The most idle games on Steam

Games that mostly play themselves. Every game here is on Steam, ranked by live ratings.

90 games · updated Sep 30, 2026

Rusty's Retirement
A tiny robot farm that lives at the edge of your screen while you do other things. Idle in the purest sense.
97% steam
15–30h ending
95% idle
Tiny Aquarium: Social Fishkeeping
Raise and breed fish in a small tank that can sit on your desktop, keep growing while you are offline, and be shared with friends for visits and trades.
97% steam
75% idle
Ropuka's Idle Island
A frog mows grass in a small window on your desktop; spend the clippings on better tools and island decorations.
97% steam
90% idle
Mr.Mine
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam
75% idle
Birdwatching Notebook
A small postcard scene on your desktop draws in dozens of bird species as you decorate the spot, unlock new habitats and photograph visitors.
97% steam
90% idle
拖拖拉拉小菲镇
Drag and fling crowds of chibi VTuber fan characters into jobs to gather resources, research and upgrade a growing town, with ragdoll physics.
97% steam
75% idle
Cornerpond
A fisherman in the corner of your screen catches fish on his own; sell them for rod and bait upgrades and fill a journal of 100+ species.
97% steam
90% idle
Melvor Idle
RuneScape's skilling loop distilled into menus. Train twenty skills, fight dungeons, fill the completion log.
90% steam
85% idle
The Adventure of NAYU
Click to help a fox and her party fight through a gentle, short story, spending star shards on training and costumes, with an endless mode afterward.
95% steam
has ending
75% idle
Mushroom NookDormant
Mushrooms sprout on your desktop to collect, water and grow through several phases. Decorate a little garden that sits beside your work.
98% steam
90% idle
LurkBait Twitch Fishing
A Twitch overlay where viewers cast lines through chat, points or subs, and the fishing plays out on its own while you stream.
98% steam
90% idle
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi
A fishing boat sits along the edge of your desktop reeling in sea life to serve as sushi, while you upgrade rods and bait and fill an aquarium.
96% steam
90% idle
How to Train Your Cock
A rooster idler that sits on your screen and grows from a chick into a muscled bird while you buy hats, decorate his island and compare size with friends.
94% steam
90% idle
PomoFarm
A focus timer where a duck's farm grows while you work, with 60 crops across four seasons and skills to unlock.
97% steam
90% idle
AdVenture Capitalist
Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.
88% steam
80% idle
Viridi
Care for a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Water them, name them, and keep the window open beside your work.
92% steam
90% idle
Tiny Pasture
A strip of pasture along the bottom of your screen where you raise, breed and sell animals for coins while you work.
92% steam
90% idle
NoSlack Pets: Lo-Fi Paws
A cat that sits by your screen while you focus, rewarding Pomodoro and idle time with gift boxes of headgear. Decorate its room, fish, and join a shared study room.
97% steam
90% idle
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen
Run a bathhouse for animal guests at the bottom of your screen, setting bath temperatures, snacks and staff while you do other things.
94% steam
90% idle
Desktop Defender
A lone tower in the corner of your screen holds off waves while you work, dropping gear to equip and resetting runs for permanent ascension upgrades.
92% steam
90% idle
MyVoiceZoo
Record your own voice as animal calls, and each cry in your zoo earns income to adopt more animals, with little need for active play.
92% steam
75% idle
Not Monday Cafe
A cafe docked at the bottom of your screen where staff cook and serve animal customers, with farm-grown ingredients, 300+ recipes and Twitch chat as guests.
94% steam
90% idle
Tiny TerracesUpdated
Tiny workers water, weed and harvest a terrace garden on their own while you do other things. Use crops and parts to build more helpers and decorate the plot.
92% steam
90% idle
Fischer's Fishing Journey
A cat fishes on its own in a corner of your desktop, and you check in now and then to sell catches, upgrade the rod and fill a fish tank.
91% steam
90% idle
The Dream Globe
A tiny world inside a snow globe runs on its own while you check in to buy upgrades. Discover over 100 gems, crops and foods across dream regions.
94% steam
90% idle
Fishing The Abyss
A small robot fishes by itself in a tall window beside your work, leveling up to reach deeper water and stranger catches. Clicking helps but is optional.
95% steam
90% idle
Idle Waters
Fish from a window at the bottom of your screen, manually or with auto-fishing, to fill a collection of 100 species across 12 biomes and stock your aquarium.
94% steam
90% idle
Screen Cat
A cat roams your desktop while you work; feed it, play with it, and wait for it to bring back collectibles from outside the screen.
90% steam
90% idle
My Little Life
A small person lives out their life in a strip along the bottom of your screen, working, decorating and chasing dreams while you do other things.
91% steam
90% idle
Book of FeiDormant
A desktop idle RPG where a party of cute warriors fights and works part-time jobs at the bottom of your screen, unlocking 24 advanced classes and card gear.
93% steam
90% idle
MISHA
Tap or type to earn points for a desktop anime companion, then trade points for random outfits to build her wardrobe and swap duplicates.
