Best Idle Games

“The quintessential idle game classic with extremely high ratings and massive player base, featuring endless cookie production and upgrades.”

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.

“Highly acclaimed deep idle game with weird humor, hundreds of hours of content, and 96% positive reviews from 13k players.”

NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

“Addictive capitalism simulator idle with business expansion mechanics, 88% positive from 60k reviews.”

Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

“Feature-rich RuneScape-inspired idle RPG with deep skilling and combat systems, 90% positive from 16k reviews.”

Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.

“Pioneering idle clicker with hero recruitment and endless progression, hugely popular at 90% positive from 62k reviews.”

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.

“Satisfying incremental idle with exploration and crafting in a leaf-themed universe, boasting 94% positive from 26k reviews.”

Blow leaves, upgrade your gear, and automate your progress as you explore the Leaf Universe. A satisfying incremental idle game where every leaf blown brings you closer to the next big upgrade. Simple, relaxing, and endlessly rewarding. Let the leaves fall, and your progress rise!

“Engaging idle mining adventure with drilling, relics, and upgrades, 92% positive from 18k reviews.”

Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!

“Relaxing desktop idle farming sim that runs in the background, 97% positive from 14k recent reviews.”

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

“Unique idle MMORPG with multiplayer skills and management, 80% positive from 28k reviews.”

The management RPG where your heroes keep fighting even when you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental Wizard to Cannon Pirate, and level up 19 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and even Construction!

“Charming idle RPG with class system, talents, and potato-fighting progression, 95% positive from 8k reviews.”

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.

“Cozy desktop idle with frog automation and island decoration, 96% positive from 4k reviews.”

A cozy idle game that sits anywhere on your desktop. Watch the frog cut grass, upgrade his tools, and decorate the island while you work or relax.

“Spreadsheet-style idle town builder with crafting and expansion, 91% positive from 1k reviews.”

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

“Deep idle RPG with faction alliances and realm-building depth, 87% positive from 7k reviews.”

Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!

“Addictive flask-crafting idle with active and passive elements, 85% positive from 2k reviews.”

Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

“Text-based incremental idle with automation and vast content, 91% positive from 1k reviews.”

A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

“Relaxing bottom-screen idle fishing with upgrades and collection, 95% positive ratings.”

A relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you at the bottom of your screen. CATCH fish, BUY upgrades, COMPLETE your collection, and DISPLAY them in your aquarium.

“Solo-developed idle RPG with stats, spells, fishing, and demons, 90% positive ratings.”

Train your stats, cast spells, feed your minion, defeat monsters and bosses, raise demons, craft gems, go fishing and so much more in Wizard and Minion Idle--WAMI. This free to play, solo developed, Idle/active hybrid game has flexible pacing for long-time play-ability.

“Minimalist accumulator idle with infinite progression, 86% positive from 10k reviews.”

Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?

“Atmospheric idle fishing with crew, boats, and mini-games, 83% positive from 2k reviews.”

Relax and catch fish in a beautiful environment. Hire skilled crewmates, invest in lucrative buildings, unlock many boats & upgrades. Dive into the challenge of the fishing mini-game for an interactive experience unlike any other!

“Mining idle with crafting, team-building, and deckbuilding, 80% positive from 1k reviews.”

Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.

“Xiuzhen simulation idle with placement and realm ascension, 80% positive from 2k reviews.”

This is a xiuzhen simulation placement game! From the refining of qi, building the foundation to the ascension of the celestial realm, crossed into the divine realm. （The game has been updated with the english mod, but you will need to select the "english" beta in the properties option to update it）

“Medieval pixel-art idle with active and passive playstyles, 85% positive from 10k reviews.”

Idle Slayer is an incremental game with idle and active playstyle mechanics, medieval pixel art visuals and retro 8-bit sounds and music.

“Content-packed god-management idle with minigames, 85% positive from 2k reviews.”

Idling to Rule the Gods is a free to play Idle-Game with a lot of content and some Minigames. Depending on your play-style, you can play it fast or slow. Either way it can be fun for hundreds of hours!

“Sci-fi idle with ship customization against alien waves, 93% positive from 4k reviews.”

Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.

“Fun idle clicker about growing muscles with 72% positive rating”

Get ready to pump some iron and grow your biceps like never before in Idle Biceps, the ultimate idle clicker game for fitness enthusiasts! Start off as a novice gym-goer and work your way up to becoming a ripped bodybuilder by clicking your way to bigger and better gains.

“Well-rated idle skilling game (81% positive, 94 reviews) with farming theme”

Idle Fields is an Idle Skilling Game. Grow crops, cut trees, fish, cook, purchase animals, mine, smith, and decorate your homes! Automate tasks with workers. Unlock all the achievements, level up to become richer, and complete it all!

“Wizard progression idle RPG with classes, pets, and myriad improvements, 86% positive from 2k reviews.”

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!

“Gear-based idle clicker with economy focus and 71% positive rating”

Click! Place gears, click! Make money, click! Place more gears, click! Make even more money, click, click and above all click!

