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Optimization incremental games

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

  1. Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up cover art

    Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up

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

    95% steam
    50% idle
  2. Beltmatic cover art

    Beltmatic

    Mine numbers from the map and route them along belts through adders and multipliers to deliver target values to the hub.

    95% steam
  3. Upload Labs cover art

    Upload Labs

    Wire together window-like nodes into data pipelines that download, process and upload files, then research, hack and code your way toward stopping heat death.

    90% steam
  4. 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
  5. Assembly Planter cover art

    Assembly Planter

    Grow from hand farming to automated planters, harvesters and belts, and merge whole machine setups into one compact block.

    92% steam
  6. Stuck In Time cover art

    Stuck In Time

    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
  7. Little Incrementisle cover art

    Little Incrementisle

    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
  8. The Board is Yours cover art

    The Board is YoursUpdated

    Buy chess squares and pieces and position them so defended pieces boost each other's output, with prestige perks that change your strategy.

    97% steam
    4.2★ galaxy
    50% idle
  9. IGTAP: an incremental game that's also a platformer cover art

    IGTAP: an incremental game that's also a platformer

    A platformer incremental where clones follow a route you optimize, generating power to improve production and movement.

    4.4★ galaxy
  10. NGU INDUSTRIES cover art

    NGU INDUSTRIES

    Place factories, labs and beacons to manufacture hundreds of silly materials, fight odd enemies, and follow a crude comedic story.

    78% steam
    50% idle
  11. Industry Idle cover art

    Industry IdleDormant

    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
  12. Coin Factory cover art

    Coin Factory

    Lay out factory tiles around an output tile, level them and place modifiers to find synergies, with handmade levels plus daily and nightly challenge maps.

    77% steam
  13. Incremental Factory cover art

    Incremental Factory

    Build out a factory across parcels and clusters, managing resource flow and reworking production chains as the operation expands.

    72% steam
  14. Idle Loops

    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
  15. Creature Card Idle cover art

    Creature Card Idle

    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
  16. FEED THE QUEEN cover art

    FEED THE QUEENUpdated

    Grow an insect-like colony by breeding specialized workers and combining foods, evolving the species via a genetics talent tree.

    69% steam
  17. The Upgrading Tree cover art

    The Upgrading Tree

    A hard, strategy-heavy tree incremental spread across multiple universes, with puzzles in unlocking upgrades.

    3.4★ galaxy
  18. Incremental rush cover art

    Incremental rush

    A puzzle-leaning speedrun incremental: beat each of seven increasingly hard stages within 60 seconds, helped by autobuy.

    3.2★ galaxy
  19. Mycelia (共生之网)Updated

    A fungal-network incremental where you design a 2D mycelium graph instead of a production list, with tech, automation, challenges and prestige.

  20. Mycelium cover art

    MyceliumUpdated

    Spread a fungal network through forest soil, weighing nearby poor ground against distant rich deposits since resources must travel back to the core.

  21. Subway Idle cover art

    Subway IdleDormant

    Connect and upgrade stations on a city subway map, deciding where to spend limited cash as new lines open.

    75% idle
  22. Idle Game 1 cover art

    Idle Game 1Updated

    A numbers-first incremental for experienced players built around random prestige upgrades that push you to plan different strategies each round.

  23. Reactor Idle Tycoon cover art

    Reactor Idle TycoonDormant

    Build power plants from wind turbines up to fusion reactors, balancing heat and electricity to keep everything under control while selling power.

  24. Idle Horizons: Dawn of Heroes cover art

    Idle Horizons: Dawn of HeroesUpdated

    Draft heroes, tune deep skill trees and positioning, and run dungeons and raids in an auto-battler built for theorycrafters.

  25. Idle Flight Manager cover art

    Idle Flight ManagerUpdated

    Draw routes on a real world map and grow from one prop plane to a jumbo jet fleet, with flights earning offline.

    75% idle
  26. Supermarket Tycoon Empire cover art

    Supermarket Tycoon EmpireUpdated

    Grow a corner shop into a big supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices and optimizing layout, with board game style twists and progress that continues offline.

    75% idle
  27. Idle Hotel Kingdom Tycoon cover art

    Idle Hotel Kingdom TycoonUpdated

    Build and run a hotel empire, designing rooms and adding guest activities while tuning operations for profit.

  28. Leek Factory Tycoon cover art

    Leek Factory TycoonUpdated

    Automate a leek restaurant with factories and conveyor belts, arranging the layout for the best idle income and comparing strategies on leaderboards.

    75% idle
  29. Chop Mania : Idle Cut Factory cover art

    Chop Mania : Idle Cut FactoryUpdated

    Slice fish on an automatic cutting line, upgrading blades and slotting gears to build the most efficient setup.

  30. Endless Escalation cover art

    Endless EscalationComing soon

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

    3.0★ galaxy
  31. Path of Praxis cover art

    Path of PraxisUpdated

    A beta auto-battler drawing on action RPGs and layered prestige games, built around theorycrafting builds at a semi-idle pace.

    3.1★ galaxy
    50% idle
  32. Space Travel Idle cover art

    Space Travel Idle

    Fly from Earth to distant moons and stars, researching engine tech, cutting ship weight and settling each world, with light card battles.

    63% steam
    70% idle
  33. Idle Cooking Emperor cover art

    Idle Cooking Emperor

    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