Habitat

Made it to year 119! Seems like the fires don't really start until you chop down a lot of trees without replanting? Love this game

Great Game! We would love to bring it to Couchplay TV Games to :) Is it Construct 2 or 3 ?  

I have no idea how to play this. I'm giving up because there's no tutorial, shame.

Very fun game, but uh... how do the fires work?

Have found something like a strategy to achieve quite a high scores (screenshot is about Normal map):

1. Start the level when there are at least 2 ponds, and both of them are in one half of the screen
2. Don't try to farm scores with a population size. It's tempting to puff it up to 25-40, but it means no ability to farm resources. For an instance, I kept it under 8 all the time
3. Farm resources with a "basic strategy": 
   1. divide the map into 2 equally distributed pieces (diagonal line is perfect) by houses to keep pigs out of fields, having all the ponds in one side
   2. grow trees on the no-pond side and grow wheat on the pond side
   3. repeat until you will get ~99 score of wheat and 50+ of seeds & houses. More than 99 is impossible by game design
4.  Max out pig score
   1. distribute houses with citizens uniformly across the map to cover the majority of territory with hunting
   2. bed out trees across all the map
   3. wait until pigs will cover all the map
   4. kill all the pigs in hunting zone
   5. cut down all the trees
5. Max out harvest score
   1. skip until all the free cells are spare
   2. bed out all the "3" cells with wheat
   3. bed out all the "2" cells with wheat
6. Max out lightning score
   1. lightnings are being summoned on the previous step of algorithm? so just skip, skip, skip
   2. at each turn build the house on the most remote from epicentr of fire and occupy it
   3. repeat until you will die

Other ideas to earn more:

1. Try to max out people score by increasing the population to ~40 and immediately decreasing it by controlled starvation. After that come back to basic strategy. The risk that you can summon the lightnings without resources.
2. Control the lightnings by massive trees growing. Cut the trees -> summon -> grow the trees -> chase away. Did it one time, but failed another time

What a charming survival horror.

By the first glance, this game reminded me Emoji Simulator by NCase, or Tiny Islands by David King. Indeed it has a lot of cellular automaton vibe.

On the complimentary side, I really enjoyed the minimalist aesthetics and economical with variables. Tiles evolve in mostly scripted manner which allows for quick understanding and intentionality.
It was also thrilling when the lightnings stroke and turned the gameplay upside down.

On the feedback side, I wish you followed the example of the latter and explained how some mechanics work, like which house will be occupied after reproduction, or how soil fertility will change based on surrounding tiles, or when will the wildfires start and which tiles will set on fire.

Overall, it's a pretty simple, very fun and addicting game.

Hey, this was really fun and well polished! The tile's freshness number (or whatever you'd call it) offers a great bit of strategy. The only thing I didn't quite get was what decided whether or not the boar would die. It may have just been luck but either way I found the "Kill 5 pigs in one year" task impossible even when there was more than six of them on screen. The most I ever killed was two or three. I got a high score of 35. That might be a great score or a terrible one, I wouldn't know. What was your highest score while playtesting?

PS. This is probably the best 'first' game I've played on this site. Good job!