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Active incremental games that reward paying attention

Incrementals where you play instead of wait: planning loops, sweeping cursors, optimising runs. The numbers still go up, but you make them.

79 games ยท updated Sep 30, 2026

  1. Nodebuster cover art

    NodebusterComplete

    Active (10% idle)

    Sweep your cursor over nodes, spend the bits on a huge upgrade web, go again. A tight, active, few-hour hit.

    97% steam
    3โ€“6h ending
    10% idle
  2. Spellforger cover art

    SpellforgerUpdated

    Active (15% idle)

    A fantasy RPG where you combine spells to fight monsters, unlocking progression systems between battles. Fully hands-on.

    3.6โ˜… galaxy
    15% idle
  3. Factor incremental cover art

    Factor incrementalUpdated

    Active (15% idle)

    Break numbers into factors, chain lucky combos and choose which number properties and boosts pay out. Heavily click-driven.

    3.2โ˜… galaxy
    15% idle
  4. Magic Archery cover art

    Magic ArcheryUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Train an elf commoner into a master archer by shooting targets, taking quests for gold and buying magic upgrades in a brief, hands-on climb with a set ending.

    98% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  5. Mewing Simulator ๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿง๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ cover art

    Mewing Simulator ๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿง๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click to raise your mewing score and buy meme upgrades on the way to sigma status. A brainrot joke clicker.

    97% steam
    25% idle
  6. My Name is Mayo 2 cover art

    My Name is Mayo 2

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap a mayonnaise jar to unlock silly stories, random facts, minigames and a set of collectible 1950s-style cards. A comedic clicker sequel.

    96% steam
    25% idle
  7. PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator cover art

    PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Drive a mining train by hand between stations, defend against alien insects and reinvest profits into upgrades and delivery drones, satirizing tech startups.

    98% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  8. Fishing Inc cover art

    Fishing IncUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click to reel in fish before they escape, sell them for cash, and buy upgrades and skills to fill a fish log across new ponds.

    91% steam
    3.5โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  9. PeeWee Purpdrank's FOENEM Clicker cover art

    PeeWee Purpdrank's FOENEM Clicker

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A comedy clicker built around one button: tap it for points, buy perks, and gamble your earnings on a parody stock market.

    95% steam
    25% idle
  10. Execute cover art

    ExecuteUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.

    91% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  11. Click To Continue cover art

    Click To Continue

    Leans active (25% idle)

    You wake in a white room with a single button and keep pressing it to open panels of odd upgrades. A short, surreal clicker where the numbers count down instead of up.

    92% steam
    25% idle
  12. Flippant cover art

    FlippantUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    An abstract active incremental that starts with a coin flip and grows to include dice, spinning wheels, catching apples and baking pies.

    95% steam
    25% idle
  13. My Name is Mayo 3 cover art

    My Name is Mayo 3

    Leans active (25% idle)

    The last part of a trilogy where you click a jar of mayonnaise to earn points, unlocking story fragments and achievements along the way.

    94% steam
    25% idle
  14. Unfair Flips cover art

    Unfair Flips

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Flip a rigged coin with a 20% heads chance and upgrade the odds, aiming for ten heads in a row in a bleak far-future setting.

    88% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  15. Journey to Incrementalia cover art

    Journey to Incrementalia

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A necromancer summons minions and casts spells to smash through 99 walls, exploring a big resettable skill tree on a short hands-on run.

    89% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  16. Sludgineers cover art

    SludgineersUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Drive the countryside cleaning and mining pollution, refine it in your own refinery, and upgrade tools to open new areas in a hands-on incremental.

    87% steam
    25% idle
  17. Idle Gumball Machine cover art

    Idle Gumball MachineUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Fire gumballs into spinning gears in a plinko-style board, buy upgrades for explosive number growth, and ascend to trade everything for stronger bonuses.

    91% steam
    25% idle
  18. The Most Boring Game Ever cover art

    The Most Boring Game EverDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A game jam experiment that turns clicking into a deliberately dull task, asking what happens when a game is designed to bore you.

