Text incremental games
30 hand-tagged games, ranked by live Steam and Galaxy ratings.
Shark Game: New Frontiers
Sharks discover the ocean, then science, then other worlds. A text-forward successor to the old Shark Game.
4.6★ galaxy55% idle
修仙小屋
A multiplayer text-based cultivation idler built for chatting at work, with gear, training maps, a cave dwelling and a player market.
92% steam
Theory of Magic (Arcanum)
A text-heavy mage's apprenticeship with hundreds of spells, classes and dungeons. Dense, charming, community-kept.
4.5★ galaxy45% idle
Farm RPGDormant
A menu-based farming MMO where you grow crops, fish, craft and explore, trading and teaming up with other players.
88% steam
Ballad of Heroes
A mostly text-based RPG idler set in Greek mythology. Build a party of up to two heroes and four gods and fight to defend Olympus.
4.5★ galaxy
墨仙箓
A text-based cultivation game where you pick a map area and your character trains and adventures on its own, with sects, player trading and turn-based fights.
89% steam
Exponential Locomotion
A console-style jam prototype about building trains and stations and upgrading all of it.
4.4★ galaxy
xiuzhen idle
A combat-free cultivation sim: raise stats through alchemy, planting and other arts, climbing realms from qi refining to divinity.
79% steam70% idle
Midnight Idle
A story incremental styled after gamebooks, following an amnesiac ooze with seven unlockable classes and several prestige layers. Built for mobile too.
4.0★ galaxy
Idle Hacking: An Inaction RPG
A text-based hacking MMO where you craft affix-heavy gear, join player syndicates and join daily world bosses, with progress running for hours after logout.
80% steam75% idle
A tree for sure
A text-heavy Modding Tree prestige mod.
4.1★ galaxy
Typing Incremental
Type words to earn money, buy new words, and finish lists of common English words for prestige points that speed up the next list.
78% steam25% idle
Ensis IDLEUpdated
A text-based dark fantasy incremental in early development, meant to be played actively and finished within a few weeks. Community translations included.
3.9★ galaxyhas ending25% idle
懒人修仙传2
A text-based cultivation idler where you pick skills, loot and pets while your character climbs from mortal to immortal. Ships with a full mod editor.
73% steam70% idle
The Gold Factory: Regilded
A fan remake and expansion of The Gold Factory, a text-based incremental RPG in the vein of Candy Box and A Dark Room.
3.7★ galaxy
Infinite Loop: IncrementalUpdated
A text RPG where you queue and automate actions each life, then spend marks earned at death on upgrades and new story content.
3.8★ galaxy
A Dark RoomComplete
Light a fire. Then the text opens up into a village, a map, and a story told almost entirely through what it doesn't say.
3–6h ending25% idle
修炼成仙
A minimal text cultivation game: create a character and it fights, loots, and trains on its own from its first steps toward ascension and rebirth.
71% steam90% idle
Beggar's LifeUpdated
Start as a starving beggar in a text-based medieval city and branch into paths like priest, thief, rat friend or pyromaniac through many skills.
62% steam3.7★ galaxyLevel 13Updated
A text-based sci-fi adventure where you survive a decayed city, rediscover technology and rebuild civilization.
Yet Another Idle RPGUpdated
A text-based idle RPG inspired by Proto23, with combat, skills, gear and locations to explore.
Downtown Mafia: Gang Wars
A text-based mafia MMO where you pick a class, run missions and businesses, buy weapons and property, and join crime families in gang and turf wars.
68% steam
仙途 · 文字修仙Updated
A text-based xianxia cultivation idle game spanning 26 realms, with breakthroughs, alchemy, forging, combat and reincarnation.
Nanotrasen SimulatorUpdated
Play an AI running a simulated Nanotrasen station in a text-heavy idle game set in the Space Station 13 universe.
Ant SwarmDormant
A text-based ant colony incremental with scaling upgrades, tooltips, and save export.
Immortal Taoists-MUD WuxiaUpdated
Seek immortality as a cultivator in a playable xianxia novel, joining sects, learning arts and raising spirit beasts.
Overmortal-Idle RPGUpdated
A text-driven cultivation RPG where you rise from mortal to immortal, choosing branching paths, evolving pets into companions, and fighting bosses across realms.
Idle Adventure
A text-based online RPG with seven races, dual-class builds, tarot card abilities, item crafting and team dungeons.
65% steam
懒人修仙传
A tiny text idler where you rise from mortal to immortal by choosing skills, pets and loot, with alchemy and beast taming side systems. Chinese-language store text.
60% steam70% idle
洪荒：我挂机成圣
A Chinese text-based online idle game drawn from myth, where you train hundreds of legendary characters, reroll gear stats and trade items with other players.
49% steam70% idle