Short incremental games
132 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% steam3–6h ending10% idle
Tower WizardComplete
Climb your tower toward the sky with magic and spirits. A short, calm, finishable idler.
97% steam3–5h ending40% 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% steamhas ending25% 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% steamhas ending
SpaceplanComplete
A stranded ship, a potato, and a soundtrack that makes the finale land. A short, focused story idler.
91% steam1–3h ending30% 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% steamhas ending75% 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% steamhas 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% steam4.0★ galaxyhas 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% steamhas 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% steam50% 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% steam4.2★ galaxyhas 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% steamhas 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% steamhas ending50% idle
Keep on Mining!Dormant
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% steam50% 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% steamhas ending25% 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% steamhas ending
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% steamhas 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★ galaxy50% idle
ExecuteUpdated
A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.
91% steamhas ending25% 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% steam25% 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% steamhas ending25% 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% steamhas 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% steamhas ending25% 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% steam3.9★ galaxy
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% steam3.6★ 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% steam25% idle
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
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% steamhas 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% steamhas 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% steamhas 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
Version Control
An Antimatter Dimensions-style game made for a jam where you move through a series of updates that transform your Darkness Dimensions.
4.4★ galaxyhas ending
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% steamhas ending75% 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★ galaxyhas ending
OutholdUpdated
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% steam4.1★ galaxy
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
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★ galaxy25% idle
Cult NationUpdated
Sacrifice cult followers to gather blood and summon the devil, with reincarnation resets that unlock new mechanics over roughly two hours.
87% steamhas 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
Crownhold
Grow a castle into a realm, find trading partners and besiege rivals, then restart stronger through meta progression. Deliberately compact.
84% steam
MetaTree
A short Modding Tree mod where progression happens inside a separate layer.
4.3★ galaxy
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% steam25% 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% steamhas 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% steamhas 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% steam50% 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% steamhas ending50% 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% steamhas ending
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.
4.3★ 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★ galaxyhas ending25% idle
Profit Sea Incremental
Fish for gold, buy upgrades and hit milestones to grow your boat. A brief, relaxed incremental at sea.
79% steam
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★ galaxyhas ending25% idle![[LEGACY] PS: Glorious Generators! cover art](/art/legacy-ps-glorious-generators.webp)
[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.
4.0★ 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★ galaxyhas ending
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
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
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★ galaxyhas ending
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% steamhas 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% steam3.6★ 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
Tab IncrementalUpdated
Open and close browser tabs to earn RAM, managing memory and cache as you buy upgrades for more tabs.
4.0★ galaxy
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
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
MORE MEUpdated
A short jam game about several people who may be linked in strange ways.
4.0★ 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
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 BlocksUpdated
A GMTK 2026 jam game: mine blocks and build a small factory to push the count upward.
3.8★ galaxy
Click & MineComing soon
Mine each biome's resources before stamina runs out, digging deeper with upgrades and artifacts over a two to three hour run.
3.9★ galaxyhas ending
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 DiceUpdated
Fill the screen with as many dice and upgrades as you can while completing quests and occasionally fighting bosses.
3.7★ galaxy
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 ending30% idle
Progress KnightDormant
Beggar to knight to emperor to something beyond, one lifetime at a time. Perfect first incremental.
85% idle
Hack 42: Typing Incremental
Type to build hacks and wreck computers for profit in this brief demo.
3.8★ galaxy
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
Storm GrillUpdated
Play a grill evaporating raindrops for coins, buying upgrades and skills until it can survive the whole storm.
3.8★ 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% steamhas ending25% idle
Ember Folks
Build a city and pile up wealth to help the Ember Folks rekindle a fading star.
3.7★ 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★ galaxyhas ending
DRUDGE
Crank a wheel for energy, break resources and buy odd items to snowball from nothing to a million coins at speed.
3.4★ galaxy
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
An Ordinary Vanilla JS Idle Game
A short experimental idle game about piling up points and lasting as long as you can.
3.4★ galaxy
PickochetUpdated
Throw bouncing pickaxes that ricochet through ore, adding bonus and special picks, abilities and random world events.
3.3★ 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★ galaxyhas ending
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
Techrarrium
A short HTML incremental whose ending can be reached in 15 to 20 minutes.
3.3★ galaxyhas 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
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
Incremental rush
A puzzle-leaning speedrun incremental: beat each of seven increasingly hard stages within 60 seconds, helped by autobuy.
3.2★ galaxy
Out With a Bang
With two minutes before a bomb goes off, figure out the unexplained mechanics and generate as much energy as you can.
3.1★ galaxyhas ending25% idle
BubbleverseDormant
Grow bubbles in a tiny universe, click them to collect cash, and spend it on upgrades.
Quick ClickDormant
A simple clicker with ASCII art where the aim is to finish a run as fast as possible.
UytaUpdated
Expand an island farm with plants, trees and animals, buying upgrades to raise the farm's level over about an hour of play.
EdisonDormant
A small incremental built with client-side Blazor.
Tree SimulatorUpdated
A basic idle game about growing trees and expanding a small tree empire.
Snail GameDormant
A short incremental that gamifies several of the author's Snail Clocks and experiments with unusual input schemes.
MortalDormant
A Ludum Dare clicker that mixes incremental progress with a life sim about aging.
MassDormant
Generate mass and spend it on increasingly expensive planets to build out a solar system.
Time TickleDormant
A small incremental game with a playable build and community Discord.
Broker TycoonUpdated
Run a data brokerage in a short satire that makes the ethically worst move the optimal one.
has endingWatch OutDormant
A clicker game made for GitHub Game Off 2022.
Clicker (johannpayer)Dormant
A short, simple clicker with about 8 to 10 minutes of play.
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![[LEGACY] PS: Miniscule Multipliers! cover art](/art/legacy-ps-miniscule-multipliers.webp)
[LEGACY] PS: Miniscule Multipliers!
A short Modding Tree mod where every upgrade is only a small multiplier.
3.2★ galaxy
The Ore Tree
A short, early-stage Modding Tree game about ore.
3.3★ galaxy
Before the matters
A short jam game following a character as he works to recover old memories.
3.2★ galaxy
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
The Azure TreeUpdated
A brief Modding Tree mod modeled on the Roblox game Azure Mines, where you dig for progressively rarer ores.
2.3★ 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
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% steamhas 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% steam3.3★ galaxy