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464 Idle & Incremental games reviewed and scored, best first.
464 reviews
A NZ$7.39 solo-developed incremental auto-battler about a necromancer smashing 99 walls — Very Positive across 911 reviews, and honest about being "Active Incremental" even though Steam's own Idler tag oversells how passive it is. The build freedom the store promises is real, but a full-respec-only skill tree with no saved loadouts turns a lot of that freedom into manual busywork, and the solo developer's patch trail goes quiet in May 2025.
7.5 / 10
A joke about blowing leaves off a lawn that grew, update by update, into one of Steam's biggest free incrementals — dozens of interlocking systems, five years of support, and a DLC list that doesn't always match the "no paywall" pitch.
7.5 / 10
A first-person idle dungeon crawler that sells you the whole game once, then gets out of the way — its classless skill system and guild-building give it real depth, even if its offline expeditions undersell the "idle" in the title.
7.5 / 10
A five-dollar semi-idle RPG that sends three-adventurer teams into dungeons on their own while you sort, salvage and re-gear what they drag back — and a look at whether that loop still has somewhere to go once the opening classes stop being new.
7.5 / 10
A free, deliberately one-hour incremental game about training a commoner into a master archer, honest about its own scope and warmly received for it, though its own audience is split on whether an incremental game should ever have a definite ending.
7.5 / 10
A one-person, text-first incremental about running a school of wizards that keeps almost everything on a single screen of menus, and turns dying to a boss into the moment its retirement system finally starts paying off.
7.5 / 10
A party-based incremental RPG that hands you only the healer and makes that the whole point — 200-plus skill-tree nodes built around keeping a self-sufficient, self-important party alive, wrapped in a tight four-hour campaign that starts stronger than it finishes.
7.5 / 10
A solo developer's take on RuneScape-style skilling, rebuilt as a multiplayer idle game with a real player-driven economy — and a cow theme it commits to with a straight face.
7.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 plinko roguelike about making numbers get bigger, 97.4% positive — and 56 of its 100 most-helpful negative reviews are about the same thing: you are not really in control.
7.5 / 10
A Lovecraftian idle RPG that spent months as a well-loved free demo before its 12 August 2026 launch -- an auto-battling, town-building, gear-crafting incremental that early buyers call one of the deepest idle games in years, with a real complaint underneath the praise about a stat and customisation system that gets overwhelming fast.
7.5 / 10
A 2015 Kongregate clicker that grew into one of the incremental genre's most durable idle RPGs by making its faction choice actually change how you play, not just which number gets bigger.
7.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 frog who cuts grass on your desktop — 95.4% positive, fifteen updates in eighteen months, and negative reviews from players with three hundred hours in it.
7.5 / 10
A cozy incremental about a senior turtle building a jellyfish-fishing business that lands its upgrade loop almost perfectly for the three-to-eight hours it lasts, undercut for this audience specifically by two things its own reviewers keep repeating — it ends fast, and despite its store tags it isn't actually an idle game.
7.5 / 10
A dead adventurer comes back as a skeleton shopkeep and starts hiring the living to die in his place — Xtonomous's solo-developed idle sim turns that morbid joke into a genuinely connected hire-loot-sell loop, then keeps things deliberately short instead of chasing the usual idle-game grind.
7.5 / 10
A village builder where everything — villagers, berries, houses, monsters — is a card on a table, and you craft by dragging one onto another. Twelve dollars, 96% positive, genuinely inventive. Then your table fills up and there is no way to automate anything.
7.5 / 10
An auto-battler where you never touch the character directly, animated entirely in ASCII art, and built around Stonescript — a real scripting language for programming your own companion's combat behaviour instead of just watching it fight.
7.5 / 10
A tower-defence game, a factory incremental and a scripting sandbox welded into one free island, where the real endgame is writing the AI that plays it for you.
7.5 / 10
A one-purchase incremental about drilling through an entire solar system, planet by planet, where the reward for mastering one resource is a permanent buff instead of a bigger number to stare at.
7.5 / 10
A free browser incremental that has been running since 2015 — trap creatures, build a war economy out of them, and watch a soft-reset loop of zones, portals and heliums turn into one of the deepest progression systems the genre has ever built.
7.5 / 10
A cheap, finite incremental about piloting a ship from Earth to the edge of the observable universe, with an unusually healthy completion rate to back up its warm reception, let down by a user interface that splits into too many screens as it grows and a back stretch several reviewers say outstays its welcome.
7.5 / 10
A free, solo-developed idle RPG on its 161st update after seven years — with a monetisation model its biggest spenders defend, and a review calling it abandoned that the patch notes flatly disprove.
7.5 / 10
A Tamagotchi-raising sim welded onto an idle RPG, charming in exactly the way its premise promises and shallow in exactly the way that premise risks — the hero grows on its own, but you rarely get to decide how.
7.5 / 10
A US$5 solo-dev card game about getting obscenely, monstrously rich — Cookie Clicker's number-go-up loop wearing a satirical life-sim's clothes, with real documented flaws (a reset mechanic that still catches players a year after the fix) and none of the monetisation traps this library usually has to warn about.
7.3 / 10
A four-dollar tower defence roguelite where the towers shoot themselves and you pick the upgrades — and whose players are averaging fourteen hours in its first week. The best value on this list, and the most repetitive thing on it.
7 / 10
