Homeostasis
Pilot a living cell!
Only for iPhone
$2.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Easy mode out now!
You are the operator of a single living cell — and everything is going wrong at once. Energy is crashing, a virus is hijacking your factories, corrosive rust is eating the engines, and the folding line is jammed. Fix one and another spikes. That tension is the game.
Homeostasis is a portrait roguelike about holding a coupled, living machine in balance. Route your workers, fire emergency programs, queue production, power up the organelles that matter — and read the cell, because every crisis wants a different response. Stabilize the chaos, survive the cycle, then choose a mutation and do it again, harder.
Death is the point. Each run goes deeper than the last.
PILOT A LIVING CELL
Seven organelles, six vital signs, all coupled. Mitochondria make energy but leak rust. Ribosomes build what you need but flood the folding line. Power the nucleus to auto-repair your weakest system. There's no single right answer — only trade-offs.
SURVIVE ESCALATING, ENDLESS CRISES
Viral takeovers, heat shock, starvation, oxidative stress, membrane breaches, DNA damage — telegraphed, then unleashed. Difficulty rises to a brutal climax, then settles into a sustainable plateau you can ride as far as your skill takes you.
THREE WAYS TO PLAY
• Real-Time — high-pressure, the clock never stops.
• Tactical — auto-pauses each crisis so you can plan, then act.
• Triage — turn-based rescue puzzles: stabilize a failing cell in as few moves as you can.
EVOLVE & CRAFT YOUR BUILD
Spend DNA in The Lab on gene-trait loadouts and one-shot field items — then anchor a run around a keystone that changes how you play: devour the virus for fuel, freeze time mid-crisis, sacrifice an organelle for a surge, win by ascending instead of surviving, or program your cell with standing rules and fight your own autopilot.
COME BACK TOMORROW
A new Daily Challenge every day, a ladder of in-game challenges to chase, Game Center leaderboards and achievements, and a one-tap shareable card for your best run.
No ads. No in-app purchases. Just you, one cell, and the long fight against entropy.
Can you keep it alive?
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Added post-run coaching, clearer indicators of how to survive and easy mode.
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Information
- Seller
- Alex Sheridan
- Size
- 12.8 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Horror/Fear Themes
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alex Sheridan
