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464 Idle & Incremental games reviewed and scored, best first.
464 reviews
A small, charming Kairosoft pixel-art town-management sim with a devoted but tiny Steam following -- reviewed here from a genuinely small sample, honestly disclosed, rather than padded out to look more authoritative than the evidence allows.
6.5 / 10
A three-hour clicker RPG that is better designed than it needs to be, including the rare courtesy of building the autoclicker into the game instead of expecting you to install one. The problem isn't the length or the price — it's that the skill tree eventually out-damages every weapon you spent the game collecting.
6.5 / 10
A free text-based idle RPG with more than 3,000 branching story actions and a genuinely active five-year development history, buried behind one of the least welcoming first hours the genre has to offer.
6.5 / 10
A dad taught himself to code so his 8-year-old son could have a game where he "finds cool swords and fights monsters forever" — a genuinely sweet origin story wrapped around a standard-issue idle RPG that its own early players are split on once the swords run out.
6.5 / 10
A twin-stick shooter welded to an idle tycoon, told through a space-capitalism gag that outlasts most of the systems built to support it.
6.3 / 10
A cheap, one-tower incremental defense game with no in-app purchases and no ads — but its own vote-weighted Steam tags and review corpus agree the real story is a hard wall around wave 100-200, where the prestige loop stops feeling worth it.
6.2 / 10
Lemonade stand to interplanetary conglomerate in three clicks and one very persistent gold shop. A forensic look at the idle clicker that made "buy, automate, reset" a mobile business model as much as a game design.
6 / 10
The game that put "idle" in front of a whole generation of mobile RPGs is still being patched weekly seven years on, folded this year into a "Companions" relaunch that reunites its oldest servers — underneath the fresh coat of paint, its gacha economy is still one of the harsher ones in the genre it helped invent.
6 / 10
A solo-developed hybrid that welds grand-strategy nation management onto clicker mechanics — genuinely novel in concept, but a divisive combat rework, opaque economy and buggy pathfinding have left its Early Access reception stuck at Mixed.
6 / 10
A survivors-style auto-harvester where you point a magic weapon at crops instead of monsters, built around a skill tree and prestige loop that a majority of players clear in a single sitting — and whose own achievement data backs up the negative reviews' loudest complaint, that one starting crop breaks the balance for everyone else.
6 / 10
A free 3D hero-collector idle RPG that has quietly run six years and 160-plus servers on Steam, better known among its own reviewers for a Steam tag list — Nudity, Sexual Content, Hentai — that the actual client does not deliver on than for anything it does in combat.
6 / 10
LINE Games' cartoon-animal idle RPG nails the cute, low-friction auto-battle loop the genre runs on, but a currency pile-up and IAP tiers stretching past a hundred dollars keep it from standing out in a market this crowded.
6 / 10
A solo-developer party idle RPG that opened Early Access three days ago with exactly three heroes, one boss, one roguelike dungeon mode called the Rift, and a developer who says outright that the price will keep climbing as content is added — reviewed against a build with zero Steam user reviews and a live player count in the single digits.
6 / 10
A free-to-play incremental action RPG with zero monetisation and a genuinely likeable weapon-and-relic progression system, undercut by a fair, repeated complaint — this "idle" game leans so heavily on active clicking that its passive damage barely matters.
6 / 10
A one-day-old solo-developer idle game built around a single inversion of the genre's usual habit — your number grows faster the longer you refuse to spend it, and every purchase resets it to zero — spread across six upgrades, three currencies and two mirrored prestige ladders, for NZ$4.31 with no user reviews yet on record.
6 / 10
A gorgeously drawn, lofi-scored panda laundromat that plays almost nothing like a conventional idle game and everything like a desktop focus timer with decorations, which delights the audience that wants exactly that and frustrates the sizeable share who bought it expecting real systems underneath the art.
6 / 10
A free revenge-fantasy clicker that is refreshingly honest about what it is — an 83-achievement afternoon, not the idle game its own tags claim it to be.
6 / 10
A NZ$3.69 "meditative" crypto-trading toy with no fail state, no complex interface and pleasant background music, whose tiny nine-review corpus is entirely positive but includes at least one review that openly admits to being posted to support the developer's family.
6 / 10
A charming, cheap cat-run boba tea shop sim that earned a loyal following in its first five months of Early Access, then went quiet — no update since April 2023, no save mid-shift, and a growing pile of reviews from players who love what's there and are giving up waiting for the rest.
6 / 10
A paid clicker-idle hybrid with a genuinely unusual leaderboard built around catching autoclicker use, backed by nine months of real content updates, undercut for some players by cosmetic pricing and a detection system that took public pressure to soften.
6 / 10
An Early Access idle shop sim built to be ignored — it lives in the corner of your monitor, restocks its own shelves and asks for a glance every twenty minutes. Charming, three dollars, and currently carrying a save bug that can wipe a 76-hour store.
6 / 10
The formation-puzzle idle game that quietly wrote the rulebook Codename Entertainment later reused for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms — still free, still playable, and frozen in place since its last update in April 2022.
6 / 10
A cheap, three-week-old Early Access idle RPG built around the Chinese xianxia cultivation fantasy — Qi Refining, spirit fields, forging flying swords — patched almost daily by its small studio, and still rough enough that its own early players are split on whether the grind serves the theme or just gets in its way.
6 / 10
A small, genuinely charming idle game about running vending machines that supply adventurers deep in a dungeon, hurt by thin content and rough number-tuning that even its own fans point out, from a solo developer who fixed the game's biggest early complaint fast and then went quiet.
6 / 10
