Rankings
The essential canon
Spotlight
Let's Journey
A dice-rolled idle RPG where every landed hit drops gold and a mystery skill tree decides who your hero becomes.
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Progress Quest
Roll a character. Watch. That's the game: the 2002 progenitor of the entire genre.
TextReleased - 2
Kittens Game
The Dark Souls of incremental gaming: a cat village that grows into a spacefaring civilization.
TextReleased - 3
Realm Grinder
Choose your faction, remake the realm: the faction-based landmark incremental, Kong original 2015.
2DReleased - 4
A Dark Room
A fire stokes. A stranger stumbles in. The village grows. You know what you did in the forest.
TextComplete - 5
AdVenture Capitalist
The archetypal idle game: buy a lemonade stand, hire managers, reset for angels, and watch the numbers grow digits until they stop meaning money.
2DReleased - 6
Candy Box 2
Throw candies at frogs, save for a wooden sword, and descend into hell. aniwey's 2013 ASCII epic.
TextComplete - 7
Dwarf Eats Mountain
A strategic incremental about feeding dwarves to a mountain, and the logistics of getting the gold back out.
2DReleased - 8
Antimatter Dimensions
Buy 8 dimensions, watch antimatter cascade, reset for Infinity, then Eternity, then Reality.
TextBeta - 9
Cookie Clicker
The game that invented the modern idle genre. Click a cookie, buy a grandma, ascend for heavenly chips.
2DComplete