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Narrative incremental games

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

  1. Berry Bury Berry cover art

    Berry Bury Berry

    Grow berries in a first-person garden and drop them into a strange hole for cash, upgrading helpers while an unsettling mystery with several endings unfolds.

    98% steam
    has ending
  2. Spaceplan cover art

    SpaceplanComplete

    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
  3. Luna's Fishing Garden cover art

    Luna's Fishing Garden

    Catch fish, trade them to a fox spirit, and spend the proceeds turning an archipelago into a garden. A short pixel-art story you can keep playing after.

    95% steam
    has ending
  4. Magic Research 2 cover art

    Magic Research 2

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

    93% steam
    50–120h ending
    55% idle
  5. THE LONGING cover art

    THE LONGING

    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
  6. Stone Story RPG cover art

    Stone Story RPG

    A hand-animated ASCII RPG that plays itself while you script its behaviour. Gorgeous and strange.

    91% steam
    15–30h ending
    50% idle
  7. The Last Cat in the Universe cover art

    The Last Cat in the Universe

    As a space station AI, sweep your cursor over debris to salvage parts and build a warm home for the last cat, in a short story meant for one or two sittings.

    94% steam
    has ending
  8. My Name is Mayo 2 cover art

    My Name is Mayo 2

    Tap a mayonnaise jar to unlock silly stories, random facts, minigames and a set of collectible 1950s-style cards. A comedic clicker sequel.

    96% steam
    25% idle
  9. Final Profit: A Shop RPG cover art

    Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant

    A story-driven shop RPG where an exiled fae queen builds a business empire, buying buildings for passive income and automating systems over 35+ hours.

    95% steam
    has ending
  10. Instruction cover art

    Instruction

    Meet power quotas at a plant using five generation systems while its sarcastic AI mentor reveals a story. A student project.

    94% steam
  11. The First Alkahistorian cover art

    The First Alkahistorian

    An alchemical history told through reactions and discoveries.

    4.5★ galaxy
  12. Alice's Gaze cover art

    Alice's Gaze

    Guide Alice through a haunted mansion as a cat god's altar pays out gold, reviving rooms one by one while idle battles and light puzzles lead toward an escape.

    91% steam
  13. Ink Remnant cover art

    Ink Remnant

    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
  14. FACEMINER cover art

    FACEMINER

    A 1999 office desktop where you classify faces for a shady biometric firm, scaling hardware and reading the messages that reveal its plans.

    92% steam
  15. Advent Incremental cover art

    Advent IncrementalComplete

    Twenty-four days, twenty-four interlocking mini-incrementals, one workshop to save Christmas. Built on Profectus.

    4.6★ galaxy
    20–40h ending
    40% idle
  16. Tingus Goose cover art

    Tingus Goose

    Plant seeds in patients to grow goose trees, bounce the falling babies off placed blossoms for cash, and move through 17 surreal chapters.

    89% steam
  17. My Name is Mayo 3 cover art

    My Name is Mayo 3

    The last part of a trilogy where you click a jar of mayonnaise to earn points, unlocking story fragments and achievements along the way.

    94% steam
    25% idle
  18. Asbury Pines cover art

    Asbury Pines

    Link the work of townsfolk across eras from the stone age to the far future, building automated production that uncovers a small-town murder mystery.

    90% steam
  19. Orb of Creation cover art

    Orb of Creation

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

    84% steam
    20–40h ending
    50% idle
  20. Increlution cover art

    Increlution

    Live a life, die, and carry your skills into the next one. Queue-based planning with a proper story and a finish line.

    85% steam
    40–100h ending
    60% idle
  21. akabos cover art

    akabosDormant

    Touch a dog to help it destroy the squares it hates. A tiny clicker with a plot and several endings, played in one sitting.

    90% steam
    has ending
  22. Ballad of Heroes cover art

    Ballad of Heroes

    A mostly text-based RPG idler set in Greek mythology. Build a party of up to two heroes and four gods and fight to defend Olympus.

    4.5★ galaxy
  23. Astrodle cover art

    Astrodle

    Shoot blobs in space for Zodiac essences and upgrade your ship on a path to godhood. Both modes have a clear finish reachable in about a day of active play.

    91% steam
    has ending
  24. Celestial Incremental cover art

    Celestial Incremental

    A large Modding Tree game built by a small team, with its own music, lore, and extras like a buy-max toggle that most tree games lack.

    4.2★ galaxy
  25. Your Chronicle cover art

    Your Chronicle

    Reincarnate across a long fantasy chronicle, each life unlocking the next chapter.

