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  1. Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up cover art

    Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up

    Also prestige, optimization · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Push kiwis through an upgradable delivery line, clear bottlenecks, and pick professions that favor clicking, potions or automation.

    95% steam
    50% idle
  2. Little Incrementisle cover art

    Little Incrementisle

    Also prestige, optimization, planning

    Settle one island after another, each with modifiers and a disaster, then spend prestige points on a permanent talent tree before sailing on.

    82% steam
  3. Stuck In Time cover art

    Stuck In Time

    Also planning, optimization

    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

  4. Idle Loops

    Also planning, optimization

    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
  5. Territory Idle cover art

    Territory Idle

    Also prestige, planning

    Build tiles into a kingdom, choose a pantheon and a hero, then abdicate for gold to buy more land and try new strategies.

    80% steam
    70% idle
  6. Industry Idle cover art

    Industry IdleDormant

    Also optimization, prestige

    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
  7. Creature Card Idle cover art

    Creature Card Idle

    Also planning, optimization

    Place cards on a grid so they produce resources, then spend those on booster packs. Each expansion is its own small idle game, and later ones add battles.

    71% steam
    70% idle
  8. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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
  9. Realm Grinder cover art

    Realm Grinder

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.

    87% steam
    55% idle
  10. The Prestige Tree cover art

    The Prestige TreeComplete

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A skill tree where every node is a prestige layer. It spawned the Modding Tree and a thousand descendants.

    4.6★ galaxy
    30–80h ending
    50% idle
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    Time Clickers

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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
  12. Leaf Blower Revolution cover art

    Leaf Blower Revolution

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Blow leaves. Blow more leaves. Somehow blow leaves across multiple dimensions with a crafting system.

    94% steam
    55% idle
  13. Legendum cover art

    LegendumUpdated

    Also prestige, 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
  14. PickCrafter cover art

    PickCrafter

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Break blocks with a growing arsenal of pickaxes, forge gear, and prestige through ascension tiers while exploring biomes up to Mars.

    86% steam
    50% idle
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    Idle Cooking Emperor

    Also prestige, optimization

    Train as a cook, win restaurants in duels, staff them with beaten rivals, and tune recipes and ingredient combos. Retire to raise a stronger pupil.

    55% steam
    70% idle
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    Orb of Creation

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow a wizard's orb into a world. Spell circles, resource webs, and a real finale.

    84% steam
    20–40h ending
    50% idle
  17. Four Divine Abidings cover art

    Four Divine Abidings

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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
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    Clicker Heroes

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.

    90% steam
    60% idle
  19. Endless Escalation cover art

    Endless EscalationComing soon

    Also optimization, planning

    Build defenses and specialize units against ever stronger waves, where shared upgrade costs force real trade-offs.

    3.0★ galaxy
  20. Smashing Simulator Idle cover art

    Smashing Simulator IdleDormant

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Smash everything in sight across an element tree and a second skill tree, with missions, challenges and two prestige layers.

    73% steam
    50% idle
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    Idle Research

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Research and craft flasks and tubes to generate three kinds of energy, with several prestige types, fights, skills and potion brewing.

    85% steam
    50% idle
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    Magic Research 2

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    The sequel adds exploration, a spell-crafting system and a much longer story arc.

    93% steam
    50–120h ending
    55% idle
  23. Immortality Idle cover art

    Immortality Idle

    Also prestige, planning

    A cultivation-themed time management game: pick daily activities, die, and reincarnate with better aptitudes until you finally become immortal.

    3.9★ galaxy
    has ending
  24. DodecaDragons cover art

    DodecaDragons

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Twelve dragons, twelve colours of magic, and one of Galaxy's most-favourited games. Big numbers, handsome UI.

    4.5★ galaxy
    has ending
    55% idle