Short incremental games

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

NodebusterComplete
Sweep your cursor over nodes, spend the bits on a huge upgrade web, go again. A tight, active, few-hour hit.
97% steam
3–6h ending
10% idle
Tower WizardComplete
Climb your tower toward the sky with magic and spirits. A short, calm, finishable idler.
97% steam
3–5h ending
40% idle
Digseum
Dig up relics across a dozen sites and display them in your museum to fund better tools. A compact run of a few hours.
98% steam
Magic ArcheryUpdated
Train an elf commoner into a master archer by shooting targets, taking quests for gold and buying magic upgrades in a brief, hands-on climb with a set ending.
98% steam
has ending
25% idle
Space Rock BreakerUpdated
Blast asteroids with guns and lasers, then drop the ore through an upgradable Plinko board for credits to spend on a large skill tree.
96% steam
Far Fishing
Chase fish inside a circle from a small boat, upgrading it as you sail to the edge of the world across nine locations in about two hours.
97% steam
has ending
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
The Adventure of NAYU
Click to help a fox and her party fight through a gentle, short story, spending star shards on training and costumes, with an endless mode afterward.
95% steam
has ending
75% idle
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
Master Healer Kale with useless party
Play the healer of a hopeless party, keeping them alive with spells and a 200-node skill tree until they can face the Demon King in about four hours.
95% steam
4.0★ galaxy
has ending
Lemonade Apocalypse: First Squeeze
Set lemonade prices against demand, invest in farms and factories, and eventually steer world politics to heat the planet across three story levels.
95% steam
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
The Greenening
Water an ash-covered planet to reveal what lies beneath, upgrade your abilities, and tend a garden aboard your spaceship in about three hours.
96% steam
50% idle
Little Dig Game
A roughly 40-minute game where you send workers onto a planet to gather resources for a company that strips worlds for profit.
4.7★ galaxy
Instruction
Meet power quotas at a plant using five generation systems while its sarcastic AI mentor reveals a story. A student project.
94% steam
All Hail the Orb
Click a mysterious orb for power, recruit cultists to take over the work, and explore a dungeon full of ducks in a short game meant to be finished.
93% steam
4.2★ galaxy
has ending
Loot LoopUpdated
Send a party of tiny heroes into dungeon runs that last seconds, then spend the loot on a large skill tree between attempts.
92% steam
Click and ConquerUpdated
Bomb a fog-covered grid to uncover enemies, invest in passive income and power across 12 maps, and prestige for permanent upgrades in a two-to-four-hour run.
92% steam
has ending
Deep Space Cache
Shoot asteroids for resources, feed them into generators and ship augments, and reach the finish in a couple of hours.
93% steam
has ending
50% idle
Keep on Mining!Updated
Sweep your cursor over rocks to break them, smelt ores into bars and spend them in a large skill tree, with talent cards and an automatic mine for idle gains.
91% steam
50% idle
Beneath The Surface
A short fishing game where you drop a line, wait for bites, and upgrade rod and line to reach deeper, stranger catches.
94% steam
PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator
Drive a mining train by hand between stations, defend against alien insects and reinvest profits into upgrades and delivery drones, satirizing tech startups.
98% steam
has ending
25% idle
Far Mining
Pilot a ship that auto-fires at nearby asteroids, then spend the haul on a large tech tree to escape deep space. A short run of about three hours.
95% steam
has ending
FEED THE AI
A short, very active incremental about an AI you feed with data. Shape it into a Protector, Rational or Tyrant; each ending makes the next run stronger.
90% steam
3–9h ending
0% idle
Abyss Manager Idle
Assign characters to jobs, gather resources and dig deeper floors in an idle tower defense. About two hours to finish completely.
95% steam
has ending
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
What Lurks Below
A 30-minute game jam incremental set in 1881, where you push deeper beneath the town of Old Gloomhollow to find what is down there.
4.6★ galaxy
50% idle
ExecuteDormant
A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.
91% steam
has ending
25% idle
Click To Continue
You wake in a white room with a single button and keep pressing it to open panels of odd upgrades. A short, surreal clicker where the numbers count down instead of up.
92% steam
25% idle
Unfair Flips
Flip a rigged coin with a 20% heads chance and upgrade the odds, aiming for ten heads in a row in a bleak far-future setting.
88% steam
has ending
25% idle
SkelesellerUpdated
A dead adventurer returns as a skeleton shopkeeper who hires heroes, sends them into battle and sells their loot to grow the town. Finite, with small numbers and no prestige.
91% steam
has ending
Journey to Incrementalia
A necromancer summons minions and casts spells to smash through 99 walls, exploring a big resettable skill tree on a short hands-on run.
89% steam
has ending
25% idle
Garbage GrowthUpdated
Pick up trash that people throw at you, add more polluters and hire rats to automate collection. A short, crude incremental with a skill tree.
91% steam
3.9★ galaxy
A Game About Feeding A Black HoleUpdated
Destroy asteroids, planets and stars to feed a black hole, buying upgrades along the way, with extra game modes after the main run.
87% steam
Zero Stress King: Idle DefenseUpdated
A tower defense where you cannot lose: enemies charge your walls and fall into lava, and you spend the payout on defenders and a map-shaped skill tree.
87% steam
3.6★ galaxy
Idle Gumball MachineUpdated
Fire gumballs into spinning gears in a plinko-style board, buy upgrades for explosive number growth, and ascend to trade everything for stronger bonuses.
91% steam
25% idle
Sir, We Have an Orc ProblemUpdated
A short tower defense against orc armies in the tens of thousands, where every run, won or lost, feeds a big tree of turret upgrades.
