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A game shelf with a hungry chest · New

Finished it? Feed it to the mimic.

Every game you own sits in a pixel room: video games, board games, tabletop RPGs. What you bought and never opened lies in a pile in the corner, and that's fine: nobody scolds you for a pile. Three games fit in your hands at once, each with a wisp over the TV that remembers where you stopped. When you finish one, roll the credits, give it stars and a line, and the mimic eats it: the box goes back to the shelf with a bite out of it, and the genre grows a trait on the chest, fangs from horror, a straw hat from farming, dice eyes from roguelikes. Over the years the mimic becomes a portrait of your taste. Free, no ads, no account.

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Android 9.0+ · Free · English & Русский

What's inside

Everything Mimic does.

Everything on one shelf

Video games, board games and tabletop RPGs. Search Wikidata and Wikipedia and the year, the maker, the players and the cover come in; the mimic redraws the cover in pixels. Or snap the box with the phone's own camera.

The pile, without guilt

Unopened boxes settle into a heap in the corner and dust bunnies move in. Once in a while the mimic digs out the oldest one: give it half an hour, or let it go as a ghost.

Three in hands

No more than three games at once. Put one down and write where you stopped; when you come back, the wisp reads the note to you.

Sessions and screenshots

How long you played, a few words, screenshots from the gallery or a photo of the screen from the camera.

The credits

One line, what the game gave you, stars and a short review. Then the mimic eats it and grows a trait from its genre, from a little chest to an iron-bound one.

Genres of your own

The popular genres for each kind of game, and your own genres and subgenres with a colour and a trait for the mimic.

When you can't choose

Mimic sniffs: how much time, who's playing, what there's energy for, and three boxes come out of the pile. Still can't decide? Roll the die.

The chronicle and the window

Games and hours by month, genres, ratings and your game of the year. Outside the window, your town's real sunrise and weather.

Screens

Captured in Mimic.

Mimic: The room — The roomShelves, the pile and the mimic.

Mimic: A game — A gameThe note and the sessions.

Mimic: The shelf — The shelfEvery box, searchable.

Mimic: The chronicle — The chronicleA year in games.

Mimic: Mimic sniffs — Mimic sniffsThree boxes from the pile.

Mimic: The dig — The digThe oldest box, from the bottom.

Mimic: Bestiary — BestiaryWho lives in the room.

What the mimic grows

Genre	Trait
Horror	Fangs
RPG	A scroll in its teeth
Farming and cozy	A straw hat
Roguelike	Dice eyes
Euro	Meeple teeth
Party	A party hat
Platformer	Springs

Get it

Get Mimic.

Install

Version: v1.0.0
File: Mimic.apk
Requires: Android 9.0 (API 28) or newer. No Google services needed.
Permissions: Internet, only for the catalogue search and the weather in the window (only the town's coordinates are sent). No account, no ads, no analytics.
License: MIT · font m6x11 by Daniel Linssen

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Add the game you're playing now and the one you finished last.

The mimic never goes hungry and never scolds you for a pile: a backlog is a normal state for anyone who loves games. Your games, notes, sessions and screenshots stay on the phone.

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Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore; the room, the mimic and the creatures are drawn in code.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/mimic.git
cd mimic
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo              # app.mimic.demo: a lived-in room
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderScreens*'   # every screen to PNG, EN and RU

Good to know

Questions people ask.

Where do the covers come from?

From the Wikipedia article about the game, found through Wikidata. If there's none, snap the box or pick a picture from the gallery.

Can I see covers as they are?

Yes: in settings, switch covers from pixels to as they are.

Can it import my Steam library?

Not yet. Steam now hides game lists behind a login; an import is planned.

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Help shape Mimic.

Found a bug, missing a feature, or want it in your language? Tell us on GitHub.