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.

Updated 4 hrs ago · 25 games listed
# Game Rating Players Released Price
1
Bongo Cat
Bongo Cat

Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

★ 97% 146,910 Mar 2025 Free Store
2
Banana
Banana

Banana is a clicker Game, in which you click a Banana! In Banana you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas! Every 3 hours, you get dropped a banana. Each banana is also made by the community in discord. Come hang out with us and let's

★ 82% 13,715 Apr 2024 Free Store
3
Cookie Clicker
Cookie Clicker

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

★ 96% 8,366 Sep 2021 $4.99 Store
4
Revolution Idle
Revolution Idle

Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?

★ 87% 7,690 May 2025 Free Store
5
IdleOn
IdleOn

The incremental idle MMO where your heroes keep fighting while you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental-Wizard to Cannon-Pirate, and level 20 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and Construction!

★ 78% 7,621 Nov 2025 Free Store
6
VPet-Simulator
VPet-Simulator

Feeling like the computer desktop is too dull? Need something cute to heal oneself? Come and try this new completely free and open source V-Pet simulator. A cute and adorable pet that supports various feeding interactions to accompany you i

★ 98% 6,587 Aug 2023 Free Store
7
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends

The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

★ 89% 4,550 Nov 2021 Free Store
8
Unnamed Space Idle
Unnamed Space Idle

Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different

★ 93% 3,555 Jul 2023 Free Store
9
Melvor Idle
Melvor Idle

Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay e

★ 90% 3,271 Nov 2021 $9.99 Store
10
Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story
Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story

"Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story" is a sound novel game where you work alongside Satone, a girl who loves writing stories. Customize lo-fi music, ambient sounds, and landscapes to create a focused environment. As you deepen your bond

★ 98% 2,989 Nov 2025 $11.99 Store
11
Your Chronicle
Your Chronicle

"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 3,000 unique story actions and it's still growing.

★ 80% 2,720 Apr 2021 Free Store
12
Tap Ninja - Idle game
Tap Ninja - Idle game

Defeat enemies, earn gold, upgrade your village, become a Ninja Master!

★ 85% 2,659 Mar 2022 Free Store
13
Shop Titans
Shop Titans

Shop Titans is the ultimate RPG shopkeeper simulation. Craft powerful equipment, stock your shop and sell to aspiring heroes… at a markup! Hire heroes and explore dungeons to gather valuable materials to craft with. There’s never a dull mom

★ 78% 2,654 May 2020 Free Store
14
Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi
Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi

Create Your Own Cozy Workspace! Mini Cozy Room : Lo-Fi is a productivity game blending relaxing Lo-Fi music with room decoration. Cute avatars, pets, desktop memos, to-do lists, and a Pomodoro timer help boost your focus. Feeling lonely? Wo

★ 97% 2,548 Mar 2025 $4.99 Store
15
Scritchy Scratchy
Scritchy Scratchy

Scritchy Scratchy is a super-satisfying scratch card incremental game. Buy stacks of scratch-offs, unlock auto-scratching, and chase massive jackpots. Will you play it safe or go all-in?

★ 95% 2,125 Mar 2026 $6.99 Store
16
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a Dungeons & Dragons strategy management game uniting Champions from throughout the D&D multiverse into a grand adventure.

★ 77% 1,708 Mar 2020 Free Store
17
Tap Tap Loot
Tap Tap Loot

The world is under attack, and every tap fights back. Each keystroke unleashes your cute cat hero, smashing enemies and showering you with loot. Dive into a never-ending desktop expedition with friends or solo. Tap. Tap. Loot.

★ 78% 1,602 Apr 2026 $4.89 Store
18
Fortune Mill
Fortune Mill

An incremental game where you must make $1,000,000 to escape! Throw darts, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, drop pachinko balls, and discover powerful synergies as each new game affects all the others!

★ 82% 1,599 Jun 2026 N/A Store
19
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi

Welcome to Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi! This is a relaxing and enjoyable idle fishing game that can sit at the bottom or any corner of your screen, allowing you to enjoy a leisurely sea fishing time in your busy life.

★ 96% 1,593 Jun 2025 $5.99 Store
20
WorldBox - God Simulator
WorldBox - God Simulator

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents

★ 95% 1,501 Dec 2021 $19.99 Store
21
Clicker Heroes
Clicker Heroes

Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal d

★ 90% 1,475 May 2015 Free Store
22
Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense
Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense

Endless idle tower defense game full of deep strategy and combat mechanics. Unlock and upgrade dozens of epic fantasy heroes to defeat an infinite swarm of enemy monsters. Strategize hero positions, synergies, and skills for an effective de

★ 83% 1,465 May 2024 Free Store
23
Orb of Creation
Orb of Creation

Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!

★ 85% 1,459 Jun 2026 $4.99 Store
24
Typing Farmer
Typing Farmer

Welcome to Typing Farmer! This desktop idle healing game will make a corner of your screen a cozy farm. Your daily actions—typing and clicking—automatically foster crop growth, attract cute animals play with you. Let the healing charm of ad

★ 89% 1,404 Apr 2026 $4.49 Store
25
Firestone – Idle Clicker Online RPG
Firestone – Idle Clicker Online RPG

Your heroes never stop fighting. Build an unstoppable team in a fantasy idle RPG with AFK progression and offline rewards. Collect heroes and powerful gear, master formations, defeat epic bosses, and return to bigger rewards and endless inc

★ 77% 1,403 Apr 2024 Free Store