FIRST SIGNAL / INDIE DISCOVERY / PC · Developer-supplied materials, not hands-on gameplay.
Most incremental games ask you to click until the numbers become absurd. Shear It! has a fluffier proposition: put a pair of shears in your hands and keep going until the sheep, the equipment and the very idea of a sensible wool harvest get wonderfully oversized.
Solo developer Ozan, working as Taskpop Games, has submitted an upcoming first-person PC simulation built around cutting wool piece by piece, collecting what falls, and spinning it into yarn to fund the next upgrade. There is a public playtest to explore, while the full Steam release remains marked coming soon.
Start with a sheep. Build a wool empire.
The underlying loop is pleasantly straightforward. Shear a sheep, collect its wool in a basket, carry the haul to the Wool Yard, and turn it into yarn. That yarn funds improvements to your tools and working capacity, while progress unlocks fresh pastures and ever bigger animals.
According to the official Steam listing, players can upgrade shears, basket capacity, collection power and the spinning wheel. Manual shears and an electric clipper offer different equipment to work with. Those details are important because the game is pitching hands-on interaction rather than a fully automated idle loop: the sheep do not simply disappear behind a spreadsheet.
What happens when the sheep get enormous?
The Steam trailer and developer description build toward increasingly large, wool-covered creatures. That escalation gives the simple act of shearing a playful sense of scale. It also raises the question every incremental game must eventually answer: can the next upgrade feel rewarding without making the process that came before it seem pointless?
Our First Signal
There is a good game hiding in a well-made tactile loop, even one built around a gloriously unlikely job. For Shear It!, the crucial questions are whether every cut feels satisfying, how varied the pastures become, and whether progression stays interesting once those first upgrades are behind you. We have not played the build, so those are questions rather than verdicts.
Explore the game: Shear It! on Steam · public playtest on itch.io · developer press kit.
Editorial disclosure: Taskpop Games submitted Shear It! for free consideration and explicitly authorised use of the original official screenshots on our website and related social posts. All game images here are from the official press kit, credited to Taskpop Games. This is not a paid placement, independent hands-on test or scored review. Editorial: Coloured Static Press team.