New Idle Games Released in January 2026
226 idle, clicker, and incremental games came out in January 2026. Here are the standouts on each platform, ranked by players, reviews, and favorites.
New on Steam
Top 25 of 134 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Gamblers Table
Gamblers Table tasks you with flipping coins to generate income, then spending earnings on better coins, upgrades, and idle helpers that automate the work. |
Jan 11 | ★ 75% | 303 |
| 2 |
Berry Bury Berry
Berry Bury Berry is a first-person incremental game where you grow berries, toss them into an expanding hole, and unlock upgrades and peculiar berry companions. |
Jan 29 | ★ 98% | 126 |
| 3 |
Eggo
Hatch and raise a digital companion on your desktop that operates with or without active play, searching for treasures and generating resources in the background. |
Jan 15 | ★ 83% | 49 |
| 4 |
WindStop Strategy
WindStop Strategy blends tactical RPG combat with visual novel storytelling in a wuxia setting where you rebuild your martial sect after a devastating attack. |
Jan 15 | ★ 79% | 33 |
| 5 |
Deskworm
Deskworm is a desktop pet that animates based on your keyboard and mouse activity, rewarding your interaction with collectable cosmetic items to customize its appearance. |
Jan 15 | ★ 93% | 32 |
| 6 |
Terraformental
Terraformental combines survival and mystery with incremental mechanics, asking you to scavenge and automate systems across a derelict facility while uncovering what happened to its previous inhabitants. |
Jan 28 | ★ 97% | 28 |
| 7 |
蜀仙传·挂至飞升
This Chinese idle RPG tasks you with assembling a team, grinding loot, forging weapons, refining artifacts, and capturing pets across a progression leading to ascension. |
Jan 15 | ★ 85% | 25 |
| 8 |
Microcivilization
Microcivilization blends clicker progression with civilization-building across historical eras, where you expand settlements, research technologies, recruit heroes, and navigate moral choices while climbing difficulty tiers. |
Jan 22 | ★ 84% | 19 |
| 9 |
凡人修仙传奇
This xianxia-themed idle RPG casts you as an ordinary youth who obtains a divine artifact and begins a cultivation journey. |
Jan 29 | ★ 79% | 19 |
| 10 |
Whimsy Bake&Craft
Whimsy Bake & Craft is a production management game where you build and automate farming, fishing, and baking operations to fulfill orders and restore an island bakery. |
Jan 15 | ★ 66% | 17 |
| 11 |
Chicken Fren
Chicken Fren is a persistent desktop pet that generates cosmetic drops through keyboard and mouse activity. |
Jan 22 | ★ 79% | 9 |
| 12 |
永恒战神传奇
This is a Legend of Mir-inspired title that faithfully recreates the classic 1.80 version experience, centered on iconic moments like wielding legendary weapons, battling powerful bosses, and participating in large-scale PvP sieges. |
Jan 22 | ★ 77% | 8 |
| 13 |
Feed the Reactor
Feed the Reactor strips incremental gaming down to its essentials: combine elements to generate energy, unlock technologies, and progress through a procedurally-themed galaxy. |
Jan 6 | ★ 82% | 7 |
| 14 |
Forest Hustle
Forest Hustle is an idle-progression game where you work off a 100k debt by gathering forest resources, hiring workers, and negotiating deals. |
Jan 9 | ★ 91% | 7 |
| 15 |
Tiny Isle
Tiny Isle lets you build and customize a magical island at your own pace, planting crops, collecting crystals, and attracting sprites and animal residents. |
Jan 21 | ★ 91% | 6 |
| 16 |
