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955 Idle & Incremental games reviewed and scored, best first.
955 reviews
A cozy idle fishing desktop companion from Maru Studio starring a small fishing crocodile, Positive across a small English review sample for its relaxing background presence and cute art, with fair, specific complaints about artificially slow catch rates and progress resets between maps.
6 / 10
A One-Person Melvor Idle, Built in the Open Cindervale Idle is a solo-developed fantasy skilling idler, and it wears that comparison openly rather than dodging it — one returning r
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
Cozy Desktop Konbini is a desktop-companion idle game from Evrac Studio, released on Steam on 18 April 2025, that puts players in charge of a small Japanese-style convenience store
6 / 10
A cheap, meditative 2D digging simulator where drilling through randomly generated mines for gold, coal, and iron proves genuinely relaxing, undercut by mobile-style controls that don't translate cleanly to PC and a progression system that runs dry after just a few hours.
6 / 10
A visually appealing solo-developed incremental kingdom-builder that many players specifically praise for its tight, complete runtime, while an equally large chorus calls that same short length poor value for the price, on top of a genuinely broken artificial endgame time-gate, severe interface bugs, and an officially disclosed use of AI-generated assets several reviewers say they weren't expecting.
6 / 10
Grow an Army, Defend a Crown, Repeat Crown Siege bills itself as a "short incremental siege game," and that's a fair description of the core loop: spawn troops, defen
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 charming, Scottish-voiced sci-fi cantina clicker where you shoot drinks at patrons and mop up their vomit — genuinely addictive for its first couple of hours, but reviewers and Steam's own achievement data agree the systems thin out fast after that.
6 / 10
Desktop Aquarium is a small desktop-pet aquarium simulator from solo developer odwar that sits in the corner of the screen while players work, collecting fish via a gacha-style slot machine and expanding tanks over time, and this review's sample finds a genuinely engaging idle-adjacent loop undercut by a real mismatch between its "no attention required" marketing and a feeding mechanic that can kill unattended fish.
6 / 10
A cheap, one-joke desktop-pet novelty from PlasticBagHandMan in which a snail slowly crawls across your screen in real time while you use your PC normally, and touching it with your cursor ends your run forever, Very Positive across 113 English reviews for its genuine creative charm — with a fair, repeated complaint that its unforgiving permadeath punishes technical accidents as harshly as genuine mistakes.
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
A solo-developer skill-based idle RPG that draws direct, specific accusations of being an AI-assisted Melvor Idle clone — and also a genuine, deeply patched game with a real long-term fanbase that argues the opposite in equal detail.
6 / 10
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 small, warmly received portal-exploration idle game built around gear, class choice, and a reincarnation system, praised across its short review sample as a relaxing, addictive background companion despite an unclear interface and a self-aware lack of complexity.
6 / 10
A short, darkly funny incremental about exterminating all eight billion humans on Earth from a cursed Windows 98 desktop, praised for its distinctive presentation and pointed subtext about modern game development, while a real, detailed share of players argue its genre identity is confused and its content runs thin well before the credits.
6 / 10
A polished, self-aware short incremental about raising an AI into a Tyrant, Rational or Protector — well-loved for launching genuinely finished, and specifically accused by more than one reviewer of being paced to just outlast Steam's refund window.
6 / 10
A Lumber Empire That Builds Itself Fellwood casts the player as the operator of an escalating fantasy woodcutting encampment: place buildings that fling axes, ballistas, cannons, a
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 Single Rock and a Very Long Road to an Industrial Empire Fracture Field starts small: one rock, one timed swing, one satisfying thwack. Solo developer Type Ten's debut is an
6 / 10
Six Reviews, Mixed: Loved for Its Look, Criticized for Its Depth Frog It Up launched on Steam on 17 September 2026 from solo-attributed developer and publisher Starfall Games, and
6 / 10
