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Gene Gone Wild playtest
by ongmaker
Build your own beast from animal heads, limbs, and tails. GENE GONE WILD is a creature-building survivor roguelite: buy and merge body parts, combine traits and synergies, and grow your gene talent tree as your tiny creature evolves into a walking arsenal.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Nov 9, 2026
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- ongmaker
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, Simplified Chinese
How to join the Gene Gone Wild playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Gene Gone Wild playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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How AI is used
Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with some artwork, promotional assets, and localized text. These assets are selected, edited, and reviewed by the developer before release. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Gene Gone Wild
Add another head. Bolt on another pair of claws. Finish it off with a tail that has absolutely no business being there. Equipment is more than an inventory icon: the animal parts you choose appear on your creature and change how it fights.
Start small, mix abilities from different animals, and build an increasingly ridiculous beast of your own.
Turn a handful of animal abilities into a swarm-clearing machine, then take on denser hordes and bosses. Reaching the end takes more than a strange body: movement, choices, and timely adjustments all matter.
Put multiple attacking parts to work at once and build synergies around animals and traits. Tear through enemies up close or cover the battlefield with ranged attacks. Every new part changes how your beast survives.
Between runs, invest the genes you earn in your talent tree. Follow prerequisite paths and choose upgrades that suit your playstyle. Ready to try a different direction? Reset your talents and redistribute your investment.
Survive the swarm, then shop for your next body part. Build around heads, upper limbs, lower limbs, and tails. Merge matching parts of the same level into stronger forms. Keep refining a familiar build, or reshape your entire creature around a new find. The next wave will put your choice to the test.
From the game's Steam page.
