vital resources that speed up your next loop and unlock new goals. You can spend resources on a large upgrade tree, choosing upgrades that shorten the time needed to reach further progress.

The game has two distinct layers of prestige resets, as well as a New Game+ with its own upgrades. Each reset layer changes how progression unfolds.