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464 Idle & Incremental games reviewed and scored, best first.
464 reviews
A 2018 Korean idle RPG that's still pulling a 4.3-star average from 153,000 Google Play reviews eight years on, built around a twelve-unit auto-battle roster and a genuinely layered guild-and-arena social game — undercut by a permanent roster cap, a bolted-on NFT feature, and a client that hasn't been updated since the studio's attention moved to its own sequel.
6 / 10
A cozy incremental fishing spin-off from the Fish to Dish studio, where charm and a fair price win over most players despite a confirmed use of generative AI art that upset a vocal minority, and a specific, repeatedly confirmed design flaw — the game's essential convenience features stay locked away until right before the credits roll.
6 / 10
A cute, physics-driven toy-figure auto-battler with a genuinely fair, no-microtransaction take on blind-box collecting, undercut by thin content, real early bugs, a fading online population, and a specific asset-similarity allegation this review could not independently verify.
6 / 10
A free browser idle-skilling MMO that openly plays the RuneScape/Melvor Idle songbook with a shared world bolted on -- competent, fair to free players, and over a year into development by the time its Steam Early Access page makes it look brand new.
6 / 10
A side-scrolling idle ARPG that spent years quietly growing one of the clicker genre's largest skill trees in Early Access, then wrapped it in an energy-gated click system, RNG loot chests and a shard shop slow enough that a meaningful minority of players call the whole thing a grind built to sell its own solution.
6 / 10
A cheap, cheerful mobile-idle-RPG port whose loot and skill-tree systems draw real praise, undercut by the genre's one unforgivable sin — it barely progresses while you're away — and by DLC "Fairies" that individually cost more than the base game itself.
6 / 10
A fourteen-year-old browser superhero RPG still running seasonal events every month in 2026 — beloved across most of Europe, and consistently rated Mixed by the English-speaking players who review it on Steam.
6 / 10
A cheap, good-looking incremental about feeding a black hole until it either swallows a leaderboard spot or collapses on you, undercut by a threadbare research tree and a wave of recent reviews accusing the whole project of being thrown together with AI.
6 / 10
An Early Access idle RPG built around planning automated action lists rather than a prestige loop, genuinely deep enough to hold dedicated fans for thousands of hours, but hobbled by a grind curve many reviewers say collapses into sluggish stagnation, real crash reports, and disclosed AI-assisted art that a meaningful share of players specifically dock points for.
6 / 10
A small, solo-developed idle RPG built on a genuinely distinctive hook — permadeath and souls-like difficulty grafted onto an auto-battler — that rewards deeply invested fans with hundreds of hours while leaving newcomers to discover its harshest rules the hard way.
6 / 10
A solo developer's Early Access debut that grafts an upgrade tree, phase gates and a purchasable "Idle Mode" onto a classic Breakout loop — except the game's own tooltip says flatly that idle mode does not earn points while the game is closed, four days into a launch that so far has three concurrent players and one review.
6 / 10
A free civilization-building idle game with real depth and a small, genuinely devoted fanbase, undercut by heavy "clone" accusations aimed at bigger browser incrementals, a design that repeatedly punishes the player for progressing, and a studio that appears to have closed down over a year before this review, with no update since.
6 / 10
A NZ$3.83 debut-adjacent incremental from Shadow Games Software where you crank a hand generator, sell the joules you produce into a demand-driven market, and reinvest the money into wood and steel producers that build power plants across eight declared eras — real chain depth, but the marketing never actually promises the away-from-keyboard earnings the genre is built on.
6 / 10
A decade-old idle gacha RPG whose real currency was never gold, it was your own heroes — and the star-fusion system that consumes them is both the smartest thing about the game and the reason its economy is so hard to defend.
6 / 10
A solo-developed factory-and-idle hybrid that grafts a miniature Factorio-style belt economy onto a prestige loop, released in July 2023 with roughly five stated hours of content and an open-source codebase.
6 / 10
A solo-developed, RuneScape-style idle RPG that undercuts almost everything else in the genre on price and asks nothing back in return, but whose content stopped growing five weeks after launch and whose own small review base can't agree on whether that's a problem yet.
6 / 10
A Chinese xianxia-cultivation idle RPG with real depth — companions, secondary crafting professions, forty-plus realm tiers — undercut by a Simplified-Chinese-only interface, a launch window of patches that stopped in March 2024, and even native-speaking reviewers asking for basic feedback the game never gives them.
6 / 10
A free chemistry-themed incremental from a solo mobile developer, with real scale on Android and iOS and a stalled, near-invisible Steam release that has sat in Early Access for four years while its developer's attention has moved to an unannounced sequel.
6 / 10
A turn-based idle grinder built around hiring the monsters you've just killed, with a genuinely clever risk-versus-reward twist buried under a spreadsheet-dense interface and a release so quiet that Steam has barely registered it exists.
6 / 10
A free-to-play incremental about growing a one-person garage venture into a tech empire, with a genuinely honest monetisation model let down by a midgame economy that stops making sense and a content well that runs dry fast.
6 / 10
A five-dollar space idler about mining, salvaging and shooting your way across eight planets — polished, fair-priced and almost entirely spent by the time the credits should be rolling.
6 / 10
A one-person incremental RPG with genuinely deep systems — talents, ascension, raids, an enemy Codex that levels up the things you farm — that launched with real momentum and then went quiet for over a year without a single Steam review to its name.
6 / 10
A cheap, unabashedly Legend of Mir-flavoured idle RPG from solo Chinese developer okyakusama, built around a three-class autobattling party, an enormous rebirth ladder, and a near-total absence of real-money spending.
6 / 10
A dense, genuinely deep idle RPG from solo Japanese developer Hapiwaku that gives six heroes real class and skill decisions, then buries a chunk of its quality-of-life behind a premium coin store steep enough to have turned a chunk of its own audience against it.
6 / 10