86% steam
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
GLONK
Feed a hungry creature called Glonk to earn gold, spend it in a skill tree and add more Glonks. Short, with an ominous twist to its appetite.
89% steam
IncreKnight
A knight fights through a dragon's lair, selling monster loot for skills, spells and weapons until he can face the dragon. Brief and focused.
88% steam
has ending
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
Incredicer
Roll dice for money, buy helper hands to automate the rolling and pour extracted dark matter into a dice skill tree.
85% steam
Spellbound & Shelved
Hire gnomes to reshelve thousands of spilled spellbooks in a wizard library. Flip the sign to trade customer income against the mess they make, until the last book is put away.
87% steam
has ending
75% idle
Mine Your Way Out 2
Dig through a fully destructible pixel world and upgrade your gear to escape the underground, in about an hour.
4.4★ galaxy
has ending
OutholdDormant
A short tower defense run-based game where you spend collected resources in a large refundable skill tree between attempts.
4.4★ galaxy
Drop and Grow
A short clicker where you drip water onto soil to grow grass, bushes and flowers.
91% steam
4.1★ galaxy
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
Smash Hit Museum
Smash stones to uncover artifacts for a museum, with auto-hammers, a lucky coin flip and 50+ prestige skills bought with tickets.
85% steam
Cult NationUpdated
Sacrifice cult followers to gather blood and summon the devil, with reincarnation resets that unlock new mechanics over roughly two hours.
87% steam
has ending
Cavern Crawler
A short prototype where you repeatedly crawl through caverns and grow stronger between attempts; all content fits in under an hour.
4.3★ galaxy
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
MetaTree
A short Modding Tree mod where progression happens inside a separate layer.
4.3★ galaxy
Crownhold
Grow a castle into a realm, find trading partners and besiege rivals, then restart stronger through meta progression. Deliberately compact.
84% steam
Wild Growth
Click to cast heals on your Norse warband in battle, then recruit allies, test formations and explore an upgrade tree after each loss.
84% steam
25% idle
Aerolicious
Chip away at a huge block wall in a Frutiger Aero landscape, recycling shards for credits and better tools until every block is gone.
85% steam
has ending
Lyca
A magical wolf runs across a wasteland gathering resources to buy through a large upgrade tree, bringing it back to green in a few hours.
83% steam
has ending
Game of Grass
Mow your lawn with increasingly silly tools to prove it beats your neighbor's, grow crops for passive income and prestige for new abilities.
84% steam
50% idle
Slotcremental
A short incremental where you win chips and spend them on a skill tree of upgrades.
4.3★ galaxy
refarm
Raise sunken tiles from the sea one at a time, farming each to fund more land and unlocking basic helpers. A short, click-heavy run of about two hours.
87% steam
has ending
50% idle
Mango's Fisharium
Catch fish across 10+ locations, show them off in an aquarium and upgrade your tools. Built to be finished in about four hours.
81% steam
has ending
[LEGACY] PS: Glorious Generators!
A shortish Modding Tree mod where every layer produces its own currency. The incomplete second entry in the Prestigious Saplings series.
4.1★ galaxy
Breakfront
Bouncing balls chip away at enemy tiles; spend captured points on a branching tree for more, faster and special balls, then beat the boss.
4.3★ galaxy
has ending
25% idle
LINC
Ship new Linux distro releases until the whole world has switched, in a game of about 10 to 15 minutes.
4.2★ galaxy
PS: Exponential Enhancement.
A short Modding Tree mod in which every currency grows exponentially; the third entry in the Prestigious Saplings series.
4.2★ galaxy
The MachinEGGUpdated
Raise chickens, sell their eggs and automate the farm in a relaxed clicker that takes around 20 to 25 minutes to finish.
4.2★ galaxy
has ending
25% idle
Profit Sea Incremental
Fish for gold, buy upgrades and hit milestones to grow your boat. A brief, relaxed incremental at sea.
79% steam
Lumberite-Prologue (Valehands)
Direct two workers who chop and haul wood to an altar each day, upgrading them and the forest to earn a magic pickaxe. A demo for Valehands.
4.4★ galaxy
Incremental Universe v1.2Dormant
A small, lighthearted incremental with roughly an hour or so of content in its current build.
4.0★ galaxy
Lost in SpaceDormant
A stranded astronaut turns energy into matter with a 3D printer, where every click uses oxygen, racing to escape.
4.0★ galaxy
has ending
Legion BreakerUpdated
Hold off undead hordes as a battlemage, casting spells and raising a holy army.
4.2★ galaxy
The Depths of Xia'phas
Explore a strange cave, gathering and crafting odd items in search of an artifact that can save your flooded village.
4.1★ galaxy
Click & MineUpdated
Mine each biome's resources before stamina runs out, digging deeper with upgrades and artifacts over a two to three hour run.
86% steam
3.8★ galaxy
has ending
World Growth
A Prestige Tree mod with five reset layers, generators, boosters, world tiers, and a small periodic table of upgrades. Takes about 8 to 16 hours.
3.9★ galaxy
has ending
Raccoon Valley Tycoon
Dig up resources, vacuum up the loot and rebuild an abandoned raccoon village, hats and all.
100% steam
2–5h ending
65% idle
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
castle idlerUpdated
A tower defense incremental without waves, where you place and upgrade towers against slimes and unlock a prestige skill tree across harder levels.
79% steam
3.6★ galaxy
The Fire Must Be Fed
Walk the forest gathering resources to feed a strange fire, gaining fire powers from a skill tree. About 20 to 40 minutes long.
4.3★ galaxy
Pegfinity
Launch balls into a pachinko board where hits chain into combos, then buy permanent upgrades like explosive pegs, portals and lasers between runs.
76% steam
Hamstronaut
Spin a hamster's wheel for power, sell it, and build a rocket to fly him to a moon he thinks is cheese. A family-made jam game.
4.2★ galaxy
Found it, Mountain?Updated