    80% steam
    40–100h ending
    60% idle
  26. Gravend cover art

    Gravend

    A dark fantasy RPG incremental where an amnesiac hero among slimes recovers memories, fights monster hordes, and chooses between a good or darker path.

    4.4★ galaxy
  27. A Tale of Poop and Vengeance cover art

    A Tale of Poop and Vengeance

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

    4.4★ galaxy
    25% idle
  28. Journey to Ascension cover art

    Journey to Ascension

    An active looping incremental in the vein of Prismatic Adventure with no idle waits and a complete story, finished in 10 to 25 hours.

    4.4★ galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  29. The Count of Monte Clicker cover art

    The Count of Monte Clicker

    Retell The Count of Monte Cristo as a short incremental: learn from the Abbe, plan an escape from prison and hunt for the island's treasure.

    86% steam
  30. Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden cover art

    Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden

    Grow and harvest organs in a greenhouse to fill a shop's delivery quests. An offbeat clicker with a visual novel story that advances as orders are completed.

    84% steam
  31. Lumberjacked cover art

    Lumberjacked

    A 3D first-person clicker: chop trees, feed logs to a chipper for cash, sharpen your axe for tougher wood, and tunnel into a forest mystery.

    83% steam
  32. Unlucky Mummy cover art

    Unlucky MummyUpdated

    Open a cursed sarcophagus where each attempt has a 25% chance to find a relic or lose them all. Spend scarabs to improve the odds and unlock six endings.

    84% steam
    has ending
  33. Feed the Reactor cover art

    Feed the Reactor

    Feed fuel into a reactor, combine exotic elements for energy, and loop through prestige-style resets to learn the reactor's purpose across multiple endings.

    82% steam
    has ending
  34. Legendum cover art

    LegendumUpdated

    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
  35. Midnight Idle cover art

    Midnight Idle

    A story incremental styled after gamebooks, following an amnesiac ooze with seven unlockable classes and several prestige layers. Built for mobile too.

    4.0★ galaxy
  36. Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant cover art

    Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant

    Guide a Roman family through generations, from commoners toward the Senate and perhaps a consulship, through festivals, marriages, elections and setbacks.

    80% steam
  37. Grindfesta (temporary name) cover art

    Grindfesta (temporary name)

    An early demo where a broken time machine traps you in a loop, and you work out what went wrong or meddle with events across eras.

    4.2★ galaxy
  38. idle2.html cover art

    idle2.html

    An unfinished incremental that seems to be breaking down around you, with ARG-style puzzles and optional answers for accessibility.

    4.1★ galaxy
  39. Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999 cover art

    Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999

    A short idle RPG where a reborn dark lord picks branching paths across lives, with shadow servants to automate and several endings.

    4.0★ galaxy
    has ending
  40. this crazy idea cover art

    this crazy idea

    Play a programmer fielding doomed startup ideas from friends and family, and try to break the cycle.

    4.0★ galaxy
  41. Idle Chapel cover art

    Idle Chapel

    Convert cultists into worshipers whose prayers fund your chapel, purify 12 areas, and reset through penance for lasting upgrades in a pixel dark fantasy.

    78% steam
    has ending
  42. Yet Another Challenge Tree: Adventure cover art

    Yet Another Challenge Tree: Adventure

    Complete a series of challenges to build Challenge Power and find your way home from the Challenge World.

    4.2★ galaxy
  43. MORE ME cover art

    MORE MEUpdated

    A short jam game about several people who may be linked in strange ways.

    4.0★ galaxy
  44. MementoMori cover art

    MementoMori

    A gacha-style idle RPG about girls branded witches, known for its vocal soundtrack and characters who grow stronger over time.

    75% steam
  45. Four Divine Abidings cover art

    Four Divine Abidings

    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
  46. 无休仙途 cover art

    无休仙途

    Lead an immortal-cultivation sect across a floating continent, gathering resources, recruiting disciples and following a story toward ascension.

    73% steam
  47. Chrono Bot cover art

    Chrono BotUpdated

    A robot trapped in a time loop collects batteries and recovers memories to last longer each cycle and eventually escape.

    3.9★ galaxy
    has ending
  48. Beyond the limits. cover art

    Beyond the limits.

    A sequel where you take on ten gods through difficult challenges, aiming for hard progress without heavy time walls.

    3.8★ galaxy
  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. Beggar's Life cover art

    Beggar's LifeUpdated

    Start as a starving beggar in a text-based medieval city and branch into paths like priest, thief, rat friend or pyromaniac through many skills.

