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Classic incremental games

17 hand-tagged games, ranked by live Steam and Galaxy ratings.

  1. Cookie Clicker cover art

    Cookie Clicker

    The grandma of the genre, literally. Click a cookie, buy grandmas, ascend, and discover the game is much stranger than it looks.

    96% steam
    70% idle
  2. Clicker Heroes cover art

    Clicker Heroes

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

    90% steam
    60% idle
  3. AdVenture Capitalist cover art

    AdVenture Capitalist

    Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.

    88% steam
    80% idle
  4. Idling to Rule the Gods cover art

    Idling to Rule the Gods

    Train clones, fight gods, rebirth. An old-school Unity idler that still has a loyal crowd.

    85% steam
    75% idle
  5. Snakecremental cover art

    Snakecremental

    Classic snake where each run's collected colors feed a skill tree, unlocking resources with their own effects plus skins and hidden secrets.

    92% steam
  6. Prestige Tree - Classic cover art

    Prestige Tree - Classic

    The original version of the Prestige Tree, where you climb a tree of prestige layers.

    4.3★ galaxy
  7. Loot Hero DX cover art

    Loot Hero DX

    Run, fight, level and loot on a retro quest to slay a dragon, with miners that dig up gold while you are away.

    74% steam
  8. Idle TCG cover art

    Idle TCGDormant

    An old-school browser incremental with a trading card theme, built to be finished over one to three days.

    3.8★ galaxy
    has ending
  9. Universal Paperclips cover art

    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 ending
    30% idle
  10. A Dark Room cover art

    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 ending
    25% idle

  11. Candy Box 2Complete

    An ASCII adventure that starts as a counter of candies and turns into quests, spells and a lollipop farm.

    5–10h ending
    30% idle

  12. Swarm SimulatorDormant

    Grow an alien hive: larvae, drones, queens, nests, and then the numbers start producing numbers.

    80% idle
  13. Space Company cover art

    Space CompanyDormant

    Mine, power, research, and expand into the stars. A classic resource-chain idler from the golden age.

    70% idle
  14. Popcorn Clicker cover art

    Popcorn ClickerUpdated

    Click popcorn, buy buildings that pop more for you, and collect achievements in a minimal interface.

  15. Master Clicker cover art

    Master ClickerDormant

    A small clicker with achievements, a clicks-per-second counter and four unlockable difficulty modes.

  16. Immoral Attack cover art

    Immoral AttackUpdated

    A browser MMORPG clicker from around 2005, now updated with real-time combat, a card-based dungeon, rebirths and gear upgrades that persist through them.

    2.1★ galaxy
  17. AtomicGi's Idle Minesweeper cover art

    AtomicGi's Idle MinesweeperUpdated

    An active incremental take on Minesweeper where you buy drones to clear tiles and grow a minesweeper empire.

    1.5★ galaxy