Crack the whip over convicts who push a giant millstone to power the Company. Meet a quota that rises every midnight, keep your prisoners fed and alive, upgrade everything, smuggle contraband and dig a tunnel under the beds.
Official trailer
Overspin is a darkly comic active idle game with roguelite progression. In the middle of an open-air prison, convicts push a giant millstone to make electricity for the Company. You are not a guard. You are the unseen hand above the yard, and your mouse cursor is the tip of a whip.
Every midnight the Company raises the quota. Crack the whip, meet the quota, keep your prisoners alive or wait for the next one. And one day, through a tunnel dug under a bed, get them all out.
J. Bounderby, Director
Prisoners lean into the arms of the mill, and every turn of the stone ends up on the Company's meter. Thirty convicts, each with a crime, a temper and a body that gives out at its own pace. Hire them at dawn, put them on an arm or a machine, and watch them grind.
Click near a prisoner and he pushes harder. Every lash costs a little health. Whip a man past his limit and he limps off to the infirmary, or doesn't get up at all. Motivation is a resource. So is the workforce.
Drive the mill too hard and the pressure needle climbs into the red. Let it burst and the whole crew is thrown off their feet. Ride the edge for the biggest numbers, or buy a pressure valve and some peace of mind.
Energy, hunger, thirst and health. Prisoners walk to the food and water you build, sleep in the beds you buy (or on the sand if you didn't), and spend their evenings resting, working overtime, rolling cigarettes or digging. A well-fed convict pushes harder. A dead one pushes nothing.
Order from the Company Catalog and place every structure on the yard grid yourself: gearbox, dynamo, beds, infirmary, wind vanes, batteries, hamster wheels, pedal dynamos, rowing machines and steam pistons. Every line climbs through hand-built model tiers, from scrap wood and rope to gold-plated prestige machinery. Earn promotions and the Catalog opens new pages.
Bleed power off through the smuggling valve and the black market pays you in cigarettes. Spend them on contraband, stolen gear and a game of dice at night. Orders arrive by pipe. The Company does not need to know.
Under the beds, a tunnel. Buy a rusty spoon, a bent fork, a gas lamp, powder kegs and finally a steam drill, then send your prisoners to dig after the shift. Every metre brings the wall closer. The run is won the moment they get past it.
Every morning brings a directive from management, a weather report and a fresh batch of applicants. Storms hurl lightning at your machinery, parts wear down and need oil or repair, and the Company's towers watch it all from beyond the wall.
...and you're let go. Miss it once and tomorrow becomes a penalty day. Miss that too and the Company's executioner walks in through the main gate. Win or lose, every run earns commendations for the Company Archive: a radial tree of 156 permanent upgrades that leads, eventually, to the Great Escape.
The crew
Every prisoner has a nickname, an absurd crime, five stats, a trait of his own and a record note the Company would rather you didn't read. Five archetypes decide who pushes, who pedals and who just eats.
Drained a municipal fountain single-handedly, in one gulp.
Lived in a trash can and never paid the city rent.
Caused a gas-leak panic at an opera gala.
Fixed an elevator without glasses; it shot through the roof.
Ruined three museum paintings with a single sneeze.
Sabotaged a butcher's window display with drool.
Dragged a trial out by nine hours complimenting the judge.
Talked an interrogator into resigning.
Greased the town hall stairs into a slide.
Rode an escaped bull and chased the mayor.
Kidnapped 300 loaves from a bakery and demanded ransom.
Tunneled through the sewers into a bank vault. The wrong bank.
Attended own funeral and sold the wreaths.
Stole the taps from 30 homes while 'fixing the plumbing'.
Latched onto a merchant and freeloaded for two years.
Knocked out 88 referees in illegal prizefights.
Scared a cemetery night watchman into early retirement.
Took a hospital soup cauldron hostage.
Blew up the neighborhood three times in three experiments.
Tried to sneak into a tavern with a fake mustache.
47 cases of food poisoning in the prison kitchen.
Starved 40 days in protest, then forgot the cause.
Rigged the market scales for fifty years.
Wound the Company's electricity meter backwards.
Drew something rude on the Company sign. Very large.
Broke into the wrong house and stayed three days as a guest.
Pickpocketed the police chief's handcuffs.
Mistook city hall for home and put it up for sale.
Lectured the judge on law and doubled the sentence.
Got run over by own getaway cart.
The Company Catalog
27 upgrade lines and 213 hand-built model tiers. Every tier changes the silhouette, and the last one in each line is a gold-brass prestige piece with the Company crest.
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Features
Follow development on Discord, hear first when the gates open and tell us which prisoner you whipped too hard.