Idler Hidden Gems on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated idler games.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
MementoMori
Dive into a World Where Sorrow Meets Beauty
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.
Flash Doll
Physics engine-powered trendy toy figures, automatic battles, customizable moves, bring your friends and fight crickets together online!
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.
My Little Life
A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Deep Space Cache
Deep Space Cache is a short & simple semi-idle bullet heaven incremental asteroid miner game.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
Smashing Simulator Idle
Incremental game about smashing with unfolding gameplay and two prestige layers.
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! 💪💪💪🚽
The Dearest Person
A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.
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!