Idler Hidden Gems on Steam

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Backrooms Lost Runners Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

Price 13.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 17 Jun 2026
You Know The Drill You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!

Price 5.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jun 2026
Farm RPG Farm RPG is a menu based farming RPG/MMO. Build your farm, grow crops, fish, craft, and explore. Unlock a variety of exciting daily activities as you progress. Engage with helpful townsfolk and collaborate with fellow players in a vibrant community for trading and teamwork.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Jun 2026
Dwarf Eats Mountain Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

Price -20% 7.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 May 2026
The Greenening A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 May 2026
Forage Wizard Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Price -20% 5.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 May 2026
Agrivore: Incremental Farming 🥕🥔🌽👑 Feed the King! Agrivore is an incremental farming idle game where you equip magical farming gear, harvest crops, unlock new equipment, and create hyper combos in your skill tree. Harvest the most crops to feed them to your gluttonous King.

Price -40% 4.31€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Apr 2026
Vending Machine Co. Run your kawaii vending machine company! A relaxing sim where you manage, restock, and repair your vending machines across a charming Japanese city. Pick neighborhoods, stock up on snacks, set the perfect price, upgrade your machines. Enjoy lots of fun minigames along the way.

Price -47% 6.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Apr 2026
Loot Loop Build a party of heroes and send them into dungeons in this short incremental RPG. Fight monsters, collect loot, and unlock upgrades. Fast runs, deep skill tree, zero stress.

Price -25% 3.74€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Apr 2026
Black Hole Fishing Black Hole Fishing is an absurd incremental game about catching, breeding, and perfecting SO MANY fish. Catch a fish, optimize its traits, then stock your pond with it as you pour fish and science into an endless singularity!

Price -25% 4.61€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Apr 2026
Virtual Cottage 2 Study alone - or together in your own customizable cottage! Virtual Cottage 2 motivates and supports you in tackling your daily tasks. Use its built-in productivity tool to accomplish your goals faster. Create your ultimate cozy space with hundreds of items.

Price -20% 5.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 27 Mar 2026
Skeleseller You're a skeleton shopkeep who hires adventurers to collect loot for you after your untimely demise. Send adventurers into battle, sell what they find, and build up your town in this laid-back idle game!

Price -25% 5.84€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Mar 2026
Desktop Raid Assemble your adventure squad on the desktop! Classic RPG meets idle play—no grind, no stress, just nonstop progress. Your heroes fight, level up, and loot while you work or study. Explore rich classes, powerful skills, and thrilling gear drops. RPG excitement, anytime, anywhere!

Price -25% 6.59€
Rating 7.2
Release 08 Mar 2026
Box Bakery Run your dream bakery, make friends with adorable animals, collect friendship photos and unique scrapbook elements. Forge ahead, using the power of baking to solve the town’s challenges. Let every animal enjoy its favorite bread—and open up about the secrets they’ve kept hidden.

Price -81% 2.48€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Mar 2026
MR FARMBOY MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.

Price -31% 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Mar 2026
Book of Fei Lead adorable warriors to form an adventure team to work and adventure on the computer desktop. Defeat the warriors to save the world. Rich nurturing and collection elements, idle and slack off to earn money and fight monsters!

Price -35% 2.04€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Feb 2026
Microcivilization Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Price -50% 9.12€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Jan 2026
Kin and Quarry An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig. Upgrade. Repeat.

Price -71% 2.88€
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Jan 2026
Craftlings Inspired by legendary classics from the ’90s, Craftlings will take you on a journey full of strategic decisions and test your skills in optimizing automated production chains and Craftlings’ paths. Gather, deliver, build, and fight for wealth and glory in the unique, nostalgic world of Craftlings.

Price -20% 15.83€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jan 2026
Feed the Reactor An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.

Price -40% 4.13€
Rating 7.7
Release 06 Jan 2026
Cultivation Magic World 3D Idle Cultivation RPG: Instant battles, one-click AFK loot farming, screen-filling sword storms, thrilling aerial combat! Diverse classes, physique awakenings, Summon spirit beasts (pets), massive realm progression from mortal to transcendence! Effortless AFK + intense manual fights!

Price -12% 11.25€
Rating 7.5
Release 31 Dec 2025
Execute Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.

Price -35% 3.82€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Dec 2025
CivIdle CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2025
Molili AI Friends: Your AI Desk Pal Bring a charming AI friend to your desktop. Molili AI friend listens, reads by your side, blushes when you care, and helps with study or work using a smart personality system that remembers your moments, growing from curious visitor to the companion who understands you best.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Dec 2025
Wild Growth Wild Growth is a short, actionpacked incremental healer game set in a grim norse world.

Price -40% 2.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Dec 2025
GLONK A short incremental game about feeding Glonk! Make Glonk bigger, get more money, and explore the skill tree to upgrade your abilities, and get more Glonks!

Price -20% 2.39€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Nov 2025
Farlands: Tiny Harvest Tiny Harvest is a relaxing desktop game that runs while you work, study, or browse the internet. Grow space plants, upgrade your crops, ship, home, and tools, and enjoy a cozy, minimalist experience designed to keep you company throughout your day.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 21 Nov 2025
Marisa!ReturnTheBook! A 2D top-down idle AFK & battle stage-clearing game set in Gensokyo. In the peaceful and tranquil Gensoukyo, a little girl with yellow hair who likes to borrow books everywhere has aroused Alice's anger. Therefore, she calls on everyone in Gensoukyo to gather in front of Marisa's house for a battle

Price -25% 4.41€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Nov 2025
Military Incremental Complex Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

Price -30% 6.82€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Nov 2025
Berserk B.I.T.S Berserk B.I.T.S is an idle-rpg, auto-battler, chip-collecting game that runs on your desktop. Let your B.I.T do battle and collect items. Collect rare chips and build your deck! Customize and Level up to take down intense Virus bosses as you unravel the mysteries behind the attacks on the Net.

Price -25% 5.16€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Nov 2025
Crusaders Quest : Mini Meet Little Friends on the PC with Crusaders Quest : Mini (CQ:Mini)! You can work and study During the game, Crusader Quest's warriors fought hard and saved the Hasla continent You're leaving. You can collect the original warriors and costumes just for this game, too. Let go of your boredom

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 19 Nov 2025
Wretch: Divine Ascent A 1v1 tactical auto battler game with elements of roguelike mechanics and backpack management in a dark medieval art style. It was inspired by Backpack Battles and developed with Unreal Engine. Create your own unique attack combos by arranging items in your backpack to connect moves.

Price -65% 5.32€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Nov 2025
Asbury Pines A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.

Price -20% 10.23€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Nov 2025
Bit Buddy Bit Buddy reacts to your keyboard and mouse activity in real time. Collect decorations as you use your computer, customize your workspace, explore over 1,000 community-made buddies and decorations through Steam Workshop, or create and share your own.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Nov 2025
Void Miner Incremental Asteroids Roguelite Blast. Collect. Upgrade. Repeat. Void Miner is a retro-inspired roguelite asteroid shooter where you pilot a space ship and manage an automated tower to destroy endless fields of chaos. Dodge, blast, and harvest your way through waves of asteroids in a fast-paced loop of destruction and progression.

Price -32% 4.00€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Nov 2025
DEFRAG DEFRAG is a game about cleansing corrupted sectors and refining them through optimization to build a stronger system. Collect resources, adjust configurations, and complete your build as you progress.

Price -30% 2.09€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Nov 2025

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