    89% steam
    25% idle
  19. A Tale of Poop and Vengeance cover art

    A Tale of Poop and Vengeance

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A short story-driven clicker: shovel manure, buy upgrades and work your way toward toppling the government.

    4.4โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  20. Journey to Ascension cover art

    Journey to Ascension

    Leans active (25% idle)

    An active looping incremental in the vein of Prismatic Adventure with no idle waits and a complete story, finished in 10 to 25 hours.

    4.4โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  21. Wild Growth cover art

    Wild Growth

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click to cast heals on your Norse warband in battle, then recruit allies, test formations and explore an upgrade tree after each loss.

    84% steam
    25% idle
  22. Holy Shit cover art

    Holy Shit

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click the pile repeatedly to earn points and unlock 100 achievements. A crude joke clicker.

    85% steam
    25% idle
  23. Cat cover art

    Cat

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click a cat button to earn cats, spend them on upgrades and collect 37 cats that boost per-click and per-second output. Periodic item drops reward checking in.

    83% steam
    25% idle
  24. Beer Simulator cover art

    Beer Simulator

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click a beer to brew more, sell it for gold, and spend on upgrades and cosmetic skins while competing on leaderboards.

    85% steam
    25% idle
  25. The Rebirth Tree Rewritten cover art

    The Rebirth Tree Rewritten

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A tree game built around repeated rebirths, with almost no waiting and an estimated 5 to 12 hours to complete.

    4.2โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  26. Military Incremental Complex cover art

    Military Incremental ComplexDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Start by making bullets by hand and grow into an arms giant producing tanks and nukes, playing the stock market and lobbying government.

    82% steam
    2.7โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  27. Untitled Dice Game  cover art

    Untitled Dice Game

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click to roll dice for points, where sixes grant bonus rolls that stack multiplicatively, then spend points on upgrades. Saves are manual.

    4.1โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  28. Breakfront cover art

    Breakfront

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Bouncing balls chip away at enemy tiles; spend captured points on a branching tree for more, faster and special balls, then beat the boss.

    4.3โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  29. Food Fighter Clicker Games cover art

    Food Fighter Clicker Games

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap rapidly to wolf down fast food in eating challenges, then boost stats like chewing and stomach size and unlock outfits and furniture.

    81% steam
    25% idle
  30. The MachinEGG cover art

    The MachinEGGUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Raise chickens, sell their eggs and automate the farm in a relaxed clicker that takes around 20 to 25 minutes to finish.

    4.2โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  31. Minutescape cover art

    Minutescape

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Dodge bullet patterns and spend what you earn on new abilities, run after run, until you can survive five full minutes.

    78% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  32. Typing Incremental cover art

    Typing Incremental

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Type words to earn money, buy new words, and finish lists of common English words for prestige points that speed up the next list.

    78% steam
    25% idle
  33. Ensis IDLE cover art

    Ensis IDLEUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A text-based dark fantasy incremental in early development, meant to be played actively and finished within a few weeks. Community translations included.

    3.9โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  34. Some Tree with Generators cover art

    Some Tree with Generators

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A generator-based tree game with almost no waiting that takes about 2 to 5 hours to finish.

    3.9โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  35. Time Survivor cover art

    Time SurvivorComing soon

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Survive in an arena as your life energy drains, grabbing orbs and fighting enemies, then spend resources in a four-branch skill tree after each death.

    3.8โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  36. drifter's upgrade tree cover art

    drifter's upgrade tree

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A slow, long tree of upgrades with clicking sections and many resets, currently 300 upgrades across 3 layers and 15 sub-layers. Unfinished.

    3.8โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  37. Idle Evolution cover art

    Idle Evolution

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Combine atoms to grow a rock through eras toward a final evolution, following missions, quizzes and minigames. Despite the name, it is built for active play.

    73% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  38. Tiny Towers cover art

    Tiny TowersUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Defend a small fortress against waves of tiny monsters in an action-focused incremental.

