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A fire stokes. A stranger stumbles in. The village grows. You know what you did in the forest.

Throw candies at frogs, save for a wooden sword, and descend into hell. aniwey's 2013 ASCII epic.

Buy 8 dimensions, watch antimatter cascade, reset for Infinity, then Eternity, then Reality.

Roll a character. Watch. That's the game: the 2002 progenitor of the entire genre.

The Dark Souls of incremental gaming: a cat village that grows into a spacefaring civilization.

Notch's 2014 life simulator: there is nothing. Solve.

From primordial ooze to spacefaring empire: pmotschmann's civilization-builder incremental.

The zero-player god game: your hero adventures, you watch, and occasionally intervene.

Meat, larvae, drones, queens, and eventually the stars: the 2014 text incremental that taught a genre what exponential really looks like.

The fan sequel where buying the next tier costs the last one: derivative math as sacrifice.

The shark-and-reef incremental: original 2014, community-continued, three versions one hub.

A number. It goes up. Nothing else.

An RPG-flavored incremental with health bars, an inn, and a decade of quiet updates.

Click +1^0, convert, climb the exponent ladder: the ultra-minimalist idle whose title is 'I am IDLE, yes I am!'

Unlock all the squares: bulkaster's Construct 2 grid idle, rated honestly at 1.67.

Click the pen, buy wordcrafters, brute-force a dictionary: CoolDroid's word-discovery idle.

Write JavaScript, race bots to 2×10¹⁰: angarg12's competitive scripting idle.

You are a blue slime: grind, upgrade, evolve through 15+ slimes to become the strongest.

Stop_Sign's pure-text quest clicker: 404 on Google Drive hosting, reborn on GitHub Pages.

A sci-fi space incremental and 4X-RPG from Virtuosi Media: mines, stations, trade, and the gate itself.

An alpha warrior idle with CC-licensed art and a credits list longer than some AAA games.

A lemonade-business tycoon that came back from the dead: 'Lemontastic is back!'

The 13th level of a layered city: a text sci-fi settlement builder from the Evolve developer.

A loot-box satire that knows what it is: adventures run, chests open, the rarity wheel spins.

The goddess-raising gacha idle: Shinmage's 2013 original, http-only and quietly alive.

The goddess-raising sequel: bigger world map, English and Japanese, finished.

A mini transcend: Taylor Calderone's text incremental, alive under a lowercase URL the wiki never found.

Move your mouse, earn points, buy chaos: a browser incremental about the pointer itself.

James Senter's text-based nano-strategy: a complete iOS release at 4.73 stars.

A plain, alpha, 1.8-star Kongregate incremental: exactly what the title says, no more.

dSolver's city-builder idle on Steam: grow the town, balance the budget, watch it prosper.

A keyboard-mash-named Unity WebGL release from Berengow: minimal, live, and now photographed.

Blek's reactor-building incremental: cells, heat exchangers, and a very careful definition of meltdown.

A dark-fantasy semi-idle RPG: v1.1 alive on GitHub Pages, galaxy.click, and the original build.

Kulivszk's incremental password-cracking game: no idle, all grinding, all Bytecoin.

seiyria's idle roguelike: a party dies in a dungeon, prestige via Seppuku, the party re-enters.

An unfolding adventure: penguinswin3's Angular 18 RPG clicker, live in a real browser.

Earth to star systems to Dyson Spheres: sparticle999's space incremental, live and rendered.

An ASCII-art Candy Box-descendant, still served by its author, with a sequel preserved in source.

Tom Medley's Candy Box-inspired ASCII webtoy: an arcade, a crafting bay, a secret lab, warp time.

Craft jars of human traits for the Shop Before Life: Neil Hughes's prelife megafactory idle.

'An incremental game.' Wood, stone, food, prestige: Yhvr's v0.3.1 beta, alive under a renamed account.

gamehelp16's Candy Box-descendant ASCII factory, kept golden by an active fan remake.

An incremental descent into the nightmare of capitalism: cartels, business goals, and Garry the cat.

Produce hydrogen, unlock the periodic table: angarg12's chemistry incremental, from the Idle Royale developer.

LukeZaz's self-aware incremental, revived: 'Timewaster: Broken Images Edition', currently unbroken.

