The Best Idle Games on Steam

Idle games — also called clickers, incremental games, or autoplayers — let you make progress while doing other things. The Steam catalog has hundreds of them across every flavor: PvE clickers, factory builders, prestige systems, idle MMOs.

The list below is ranked by 30-day average concurrent players, which is the most honest measure of which games people actually keep coming back to. Filtered to games rated 60% or higher and refreshed every morning at 04:00 UTC.