Kin and Quarry
Kin and Quarry tasks you with excavating essence from progressively deeper layers to nurture your Evertree, recruiting workers and purchasing upgrades along the way. |
Jan 16 | ★ 77% | 6 |
| 17 |
OVER THE TOWER
Over the Tower pairs hack-and-slash clicking with incremental progression through loot collection and equipment upgrades. |
Jan 26 | ★ 89% | 6 |
| 18 |
Streaming Race
Streaming Race puts you in control of a music artist's career, handling release schedules, single selection, marketing spend, and contract negotiations while tracking performance across real streaming platforms and major charts. |
Jan 9 | ★ 82% | 4 |
| 19 |
Craftlings
Craftlings blends Lemmings-style unit management with Settlers-inspired production chains, asking you to route individual workers through increasingly complex resource loops. |
Jan 15 | ★ 87% | 3 |
| 20 |
Abyss Manager Idle
Abyss Manager Idle is a short, completable idle game where you assign characters to jobs, manage resources, and unlock new dungeon floors. |
Jan 26 | ★ 96% | 2 |
| 21 |
Dove Days : Time Flies
Dove Days offers a relaxed collection of over 240 mini-puzzles across multiple modes, traditional puzzles, jigsaws, and varied brain teasers, with no time pressure and optional hints. |
Jan 21 | ★ 92% | 2 |
| 22 |
Emberlands: Desktop Village
Emberlands: Desktop Village is a minimal idle game where an NPC companion automatically gathers resources while you attend to other tasks, letting you gradually unlock new buildings and expand your village at your own pace. |
Jan 20 | ★ 85% | 2 |
| 23 |
Auto Snakes in Outer Space
Auto Snakes in Outer Space strips the idle game down to its essentials: watch your colony of colorful snakes harvest food, then spend earnings on incremental upgrades to make them work faster. |
Jan 20 | ★ 72% | 2 |
| 24 |
Whistle1 - Retro Football Manager
Whistle1 is a stripped-down football management sim set in a 90s aesthetic where you guide a club through ten seasons of league play, cups, and European competition. |
Jan 22 | ★ 82% | 2 |
| 25 |
Gridle
Gridle pairs incremental progression with party-based RPG combat, letting you assemble and upgrade a team of heroes to battle through escalating enemy waves. |
Jan 21 | ★ 68% | 1 |
New on iOS
Top 25 of 51 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Dragon Traveler
Dragon Traveler is a story-driven gacha game where you collect characters through summons while progressing through short narrative chapters featuring a deadbeat dragon and pursuing heroines. |
Jan 12 | ★ 96% | 18,191 |
| 2 |
Supermarket Idle: Simulator
Build a grocery empire from a modest corner store to a sprawling hypermarket in this idle tycoon. |
Jan 13 | ★ 95% | 6,522 |
| 3 |
Motto Immortal
Motto Immortal pairs idle progression with roguelike strategy, letting you collect and upgrade goddesses from global mythologies while the game automatically generates resources in the background. |
Jan 15 | ★ 95% | 4,413 |
| 4 |
Lumber Inc
Lumber Inc is a tycoon management game where you build a timber processing empire by hiring workers, upgrading machinery, and fulfilling customer orders. |
Jan 13 | ★ 93% | 1,574 |
| 5 |
Medieval Defense & Conquest 2
Medieval Defense & Conquest 2 combines tower defense with empire-building: construct and fortify a castle, train varied unit types, and fend off enemy waves using strategic special attacks. |
Jan 14 | ★ 95% | 1,307 |
| 6 |
Idle Business Empire Tycoon!
