- #1 Cookie Clicker
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 89,166 reviews2021
Dev: OrteilPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 89.4 hrsMean: 370.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive title in the genre, it offers the same addictive, minimalist clicking mechanics that made Lumber King popular.
- #2 AdVenture Capitalist
96% matchVery Positive88% of 59,967 reviews2015
Dev: Hyper Hippo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 67.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Why You'll Like It: This classic free-to-play idle game provides a similar progression loop focused on scaling production and managing resources.
- #3 Clicker Heroes
96% matchVery Positive90% of 61,916 reviews2015
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 164.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Why You'll Like It: A staple of the genre, it offers deep, satisfying incremental growth that appeals to fans of simple clicker mechanics.
- #4 Crush Crush
94% matchVery Positive89% of 27,908 reviews2016
Dev: Sad Panda Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 96.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to Crush Crush - the Idle Dating Sim! Meet, flirt, and fall in love with a motley cast of girls in this heartfelt and hilarious game.
Why You'll Like It: It features humorous, lighthearted themes paired with accessible idle mechanics that mirror the casual nature of the seed game.
- #5 Crafting Idle Clicker
94% matchMixed49% of 899 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on resource management and crafting, providing a structured progression path for fans of idle games.
- #6 Realm Grinder
93% matchVery Positive87% of 7,357 reviews2017
Dev: Divine GamesPub: Kongregate
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 131.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Why You'll Like It: For those who enjoyed the simplicity of Lumber King but want more depth, this offers complex, rewarding idle systems.
- #7 Idle Slayer
92% matchVery Positive85% of 10,157 reviews2020
Dev: Pablo Leban
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 100.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Idle Slayer is an incremental game with idle and active playstyle mechanics, medieval pixel art visuals and retro 8-bit sounds and music.
Why You'll Like It: This game combines simple idle progression with engaging active clicking elements for a rewarding gameplay loop.
- #8 Zombidle : REMONSTERED
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,782 reviews2017
Dev: Berzerk Studio
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 114.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire. Welcome to Zombidle, Berzerk Studio's newest idle game, or tap game; whatever, you do you, man.
Why You'll Like It: It offers a quirky, cartoonish aesthetic paired with standard clicker mechanics that are easy to pick up and play.
- #9 Swarm Simulator: Evolution
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 554 reviews2019
Dev: Scary Bee LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
What is this? A game for ants?!? Hatch a quintillion bugs. Conquer the UNIVERSE!
Why You'll Like It: A classic incremental game that focuses on exponential growth and simple, satisfying visual feedback.
- #10 Microtransaction Simulator
90% matchVery Positive86% of 839 reviews2017
Dev: chlsea
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Live your wildest dreams by splurging on insane amounts of cash you wouldn't have in real life. Play for random number generated loot that is a reflection of the meaningless nature of this game and everything surrounding it.
Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the satire of modern gaming, much like the absurd premise of the seed game.
- #11 Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 14,922 reviews2020
Dev: Codename Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 389.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a Dungeons & Dragons strategy management game uniting Champions from throughout the D&D multiverse into a grand adventure.
Why You'll Like It: A highly polished free-to-play idle game that provides a consistent sense of growth and achievement.
- #12 Antimatter Dimensions
88% matchVery Positive92% of 4,261 reviews2022
Dev: Hevipelle
Windows · Mac
Median: 27.3 hrsMean: 219.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Earn antimatter through dimensions! Gain Infinite antimatter to collapse the universe!
Why You'll Like It: This game strips the genre down to its mathematical core, offering a pure, minimalist experience similar to the vibe of Lumber King.
- #13 Soda Dungeon
87% matchVery Positive94% of 6,265 reviews2017
Dev: AN ProductionsPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 49.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pop the top on some legendary action with Soda Dungeon, the fresh and fizzy hit mobile RPG adventure, now available on your desktop! Manage your team as you raid the local dungeons, upgrade your tavern, and attract new party members. Gold, legendary items, and more await you.
Why You'll Like It: It blends dungeon-crawling with idle management, providing a fun and lighthearted experience that doesn't take itself too seriously.
