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37 reviewed game profiles
Incremental games database: compare 37 games.
Scan every reviewed game below, or narrow Steam and browser incrementals by offline progress, prestige depth, automation, price and Steam Deck status. Every profile includes the hook and the catch.
Incremental games start with a small loop and keep changing the scale of the problem. The good ones do more than make numbers larger: they turn busywork into automation, make resets unlock new rules, or build toward a finish line worth reaching. For build-heavy combat, Magic Research 2 turns spell and gear choices into a long, finishable campaign. For a much shorter active burst, Idle Gumball Machine turns Plinko physics into a finite upgrade rush. A Game About Feeding A Black Hole makes the same compact promise with cursor-led asteroid destruction, though its upgrade tree leaves little room to build your own route. If the appeal is designing the automation itself, The Farmer Was Replaced makes you write and debug the farm's Python-like routine instead of buying a one-click manager. For supply-chain planning without a map, Factory Town Idle asks you to balance workers, recipes and trade between towns, though a single missing input can stall several goods. For a slower abstract reset game, Idle Spiral turns upgrades into a growing curve, though its crowded menus can obscure the math. For a class-and-pet build project, Idle Wizard offers a free spell sandbox, with a wiki-heavy late grind behind its many combinations.
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20 games with deep prestige
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12 games with an ending
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6 games without a download
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All 37 profiles, with the catch included
$4.99 · 2021
Cookie Clicker
The genre landmark: immediate clicking, a huge building economy, and a long heavenly-upgrade meta.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Very deep
$9.99 · 2021
Melvor Idle
A menu-driven RPG built around RuneScape-like skills, inventories, combat and long offline sessions.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- None
- Automation
- Deep
Free · 2022
Antimatter Dimensions
A compact numbers game whose resets repeatedly rewrite the rules of production.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2025
Revolution Idle
A fast, abstract incremental built around circles, multipliers and successive reset currencies.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2023
Unnamed Space Idle
A systems-heavy space incremental about ship loadouts, resource loops and very long progression arcs.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2021
The Perfect Tower II
Tower defense runs feed a town-sized web of factories, research and automation projects.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2017
Realm Grinder
A deep faction-based incremental where alignment and build choices reshape each run.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2020
Leaf Blower Revolution
A playful active-idle game that turns blowing leaves into escalating worlds and currencies.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2019
NGU IDLE
A maximalist idle RPG with equipment, bosses, rebirths and an enormous sequence of new systems.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Deep
Free · 2015
AdVenture Capitalist
A polished, approachable business idle game built around managers, upgrades and investor resets.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2015
Clicker Heroes
A foundational hero-DPS clicker with ascensions, ancients and increasingly automated runs.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2021
Cell to Singularity
A visually guided history of life and technology wrapped around familiar idle economies.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2020
Idle Slayer
A side-scrolling active-idle hybrid where jumps, quests and upgrades sit above a long ascension tree.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Deep
$6.99 · 2024
Rusty's Retirement
A miniature farm designed to live along the bottom of your desktop while you do other work.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Light
- Automation
- Very deep
$11.99 · 2025
Orb of Creation
An active incremental about combining spells, crafting chains and compact automation puzzles.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2020
Soda Dungeon 2
A light party-building RPG where scripted dungeon runs turn gear farming into automation.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Deep
Free · 2020
Mr.Mine
A long-running mining idle game with depth milestones, workers, relics and excavations.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2022
Farmer Against Potatoes Idle
A dense idle RPG with classes, equipment, challenges and several permanent progression layers.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Very deep
Free · 2021
Your Chronicle
A text-forward idle RPG whose routes, summons and layered resets gradually open a larger story.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Deep
$5.99 · 2023
Chillquarium
A low-pressure aquarium collector about growing and selling fish while the tank earns offline.
- Offline
- full
- Prestige
- Light
- Automation
- Deep
$6.99 · 2023
(the) Gnorp Apologue
A compact premium incremental about directing tiny gnorps through a surprising production puzzle.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Very deep
$5.99 · 2024
Magic Research 2
A systems-dense incremental RPG about spell builds, crafted equipment, automated wizards and retirement-powered runs.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Deep
$17.99 · 2026
Microcivilization
A civilization-scale incremental where research, heroes, map expansion and crisis battles turn a clicker loop into active strategy.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Moderate
$2.99 · 2024
Nodebuster
A short active incremental about harvesting geometric nodes, filling a wide upgrade tree and reaching a real ending.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Light
- Automation
- Moderate
$7.99 · 2023
To The Core
A short, active incremental about drilling block-built planets, mastering their resources and filling a sprawling upgrade tree.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Light
$7.99 · 2021
Stuck In Time
A time-loop idler where you program movement, fights and interactions, then refine repeated routes toward a story ending.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Light
- Automation
- Deep
$4.99 · 2026
Idle Gumball Machine
A compact Plinko incremental where ricocheting gumballs spin gears, fund stranger upgrades and build toward a deliberately breakable finish.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Moderate
Free · 2015
Time Clickers
A free first-person clicker where shooting cube targets funds an automated gun team and Time Cube prestige runs.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Deep
- Automation
- Deep
$9.99 · 2025
The Farmer Was Replaced
A programming incremental where Python-like drone scripts turn planting and harvesting into a farm you can debug and optimize.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- None
- Automation
- Very deep
$6.99 · 2025
A Game About Feeding A Black Hole
A short cursor-driven incremental where breaking asteroids grows into feeding planets and stars to a black hole.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- None
- Automation
- Light
Free · 2022
Idle Research
A free Early Access incremental about crafting colored flasks, researching faster production and opening a second economy of tube battles.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Deep
Free · 2022
Idle Spiral
A free math incremental that grows a visible spiral through upgrades, layered resets, battles and challenges.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Moderate
$3.99 · 2021
Increlution
A survival-clock incremental where each generation teaches skills that make the next route faster; the Early Access story remains unfinished.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Deep
$5.99 · 2026
Terraformental
A text-led sci-fi time loop where survival routes, facility puzzles and remembered shortcuts matter more than raw stats.
- Offline
- none
- Prestige
- Moderate
- Automation
- Light
Free · 2023
Idle Clans
A free online skill idler where crafting, combat and offline tasks feed a player market and shared clan goals.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- None
- Automation
- Moderate
Free · 2019
Idle Wizard
A free wizard idler where classes, pets and spells shape long mana runs through exiles and deeper reset layers.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- Very deep
- Automation
- Deep
$4.99 · 2024
Factory Town Idle
A menu-driven town economy where workers, recipes and regional trade turn factory planning into a living spreadsheet.
- Offline
- partial
- Prestige
- None
- Automation
- Deep