Build a virtual empire from your bedroom by tapping to earn and upgrading office infrastructure like server rigs and luxury furnishings. |
Jan 21 | ★ 94% | 1,061 |
| 7 |
My Supermarket: Shop Rush
My Supermarket: Shop Rush combines store management with idle mechanics, having you build a supermarket from a fruit stand into a full grocery and restaurant operation. |
Jan 19 | ★ 94% | 668 |
| 8 |
After Dark - Survival Tomb
Explore procedurally-generated tombs in this idle survival hybrid where you mine materials between combat encounters, then invest gold into permanent character upgrades and randomized skill choices that shape each run's potential. |
Jan 20 | ★ 81% | 620 |
| 9 |
Idol Farm Life: Juice Tycoon
Build a farming and juice cafe empire by planting crops, blending juice, and hiring your idol-themed crew to handle operations while you're away. |
Jan 28 | ★ 97% | 386 |
| 10 |
My Pocket Farm - Idle Farming
My Pocket Farm is an idle farming simulator where you build a rural operation from scratch, raising animals and growing crops to generate income. |
Jan 11 | ★ 93% | 324 |
| 11 |
Droplet Idle: Cozy Rain Game
Droplet Idle wraps an idle progression system in a rain-themed setting where you swipe to catch merging droplets while upgrades and prestige systems drive long-term growth. |
Jan 13 | ★ 94% | 301 |
| 12 |
Cat Theme Park : Cute Tycoon
Build and customize a theme park filled with cute cats while idle income and hired managers automate your operations. |
Jan 21 | ★ 96% | 212 |
| 13 |
Wood Inc. Idle Lumber Chopper
Build a timber empire from solo axe swings to industrial-scale operations in this idle harvester. |
Jan 26 | ★ 91% | 207 |
| 14 |
Echoes of Creation - Auto RPG
Echoes of Creation pairs idle dungeon grinding with deep character customization, letting you automate battles and loot collection while you're away. |
Jan 21 | ★ 97% | 182 |
| 15 |
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
Command a squad of up to ten dwarves in this auto-battler roguelike where positioning, formation setup, and gear choices determine victory while your team fights automatically. |
Jan 21 | ★ 95% | 150 |
| 16 |
Idle Goddess:Isekai Raising
A panda warrior leads your team of summonable valkyries through an isekai world in this hands-off RPG. |
Jan 27 | ★ 92% | 143 |
| 17 |
Farm Crusher - Idle Game
Farm Crusher combines idle progression with satisfying crop-cutting mechanics as you automate a farm empire across expanding zones. |
Jan 11 | ★ 93% | 123 |
| 18 |
Business Game: Ramen to Riches
Ramen to Riches is a business simulation where you climb from debt-ridden graduate to tycoon by juggling jobs, side hustles, and skill upgrades that unlock new income streams. |
Jan 7 | ★ 95% | 117 |
| 19 |
Idle Psych Hospital Tycoon
Build and manage a psychiatric hospital from the ground up, hiring staff and treating patients across specialized departments like music therapy and sleep labs. |
Jan 25 | ★ 91% | 103 |
| 20 |
Elite Chef in Joseon
Manage a bustling Joseon-era tavern by cooking dishes and serving diverse customers with varying patience and tastes. |
Jan 17 | ★ 93% | 75 |
| 21 |
Idle Restaurant Cooking Tycoon
Idle Restaurant Cooking Tycoon puts you in charge of rebuilding a food empire from scratch through tapping and automation. |
Jan 26 | ★ 83% | 71 |
| 22 |
Cowboy Ranch Master: Idle Game
Catch and corral wild animals across the frontier using lasso mechanics, then build a passive-income zoo that attracts visitors and generates coins while you're away. |
Jan 13 | ★ 91% | 58 |
| 23 |
Spirit King Quest
Spirit King Quest is an idle RPG where you summon and collect spirits to build a team, progressing through dungeons with automated systems while earning rewards offline. |
Jan 26 | ★ 86% | 32 |
| 24 |
Per Regna - Ascending Realms
Per Regna is a sci-fi strategy game where you build planetary infrastructure, design custom fleets, and expand across multiple Realms with both combat and exploration mechanics. |
Jan 23 | ★ 97% | 25 |
| 25 |
Shopping Empire
Shopping Empire puts you in charge of a sprawling mall where you unlock diverse store types, hire workers to manage operations, and upgrade shelves to increase inventory and profits. |
Jan 7 | ★ 87% | 27 |
New on Android
22 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Drill&Chill: Idle Miner Tycoon
Start with a modest mine and gradually expand your underground empire by drilling for resources, hiring workers, and upgrading equipment across diverse biomes. |
Jan 9 | ★ 92% | 19,966 |
| 2 |
Idle Dot Shooter!