- #14 Lumberjacked
84% matchVery Positive83% of 647 reviews2025
Dev: Inner Realm StudiosPub: Dumb Duck Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You wake up in a strange cabin deep in a mysterious forest, axe in hand, with only one way forward—through. Chop trees, sell logs, purchase and upgrade gear, and uncover the secrets hidden deep in the forest.
Why You'll Like It: It shares the lumber-themed premise while adding a first-person perspective to the clicker genre.
- #15 Castle Clicker : Idle City Tycoon
86% matchMixed67% of 701 reviews2017
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Castle Clicker is a more strategy focused clicking game that required you to think about how to manage your resources and build your city. If you're looking for a more in depth but still casual clicking game, this is for you!
Why You'll Like It: It provides a simple city-building layer on top of standard clicker mechanics, offering a bit more variety in gameplay.
- #16 Campaign Clicker
86% matchMixed48% of 408 reviews2016
Dev: Springloaded
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Democrats Vs Republicans! It's the political battle of the decade!
Why You'll Like It: This game uses a political theme to drive its clicker mechanics, offering a unique flavor of satire.
- #17 Clicker Guild
85% matchMixed55% of 665 reviews2016
Dev: Fox Dawn
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Clicker Guild is a beautifully animated free to play clicker, with a special take on the genre by adding randomly generating loot for the characters.
Why You'll Like It: It is a simple, free-to-play clicker that focuses on recruiting and managing a guild with minimal friction.
- #18 Beaver Clicker
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Temmie
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beaver Clicker is an idle game where you collects logs, then using these logs, you can acquire all sorts of sources for these logs, like convincing squirrels, sponsoring school field-trips, or even taming the fungi found in nature itself to help you in your wood collecting journey.
Why You'll Like It: Given the lumber theme of the seed game, this title offers a thematic match with familiar idle mechanics.
- #19 Scream Collector
83% matchVery Positive88% of 835 reviews2017
Dev: PuzzleRoo
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 100.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build up a haunted house in this Halloween themed Idle Clicker game!
Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art style and quirky theme make it a fun, niche clicker experience similar to the seed game.
- #20 Territory Idle
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,694 reviews2019
Dev: Aleksandr Golovkin
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 173.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Strategic idle game. Develop the kingdom, then abdicate and get gold! For gold, you can buy new tiles and expand the territory.
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist idle game that focuses on map expansion and resource acquisition through simple clicks.
- #21 Flag Clicker
81% matchMixed64% of 539 reviews2024
Dev: Flag Clicker InteractivePub: Flag Clicker interactive
Windows
Flag is a clicker Game, in which you click a Flag!
Why You'll Like It: A very simple, 2D clicker that focuses on pure, repetitive action without unnecessary complexity.
- #22 Transport Defender
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 453 reviews2017
Dev: Coconut Shavers
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 623.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Defend the transport ship from being captured by enemy waves on the way to the jump hole. Upgrade weapons, kill enemies, get cargo, transfer cargo, buy features, repeat.
Why You'll Like It: It combines simple tower defense elements with idle clicking for a unique, casual experience.
- #23 Pointless
82% matchMixed64% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Cake Collective Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Pointless is a game about destroying Dots. Each Dot you destroy adds one point to your score. You can add your score to a global point pool, and see how many Dots have been destroyed globally. Rad!
Why You'll Like It: It embraces the absurdity of the genre, making it a great thematic match for the seed game's dry humor.
- #24 Idle Plant Game
80% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: FootoftheHare
Windows
Idle Plant Game, an idle and offline progress or clicker plant simulation!
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing, plant-themed idle experience that is easy to manage in short bursts.
- #25 Poop Clicker
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 804 reviews2022
Dev: Serge Kornew
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Have you always wanted to be a king, but all the kingdoms are already taken? Try to be the Poop King in the Poop Clicker game! A magical unicorn, sweet corn and others will help you with this! Unlock special upgrades, but take your time, because haste makes waste!
Why You'll Like It: It leans into the same kind of low-brow, absurdist humor that characterizes the seed game's premise.
