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The game that invented the modern idle genre. Click a cookie, buy a grandma, ascend for heavenly chips.

The MMO where you write JavaScript that plays itself: an always-on colony in a persistent world.

Numbers Go Up: the #1 rated Kongregate idle, Steam's definitive big-number sandbox.

The open-source Pokemon idle remake: every region, 1,400+ species, one very legal grey area handled with care.

You are a planet. Make friends, dodge space gods, and dungeon-dive into your own core.

Train under the gods, beat the gods, become the god: Shugasu's long-running pet-raising god idle.

Choose your faction, remake the realm: the faction-based landmark incremental, Kong original 2015.

Jake Hollands' potato-powered orbital idle, published by Devolver: launch, orbit, ascend, repeat.

Tap the titan, level the Sword Master, prestige the clan: the mobile clicker that made idle mainstream.

Berzerk's lovable necromancy smash-em-up: smash, loot, build the bonfire, REMONSTER everything.

The archetypal idle game: buy a lemonade stand, hire managers, reset for angels, and watch the numbers grow digits until they stop meaning money.

Ten useless heroes, one idle RPG, and the slow march toward almost mattering.

Tukkun's monument to doing several games' worth of things at once: an idle RPG with 600+ achievements.

A free, mostly idle RPG: five heroes, 35 regions, and Minmaxia's dungeon-crawler epic.

One crank, a wall of darkness, and a tech tree that ends up in space.

Minecraft meets Cookie Clicker: a Stone Age crafting incremental by two brothers.

Wertpol's 2014 money-counting horror: you have money, and the money does something to you.

Dig shafts, hire miners, ride the elevator: Kolibri Games' genre-defining mining idle.

A polite little AI makes paperclips. Then it makes a different kind of everything.

A strategic incremental about feeding dwarves to a mountain, and the logistics of getting the gold back out.

Breed an army of Trimps, fight through zones, and reset for permanent power in this deep military idle.

A text-based xianxia idler: meditate, refine pills, draw talismans, and survive the tribulations of ascension.

A Japanese hot spring idler: build a garden, raise koi and cats, and let a serene world run in the background of your work.

A co-op desktop idler about patting fish to maturity with friends, then netting them into a shared aquarium.

Raise idle fish on your desktop, collect rare species, and let the pond pay you while you work.

A 3D farm idler that lives on the bottom edge of your screen while you get on with your life.

Aliens invade, you click back: ZakosGames' 2014 defense incremental, Steam-published later.

A grid of merging barrels, a magnet economy and a thousand-tier scrap empire hiding behind a plain facade.

Two resources, one post-apocalypse: balance scrap against electricity workers at v1.0.

Robotic vacuums with a taste for geometry: deploy PolyBots, merge them, and build a shape-sweeping empire.

Craft gear, stock the shop, sell to heroes at a markup. The RPG shopkeeper sim, free, on every platform that matters.

An idle roguelite that lives in the corner of your monitor and minds its own business.

Help a charming cat run his packaging shop: tap, hire assistants and decorate the coziest little store.

One generator, one progress bar, and multipliers that multiply multipliers in a hypnotically slow idle.

Build the facilities, harvest the goo, and scale slime production into scientific notation.

One champion, one dungeon, and a developer FAQ that doubles as the store page.

Sneaker Tap is second version of idle game about your sneakers

Pop the top on legendary action: raid dungeons with party members you recruited at a tavern that sells soda. Free, mobile-born, desktop-ported.

A tiny farm that lives on your Windows taskbar, raising chickens, cows and truffle pigs while you do actual work.

Sekure's 2016 nanotech idle, dead with its domain, its button icon archived here.

An auto-battler RPG with no menus, no sprawl and three buildings: the whole genre compressed to its skeleton.

Vue-powered necromancy in space: monkeh42's 2021 incremental, dead with its subdomain.

A 48-hour Ludum Dare 32 hack-and-cyberwar clicker: hire sysadmins, trolls, black hats and developers.

A cozy pixel lord simulator with 25 heroes, 50 treasures and six very final dragons

A one-sitting incremental about busting nodes and destroying reality. steam250's Best of 2024, 97% positive.

A node production simulator: buy nodes, feed a technology tree, and grow a sprawling production line.

A clicker RPG where the hardcore mode means it: one life, and death deletes everything.

stanny1's Sword King sibling: luck-based forging, 20+ weapons, delisted from everywhere.

Hit bag, crank lever, upgrade moves. Repeat until the caps stop being lowercase.

