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  1. Stuck In Time cover art

    Stuck In Time

    Also planning, exploration

    Plan action lists for each time loop, let them run, and refine routes through a pixel-art world as you work toward escape.

    85% steam
    has ending
    70% idle
  2. Incremental rush cover art

    Incremental rush

    Also challenges, planning

    A puzzle-leaning speedrun incremental: beat each of seven increasingly hard stages within 60 seconds, helped by autobuy.

    3.2★ galaxy
  3. Mycelium cover art

    MyceliumUpdated

    Also planning, exploration

    Spread a fungal network through forest soil, weighing nearby poor ground against distant rich deposits since resources must travel back to the core.

  4. Coin Factory cover art

    Coin Factory

    Also planning, challenges

    Lay out factory tiles around an output tile, level them and place modifiers to find synergies, with handmade levels plus daily and nightly challenge maps.

    77% steam
  5. Mr.Mine cover art

    Mr.Mine

    Also exploration

    Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.

    92% steam
    75% idle
  6. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also challenges

    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
  7. Ink Remnant cover art

    Ink Remnant

    Also exploration

    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
  8. What Lurks Below cover art

    What Lurks Below

    Also exploration

    A 30-minute game jam incremental set in 1881, where you push deeper beneath the town of Old Gloomhollow to find what is down there.

    4.6★ galaxy
    50% idle
  9. Shelldiver cover art

    Shelldiver

    Also exploration

    An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.

    98% steam
  10. It's Fine cover art

    It's FineUpdated

    Also challenges

    Survive the last 24 hours of a game dev crunch under your dog manager. Each station has its own mechanics, sleep powers a deep prestige tree, and there are alternate endings to find.

    88% steam
    has ending
  11. Mine Your Way Out 2 cover art

    Mine Your Way Out 2

    Also exploration

    Dig through a fully destructible pixel world and upgrade your gear to escape the underground, in about an hour.

    4.4★ galaxy
    has ending
  12. IDLE_DIRECTIVE cover art

    IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated

    Also exploration

    Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.

    86% steam
  13. Cavern Crawler cover art

    Cavern Crawler

    Also exploration

    A short prototype where you repeatedly crawl through caverns and grow stronger between attempts; all content fits in under an hour.

    4.3★ galaxy
  14. Outpath: First Journey cover art

    Outpath: First Journey

    Also exploration

    A free prologue to a first-person clicker where you gather, craft and automate a base, buying new islands, in either an active or idle style.

    96% steam
    50% idle
  15. Outpath cover art

    Outpath

    Also exploration

    A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.

    94% steam
    50% idle
  16. The Board is Yours cover art

    The Board is YoursUpdated

    Also planning

    Buy chess squares and pieces and position them so defended pieces boost each other's output, with prestige perks that change your strategy.

    97% steam
    4.2★ galaxy
    50% idle
  17. Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game cover art

    Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game

    Also exploration

    Wake alone in a magic-ruined world and stretch scarce resources while waiting, reading and uncovering what happened.

    4.5★ galaxy
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    THE LONGING

    Also exploration

    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
  19. The Greenening cover art

    The Greenening

    Also exploration

    Water an ash-covered planet to reveal what lies beneath, upgrade your abilities, and tend a garden aboard your spaceship in about three hours.

    96% steam
    50% idle
  20. Omega Layers cover art

    Omega Layers

    Also challenges

    Buy generators, clear challenges, and prestige up an endless ladder of Greek-letter layers, like Antimatter Dimensions with no cap on layers.

    4.1★ galaxy
  21. Legendum cover art

    LegendumUpdated

    Also planning

    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
  22. NG Space Company cover art

    NG Space Company

    Also exploration

    A space incremental about mining resources, exploring between stars and conquering systems.

    4.2★ galaxy
  23. Planar Pioneers cover art

    Planar PioneersDormant

    Also exploration

    Gather resources and use them to travel to procedurally generated planes, inspired by Minecraft dimension mods.

    4.1★ galaxy
  24. Tumbleweed Destiny cover art

    Tumbleweed Destiny

    Also exploration

    Roll a tumbleweed through the desert, breaking cacti for points to spend on abilities, solo or with up to 16 players online.

    95% steam