91% steam
90% idle
Idling to Rule the Gods
Train clones, fight gods, rebirth. An old-school Unity idler that still has a loyal crowd.
85% steam
75% idle
Desktop FishingDormant
A frog in the corner of your screen fishes while you work, catching 50+ species with shiny variants and unlocking new spots and outfits.
91% steam
90% idle
Bloobs Adventure Idle
A RuneScape-style idle RPG with 24 linked skills, automated boss fights, soul collecting and skill prestige, plus banked offline time to spend later.
88% steam
75% idle
Meow Palace: Forbidden City
Raise a stray cat in the Forbidden City from your desktop, training skills like palace cooking and opera while it gathers materials for outfits and furniture.
91% steam
90% idle
Desktop Kitten Girl
A little witch lives on your desktop, fishing, cooking and reading on the schedule you set, with collectibles for each activity plus a Pomodoro timer and notes.
91% steam
90% idle
Lakeside BarDormant
Run a lakeside jazz bar full screen or docked at the bottom of your screen, where hired staff keep it going and spirit-tended crops feed new recipes.
86% steam
90% idle
Typing FarmerUpdated
A tiny farm on the edge of your screen where every keystroke and click grows crops. Sell harvests to unlock plants and animals, and visit friends' farms.
87% steam
90% idle
Spellbound & Shelved
Hire gnomes to reshelve thousands of spilled spellbooks in a wizard library. Flip the sign to trade customer income against the mess they make, until the last book is put away.
87% steam
has ending
75% idle
Desk Paws
Collect 100+ desktop pets from claw machines, house them for rent, and send them out on trips for materials and snacks.
86% steam
90% idle
Loafing Town
A desktop god sim where you drag heroes around with physics, summon monsters to train them, and grow a hut into a town.
85% steam
90% idle
Idle FishingUpdated
A crew fishes for you while you are away, and you hire crewmates, raise pets, and cycle through ascension and rebirth resets, plus a separate excavation mode.
83% steam
75% idle
Scapewatch: Idle MMO
Queue tasks across 30 skills, close the tab, and your character keeps gathering, fighting and training offline. Clans, raids and hiscores round out the grind.
86% steam
75% idle
Finn Dorset's Institute For Livestock Replication
Clone moon sheep on a dwarf planet, automate wool production and fend off hawks in a hand-drawn cartoon incremental meant to run in the background.
83% steam
75% idle
Legends of IdleOn
An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.
77% steam
80% idle
Little Aviary
Hatch and breed birds in an aviary at the bottom of your screen, sell them for profit, and watch them perch on your other windows.
86% steam
90% idle
Desk Garden
Tend quirky plants, some with human faces, in a corner of your screen, then sell them to expand your garden and open mystery boxes.
84% steam
90% idle
Battle On! Hero Academy
Run a hero academy in the Kairosoft mould: lay out buildings, recruit heroes who train and fight on their own, and carry graduates forward as lasting bonuses.
83% steam
90% idle
Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPGUpdated
An endless tower defense where you recruit and place fantasy heroes against infinite waves, and they keep fighting and collecting rewards while the game is closed.
82% steam
75% idle
Firestone Idle RPG
A big, polished free-to-play hero idler with guilds, expeditions and a lot of timers.
77% steam
80% idle
Capoo Pals
A desktop pet where Capoo and bugcats wander your screen, react to your mouse and can be collected in picture books.
83% steam
90% idle
Berserk B.I.T.S
A desktop auto-battler where your digital buddy fights viruses, collects battle chips for a deck, and follows an email-driven detective story.
81% steam
90% idle
Rocky IdleUpdated
Click trees and rocks to train 18 skills, craft gear for automated combat and fill a collection log. Farming and questing run in the background, and progress continues offline.
82% steam
75% idle
Village Tale
A village builder that lives in a corner of your screen, where you construct buildings, craft goods and fill trade orders from neighboring towns.
81% steam
90% idle
Eldara
A dark fantasy idle RPG with 17 linked skills from fishing to cremation, a pet for each mastered skill, and a world that keeps progressing while you are away.
81% steam
75% idle
Under the blue horizon
A small aquarium sits on your screen beside other windows. Feed fish, turn their droppings into currency, and hire crawfish and jellyfish helpers to expand the sea.
82% steam
90% idle
Your Big, Cute Monster Farm
A farm along the bottom of your screen where monster helpers till, plant and harvest on their own while you arrange plots, hatch new workers and merge abilities.
78% steam
90% idle
Evitania Online - Idle RPG
An online idle RPG with classes and talent trees where your character fights and gathers while offline, and alts can level mining and woodcutting.
78% steam
75% idle
Idle Hacking: An Inaction RPG
A text-based hacking MMO where you craft affix-heavy gear, join player syndicates and join daily world bosses, with progress running for hours after logout.
80% steam
75% idle
Crusaders Quest : Hero Town
Pixel heroes gather resources, fight monsters and rebuild a small town in a strip along the side of your screen.
79% steam
90% idle
Industry IdleDormant
Build factories on generated maps, optimize production chains, trade on a player market and prestige for new maps, with offline earnings tied to company value.
