Best Idler Games 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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Rock Life: The Rock Simulator Built from the ground up, Rock Life is the next generation of immersion and simulations. Live, do, and experience what it is like to truly become one with nature... as a rock!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Jul 2022
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 06 Jul 2022
PomoFarm PomoFarm is half focus timer and half idle farming game! As Tomato the Duck, grow your farm as you focus on tasks in the real world!

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Jul 2022
Disgaea 6 Complete Join Zed on his quest to destroy the God of Destruction in the newest installment of the SRPG series, Disgaea! Join the zany cast for one HL of an adventure and use specialized abilities like Super Reincarnation to battle your way to victory! Disgaea 6 Complete includes all previously released DLC!

Price -63% 22.54€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Jun 2022
Pacifish Pacifish is an incremental fishing management game with several mechanics to interact with and improve. It can be played both idly, or more actively to progress faster.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Jun 2022
Pickle Clicker Click pickle, get pickle, spend pickle, get more pickle, and most importantly... Protect pickle from sneaky Poglins!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 03 May 2022
Trimps A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 May 2022
Idle Spiral This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Apr 2022
Touch Some Grass Someone told me to go touch some grass. I'm pretty sure this is what they meant.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Apr 2022
Tumbleweed Destiny The somewhat hateful and slightly charming tumbleweed is the star of the game. This game is a tumbleweed life simulator that depicts the fate of tumbleweeds in my own imagination.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 31 Mar 2022
Orb of Creation Orb of Creation is an active incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Mar 2022
Poop Clicker Have you always wanted to be a king, but all the kingdoms are already taken? Try to be the Poop King in the Poop Clicker game! A magical unicorn, sweet corn and others will help you with this! Unlock special upgrades, but take your time, because haste makes waste!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2022
Tap Ninja - Idle game Defeat enemies, earn gold, upgrade your village, become a Ninja Master!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Mar 2022
Movie Night Movie Night is a casual online multiplayer game giving players the ability to create their own virtual cinema to watch youtube with their friends in sync.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 27 Jan 2022
My life as an archeologist Click your way through 100 levels of archeological treasure hunting, loot and improve your equipment, uncover build-defining artefacts on every boss, choose between three different classes and find the one that best fits your playstyle! Research monsters cards and improve every run!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Jan 2022
Chill Corner This is just an idle game for chilling, relaxing or focusing.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Dec 2021
Bitburner Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Dec 2021
Stuck In Time A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Dec 2021
WorldBox - God Simulator WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Dec 2021
Melvor Idle Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.

Price -75% 2.46€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Nov 2021
Incremental Cubes Cube based incremental game that is simple but very deep!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 03 Nov 2021
Idle Big Devil Idle Big Devil is a free idle RPG game with 3D graphics. If you are interested in strategy or idle games, you might want to take a look!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Nov 2021
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Nov 2021
Laptop Tycoon Welcome to Laptop Tycoon!Compete with the tech giants! You will have the opportunity to show your skills in business management. Start your own laptop company! Choose and hire the best people for your company, buy and upgrade your own office and start building your dream laptop.

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Oct 2021
Aquarium Designer Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!

Price -95% 0.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2021
Idle Pins Idle Pins is an Incremental game made by an Incremental addict for Incremental lovers. Over 250 Pins to collect and merge. Hundreds of upgrades, features and QoL. Enjoy one of the most rewarding 'grind' experience, now on Steam!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.0
Release 16 Oct 2021
Increlution Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2021
Bubble People Bubble People is a point-and-click game, click on things with your mouse and have some fun!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Oct 2021
100 hidden birds 2 Hidden object game in the cartoon city style. Animation and puzzles. Very large location. Ultra hard! Really very difficult!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Oct 2021
Cookie Clicker An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 01 Sep 2021
DPS IDLE Collect cards, upgrade cards, defeat monsters, join guilds and hire heroes. Raise your DPS!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 21 Aug 2021
100 hidden rams 100 hidden rams is a hidden object game in a village setting. Black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. Interesting and difficult! The clouds are flying by!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Aug 2021
PropHunter PropHunter - a fresh representative of the genre of hide and seek on the net! The players are divided into two teams - one team is hiding by taking the form and properties of objects, the second team is seek to find for impostors among props. The team that eliminates its rivals wins!

Price -69% 1.01€
Rating 7.6
Release 06 Aug 2021
Paint Drying Simulator This is literally a game about watch paint drying for 6 hours, so.. ..do you feel like wasting money and time? XD

Price 0.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Jul 2021
Idle Monster TD An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Jun 2021
Luna's Fishing Garden Luna's Fishing Garden is a short, cozy fishing and building game. Catch fish, trade it in and create the garden of your dreams by planting new trees, placing water objects and bringing animals to the archipelago.

Price -92% 0.64€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Jun 2021

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