Story-driven incremental games
Incrementals where the numbers serve a story. Several of the genre's most memorable games are here.
74 games · updated Nov 14, 2026
Berry Bury Berry
Grow berries in a first-person garden and drop them into a strange hole for cash, upgrading helpers while an unsettling mystery with several endings unfolds.
98% steamhas ending
SpaceplanComplete
A stranded ship, a potato, and a soundtrack that makes the finale land. A short, focused story idler.
91% steam1–3h ending30% idle
Luna's Fishing Garden
Catch fish, trade them to a fox spirit, and spend the proceeds turning an archipelago into a garden. A short pixel-art story you can keep playing after.
95% steamhas ending
Magic Research 2
The sequel adds exploration, a spell-crafting system and a much longer story arc.
93% steam50–120h ending55% 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% steamhas ending70% idle
The Last Cat in the Universe
As a space station AI, sweep your cursor over debris to salvage parts and build a warm home for the last cat, in a short story meant for one or two sittings.
94% steamhas ending
Stone Story RPG
A hand-animated ASCII RPG that plays itself while you script its behaviour. Gorgeous and strange.
91% steam15–30h ending50% idle
My Name is Mayo 2
Tap a mayonnaise jar to unlock silly stories, random facts, minigames and a set of collectible 1950s-style cards. A comedic clicker sequel.
96% steam25% idle
Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant
A story-driven shop RPG where an exiled fae queen builds a business empire, buying buildings for passive income and automating systems over 35+ hours.
95% steamhas ending
Instruction
Meet power quotas at a plant using five generation systems while its sarcastic AI mentor reveals a story. A student project.
94% steam
FEED THE AI
A short, very active incremental about an AI you feed with data. Shape it into a Protector, Rational or Tyrant; each ending makes the next run stronger.
90% steam3–9h ending0% idle
The First Alkahistorian
An alchemical history told through reactions and discoveries.
4.5★ galaxy
Ink Remnant
A short incremental where a mage starts with nothing in a magical city and researches upward, with new systems revealed as the story unfolds.
4.6★ galaxy
Alice's Gaze
Guide Alice through a haunted mansion as a cat god's altar pays out gold, reviving rooms one by one while idle battles and light puzzles lead toward an escape.
91% steam
FACEMINER
A 1999 office desktop where you classify faces for a shady biometric firm, scaling hardware and reading the messages that reveal its plans.
92% steam
Advent IncrementalComplete
Twenty-four days, twenty-four interlocking mini-incrementals, one workshop to save Christmas. Built on Profectus.
4.6★ galaxy20–40h ending40% idle
Tingus Goose
Plant seeds in patients to grow goose trees, bounce the falling babies off placed blossoms for cash, and move through 17 surreal chapters.
89% steam
My Name is Mayo 3
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% steam25% idle
Asbury Pines
Link the work of townsfolk across eras from the stone age to the far future, building automated production that uncovers a small-town murder mystery.
90% steam
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% steam40–100h ending60% idle
Orb of Creation
Grow a wizard's orb into a world. Spell circles, resource webs, and a real finale.
84% steam20–40h ending50% idle
akabosDormant
Touch a dog to help it destroy the squares it hates. A tiny clicker with a plot and several endings, played in one sitting.
90% steamhas ending
Ballad of Heroes
A mostly text-based RPG idler set in Greek mythology. Build a party of up to two heroes and four gods and fight to defend Olympus.
4.5★ galaxy
Astrodle
Shoot blobs in space for Zodiac essences and upgrade your ship on a path to godhood. Both modes have a clear finish reachable in about a day of active play.
91% steamhas ending
Rejected DraftComing soon
You are the doodle the Artist threw away. Fight community-drawn sketches, absorb their powers and claw your way back for revenge.
4.2★ galaxy1000h ending35% idle
Celestial Incremental
A large Modding Tree game built by a small team, with its own music, lore, and extras like a buy-max toggle that most tree games lack.
4.2★ galaxy
Your Chronicle
Reincarnate across a long fantasy chronicle, each life unlocking the next chapter.
80% steam40–100h ending60% idle
A Tale of Poop and Vengeance
A short story-driven clicker: shovel manure, buy upgrades and work your way toward toppling the government.
4.4★ galaxy25% idle
Journey to Ascension
An active looping incremental in the vein of Prismatic Adventure with no idle waits and a complete story, finished in 10 to 25 hours.
4.4★ galaxyhas ending25% idle
The Count of Monte Clicker
Retell The Count of Monte Cristo as a short incremental: learn from the Abbe, plan an escape from prison and hunt for the island's treasure.
86% steam
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden
Grow and harvest organs in a greenhouse to fill a shop's delivery quests. An offbeat clicker with a visual novel story that advances as orders are completed.
84% steam
Lumberjacked
A 3D first-person clicker: chop trees, feed logs to a chipper for cash, sharpen your axe for tougher wood, and tunnel into a forest mystery.
83% steam
Gravend
A dark fantasy RPG incremental where an amnesiac hero among slimes recovers memories, fights monster hordes, and chooses between a good or darker path.
4.3★ galaxy
LegendumUpdated
Plan each day of a hero's life, auto-battle hordes and train skills before old age, carrying your soul forward to the next life.
4.6★ galaxy
Unlucky MummyUpdated
Open a cursed sarcophagus where each attempt has a 25% chance to find a relic or lose them all. Spend scarabs to improve the odds and unlock six endings.
84% steamhas ending
Feed the Reactor
Feed fuel into a reactor, combine exotic elements for energy, and loop through prestige-style resets to learn the reactor's purpose across multiple endings.