A 10 to 15 minute game about searching a foggy world for mountains across three stages, buying upgrades between trips.
4.1★ galaxy
Tab IncrementalUpdated
Open and close browser tabs to earn RAM, managing memory and cache as you buy upgrades for more tabs.
4.0★ galaxy
Incremental Buildings
Build and upgrade buildings for points in a roughly one-hour game made entirely in Desmos, with no saving.
4.0★ galaxy
Dronord
Play as a crash-landed drone with damaged systems, mining resources and slowly repairing yourself.
3.9★ galaxy
Prime TimeDormant
A short incremental that mixes math and music to generate an ever-longer song.
3.8★ galaxy
Project IridiumDormant
Explore a mythical world while bending time, repairing structures and tearing down walls over about an hour.
3.9★ galaxy
One Trillion Blocks
A GMTK 2026 jam game: mine blocks and build a small factory to push the count upward.
3.8★ galaxy
Chaos Time And SpaceDormant
An older, no-longer-updated incremental with only a small amount of content.
3.7★ galaxy
Snail Facts!
Learn facts about snails, then help them conquer the world in a 15-minute incremental.
3.8★ galaxy
MFI Metro
A short browser incremental about growing a train network into an empire.
3.7★ galaxy
Infinite Dice
Fill the screen with as many dice and upgrades as you can while completing quests and occasionally fighting bosses.
3.7★ galaxy
One Grave to Fill
Pitch the dead into one village grave, catch the souls they release, hire help and dig far deeper than is sensible. The free browser demo has no ads, purchases or sign-in; the developer says it runs about an hour and a half and ends at The Pit. A paid Windows version is in development.
Progress KnightDormant
Beggar to knight to emperor to something beyond, one lifetime at a time. Perfect first incremental.
85% idle
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
MMO98Updated
Grow a small MMO studio on a retro desktop into a global giant by scaling servers, fixing issues and shipping sequels over about four hours.
70% steam
Cult Nation - DemoUpdated
Sacrifice cult followers and gather blood to raise the devil in this short incremental demo.
3.6★ galaxy
Starvester
Send drone swarms to mine a star system and grow a factory that builds megastructures, with prestige along a roughly five hour campaign.
69% steam
has ending
25% idle
Storm Grill
Play a grill evaporating raindrops for coins, buying upgrades and skills until it can survive the whole storm.
3.6★ galaxy
Correlio LiteUpdated
Place cards to score multipliers from matching colors, shapes and numbers, earning crowns for upgrades. Beatable in 1 to 2 hours.
3.5★ galaxy
has ending
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
DEFRAG~98.COMDormant
Defragment a Windows 98 hard drive by placing cells next to each other, unlocking new mechanics as memory grows.
3.4★ galaxy
has ending
Pickochet
Throw bouncing pickaxes that ricochet through ore, adding bonus and special picks, abilities and random world events.
3.2★ galaxy
Techrarrium
A short HTML incremental whose ending can be reached in 15 to 20 minutes.
3.3★ galaxy
has ending
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
Let Me DieUpdated
A hero stuck fighting the same monster forever; unlock upgrades, finish quests and assemble builds to escape the loop. Early alpha.
3.3★ galaxy
I guess we doin idle games nowUpdated
Knock unprofitable triangles off a factory conveyor with clicks, then invest in upgrades until the line runs fast without checks.
3.3★ galaxy
An Ordinary Vanilla JS Idle Game
A short experimental idle game about piling up points and lasting as long as you can.
3.3★ galaxy
Broker TycoonUpdated
Run a data brokerage in a short satire that makes the ethically worst move the optimal one.
has ending
BubbleverseDormant
Grow bubbles in a tiny universe, click them to collect cash, and spend it on upgrades.
Clicker (johannpayer)Dormant
A short, simple clicker with about 8 to 10 minutes of play.
EdisonDormant
A small incremental built with client-side Blazor.
MassDormant
Generate mass and spend it on increasingly expensive planets to build out a solar system.
MortalDormant
A Ludum Dare clicker that mixes incremental progress with a life sim about aging.
Quick ClickDormant
A simple clicker with ASCII art where the aim is to finish a run as fast as possible.
Snail GameDormant
A short incremental that gamifies several of the author's Snail Clocks and experiments with unusual input schemes.
Time TickleDormant
A small incremental game with a playable build and community Discord.
Tree SimulatorUpdated
A basic idle game about growing trees and expanding a small tree empire.
UytaUpdated
Expand an island farm with plants, trees and animals, buying upgrades to raise the farm's level over about an hour of play.
Watch OutDormant
A clicker game made for GitHub Game Off 2022.
[LEGACY] PS: Miniscule Multipliers!
A short Modding Tree mod where every upgrade is only a small multiplier.
3.2★ galaxy
SliceCrementalUpdated
Plant fruit trees, slice the fruit for profit and play plinko, all feeding a large skill tree in a one to two hour jam game.
3.2★ galaxy
The Ore Tree
A short, early-stage Modding Tree game about ore.
3.3★ galaxy
Decrypting Life
Click through corrupted files to recover hidden IDs and piece together a 2000s story, with tokens, passive upgrades and combos.
2.4★ galaxy
Well Gnome!Dormant
Toss gnomes into a deep well to dig for money and secrets, buying upgrades in this short game jam entry.
3.0★ galaxy
Under PressureUpdated
A jam game about refining oil, keeping pressure in check, and turning the output into money.
2.7★ galaxy
Point Game
A short game about piling up points through research and a set of oddly named buildings.
2.9★ galaxy
The Azure TreeUpdated
A brief Modding Tree mod modeled on the Roblox game Azure Mines, where you dig for progressively rarer ores.
2.2★ galaxy
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
PLANETS OF WARDormant
A 15-minute clicking adventure about fending off an alien invasion of Earth.
59% steam
has ending
PachincroUpdated
Drop balls through pachinko boards to stack multipliers, fight a boss, and spend on a big skill tree across several modes with prestige.
36% steam
3.3★ galaxy

