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Programming incremental games

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

  1. Bitburner cover art

    BitburnerUpdated

    A cyberpunk incremental where you write real JavaScript to hack servers and automate everything.

    95% steam
    70% idle
  2. The Farmer Was Replaced cover art

    The Farmer Was Replaced

    Write Python-like scripts for a drone that farms for you, then spend the harvest on new tech that opens tougher automation puzzles.

    97% steam
  3. Soda Dungeon 2 cover art

    Soda Dungeon 2

    Staff a tavern with adventurers who crawl a dungeon for you, upgrade the whole town, and script their battle behavior with custom AI.

    94% steam
  4. 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
  5. Calculator Evolution cover art

    Calculator Evolution

    Upgrade a pocket calculator into something with far too many digits. Clever programming-flavoured progression.

    4.5★ galaxy
    55% idle
  6. 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
  7. The Perfect Tower II cover art

    The Perfect Tower II

    Tower defence as an idle engine, plus factories, mining and an in-game scripting language.

    87% steam
    60% idle
  8. Screeps: World cover art

    Screeps: World

    Run a colony in a persistent MMO by writing JavaScript that controls your units around the clock, even while you are logged off.

    87% steam
    70% idle
  9. Code: Terraform cover art

    Code: Terraform

    Write Python-like scripts to run rovers, power grids, smelters and drone fleets on a frozen alien world, with your code working while you plan.

    83% steam
  10. VNGI cover art

    VNGI

    Push your version number higher on a tongue-in-cheek journey through game development.

    3.8★ galaxy

  11. DevLifeDormant

    A browser incremental game about life as a software developer.

  12. ε-primeDormant

    Explore and exploit a procedurally generated planet with bots you control by hand or with JavaScript scripts, expanding your army to conquer it.

  13. StrudelIdle cover art

    StrudelIdleDormant

    Generate beats to unlock code modules and hardware, while your live-coded Strudel pattern grows and plays in the browser.

  14. START FROM 0 (Patch 1.1) cover art

    START FROM 0 (Patch 1.1)Updated

    Progress from a single bit through symbols, colors and octal in a jam incremental about the roots of coding.

    2.9★ galaxy
  15. Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding) cover art

    Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)Updated

    Mash keys to write code, then build a production grid and hire AI agents that ship projects, including while the game is closed, before prestiging.

    74% steam
    2.7★ galaxy
    50% idle