- #26 Smashing Simulator Idle
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 432 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Cat
Windows · Linux
Incremental game about smashing with unfolding gameplay and two prestige layers.
- #27 Clicker bAdventure
79% matchMostly Negative28% of 92 reviews2017
Dev: Luminark
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
The faster you click, the faster you will cut the trees to get bonuses, and damage your enemies. Will you be fast enough to stop the enemies coming always stronger in this open world?
Why You'll Like It: This title adds a light adventure narrative to the standard clicker formula, keeping the gameplay accessible.
- #28 Kingdom Clicker
78% matchMixed58% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: Maximilian Ritters
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The king needs your help! Build the kingdom and earn money with just the tip of your finger! Try to get all the achievements by restoring wealth and honor of your empire.
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward clicker game that focuses on building up a kingdom with minimal distractions.
- #29 Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,787 reviews2022
Dev: Dimitri Kipper
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deliver more and more kiwis to satiate the kings' hunger - sacrifice their pulp and transcend beyond your fruital form!
- #30 Lumberjack Simulator
77% matchMixed64% of 209 reviews2021
Dev: Exponential Games Inc.
Windows
Pick up a chainsaw and cut down trees, wield an axe and and operate a whole set of monstrous forestry machinery to build up your logging empire. Precisely control the cranes and load the logs and haul to the destination across realistically simulated terrain, water and mud.
- #31 Jack Lumber
78% matchMixed63% of 362 reviews2013
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A tree killed his granny and now he is out for revenge. Meet Jack Lumber, the supernatural lumberjack who hates trees, loves animals, and hates trees. Did we say that twice? The guy really hates trees, and boy does he have an axe to grind.
- #32 A Mining Game
76% matchMixed66% of 234 reviews2019
Dev: AtlasPub: Trillium Studio Ltd.
Windows
An idle Mining Simulation game, Compete against other miners to reach the top of the leader boards, Build an army. Climb your way through the combat tower with friends. And compete in daily events
- #33 Idle Bouncer
75% matchVery Positive81% of 450 reviews2017
Dev: Upturn Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 61.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the balls jump, upgrade and change the world! Drop the balls to generate energy with each bounce. Upgrade available balls and buy new ones to generate even more energy. Sell your balls empire to get meta-energy to change the world!
- #34 Farmer Against Potatoes Idle
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,884 reviews2024
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 249.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Pick up your sword and fight off waves of Potatoes by upgrading your stats constantly, use Equipment, choose between different Classes, put your many Talents to good use, and so much more designed to keep you entertained for a long time.
- #35 Trimmer Tycoon
75% matchMixed68% of 692 reviews2016
Dev: Improx Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Trimmer Tycoon is a fast survival game. You’re the new owner of a beard-trimming salon - Shavy. Customers start flowing in with absurd wishes for their beards. Can you satisfy their beardy dreams and keep up with the ever-increasing rent?
- #36 Watermelon
74% matchMostly Negative30% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: artem749
Windows
Watermelon is a clicker Game, in which you click a watermelon!
- #37 Loot Box Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 112 reviews2018
Dev: Clickbait Studios
Windows
A satirical look at the current trajectory of the game industry. Open loot boxes, collect loot, equip cosmetics, face off against the dark lord, watch ads, take surveys, and slowly succumb to addiction.
- #38 Timberman
71% matchVery Positive93% of 11,315 reviews2015
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Become a Timberman, chop wood and avoid the branches. Almost 30 million players could not be wrong - featured as one of the best casual games.
- #39 Greengrocer's
71% matchMixed58% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: Lizard Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Greengrocer's is a clicker game where you click vegetables! In Greengrocer's, you click vegetables to gain even more vegetables! For every 3 clicks, you get a new vegetable! You will also receive extra vegetables for the time you spend managing your Greengrocer's.
- #40 Chop and Drop VR
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2017
Dev: Designing Digitally, Inc.
Windows
Take on the job of a line worker removing troublesome trees! Get out your chainsaw and use your control levers to maneuver the utility bucket in all directions, but watch your head!
