Slow incremental games
20 hand-tagged games, ranked by live Steam and Galaxy ratings.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
Float in a pool as a rubber duck while more ducks drop in one by one, with a day and night cycle and calm music.
98% steam
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% steamhas ending70% idle
Viridi
Care for a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Water them, name them, and keep the window open beside your work.
92% steam90% idle
Mountain
You are a mountain. Time passes, weather and life come and go on your slopes, and you mostly watch.
88% steam
Rock Simulator 2
Be a rock and watch the world change around you, unlocking over 100 rocks at a deliberately slow pace, alone or with friends.
93% steam70% idle
Check Back
Built around the title: come back later and there is more. A deliberately slow, very idle game.
4.3★ galaxy90% idle
Settlemoon
Build a side-scrolling fantasy town in real time, posting quests for visiting adventurers and decorating as it grows. It keeps working while the game is closed.
87% steam70% idle
Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game
Wake alone in a magic-ruined world and stretch scarce resources while waiting, reading and uncovering what happened.
4.5★ galaxy
Tree Bonsai
Shape a plum bonsai by pruning, feeding, and grafting as it grows on its own through the seasons, blossoming, fruiting, and eventually aging and dying.
81% steam
Matter Dimensions
A slow Antimatter Dimensions-style incremental where you start with one unit of matter and fight stacking nerfs.
4.2★ galaxy
drifter's upgrade tree
A slow, long tree of upgrades with clicking sections and many resets, currently 300 upgrades across 3 layers and 15 sub-layers. Unfinished.
3.8★ galaxy25% idle
The Timewall Tree Remake
A Prestige Tree mod across 12 layers built around long waits on upgrades and challenges, borrowing systems from Antimatter Dimensions and other classics.
3.5★ galaxy
The Generator TreeUpdated
A Modding Tree game with a compact layout for phones, where most time is spent waiting and the active parts are prestiging and buying upgrades.
3.4★ galaxy70% idle
Check Back Hell
A heavily nerfed version of Check Back meant to test extreme patience, where finishing could take years.
3.2★ galaxyhas ending
The Difficulty Upgrade Tree:R (My version!)Updated
A personal remake of The Difficulty Upgrade Tree with six reset layers and deliberately slow growth.
3.0★ galaxy
Artist Idle
Paintings fill in block by block as you buy finer detail, sell the art, open galleries and eventually train a successor.
64% steam
Stellar Evolution: TMT
A very long Modding Tree game with four reset layers and heavy timewalls; late upgrades can take days, and full runs have taken months.
2.8★ galaxy
Deepco
A slow multiplayer incremental set in a satirical dystopian corporation, where you process work for DeepCoin, pick specializations and compete on public leaderboards.
2.6★ galaxy
Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Seed a world with plants, herbivores, and carnivores whose genes mutate each generation, then leave it running and return to see what evolved or died out.
45% steam90% idle
20,000 Miles Under the Sea
A diver sinks toward the bottom of the Mariana Trench while you watch or minimize the game, deciding when to quit before meeting what lurks below.
39% steam90% idle