Idler Hidden Gems on Steam

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Not Monday Cafe Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.

Price -62% 3.39€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Jun 2025
Desk Paws Collect over 100 stylish little pets on your desktop! They can freely move along the bottom of your screen, or live in the little houses you've carefully decorated for them. Hmm... or perhaps send them on adventures to earn treats?

Price -57% 2.58€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Jun 2025
Desk Garden Relax and grow! A laid-back idle game where you nurture mysterious plants (some even human-like!), watch them flourish, then sell them to expand your magical garden. Design your own unique oasis at your own pace.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Jun 2025
Desktop Fishing Desktop Fishing is a cozy idle game that sits in the corner of your screen. Go about your usual desk work (or don't) while your frog buddy catches fish, discovers new outfits, and unlocks fishing spots.

Price 3.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Jun 2025
Idle Waters A relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you at the bottom of your screen. CATCH fish, BUY upgrades, COMPLETE your collection, and DISPLAY them in your aquarium.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 Jun 2025
Holoidle A relaxing Hololive idle game. Unlock upgrades, complete your card collection and take care of your idol to increase your influence!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Jun 2025
Coin Push RPG Coin Push RPG is a unique blend of Semi-Idle RPG and coin-pusher gameplay! Recruit legendary heroes, equip them with powerful gear, upgrade your town, construct buildings, and unlock stunning backgrounds as you expand your influence. Build a diverse and unstoppable team with your own unique style .

Price -68% 3.15€
Rating 7.3
Release 22 May 2025
Cauldron Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

Price -55% 6.80€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 May 2025
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen Run a bathhouse visited by animals! Maltese's Fluffy Onsen is a relaxing simulation game that you can enjoy while doing other tasks, as it sits at the bottom of your screen. Place baths with different temperatures and rest areas to help a variety of animal friends unwind.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 May 2025
Ithya: Magic Studies Ithya: Magic Study is a cozy background app combined with productivity tools. Customize your room and relax with lofi or fantasy playlists in beautiful, hand-drawn environments. Perfect for a focused or creative session in a magical world.

Price 10.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 May 2025
Lyca A small, relaxing, incremental game about restoring a barren wasteland into a lush meadow. Help the magical wolf Lyca run through the land, gather resources, and unlock a vast upgrade tree.

Price -69% 1.59€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Apr 2025
Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi Decorate your own cozy workspace! 『Mini Cozy Room : Lo-Fi』 combines relaxing Lo-Fi music and room decoration into one productivity game. Cute avatars and pets will keep you company, while desktop Pomodoro timers, notes, and to-do lists boost your efficiency.

Price -28% 2.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Mar 2025
Maiden And Lord "Maiden And Lord" is a relatively casual strategy war game that emphasizes player cooperation and the development of civilizations. It introduces innovative mechanisms such as "Private Territory" and "Safe Gathering," creating a prosperous and harmonious otherworldly realm.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Mar 2025
MementoMori Dive into a World Where Sorrow Meets Beauty

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 24 Mar 2025
Max Manos Max Manos is an incremental destruction game where you play as a powerful hand, known as Max Manos, eliminating shapes. Chain explosive reactions, collect shards, and upgrade your abilities to destroy shapes even faster.

Price -30% 4.12€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Mar 2025
FACEMINER Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Feb 2025
Flash Doll Physics engine-powered trendy toy figures, automatic battles, customizable moves, bring your friends and fight crickets together online!

Price 8.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Feb 2025
Beat Around The Bush Beat Around the Bush is a series done over YouTube shorts where the top comment got the next addition to the game. Beat Around the Bush is a game where your primary goal is to Beat around the Bush. Once you do, you did it. You won. Therefore, there's no more reason to keep playing this game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Feb 2025
My Little Life A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Price -63% 2.20€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Jan 2025
Fruit Stand Fortune Start with nothing and spin your way to the top! Gather fruit from slot machines and sell them to buy upgrades, new fruit types, and more! Unlock cute customers! Meet a Bear Wizard! Build your fruit empire with Fruit Stand Fortune!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Jan 2025
Behind Glass: Aquarium Simulator Create stunning virtual aquariums on your PC! Our advanced 3D engine brings your fish tank to life with breathtaking realism, featuring lifelike fish, plants, decorations, and more. Transform your monitor into a vibrant, living aquarium. Virtual aquascaping has never been easier!

Price 17.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Jan 2025
Fishing The Abyss This is a relaxing atmospheric game where you simply watch a robot catch creatures. Place it at the edge of your screen like a vertical desktop accessory and observe the ecosystem. It’s neither an idle game with mountains of stats nor an exciting fishing game.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Dec 2024
Idle Colony A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Price 5.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Dec 2024
Chonkers Chonkers is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Adopt the cutest fur balls and watch them ramp up the chonk scale as you play with them. Find them a new family. They’ll pay A LOT for your hefty chonker! Complete your collection by finding all the breeds and the rarest space cats!

Price -25% 3.74€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Dec 2024
Fantasy Aquarium Fantasy Aquarium offers an effortless way to enhance your gaming experience. You can nurture a diverse range of small fish with unique characteristics and construct a vibrant fantasy world from scratch, transforming mundane fish-keeping into an engaging pursuit.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Nov 2024
Deep Space Cache Deep Space Cache is a short & simple semi-idle bullet heaven incremental asteroid miner game.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Nov 2024
Lucky Hunter Lucky Hunter is a deck-building auto battler Roguelike game. Your pieces are automatically played on the board, and players will focus on building unique decks and artifacts, making the best of the synergies between pieces to defeat increasingly powerful prey.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Nov 2024
Widget Inc. A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Oct 2024
Journey to Incrementalia Journey to Incrementalia is an active incremental auto-battler about a necromancer on a short quest. Cast diabolical spells, summon an army and open the gates of hell on your quest to break down 99 walls and reach the lost city of Incrementalia.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Oct 2024
Finn Dorset's Institute For Livestock Replication An animated incremental game about cloning livestock. Make as many moon sheep as you can. Research technology, upgrade your operation and become a clone farm billionaire!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Oct 2024
BeYourCat "Be Your Cat " is a real love game,like an experience in life, one interesting dream. We all wish we had superpowers, but what would you do if one day you had superpowers, but not like Superman? What will you do with your limited abilities? How does it affect and change the people around you?

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.5
Release 15 Sep 2024
Smashing Simulator Idle Incremental game about smashing with unfolding gameplay and two prestige layers.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Aug 2024
Mewing Simulator 🤫🧏🏻‍♂️ Funny clicker game👆 in which you should increase your chin🤫🧏🏻‍♂️ for becoming trully sigma😎. Upgrade your Brainrot🧠 and Gyat Size🍑 and etc for more score! 💪💪💪🚽

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Aug 2024
Hamster Hamster is an idle clicker Game in which you click a Hamster to make him shiver. Each click has a random chance to make him shake a little more, or a little less. Can you make him go crazy?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Jun 2024
The Dearest Person A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Jun 2024
PegIdle PegIdle is a Pachinko idle game! Aim and shoot your balls to clear all the pegs on the board. Recieve gold by hitting the golden pegs or by landing balls into the moving bucket. Purchasing auto ball drop will automaticly drop balls onto the board. Spend your gold on new balls and ball upgrades!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 Jun 2024

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