Idle games on Steam with offline progress

They keep producing while you're away. Every game here is on Steam, ranked by live ratings.

75 games · updated Sep 30, 2026

Cookie Clicker
The grandma of the genre, literally. Click a cookie, buy grandmas, ascend, and discover the game is much stranger than it looks.
96% steam
70% idle
NGU Idle
Joke-dense RPG idler with dozens of interlocking systems. Beating a boss is the easy part; allocating energy is the game.
96% steam
65% idle
Leaf Blower Revolution
Blow leaves. Blow more leaves. Somehow blow leaves across multiple dimensions with a crafting system.
94% steam
55% idle
BitburnerUpdated
A cyberpunk incremental where you write real JavaScript to hack servers and automate everything.
95% steam
70% idle
Farmer Against Potatoes Idle
A farmer at war with sentient potatoes, and approximately forty interlocking upgrade screens.
95% steam
70% 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
Mr.Mine
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam
75% idle
Antimatter DimensionsUpdated
Buy dimensions that buy dimensions, then break infinity, then break reality. The reference point every numbers-go-up game is measured against, and it has a real ending.
92% steam
4.6★ galaxy
200–600h ending
55% idle
Clicker Heroes
Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.
90% steam
60% idle
Soda Dungeon 2
Staff a tavern with adventurers who crawl a dungeon for you, upgrade the whole town, and script their battle behavior with custom AI.
94% steam
Melvor Idle
RuneScape's skilling loop distilled into menus. Train twenty skills, fight dungeons, fill the completion log.
90% steam
85% idle
Cell to Singularity
Evolve life from a single cell to a technological singularity, with a surprising amount of real science in the tooltips.
89% steam
70% idle
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
Grow a garden around a magic oak with round helpers who harvest for you, even while the game is closed, and reach for golden acorns.
95% steam
50% idle
THE LONGING
Wait 400 real days in an underground palace for a king to wake. The clock runs while the game is closed, so you can explore or simply leave.
92% steam
has ending
70% idle
AdVenture Capitalist
Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.
88% steam
80% idle
Farm Together 2
Build a farm from one plot to a huge estate, alone or with friends, where crops keep growing while you are away.
93% steam
Cauldron
A young witch grinds minigames for resources that power up her party, uncovering the map through turn-based fights and huge skill trees.
96% steam
Revolution Idle
Wheels inside wheels. A clean, abstract prestige stack with a lot of layers and very little fluff.
87% steam
60% idle
Realm Grinder
Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.
87% steam
55% idle
The Perfect Tower II
Tower defence as an idle engine, plus factories, mining and an in-game scripting language.
87% steam
60% idle
Plantera
Grow a garden of crops, trees and animals while round helpers harvest for you, and keep earning even with the game shut.
89% steam
50% idle
Idle Wizard
Choose a wizard class, stack spells, transcend. A class-based prestige game with lots of build variety.
86% steam
60% idle
Idle Slayer
A runner-platformer bolted onto an idle economy. Jump for coins when you're around; let it grind when you're not.
84% steam
45% idle
Time Clickers
Shoot cubes for gold, upgrade your pistol and hire a sharpshooter squad, then trade Time Cubes for artifacts after wave 100.
88% steam
50% 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
Increlution
Live a life, die, and carry your skills into the next one. Queue-based planning with a proper story and a finish line.
85% steam
40–100h ending
60% idle
Screeps: World
Run a colony in a persistent MMO by writing JavaScript that controls your units around the clock, even while you are logged off.
87% steam
70% 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
Universe Horizon
Fly a small ship outward from Earth, collecting resources from each body you pass and upgrading speed past light, across 16+ upgrade tabs, skill trees, and challenges.
94% steam
50% idle
Settlemoon
Build a side-scrolling fantasy town in real time, posting quests for visiting adventurers and decorating as it grows. It keeps working while the game is closed.
87% steam
70% 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
Legends of IdleOn
An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.
77% steam
80% 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
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
Dungeons & Dragons formation-building idler. Heavy on events and collection.
77% steam
60% idle
Firestone Idle RPG