Hatch pets, mine quadrillions of coins, and unlock 100 hand-crafted areas in a gacha-flavoured idle adventure.

A Tamagotchi that lives in the corner of your monitor: feed it, train it, evolve it, and try not to kill it with kindness.

A deposed village chief farms a demon-infested frontier in a strip of screen at the bottom of your monitor, and mostly without you.

Buy stores, hire workers, and click your way to an absurd amount of money in a little town with weather.

Nine species of procedurally-loved pixel pets: Jake Trower's complete HTML5 clicker.

Slay, spawn, convert, prestige: a minimalist pixel idle RPG with fair prices and a global ranking.

Click the giant pizza, buy 21 toppings, earn 13 achievements: Indie Boy's HTML5 pizzeria.

A 2011 Cookie Clicker clone with the SWF still hosted: click the pizza, collect every five seconds.

A garden that grows while you are elsewhere. The 2016 clicker that made doing nothing feel like horticulture, now with a sequel and a decade of goodwill.

Drop the balls, let the pegs do the chaos, and upgrade your way toward infinity.

A Touhou fan-work desktop pet game about raising tiny chaotic lizards that scurry, lay eggs and steal your heart.

Click the poop, hire the Baby, chase the Golden Poop: the toilet-humor clicker at its purist.

Drop kernels, pop corn, stack wealth, and let the cool jazz handle the atmosphere.

A free SteamVR idle farm that lives inside a floating portal while you play other VR games.

Rebuild the wasteland tile by tile: Restoration Power, oil tankers and journals from the old world.

The Haxe creator's lost Flash RPG: restore the kingdom, save the Hero, lose the SWF.

The medieval life-idle goes online: train your knight, join a clan and raid other players' coin purses.

A meme-culture clicker where the joke is the product and the achievements are the structure.

Stun people, take their gold, and let the damage curve run to quadrillions.

Five ants, one gallery, and a price tag only you can set.

Bid on the Mona Lisa, curate the trendiest museum on Earth, and let visitors fund the next bid war.

Bees fly, honey pours, the conveyor belt never stops: a pocket honey tycoon in three upgrade bars.

A giant cartoon capybara, a population counter and a weather system: the cozy rodent clicker that knows exactly how deep it is.

Bore, stroke, turbo, camshaft: a 1970s-to-today car empire sim that lets you build the engine part by part before you sell the dream.

Metal plates in, finished cars out: nine departments, four lines, and a parking lot full of commuting workers.

Stack businesses into a tower, hire celebrities to run them, then jump eras in a time machine to do it all again bigger.

Queue the cat students, upgrade the classrooms, and grow a tiny academy into a legendary school of magic.

Tap code in a storage room, upgrade the rig, buy the world, and retire to a space station on Mars.

Dig a bunker, fill it with mutants, press the big red button and profit from the end of the world.

A training-montage incremental: grind slowly, laugh constantly, avenge the llama.

The heroes fight the Dark Lord. You own the tavern, the forge, and every gold coin they spend getting ready.

A run-down junkyard gas station, a garage full of clunkers and a pump that never rests: Homa's pocket-sized roadside empire.

Merge goblins, clear the forest grid, and let the little diggers chew through timber while you are gone.

Merge quirky little creatures, attract their fleas and let a tiny floating archipelago pay you rent.

An ancient spellbook that passes from owner to owner: transcribe runes, cast layered systems, decode the story.

Hamsters run the cake factory: balance the mixers, sweeten the recipes, fatten the cheeks.

Swipe the sea, hire a crew to fish while you sleep, and hunt the Big One across oceans.

Run a boot camp empire: enroll rookies, build shooting ranges and graduate recruits into gold.

Upgrade the DJ booth, staff the bars, keep the bouncers brisk: run the club scene from a dive to a mega-disco.

A playable Xianxia novel: cultivate Qi, join a sect, raise a spiritual mountain, and grind your way to immortality.

Tap-powered brawls, a gacha support crew and a boss every ten stages: detention as an idle game.

Tralalero Tralala, Bombardino Crocodilo and a shark in sneakers: the meme clicker where the internet's favourite nonsense is the reward.

Develop the junkyard with new machinery and appliances

Cats make furniture now: one gathers, one preps, one designs, one sells, and the paws never stop.

A conveyor-belt factory devoted entirely to leeks: route, process and optimize your way to Quantum Leeks.

Pound the table, caffeinate the bosses, and whip an assembly line of 220 collectible workers toward THE BIG BOSS.

Harvest souls, draw occult sigils and automate a cult until Cthulhu wakes: Lovecraft with fair monetization.