    62% steam
    3.7★ galaxy
  53. Clicker Cuties - Anime Idler cover art

    Clicker Cuties - Anime Idler

    A clicker dating sim where you hatch and collect anime companions from eggs and unlock each one's storyline.

    70% steam
    50% idle
  54. Infi-Knight cover art

    Infi-KnightUpdated

    A desktop companion game: an immortal knight battles the undead while you work, growing stronger with each death.

    3.6★ galaxy
  55. Level 13Updated

    A text-based sci-fi adventure where you survive a decayed city, rediscover technology and rebuild civilization.

  56. Crinchure Collector cover art

    Crinchure CollectorComing soon

    A gacha-style collection game with free pulls, over 2000 creatures, blades and ingredients to find, baking recipes and lots of handwritten events.

    3.5★ galaxy
  57. Project Basilisk cover art

    Project BasiliskUpdated

    Grow an AI lab by hiring researchers and buying compute in a race to AGI, told as a mix of interactive fiction and strategy.

    3.4★ galaxy
  58. Space Loop Protocol cover art

    Space Loop Protocol

    Trapped in a time loop aboard a research ship, train five stats each cycle before the oxygen runs out, then queue activities.

    3.4★ galaxy
  59. Sisyphus cover art

    SisyphusComing soon

    A half-hour retelling of Sisyphus where he builds a city for help pushing the boulder, with upgrades, lootboxes and a narrator.

    3.3★ galaxy
  60. The Ruins Remember cover art

    The Ruins RememberUpdated

    Rebuild civilization on an alien world across ten eras while uncovering ruins from those who came before; prestige is the cycle.

  61. Final BroadcastUpdated

    A retro horror idle game about running the night shift at a dead TV station that never stopped transmitting, rebuilt by its author in Flutter.

  62. More Letters cover art

    More LettersDormant

    An incremental puzzle game about generating letters and cracking ciphers.

  63. Archiv des VergessensUpdated

    A German-language idle RPG about collecting fading memory fragments, fighting bosses that embody lost eras and forming alliances with other players.

  64. Playbook cover art

    PlaybookUpdated

    An incremental game that walks through the history of disinformation, built on Profectus.

  65. Immortal Taoists-MUD Wuxia cover art

    Immortal Taoists-MUD WuxiaUpdated

    Seek immortality as a cultivator in a playable xianxia novel, joining sects, learning arts and raising spirit beasts.

  66. Post Apo Tycoon - Idle Builder cover art

    Post Apo Tycoon - Idle BuilderUpdated

    Rebuild a nuclear wasteland into farmland, exploring the map for resources and reading found diaries that reveal how the world ended.

  67. Real Life:Choices Simulator cover art

    Real Life:Choices SimulatorDormant

    Live out a whole life from childhood to career and family, making choices that shift looks, smarts, health and wealth.

  68. Idle Distiller Tycoon cover art

    Idle Distiller TycoonUpdated

    Brew, bottle and sell across breweries, distilleries and vineyards, hiring managers to automate production while a light storyline unfolds.

    50% idle
  69. Perfect Avenger - Idle games cover art

    Perfect Avenger - Idle gamesUpdated

    Manage and upgrade stores and staff in a shopping mall to win the trust of your father's killer and take revenge.

  70. The Goldbergs: Back to the 80s cover art

    The Goldbergs: Back to the 80sUpdated

    Tap to earn Cool Points for the Goldberg kids, automate their hangouts and collect character cards and 80s items to climb the school's Cool List.

  71. Before the matters cover art

    Before the matters

    A short jam game following a character as he works to recover old memories.

    3.2★ galaxy
  72. Decrypting Life cover art

    Decrypting LifeUpdated

    Click through corrupted files to recover hidden IDs and piece together a 2000s story, with tokens, passive upgrades and combos.

    2.4★ galaxy
  73. Nomad Idle cover art

    Nomad Idle

    Fight hordes automatically while spending stat points, gear levels and passives on a build, following a story that has a defined end.

    63% steam
    has ending
    70% idle
  74. Snowed Under | 雪葬 cover art

    Snowed Under | 雪葬

    Shovel through deep snow in the mountains, upgrading your shovel with salvaged scrap as buried buildings and an unsettling story come to light.

    60% steam
  75. Life Simulator cover art

    Life Simulator

    Spend four years as a new graduate in a big city, working, investing and dating to afford a car and a home. Your choices steer which of many endings you get.

    51% steam
    has ending