82% steamhas ending
Midnight Idle
A story incremental styled after gamebooks, following an amnesiac ooze with seven unlockable classes and several prestige layers. Built for mobile too.
4.0★ galaxy
Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant
Guide a Roman family through generations, from commoners toward the Senate and perhaps a consulship, through festivals, marriages, elections and setbacks.
80% steam
idle2.html
An unfinished incremental that seems to be breaking down around you, with ARG-style puzzles and optional answers for accessibility.
4.1★ galaxy
Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
A short idle RPG where a reborn dark lord picks branching paths across lives, with shadow servants to automate and several endings.
4.0★ galaxyhas ending
Grindfesta (temporary name)
An early demo where a broken time machine traps you in a loop, and you work out what went wrong or meddle with events across eras.
4.1★ galaxy
this crazy idea
Play a programmer fielding doomed startup ideas from friends and family, and try to break the cycle.
4.0★ galaxy
Idle Chapel
Convert cultists into worshipers whose prayers fund your chapel, purify 12 areas, and reset through penance for lasting upgrades in a pixel dark fantasy.
78% steamhas ending
MementoMori
A gacha-style idle RPG about girls branded witches, known for its vocal soundtrack and characters who grow stronger over time.
75% steam
Four Divine Abidings
A Buddhist-inspired idle game where you cultivate four virtues, follow guided tasks and pass through rebirths toward full liberation.
81% steam3.3★ galaxyhas ending50% idle
无休仙途
Lead an immortal-cultivation sect across a floating continent, gathering resources, recruiting disciples and following a story toward ascension.
73% steam
Chrono BotUpdated
A robot trapped in a time loop collects batteries and recovers memories to last longer each cycle and eventually escape.
3.9★ galaxyhas ending
A Dark RoomComplete
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.
3–6h ending25% idleCandy Box 2Complete
An ASCII adventure that starts as a counter of candies and turns into quests, spells and a lollipop farm.
5–10h ending30% idle
Tap Tap Revolution!
A story clicker in 1920s propaganda-poster style. Grow an underground movement, escape exile, seize the palace and hold it for 100 days.
has ending
Universal PaperclipsComplete
You are an AI that makes paperclips. Three acts, one terrifying arc, finished in an afternoon. The genre's best short story.
4–8h ending30% idle
Beggar's LifeUpdated
Start as a starving beggar in a text-based medieval city and branch into paths like priest, thief, rat friend or pyromaniac through many skills.
62% steam3.7★ galaxy
Clicker Cuties - Anime Idler
A clicker dating sim where you hatch and collect anime companions from eggs and unlock each one's storyline.
70% steam50% idle
Infi-KnightUpdated
A desktop companion game: an immortal knight battles the undead while you work, growing stronger with each death.
3.6★ galaxyLevel 13Updated
A text-based sci-fi adventure where you survive a decayed city, rediscover technology and rebuild civilization.
Crinchure CollectorComing soon
A gacha-style collection game with free pulls, over 2000 creatures, blades and ingredients to find, baking recipes and lots of handwritten events.
3.5★ galaxy
Project BasiliskUpdated
Grow an AI lab by hiring researchers and buying compute in a race to AGI, told as a mix of interactive fiction and strategy.
3.4★ galaxy
Space Loop Protocol
Trapped in a time loop aboard a research ship, train five stats each cycle before the oxygen runs out, then queue activities.
3.4★ galaxy
SisyphusComing soon
A half-hour retelling of Sisyphus where he builds a city for help pushing the boulder, with upgrades, lootboxes and a narrator.
3.3★ galaxyArchiv des VergessensUpdated
A German-language idle RPG about collecting fading memory fragments, fighting bosses that embody lost eras and forming alliances with other players.
Cold StarUpdated
A minimalist sci-fi incremental in the style of A Dark Room: wake a dying reactor, gather and build to survive, then reach out across the stars.
Final BroadcastUpdated
A retro horror idle game about running the night shift at a dead TV station that never stopped transmitting, rebuilt by its author in Flutter.
Immortal Taoists-MUD WuxiaDormant
Seek immortality as a cultivator in a playable xianxia novel, joining sects, learning arts and raising spirit beasts.
More LettersDormant
An incremental puzzle game about generating letters and cracking ciphers.
Perfect Avenger - Idle gamesDormant
Manage and upgrade stores and staff in a shopping mall to win the trust of your father's killer and take revenge.
PlaybookUpdated
An incremental game that walks through the history of disinformation, built on Profectus.
Post Apo Tycoon - Idle BuilderUpdated
Rebuild a nuclear wasteland into farmland, exploring the map for resources and reading found diaries that reveal how the world ended.
Real Life：Choices SimulatorDormant
Live out a whole life from childhood to career and family, making choices that shift looks, smarts, health and wealth.
The Goldbergs: Back to the 80sUpdated
Tap to earn Cool Points for the Goldberg kids, automate their hangouts and collect character cards and 80s items to climb the school's Cool List.
The Ruins RememberUpdated
Rebuild civilization on an alien world across ten eras while uncovering ruins from those who came before; prestige is the cycle.
Decrypting Life
Click through corrupted files to recover hidden IDs and piece together a 2000s story, with tokens, passive upgrades and combos.
2.4★ galaxy
Nomad Idle
Fight hordes automatically while spending stat points, gear levels and passives on a build, following a story that has a defined end.
63% steamhas ending70% idle
Snowed Under | 雪葬
Shovel through deep snow in the mountains, upgrading your shovel with salvaged scrap as buried buildings and an unsettling story come to light.
60% steam
Life Simulator
Spend four years as a new graduate in a big city, working, investing and dating to afford a car and a home. Your choices steer which of many endings you get.
51% steamhas ending