# Sludgineers

Drive the countryside cleaning and mining pollution, refine it in your own refinery, and upgrade tools to open new areas in a hands-on incremental.

- Developer: snickerdoodlegames
- Released: 2025
- Platforms: Steam, Browser
- Idle rating (0 active, 100 idle): 25
- Price: paid
- Status: active
- Steam reviews: 87% positive of 1742
- Last update: Aug 14, 2026
- Tags: active, mining, production-chain, cozy

## Where to play
- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4073860/
- itch.io: https://snickerdoodlegames.itch.io/sludgineers

## Questions
### Is Sludgineers an idle game or an active one?
Leans active: we rate it 25 on a scale where 0 means fully active and 100 means it plays itself. You'll get the most out of it by actively playing.

### Is Sludgineers still being updated?
Yes. The most recent update we've seen was on Aug 14, 2026.

### Is Sludgineers free?
No, Sludgineers is a paid game.

### Where can you play Sludgineers?
Sludgineers is available on steam and browser.

### What games are like Sludgineers?
Mushies!, PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator and Crystal Evolution share the most with it. Mushies!: also cozy.

Source: https://incrementalgames.org/game/sludgineers (IncrementalGames.org, facts from the developer's description)