- #41 Forest Hustle
67% matchVery Positive90% of 367 reviews2026
Dev: Mike Forest
Windows
You are dropped into a forest with one goal - making money and paying off your 100k debt. Collect resources, make deals, upgrade, build and hire workers to do the job for you. 🐕
- #42 Necromancer Accountant
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 80 reviews2017
Dev: Artyom LaletinPub: Artyom Design
Windows
Necromancer accountant. Undead scourge tycoon simulation game.
- #43 Health Insurance Claim Denier
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: fnnbrr
Windows
An incremental game about denying health insurance claims. 🚫
- #44 PickCrafter
69% matchVery Positive86% of 7,068 reviews2017
Dev: Fiveamp
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 77.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Conquer PickCrafter, the hit indie idle game! Break blocks, forge equipment, and collect powerful Pickaxes. Prestige to legendary tiers with the new Ascension Skill Tree. Discover biomes and battle epic bosses. Make meaningful choices and invent complex builds in this addictive endless adventure!
- #45 Robot King Part I: Rebooted and Ready
72% matchMixed48% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: Steven Taylor
Windows
The first in a 3 part series, Robot King follows the journey of a robot on a quest to find his place in a kingdom where everyone seems bent on his destruction. Navigate through 4 unique areas, collecting gold as you go. Customize your robot with 40 possible equipments.
- #46 THE WORST GAME
70% matchMixed65% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: kelvin
Windows
Click BIG Button. Unlock achievements and waste your time. Rank amongst the top players and stand proud on top of the leaderboard.
- #47 Pickle Clicker
68% matchVery Positive88% of 1,241 reviews2022
Dev: Shard
Windows
Click pickle, get pickle, spend pickle, get more pickle, and most importantly... Protect pickle from sneaky Poglins!
- #48 Apple Clicker
69% matchMixed49% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: SharpMustDie
Windows · Linux
Easy clicker game for apple enjoyers!
- #49 Timber Rush
66% matchVery Positive84% of 542 reviews2026
Dev: Allerton Apps
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Timber Rush is a fast-paced incremental roguelite where every swing explodes into upgrades, chaos, and massive numbers.
- #50 Woodcutter Simulator 2013
73% matchMostly Negative26% of 535 reviews2013
Dev: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Woodcutter Simulator 2013 allows the player to control and operate an entire lumber mill. From clearing woods to the evacuation of the logs, the player has to undertake all arising tasks to complete numerous missions – from cutting trees for demanding customers to producing woodchips for heating purposes.
- #51 BUTT
67% matchMixed67% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: Komorebi
Windows
CLICK BUTT. GET BUTT.
- #52 Idle Wizard
66% matchVery Positive86% of 1,746 reviews2019
Dev: TwoWizards
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 231.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
RPG/Idle hybrid about becoming the most powerful wizard there is. Pick a class, get a pet, configure and improve your character in a myriad ways!
- #53 Forestry 2017 - The Simulation
70% matchMixed42% of 124 reviews2016
Dev: JoindotsPub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Forestry 2017 – This Simulation takes you to the forest! Take over the tasks of a professional woodcutter and enjoy working in the woods. Control huge machinery, fell the trees, arrange the timber and comb through your wood. Sell the wood, several products and earn money to expand your company.
- #54 Harvest Seasons
68% matchMixed57% of 404 reviews2018
Dev: Samobee Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Part farming game, party city building game, part idle/clicker game, Harvest Seasons is all about harvesting and growth. Gather up resources from your farmland and spend them on buildings and upgrading your city. And then upgrade your resources to get more. It's the circle of harvest!
- #55 Grass Cutters Academy - Idle Game
67% matchMixed61% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: ColloseusXPub: Phat Phrog Studios
Windows
Are you interested in gardening? painting? how about a mix of both? In Grass Cutters Academy you cut grass for money, spend that money on paint powered auto mowers that get faster, stronger and more efficient with each blade of grass cut
- #56 Epic battles within 5 seconds!
68% matchMixed55% of 354 reviews2016
Dev: YFC games
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Constant fun and excitement! Bloody fighting from the start. Epic battles within 5 seconds!