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464 Idle & Incremental games reviewed and scored, best first.
464 reviews
The gather-craft-expand loop that launched a hundred imitators, and one of the most effective opening hours in any game of its type. It's also been abandoned since 2020 with a promised multiplayer mode that never arrived — and it still sells at full price.
6.5 / 10
An active clicker where pickaxes are forbidden and bombs do all the digging, chaining explosive ore reactions across a cute 8x8 pixel mine — well liked by a genuinely international audience, with two specific complaints, an achievement bug and a rough endgame mode, showing up independently across different languages.
6.5 / 10
A coin-flipping incremental that dresses up Cookie Clicker's core loop in casino iconography, then undercuts its own momentum with a broken mid-tier economy and a prestige system that punishes curiosity.
6.5 / 10
A short, gleefully mean-spirited incremental game about getting rich by making pollution worse — genuinely funny in its first half hour, and honest that there isn't much more than that first half hour to find.
6.5 / 10
A small, unanimously well-liked decorating sandbox where birds bring seeds and gifts to slowly fill an island with plants and decorations, backed by a genuinely sustained run of seasonal content updates and a warm, consistent English review record.
6.5 / 10
A dress-up idle auto-battler about running six simultaneous parties through dungeons for loot -- a competent, RNG-heavy hack-and-slash idle RPG whose most detailed reviewers, having actually pushed into the endgame, list a specific and credible set of design limits underneath its solid core loop, alongside disclosed AI-generated character art.
6.5 / 10
A dark fantasy skilling idle RPG that layers roaming named bosses and a weekly rhythm of world-changing "Blessings" on top of a structure several of its own reviewers, across four languages, independently call a close read of Melvor Idle — right down to the 99 skill cap.
6.5 / 10
A guild-management idle RPG with FF12-style Tactics scripting and concurrent party automation, whose launch performance crisis was corroborated by players across four language communities — and whose developer's rapid, well-documented patching earned real goodwill from many of the same players who first reported it.
6.5 / 10
A polished AdVenture Capitalist-style idle tycoon that still earns steady thumbs-ups eight years on, even though its developer stopped visibly supporting it in 2019.
6.5 / 10
Grumpy Rhino Games' 2018 cult-tycoon idler turns its tower into an actual production chain instead of an upgrade list, and its Idol-summoning prestige loop still holds up — but the studio has settled into bug-fix-only maintenance, and there's little new to chase for anyone who cleared the tower years ago.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer idle roguelite that stacks tactical auto-battles, city building, a no-cash-required gacha and a marriage system into one RPG Maker package. The systems draw genuine praise from a small but devoted audience, undercut throughout by a rough English translation that dominates almost every negative review the game has.
6.5 / 10
The officially licensed D&D idle game turns line-up positioning into a real tactical puzzle, then buries that good idea under one of the most persistent monetisation engines in the idle genre.
6.5 / 10
A budget dark-fantasy clicker where you tap cultists back into worshipers with a cross, told across twelve moody pixel-art areas — handsome and short enough not to overstay its welcome, but dogged by accusations that its loop is a close reskin of another incremental.
6.5 / 10
A fruit-merging incremental that wears its debt to Gnorp Apologue openly and executes the formula well enough to earn Very Positive reviews, undercut mainly by a name that promises more hands-off progress than the game is actually willing to give.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 solo-developed idle RPG that builds a genuinely large xianxia cultivation ladder — four realms, twelve stages, a reincarnation-and-soul-perk prestige loop — undercut by a recurring, still-unresolved save-corruption bug and a depth ceiling its own most invested players describe hitting after two or three lifetimes.
6.5 / 10
A small, self-published idle digger about a living pickaxe smashing its way to the core of the earth — genuinely satisfying for the four or so hours its content lasts, before the post-game stretch that chases the last achievements turns into the thing several reviewers actually complain about.
6.5 / 10
A bullet-heaven idle game with a genuinely satisfying 50-hour core campaign and a vocal, high-playtime fanbase, weighed down by a shiny-demon rarity system some players call brutal rather than rewarding, and a crash-and-corrupted-save bug still being reported months after launch.
6.5 / 10
A dice-rolling incremental from solo developer Lutsgames that sells itself on genuine randomness, then spends its entire upgrade tree quietly smoothing that randomness away — and the game is more interesting for admitting it can't have both.
6.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic idle game built around a genuine grid-inventory puzzle rather than a spreadsheet of upgrade buttons, undercut by a prestige system that does the math against itself and timers that make "idle" feel like the wrong word for long stretches of it.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play boat-and-crew idler with 1,215 Steam achievements and a genuinely active two-year patch history, undercut by a store-page AI Generated Content Disclosure and a bolt-on excavation system that its own achievement data shows almost nobody finishes.
6.5 / 10
An idle tower-defense RPG that syncs your progress between phone and PC and genuinely respects the hours you put in -- right up until the upgrade menu starts asking for real money in ways the achievement list quietly admits are rare to finish.
6.5 / 10
A three-day-old idle ARPG from Chinese solo studio TUNA TUN that docks a full loot-and-buildcraft game — skill trees, randomised affixes, gem sockets, a 50-level dungeon path and an infinite Ascension ladder above it — into a fixed panel in the corner of your screen, undercut by an immovable window, a tedious itemisation flow and freeze bugs its nine early reviewers are already naming.
6.5 / 10
An idle RPG that swaps the genre's usual real-time clock for something stranger — your knight levels up from the mouse clicks and keystrokes you make in other programs entirely.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed idle RPG whose gear-absorbing prestige system and genuinely deep loot hooked hundreds of hours out of its fans -- while a hands-on bounty system that fights the "idle" label and some brutally uneven scaling keep it at Mixed rather than a genre standout.
6.5 / 10