“Hero formation idle with campaigns and strategies, 83% positive from 3k reviews.”

Crusaders of the Lost Idols is an idle game of heroic awesomeness! Create a band of fighters to fight monsters, earn gold and create strategies for the perfect formations over multiple campaigns! Upgrade your heroes, collect unique gear, and unlock new Crusaders in regular new events.

“Incremental colony builder with 83% positive rating and fruit merging mechanics”

A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!

Zero IDLE is an incremental (IDLE) game in which you can decide whether to make all of your way to the biggest number EVER by clicking, or by increasing your incremental production...or you can make the game to click for you...

Build, link and upgrade factories to produce and sell products.

You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power. Complete missions, mine ore, kill enemies, research new tech, return to base to upgrade ship and repeat.

Idle Progress - A free idle game where your task is to produce as many resources as possible, improve your weapons and armor for good attacks, create good fishing rods for a good catch and get legendary items by completing legendary quests.

Super casual idle brush copy game!! A person is a guild group, no need for liver, no kryptonite, and you can play dungeons anytime, anywhere.

IdleCoin is a real-time cryptocurrency mining and management simulation.

Idle Pins is an Incremental game made by an Incremental addict for Incremental lovers. Over 250 Pins to collect and merge. Hundreds of upgrades, features and QoL. Enjoy one of the most rewarding 'grind' experience, now on Steam!

PegIdle is a Pachinko idle game! Aim and shoot your balls to clear all the pegs on the board. Recieve gold by hitting the golden pegs or by landing balls into the moving bucket. Purchasing auto ball drop will automaticly drop balls onto the board. Spend your gold on new balls and ball upgrades!

Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becoming stronger, and exploring an unfolding storyline. A spin-off of Nomad Survival.

Idle Hunter - is an Idle game made for people who like to relax and to grind a lot!

Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime! Sell drugs, attack with your gang, gamble your CrimeCoins away and hope, that you get that rare item, finally. Free-to-play. Offline Progression. No Microtransactions except 2 optional DLCs.

Deep idle game with NO ads, NO in-app-purchases. Watch your fleet battle automatically. Collect items and upgrade your buildings and fleet to reach progressively higher levels!

A relaxing Hololive idle game. Unlock upgrades, complete your card collection and take care of your idol to increase your influence!

Idle Heist is an Idle/Clicker game where the objective is to get as much money from the bank vault before you get caught! Through the use of upgrades and skills, earn MILLIONS or even TRILLIONS of dollars. This is the perfect game to play whilst you work or do other tasks!

Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.

Recruit hard-working helpers and magical creatures that automatically collect gold and crystals. Unlock new levels, invest in stronger units, and work your way up to the powerful dragon boss at the top. A relaxing pixel-style idle clicker!

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

A sci-fi themed incremental game which allows you to expand your capitalistic empire across the galaxy! Hire mercenaries to pillage alien planets for resources, with the singular goal of making as much money as possible as quickly as possible! Totally not a playful commentary on real Terran society.

Godsbane Idle is a fresh idle take on games such as path of exile. It combines the hunt for powerful loot with idle systems to guarantee your progress even if time is short that day. It tries to stray away from linear paths and offers multiple ways to customize your equipment, skills and even more.

This is an IDLE cultivation game. Rise from mortal to immortal! Explore a world inspired by Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions as you master swordplay, elemental magic, or Buddhist powers. Grow spirit crops, craft items, defeat monsters, and loot treasures. Your path to immortality awaits!

Monsters Idle RPG is a cozy and relaxing idle game where you collect monsters, deploy them in battles, gather resources, and sell them to earn profits! Explore Arcanium as you advance from a basic starter monster to your favorite companion by expanding your collection.

Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!

Mission IDLE is an IDLE game where your main focus is to grind for levels gold and other riches that will allow you to move futher in the zone stages.Mission IDLE is played by being afk. Most of the mechanics in the game are automated.

CompactO is an addicting idle game where you create colorful squares on a plane. Dominate the 3D Realm and infuse your planes into complex shapes to buy tons of upgrades!

Help the cat fairies to arrange resources, produce and harvest crops, and manage the farm. The more efficiently the farm grows, the richer your pockets become. Show some clicking skills to unwelcome visitors who occasionally appear on the farm.

Click to destroy your targets, or stay AFK and let the Archer destroy them for you. Loot potions to increase your damage. Equip rare gear to improve your stats. Farm epic books and use them on your items to modify them. Also, can you reach End Game to invade legendary dungeons?

Chill out, your heroes got this! They’ll fight even when you’re offline. Pop back in for satisfying numbers going up, sweet rewards and easy level-ups. Unlock cool gear, & smack down epic bosses. Play idle or clicker - you’ll power up with no stress, just good times and infinite progression!

Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons

Have you ever wanted an idle game without all the pesky obstructions like gameplay and graphics? Introducing Idle Game Simulator! Is it a game? No, it is a very serious and deep simulator. This is idle in its purest form, watch number go up without having to do anything at all!