The pitch
Slicing Life is a pixel-art arcade slicer for one thumb. You run the edge of a shape, dive across the middle to cut a piece off, and keep going until only the target sliver is left — while ten kinds of hazard try to catch your line mid-dive. The campaign is 100 hand-tuned levels across ten acts, taught one hazard and one silhouette at a time; sixteen runners each change how a run plays rather than how it looks; a server-scored Daily Challenge gives everyone the same shape and the same six cuts once a day; and Endless picks up past level 100 for as long as you can hold on. Free, portrait, offline-friendly, no energy timers and no paywalled levels.
Why it is different
- The Qix lineage, rebuilt for a thumb. Area-claiming is a 1981 idea almost nobody ships any more; this is that loop on a phone, in portrait, with a modern difficulty curve behind it.
- Sixteen runners with real powers. Not skins. AEGIS starts every run shielded, CRYO freezes the hazards, CHRONO drags them into slow motion, WRAITH walks straight through border patrols.
- A server-scored daily challenge. One shared puzzle a day — Classic, MASK, one life, six cuts, no pickups — validated server-side, so the daily board is the one board nobody can talk their way onto.
Fact sheet
- Title
- Slicing Life
- Developer
- Incognito Generation
- Publisher
- Incognito Generation (self-published)
- Release date
- iOS — August 2026 (v1.0). Current version 1.4.0.
- Platforms
- iOS (App Store, live) · Android (Google Play, closed testing — production mid-September 2026)
- Price
- Free. Two one-time purchases: $0.99 remove ads, $2.99 character bundle. No subscriptions, no energy timers, no paywalled levels.
- Genre
- Arcade / puzzle (area-claiming, Qix lineage)
- Controls
- One thumb, portrait. Drag to run the edge, drag inward to cut.
- Modes
- 100-level campaign across ten acts · Endless · Daily Challenge (server-scored) · Practice · three difficulties, each with its own stars and leaderboards
- Bundle ID
com.incognitogeneration.slicinglife- Languages
- English
- App Store
- apps.apple.com/app/id6805911559
- Google Play
- play.google.com — closed testing
- Privacy
- Privacy policy — no personal data collected; device id used for leaderboards and entitlements.
Assets
The zip carries the app icon at 512×512, all six iPhone screenshots at full 1290×2796, the key art, this fact sheet as presskit.txt and the store description as description.txt. Everything may be used in coverage of the game.
Contact
Review codes, interviews and anything else: info@incognitogeneration.com. We answer press mail the same day where we can.
Video and devlogs: youtube.com/@incognitogeneration · Player support: support page.