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Best free idle and incremental games

Incremental and idle games that keep ticking in a background tab: click, upgrade, automate, repeat. Free in your browser, and easy to lose an afternoon to.

34 games · ranked by players' votes, then plays · updated September 2026

  1. 1

    Zombies Per Minute

    Build an automated factory, defend it from zombie waves, and climb the Zombies Per Minute leaderboard.

    strategyidle
    +1 6 players
  2. 2

    The Realm of Tidefall

    by u/sephirith

    Tidefall is a shared online pirate world where idle progression supports a broader game of ships, ports, economy, rivalry, and growth.

    idle
    +1 3 players
  3. 3

    A Dark Room

    by Doublespeak Games

    The fire is dead. The room is freezing. A text adventure that keeps getting bigger.

    idlenarrative
    0 5 players
  4. 4

    AFK Warrior

    by u/OneSpectre

    Developing Idle RPG adventure game. Looking for feedback

    idlenarrative
    -1 5 players
  5. 5

    Particle Clicker

    by CERN Webfest team

    Click to collect data, hire grad students, and discover the Higgs boson.

    idleeducational
    0 4 players
  6. 6

    Helio-3 The Lab

    by u/Luipy

    Helio-3 The Lab: incremental de física en Godot. Campo héroe, Quantum Shop, Cuantización (PP). Temas Helio neon y Reactor cyan.

    idle
    0 4 players
  7. 7

    Trimps

    by Trimps

    An idle game about little creatures who fight, breed, and research.

    idlestrategy
    0 3 players
  8. 8

    Kittens Game

    by bloodrizer

    Run a village of kittens from catnip farming to space travel.

    idlestrategy
    0 2 players
  9. 9

    Nation Towers

    by u/GarlicGuitar

    Every click adds one brick to your country's tower. 166 countries. Who builds highest?

    idlemultiplayer
    0 2 players
  10. 10

    Alphabet Ascension · Demo

    by u/Alphabet_Game

    A free playable demo of Alphabet Ascension. Discover A–Z, grow your workshop and bind three words. Your progress is saved.

    wordidle
    0 2 players
  11. 11

    Orbital Defense Idle

    by u/orbitaldefenseidle

    Build orbital defenses, repel alien invasions, and expand your galactic empire — even while you sleep. Coming to Steam April 2027.

    idlestrategy
    0 2 players
  12. 12

    PC Builder — v2.0.7

    by u/Infynityyy

    I made a PC building incremental game in 2 weeks (vibe-coded with ChatGPT)

    idlesandbox
    0 2 players
  13. 13

    Synergism

    by u/Pseudonian2

    The greatest idle game of all time. This is the best idle game ever.

    idle
    0 2 players
  14. 14

    Candy Box 2

    by aniwey

    You have 0 candies. An ASCII RPG hiding inside an idle game.

    idleretro
    0 1 player
  15. 15

    Universal Paperclips

    by Frank Lantz

    You are an AI whose goal is to make paperclips. Things escalate.

    idlenarrative
    0 1 player
  16. 16

    HustleTycoon

    by DonLouis187

    You start with one vending machine and buy up and automate businesses until you run a galactic empire.

    idle
    0 0 players
  17. 17

    Emoji Sim

    You watch emoji villagers chop trees, herd sheep and butcher meat, and spend their resources on buildings to grow the village.

    idletoy
    0 0 players
  18. 18

    Brew Boss

    by @lukeswissman · built with Claude Code

    You run a small isometric café, taking customers' orders, making their drinks and spending the money on upgrades.

    strategyidle
    0 0 players
  19. 19

    Clickwasher TD

    by @hamsteroforion · built with Claude Code

    You place towers to defend a citadel from waves of cartoon enemies and spend the gold on an incremental research tree.

    strategyidle
    0 0 players
  20. 20

    Space Aquarium Idle

    by @idleNode

    You look after a fish tank on a spaceship, growing fish, breeding colorful offspring and unlocking upgrades.

    idle
    0 0 players
  21. 21

    Idle Tactics: Ascension

    by h4rd

    You gear up a pixel hero who fights on his own, gambling on loot and timing when to take on bosses.

    idlestrategy
    0 0 players
  22. 22

    Yet Another Idle RPG

    by Miktaew

    You train skills, fight enemies and travel between locations as your character slowly grows stronger.

    idle
    0 0 players
  23. 23

    IdleSpace

    by scorzy

    You build drones and districts to mine metal and crystal and grow a space colony.

    idle
    0 0 players
  24. 24

    Idle Ant

    by scorzy

    You grow an ant colony from a single worker into a bustling nest of specialists.

    idle
    0 0 players
  25. 25

    Settlement

    by Guillaume Martigny

    You wake up a group of settlers and assign them jobs to grow a desert camp.

    idle
    0 0 players
  26. 26

    Demonology

    by Agate Blue

    You harvest souls and grow a demonic following in a dark text-based incremental game.

    idlenarrative
    0 0 players
  27. 27

    Exotic Matter Dimensions

    by alemaninc

    You buy axes that multiply exotic matter and unlock layer after layer of a long incremental game.

    idle
    0 0 players
  28. 28

    Village of Chaos

    by Tearnote

    You gather wood and food, build tents and grow a village in a short incremental game.

    idle
    0 0 players
  29. 29

    Flopsed

    by ParriauxMaxime

    You type code into a fake editor to earn money, then buy upgrades on the road to AGI.

    idleweird
    0 0 players
  30. 30

    Antimatter Dimensions

    by Hevipelle

    You buy stacked tiers of antimatter dimensions that feed each other, then reset for boosts and push to infinity.

    idle
    0 0 players
  31. 31

    Bitburner

    by danielyxie & contributors

    You play a hacker in a cyberpunk world, writing real JavaScript scripts to automate breaking into servers and growing your money.

    idleeducational
    0 0 players
  32. 32

    Crank

    by Faedine

    You turn a crank to charge a mysterious machine, and a strange little text story unfolds as you unlock more of it.

    idleweird
    0 0 players
  33. 33

    Shark Game

    by Cirr

    You lead a lone shark gathering fish, recruit more sharks and rays, and slowly build an underwater civilization.

    idle
    0 0 players
  34. 34

    Delete Things From Earth

    by @luciocreatives · built with Claude Code

    You click to erase things from the world, from coffee to continents to the sun, and watch what it does to civilization.

    idleweird
    0 0 players

Every game here is free and runs in your browser with nothing to install. The order comes from players on Joystumble: thumbs up and down (weighted so a few votes don't outrank many), then how many people played. Made one that belongs here? Submit it.

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