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  1. The Greenening cover art

    The Greenening

    Also short, exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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
  2. Ink Remnant cover art

    Ink Remnant

    Also short, 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
  3. Mine Your Way Out 2 cover art

    Mine Your Way Out 2

    Also exploration, short

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

    4.4★ galaxy
    has ending
  4. Cavern Crawler cover art

    Cavern Crawler

    Also short, 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
  5. The Depths of Xia'phas cover art

    The Depths of Xia'phas

    Also exploration, short

    Explore a strange cave, gathering and crafting odd items in search of an artifact that can save your flooded village.

    4.1★ galaxy
  6. Outpath: First Journey cover art

    Outpath: First Journey

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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
  7. Outpath cover art

    Outpath

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

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

    94% steam
    50% idle
  8. Found it, Mountain? cover art

    Found it, Mountain?Updated

    Also short, exploration

    A 10 to 15 minute game about searching a foggy world for mountains across three stages, buying upgrades between trips.

    4.1★ galaxy
  9. Project Iridium cover art

    Project IridiumDormant

    Also exploration, short

    Explore a mythical world while bending time, repairing structures and tearing down walls over about an hour.

    3.9★ galaxy
  10. Deep Space Cache cover art

    Deep Space Cache

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Shoot asteroids for resources, feed them into generators and ship augments, and reach the finish in a couple of hours.

    93% steam
    has ending
    50% idle
  11. Keep on Mining! cover art

    Keep on Mining!Dormant

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Sweep your cursor over rocks to break them, smelt ores into bars and spend them in a large skill tree, with talent cards and an automatic mine for idle gains.

    91% steam
    50% idle
  12. Vanguard Galaxy cover art

    Vanguard Galaxy

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Fight, mine, salvage and trade across a procedural galaxy, played full screen or docked on your desktop with an autopilot that can run things.

    90% steam
    50% idle
  13. Game of Grass cover art

    Game of Grass

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Mow your lawn with increasingly silly tools to prove it beats your neighbor's, grow crops for passive income and prestige for new abilities.

    84% steam
    50% idle
  14. refarm cover art

    refarm

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Raise sunken tiles from the sea one at a time, farming each to fund more land and unlocking basic helpers. A short, click-heavy run of about two hours.

    87% steam
    has ending
    50% idle
  15. Tower Wizard cover art

    Tower WizardComplete

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Climb your tower toward the sky with magic and spirits. A short, calm, finishable idler.

    97% steam
    3–5h ending
    40% idle
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    Farmtale

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Start an island farm with one chicken, then add crops, animals and hired workers, decorate buildings, and explore as upgrades pile up. Part idle, part clicker.

    68% steam
    50% idle
  17. Magic Archery cover art

    Magic ArcheryUpdated

    Also short

    Train an elf commoner into a master archer by shooting targets, taking quests for gold and buying magic upgrades in a brief, hands-on climb with a set ending.

    98% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  18. 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
  19. Spaceplan cover art

    SpaceplanComplete

    Also short

    A stranded ship, a potato, and a soundtrack that makes the finale land. A short, focused story idler.

    91% steam
    1–3h ending
    30% idle
  20. THE LONGING cover art

    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
  21. Execute cover art

    ExecuteUpdated

    Also short

    A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.

    91% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  22. Idle Gumball Machine cover art

    Idle Gumball MachineUpdated

    Also short

    Fire gumballs into spinning gears in a plinko-style board, buy upgrades for explosive number growth, and ascend to trade everything for stronger bonuses.

    91% steam
    25% idle
  23. Master Healer Kale with useless party cover art

    Master Healer Kale with useless party

    Also short

    Play the healer of a hopeless party, keeping them alive with spells and a 200-node skill tree until they can face the Demon King in about four hours.

    95% steam
    4.0★ galaxy
    has ending
  24. A Tale of Poop and Vengeance cover art

    A Tale of Poop and Vengeance

    Also short

    A short story-driven clicker: shovel manure, buy upgrades and work your way toward toppling the government.

    4.4★ galaxy
    25% idle