Post on Squalk, farm the outrage, watch the democracy wobble: a 2018 political satire idle.

The first incremental with truly exponential progress: 2^n growth, by the developer who wrote the genre's math bible.

Time is the currency: an idle RPG whose dungeon is 365 days long, one day per level.

A minimalist wall of numbers: Geogolf's two-layer prestige incremental, discontinued by its own notice.

Pumps, treatment plants, pipes, and a thirsty city: Dimitar155's open-source Bulgarian water idle.

You wake up with a burning desire to click words: Tiffany Zhang's pure-CSS word clicker.

The xkcd #1190 'Time' idle: 3,099 panels of sandcastle, digged, tooled, badged, monumented.

The free, ad-supported door into A Firelit Room. Delisted; the paid version survives.

One infinity card. Twenty-six letters. An economy in alphabetical order.

A 2015 Flash speed-runner of an incremental, stranded by the death of its plugin.

A text-based space bounty-hunter MMO that ran from 2014 until its sun quietly set.

You are a lone cell becoming conscious. A small thing in a large universe.

A grid of ten-by-twenty-one grey buttons. MinMaxia's minimalist masterpiece.

A text-based machine-builder about making beads, by the developer of the Punktasia family.

Mine BTC with CPUs, sell for dollars, repeat: a 2016 bitcoin incremental, abandoned May 2020.

A Polish bookmark-themed clicker from 2013, preserved as HTML in the archive.

Have Masher do all your work for you: Barbasu's 2016 button idle, host lost.

A lost button-clicker from the CivClicker developer's site: never archived, never recovered.

The original coding idle: buy units, write code, watch the output grow.

Zone residential, commercial and industrial tiles: a SimCity-flavoured text incremental.

The sequel to CityClicker: grow a city, print money, prestige.

A dark, sparse text incremental about managing a city and sacrificing its citizens.

Click wood, found a thorp, raise an empire: the 2011 ancestor of civilization incrementals, kept alive by its community.

dSolver's car-mogul idle: manufacture cars, sell them, wroom. Dead, with one surviving thumbnail.

Run your mafia family, recruit nine kinds of gangsters, pull off missions: a lost HTML5 mafia idle.

Cook meth, sell it, dodge the DEA: the Breaking Bad clicker that outlived its own show's finale.

A free bitcoin RPG faucet: brawl for satoshis in a RoR web game, dead with the bear market.

An incremental-driven C64 emulator: click to compute, one 8-bit machine at a time.

Run a conspiracy org across industry, media and politics until the New World Order is your org chart.

Each product generation is better, and improves the longer you wait: Hamilton Cline's patience idle.

A 2014 crypto-themed incremental by u/LukeZaz: dead host, recovered UI, honest gaps.

A dashboard-themed incremental: the UI is the joke, the numbers are the game.

Buy derivative generators that buy mathematicians that buy computers: calculus as an idle game.

The Diamond Hunt series (2014-2021) by ick: four games and a successor, all offline but remembered.

Design NAND-gate circuits, mine silicon, sell verified designs: digital logic as an incremental.

Your Dots: N. One clickable magenta dot. u/mission712's minimalist 2015 clicker, archived.

Mac Graham's 2017 electricity incremental: from Wind Up Generator to Large Proton Event Farm.

A bare Russian-language JS dungeon text game, dead with its host, zero images existed.

Loosely inspired by Antimatter Dimensions, entirely its own game: axes, stars, wormholes, 10^500B.

Buy a factory, warehouse and shop: clayc90's 2015 production-chain incremental, archived.

dSolver's CodePen-era satire: make small games, chase ROI, watch the industry eat you.

Run a House, try to survive: dSolver's open-source GoT house simulator.

jdllama's 2013 school-politics incremental: click Effort, file Paperwork, get elected.

Build a kingdom of holy warriors against The Evil One: CursedAnubis and LadyUndine's 2018 idle.

Raise the dead in 13 kilobytes: CUTFUJI's js13kGames 2022 necromancy idle.

Idle for scrap, craft hats, build the empire. The bazaar.tf idle game, preserved in the archive.

Final Fantasy 7 as a clicker: attack through encounters, level Cloud, buy materia, break LIMIT.