NodebusterComplete

Tower WizardComplete

Magic ArcheryUpdated

Space Rock BreakerUpdated

SpaceplanComplete

Loot LoopUpdated

Click and ConquerUpdated

Keep on Mining!Updated

ExecuteDormant

SkelesellerUpdated

Garbage GrowthUpdated

A Game About Feeding A Black HoleUpdated

Zero Stress King: Idle DefenseUpdated

Idle Gumball MachineUpdated

Sir, We Have an Orc ProblemUpdated

akabosDormant

OutholdDormant

Cult NationUpdated

The MachinEGGUpdated

Incremental Universe v1.2Dormant

Lost in SpaceDormant

Legion BreakerUpdated

Click & MineUpdated

castle idlerUpdated

Found it, Mountain?Updated

Tab IncrementalUpdated

Prime TimeDormant

Project IridiumDormant

Chaos Time And SpaceDormant

Progress KnightDormant

Universal PaperclipsComplete

MMO98Updated

Cult Nation - DemoUpdated

Correlio LiteUpdated

Project BasiliskUpdated

DEFRAG~98.COMDormant

SisyphusComing soon

Let Me DieUpdated

I guess we doin idle games nowUpdated

Broker TycoonUpdated

BubbleverseDormant

Clicker (johannpayer)Dormant

EdisonDormant

MassDormant

MortalDormant

Quick ClickDormant

Snail GameDormant

Time TickleDormant

Tree SimulatorUpdated

UytaUpdated

Watch OutDormant

SliceCrementalUpdated

Well Gnome!Dormant

Under PressureUpdated

The Azure TreeUpdated

PLANETS OF WARDormant

PachincroUpdated