77% steam
75% idle
PC FISH: Taskbar Aquarium
Raise and breed fish in a desktop aquarium, discover rare traits among 450+ fish and decorations, and trade on the Steam Market.
78% steam
90% idle
Farlands: Tiny HarvestUpdated
A space farmer on your desktop plants and harvests on his own, powered by your clicks and keystrokes. Spend credits upgrading his crops, tools, home and ship.
78% steam
90% idle
Idle Monster TD: Evolved
A reverse tower defense where you evolve over 150 monsters to hold a portal against endless human invaders, placing them to combine abilities.
76% steam
75% idle
Koltera 2
Level gathering and crafting skills, summon over 120 creatures to automate them, and send teams on expeditions, with all progress continuing offline.
78% steam
75% idle
Desktop Raid
A hero squad in a corner of your desktop fights, levels and loots automatically across a dozen branching classes while you work.
76% steam
90% idle
Deskrawl: Idle ARPG
An ARPG at the bottom of your desktop where you farm loot, capture enemies and bosses as minions, and grow a town.
75% steam
90% idle
Idle ClansUpdated
A multiplayer idle RPG where you pick a task and your character trains around 20 skills even while you are offline, with a player economy and clans.
74% steam
75% idle
Idle IktahUpdated
An idle skilling RPG set in the Pacific Northwest, with local wildlife, minigames, moon-phase item effects, a real tide tracker and offline progress.
76% steam
75% idle
Galaxy Idle Clicker
Upgrade a spaceship to conquer over 5,000 areas across seven universes, with four reset systems, four minigames and offline farming.
74% steam
75% idle
Idle Skilling
Dozens of skills that feed each other, with very fast prestige loops early on.
70% steam
75% idle
Idlequarium
Keep a customizable fish tank on your desktop, raising and collecting hundreds of species to earn coins for decorations and new fish.
75% steam
90% idle
Hero Tale
A background auto-battler: a hero fights across a fantasy island while you check in to spend points in a 300-node skill tree and swap loot.
71% steam
90% idle
修炼成仙
A minimal text cultivation game: create a character and it fights, loots, and trains on its own from its first steps toward ascension and rebirth.
71% steam
90% idle
Cycle Idle RPG
Your hero battles automatically, even offline, while you craft gear, tune the build and unlock side systems like a garden, a bestiary and a card minigame.
70% steam
75% idle
Fantasy Idle Dungeon
Hatch, fuse and evolve creatures called Jenin, arrange them in formations and gear them with enchanted equipment while they push the dungeon even when you are away.
69% steam
75% idle
Between Adventures IDLE
A pixel-art idle RPG where you watch your hero fight, then train 11 gathering and crafting skills, enchant gear and shape a skill tree. Progress continues offline.
68% steam
75% idle
IDLE BOSS RUSH
Troops keep fighting huge bosses while you are gone, and the loot turns a bleak camp into a kingdom with advisors, item combos and town upgrades.
66% steam
75% idle
Fluffy Kitchen Saga
Run a restaurant for fluffy animal customers along the bottom of your screen, earning coins to upgrade and unlock over 50 dishes.
65% steam
90% idle
Vespera
A class-based idle RPG with subclass talent trees, gathering and crafting, mercenary expeditions, and factions that fight world bosses with other players. Full offline progress.
63% steam
75% idle
TBH: Task Bar Hero
A tiny hack-and-slash RPG that lives in your taskbar, where pixel heroes fight and loot on their own while you mix classes, skills and gear.
62% steam
90% idle
Loot of Baal
Send a crew of hirelings from five classes out to fight demons from a sidebar on your screen, crafting and trading loot to perfect the team.
62% steam
90% idle
Tower Ball - Incremental Tower DefenseDormant
Place turrets that shoot down falling balls for cash, upgrade seven tower types, and prestige to restart stronger on harder levels.
61% steam
75% idle
Lootborne
A dark fantasy auto-battler that runs in a small desktop window, with a hero fighting and looting on its own. Forge duplicates, stack elemental synergies and battle other builds in async PvP.
61% steam
90% idle
[WoG] War of Genesis: Idle Loot
A 3D hero fights and loots by itself in a transparent desktop window, with gear tradeable on the Steam Market and alliance raids against bosses.
60% steam
90% idle
World of Eggs: Idle Adventures
An online idle strategy game where gathering, crafting and army building run on their own, including offline, while you trade and raid with other players.
55% steam
90% idle
Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Seed a world with plants, herbivores, and carnivores whose genes mutate each generation, then leave it running and return to see what evolved or died out.
45% steam
90% idle
20,000 Miles Under the Sea
A diver sinks toward the bottom of the Mariana Trench while you watch or minimize the game, deciding when to quit before meeting what lurks below.
39% steam
90% idle
My Party Is Grinding
Five heroes fight in a small transparent window on your desktop, with deep gear crafting across 200 battles and capped offline earnings.
43% steam
90% idle
Idle Heist
Click to steal cash from a bank vault and hire a crew of 25+ members who keep looting while you are away, depositing the take when you return.
29% steam
75% idle