    4.1โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  39. A Dark Room cover art

    A Dark RoomComplete

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Light a fire. Then the text opens up into a village, a map, and a story told almost entirely through what it doesn't say.

    3โ€“6h ending
    25% idle
  40. Magnetic Catch cover art

    Magnetic CatchUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Cast a magnet into rivers to haul up scrap and treasure, then sell, craft and upgrade. Every catch is manual.

    3.7โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  41. Crystal Clicker cover art

    Crystal ClickerUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Defend a central crystal from waves of enemies by clicking to repair and attack, buying upgrades between runs.

    25% idle
  42. Starvester cover art

    Starvester

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Send drone swarms to mine a star system and grow a factory that builds megastructures, with prestige along a roughly five hour campaign.

    69% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  43. The Rebirth Tree cover art

    The Rebirth Tree

    Leans active (25% idle)

    A rebirth-focused tree that takes 5 to 12 hours with almost no waiting.

    3.4โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  44. Out With a Bang cover art

    Out With a Bang

    Leans active (25% idle)

    With two minutes before a bomb goes off, figure out the unexplained mechanics and generate as much energy as you can.

    3.1โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  45. Bills Must Be Paid cover art

    Bills Must Be PaidUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Smash piggy banks for cash and buy upgrades until your debts are cleared, in a hands-on incremental.

    has ending
    25% idle
  46. Doomsday Incremental cover art

    Doomsday IncrementalUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to build and expand an underground bunker for survivors, then destroy the world again for bigger profits.

    25% idle
  47. Idle FOOTBALL cover art

    Idle FOOTBALLUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to earn cash, recruit and train players, and field your team against others online.

    25% idle
  48. Partymasters - Fun Idle Game cover art

    Partymasters - Fun Idle GameDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to put on shows as Lol Vein from Bowmasters, gather dancers and use prestige to upgrade a party mansion.

    25% idle
  49. Tap Titans 2 - Hero Legends cover art

    Tap Titans 2 - Hero LegendsUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to fight titans, recruit heroes and pets, and prestige for artifacts, with clan raids against Titan Lords.

    25% idle
  50. Idle Zombies cover art

    Idle ZombiesDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Defend a city gate from zombie waves with better guns, swiping at the horde yourself for extra damage.

    25% idle
  51. TCG Card Shop Tycoon Simulator cover art

    TCG Card Shop Tycoon SimulatorDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Run a trading card store, tapping quickly to serve customers and collecting rare cards as the shop grows.

    25% idle
  52. Gym Workout Hero: Idle Clicker cover art

    Gym Workout Hero: Idle ClickerUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to pump up your muscles and challenge other gym-goers to gain experience.

    25% idle
  53. Taps to Riches cover art

    Taps to RichesUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to build businesses across cities, collect advisers for bonuses and reset for Bizbots that raise tap value.

    25% idle
  54. Green button: Idle clicker cover art

    Green button: Idle clickerUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Press one green button as fast as you can to earn coins, with progress kept between sessions and no end to the loop.

    25% idle
  55. Money Tree: Cash Making Games cover art

    Money Tree: Cash Making GamesUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Grow and shake a tree that sprouts banknotes, clicking hard to become a tree billionaire.

    25% idle
  56. Eating Hero: Clicker Food Game cover art

    Eating Hero: Clicker Food GameDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap fast to make a monster eat food, cars and planes, selling its weight for upgrades until it outgrows planets.

    25% idle
  57. Primitive Brothers: Idle Game cover art

    Primitive Brothers: Idle GameUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to hunt monsters as caveman brothers, unlocking hundreds of weapons and advancing through civilizations.

    25% idle
  58. Idle Port - Sea game cover art

    Idle Port - Sea gameDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to load containers and grow a chain of ports, funding coastal defenses before an alien invasion hits.

    25% idle
  59. Italian Brainrot Clicker cover art

    Italian Brainrot ClickerUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap through a meme clicker to unlock and upgrade Italian Brainrot characters.

    25% idle
  60. Human Evolution - Idle Clicker cover art

    Human Evolution - Idle ClickerDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to drive life from single cells through fish, apes and humans to cyborgs and beyond, then seed evolution on other planets.

