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How To Grow a Black Hole

Desolation Digital

How To Grow a Black Hole is about... well... how to grow a black hole. Manage your black hole, feed it to gain mass, and prevent catastrophic collapses. Compete globally or against your friends to achieve the biggest black hole. Maybe you'll be #1.

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About This Game

So what is

How To Grow a Black Hole is a chill incremental game about feeding, upgrading, researching, and barely controlling the most dangerous cosmic object imaginable.

Start small, feed your black hole, increase its mass, unlock new ways to grow, and push the numbers higher and higher until everything starts getting completely unreasonable. Just make sure things do not spiral too far out of control, because catastrophic collapses are very much part of the experience.

It is not a hardcore astrophysics simulator. It is a weird, satisfying, slightly stupid game about turning a tiny gravitational problem into an enormous one on purpose.

A little absurd. A little terrifying. Oddly hard to stop playing.

What you actually do

  • Feed your black hole and watch its mass climb.

  • Unlock upgrades that let you feed it faster, grow it larger, and push the numbers into ridiculous territory.

  • Research new systems to automate growth, improve efficiency, and keep the chaos moving.

  • Prevent catastrophic collapses when your black hole becomes a little too unstable.

  • Compare your black hole’s size and mass to real-world objects, which starts out interesting and gets unsettling fast.

  • Unlock bite-sized black hole facts, including why even a tiny one would be an unbelievable health hazard.

  • Compete globally or against friends to see who can grow the biggest black hole.

Why I made it

Hi, I’m Noah. I made this game in my free time because black holes are genuinely insane, and the idea of raising one like the world’s worst cosmic pet sounded too fun not to make.

I love games with giant numbers, satisfying progression, and simple ideas that slowly get out of hand. This started as one of those ideas that would not leave my brain alone, so I turned it into a real game.

I’m also hoping this project helps support the bigger and more ambitious games I want to make in the future. So by playing it, you are not just feeding a black hole. You are also helping me keep making games.

Who it’s for

If you like incremental games, upgrades, research trees, leaderboards, cosmic horror treated a little too casually, and numbers that eventually stop feeling reasonable, this is probably for you.

If you are looking for strict realism and perfectly accurate astrophysics, this probably is not that. It is inspired by real black hole concepts, but mostly it is about making a cosmic problem worse because it feels good to watch the number go up.

Bottom line

How To Grow a Black Hole is a chill incremental game about feeding a black hole, keeping it stable, and trying to grow it bigger than everyone else’s. It is simple, strange, satisfying, and built around one important question:

How big can you make it before everything goes wrong?

Community Activity

  1. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam patch notes
  2. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam announcement

    Curvature and QOL

    Curvature Reward Changes Collapse Curvature rewards have been adjusted to favor larger black holes more heavily instead of rewarding pressure-heavy runs as much as before. This…

  3. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam patch notes

    Desktop Stability Update

    Draggable HUD panels, hybrid GPU stability, and desktop polish. Thank you for the continued reports, especially around hybrid graphics and HUD layout. This update adds draggable…

  4. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam announcement

    25,000 COPIES SOLD!!!

    25,000 Copies Sold in Less Than 3 Days Wow. I honestly do not even know what to say. How To Grow a Black Hole was never expected to become a hit, and I never imagined this many…

  5. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam patch notes

    The Click Actually Clicks Now Hotfix

    This small hotfix addresses a couple of issues reported after the latest update. Fixed Fixed feed source and black hole upgrades requiring a hold even for a single purchase.…

  6. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam announcement

    The Quality of Life Black Hole Update

    Offline Simulation, Leaderboards, UI Improvements, and Performance Thank you for the continued reports and feedback. This update focuses on improving offline simulation loading…

  7. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam patch notes

    How To Grow a Black Hole - Patch 1.0.2

    Startup, Display Settings Memory, and Graphics Compatibility Thank you for the continued bug reports and startup feedback. This minor update focuses on improving desktop launch…

  8. How To Grow a Black HoleSteam announcement

    The Much Much Needed Update

    Performance, Display, and Upgrade Clarity Patch Thank you to everyone who has been helping find bugs and diagnose issues. This patch covers a lot of widely reported problems, and…

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