A big, polished free-to-play hero idler with guilds, expeditions and a lot of timers.
77% steam
80% 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
Gaiadon: Eternal Quest
A fantasy idle RPG of monster battles, loot, pets, and daily incursions, with ascension, transcendence, and a third prestige tier stacked on top.
84% steam
Tap Ninja - Idle gameUpdated
Slash incoming enemies with timed strikes, then research, grow a village that earns gold offline, ascend for permanent skills and send heroes to conquer provinces.
78% steam
50% 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
Transport Defender
Guard a cargo ship from boarding waves with a turret and auto weapons, scripting auto upgrades and auto ascension for long idle runs.
80% steam
70% 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
Incremental Adventures
Heroes fight on their own in automated turn-based combat while you tune the automation and push toward double-exponent numbers through stacked prestiges.
78% steam
70% 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
SynergismUpdated
Five prestige layers stacked like a tower, each one reshaping the ones below. For people who liked AD and want more.
75% steam
60% idle
Swarm Simulator: Evolution
Hatch larvae into drones and ever bigger bug units, sacrificing smaller ones and ascending repeatedly to grow a galaxy-scale swarm.
78% steam
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
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
Loot Hero DX
Run, fight, level and loot on a retro quest to slay a dragon, with miners that dig up gold while you are away.
74% steam
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
Tap Tap Infinity
A 3D clicker RPG where hired heroes farm gold while you are away and repeated ascensions push you toward a final boss.
74% steam
Idle Skilling
Dozens of skills that feed each other, with very fast prestige loops early on.
70% steam
75% idle
Four Divine Abidings
A Buddhist-inspired idle game where you cultivate four virtues, follow guided tasks and pass through rebirths toward full liberation.
81% steam
3.3★ galaxy
has ending
50% idle
Idle Space Raider
Patrol space as a station guard, mining ore and fighting in raids, then upgrade your ship and station. Toggles automate most systems, and a stargate opens a second reset tier.
74% steam
70% idle
Idle Monster TD
Place elemental monsters on the map to hold off endless robot waves, combining their abilities and upgrading stats between fights.
72% steam
70% 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
Koltera
Mine and train with creatures that each carry genetics, breed them toward perfect stats, trade for rarer species, and grow a garden that summons legendaries.
69% steam
Samawa Idle
Pick and level towers against monster hordes, shaping runs with random gear, passives and a skill tree across two prestige layers.
68% steam
50% 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
Drugs and Crime Idle
Build a criminal empire by producing product, upgrading dealers and laundering cash, then spend earnings on chests to fill a 15 item collection.
68% steam
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
Book of Yog Idle RPG
Recruit heroes, mix skill tomes and loot, and push a cel-shaded idle ARPG campaign that keeps progressing while you are offline.
64% steam
70% 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
Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)Updated
Mash keys to write code, then build a production grid and hire AI agents that ship projects, including while the game is closed, before prestiging.
74% steam
2.7★ galaxy
50% idle
The Magician's Research
Pick one of ten mages to hunt escaped experiments, with a skill tree, alchemy, faction reputation and two prestige currencies. Offline gains last up to a week.
58% steam
IdleTaleUpdated
A clicker RPG where tapping kills monsters for gold that keeps generating while you are away. Talent trees, dungeons, loot and ascension resets that multiply future runs.
57% steam
50% 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
Harvest Seasons
Harvest wood, produce, ore, skins and fish to build and upgrade a city. Auto-run buildings produce while you are gone, and prestige carries you into new seasons.
56% steam
Time Idle RPG
Real seconds are the currency: spend banked time across unfolding systems like gathering, crafting, raids, and a 500-node tree, with two prestige layers.
36% steam
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 DungeonsUpdated
Click enemies in dungeon floors for blood, spend it on your sword and spells, and let those spells keep fighting while you are offline.
32% steam
50% 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