    25% idle
  61. Money Maker Idle 3d cover art

    Money Maker Idle 3dDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Start with one weak money printer and tap and upgrade your way to multiple production lanes that turn out ever larger stacks of cash.

    25% idle
  62. TapTower - Idle Building Game cover art

    TapTower - Idle Building GameDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to buy building materials floor by floor, choosing designs from stone fortresses to space stations as your tower grows.

    25% idle
  63. Mint Factory - Idle Money Game cover art

    Mint Factory - Idle Money GameDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Keep upgrading a coin minting machine and click to print money faster, trading cash for gems.

    25% idle
  64. Basketball Clicker cover art

    Basketball ClickerDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to earn cash, then draft and train players to build a basketball roster that competes online and in weekly team tournaments.

    25% idle
  65. Motoshow Idle cover art

    Motoshow IdleDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Tap to earn, enlarge the stunt cage and merge motorcycles to draw a bigger crowd to your motor show.

    25% idle
  66. Hot Cars Idle cover art

    Hot Cars IdleDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Build a looping race track, merge cars into faster models and tap to accelerate them past obstacles that pay out cash.

    25% idle
  67. Spinner Clicker cover art

    Spinner ClickerDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Merge spinners to raise income per second and tap to make them spin faster.

    25% idle
  68. Flag Clicker cover art

    Flag Clicker

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click a flag to rack up points and beat your own records.

    66% steam
    25% idle
  69. Cosmic Forge cover art

    Cosmic ForgeUpdated

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Start from hydrogen atoms, research tech, mine asteroids for antimatter and find megastructures as you conquer the star map and head home.

    3.0โ˜… galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  70. Crystal Evolution cover art

    Crystal Evolution

    Leans active (25% idle)

    An active incremental about mining crystals, inspired by Synergism, Clicker Heroes and IMR.

    2.8โ˜… galaxy
    25% idle
  71. Banana & Cucumber cover art

    Banana & Cucumber

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click a banana and cucumber to raise a counter and earn item drops, with special versions handed out at community events.

    56% steam
    25% idle
  72. Make It Rain: Love of Money cover art

    Make It Rain: Love of MoneyDormant

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Swipe to pile up cash, invest in businesses from lemonade stands to casinos, and die to pass wealth to heirs for a faster restart.

    51% steam
    25% idle
  73. Campaign Clicker cover art

    Campaign Clicker

    Leans active (25% idle)

    Click to win voters for your chosen party in a political campaign, using real candidate quotes. Your clicks feed a global party leaderboard.

    47% steam
    25% idle
  74. Spaceplan cover art

    SpaceplanComplete

    Leans active (30% idle)

    A stranded ship, a potato, and a soundtrack that makes the finale land. A short, focused story idler.

    91% steam
    1โ€“3h ending
    30% idle
  75. Universal Paperclips cover art

    Universal PaperclipsComplete

    Leans active (30% idle)

    You are an AI that makes paperclips. Three acts, one terrifying arc, finished in an afternoon. The genre's best short story.

    4โ€“8h ending
    30% idle
  76. Candy Box 2Complete

    Leans active (30% idle)

    An ASCII adventure that starts as a counter of candies and turns into quests, spells and a lollipop farm.

    5โ€“10h ending
    30% idle
  77. Idle Loops

    Leans active (35% idle)

    Plan a list of actions, run the loop, get stronger, plan a better loop. Pure optimisation; the Omsi fork is the one to play.

    35% idle
  78. Tower Wizard cover art

    Tower WizardComplete

    Balanced (40% idle)

    Climb your tower toward the sky with magic and spirits. A short, calm, finishable idler.

    97% steam
    3โ€“5h ending
    40% idle
  79. Advent Incremental cover art

    Advent IncrementalComplete

    Balanced (40% idle)

    Twenty-four days, twenty-four interlocking mini-incrementals, one workshop to save Christmas. Built on Profectus.

    4.6โ˜… galaxy
    20โ€“40h ending
    40% idle

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