Idle Dot Shooter strips tower defense down to its essence: a single auto-firing turret that shoots drifting dots while you spend earnings on defence, drone, and economy upgrades. |
Jan 20 | ★ 86% | 15,388 |
| 3 |
Supermarket Idle: Simulator
Run a supermarket from the ground up, balancing inventory management, staff hiring, and store layout optimization to maximize customer satisfaction and profits. |
Jan 8 | ★ 89% | 14,740 |
| 4 |
Realm Idle
Realm Idle demands you develop ten interconnected skills, from woodcutting to thieving, to gather materials, craft equipment, and strengthen your combat abilities against escalating monster encounters. |
Jan 29 | ★ 94% | 4,241 |
| 5 |
Passive Master : Idle RPG
Passive Master strips away active abilities and replaces them with hundreds of configurable passive skills that trigger automatically in combat. |
Jan 28 | ★ 58% | 2,202 |
| 6 |
Idle Restaurant Cooking Tycoon
Idle Restaurant Cooking Tycoon tasks you with rebuilding a struggling food business into a global empire through tapping, hiring managers, and unlocking new restaurant locations across themed cities. |
Jan 19 | ★ 70% | 646 |
| 7 |
Water Tycoon: Idle Factory Inc
Water Tycoon puts you in charge of a water production empire, starting with a basic well and scaling up to industrial purification plants across global locations. |
Jan 27 | ★ 68% | 347 |
| 8 |
Dark Ninja: Idle RPG
Dark Ninja blends idle progression with active combat, letting you farm gear drops and upgrade shurikens while accumulating offline rewards during downtime. |
Jan 22 | ★ 73% | 187 |
| 9 |
Droplet Idle: Cozy Rain Game
Droplet Idle combines the satisfying gesture of swiping to catch falling raindrops with automatic merging and offline progression. |
Jan 10 | ★ 77% | 183 |
| 10 |
Idle Farming Simulator 3D
Build a farm from scratch by planting crops, driving tractors, and raising livestock while the game progresses offline. |
Jan 27 | ★ 75% | 149 |
| 11 |
Idle Factory: Tap & Build
Idle Factory combines clicker mechanics with deep progression systems, letting you build an automated industrial empire from a single machine. |
Jan 29 | ★ 91% | 93 |
| 12 |
Cookie Empire: Idle Clicker
Cookie Empire is a seasonal idle clicker where you tap to generate cookies and expand your bakery through automated production buildings like factories and farms. |
Jan 2 | ★ 97% | 42 |
| 13 |
Island Farm Pal: Survival Idle
Island Farm Pal is a survival idle game where you develop an untamed island from scratch, starting as a lumberjack and progressing through resource gathering, crafting upgrades, and pet recruitment. |
Jan 31 | ★ 48% | 37 |
| 14 |
Idle Bounce Factory
Idle Bounce Factory tasks you with designing and upgrading a physics-based factory where falling balls bounce off platforms you position to generate currency and progression. |
Jan 23 | ★ 86% | 25 |
| 15 |
Pet Ready idle
Pet Ready Idle puts you in charge of a veterinary clinic where you manage a queue of animals, assign them to treatment rooms, and hire staff to handle examinations and procedures. |
Jan 7 | ★ 43% | 17 |
| 16 |
Anime Girls: Idle Evolution
Combine identical anime characters through merge mechanics to unlock evolved versions and earn offline income in this idle clicker. |
Jan 30 | — | — |
| 17 |
Hokage Ninja Idle
Hokage Ninja Idle puts you in command of a ninja squad that fights automatically while you manage recruitment and team composition. |
Jan 31 | — | — |
| 18 |
Business Sim: Idle Tap Tycoon
Build a business empire through tapping and automation in this idle tycoon where you manage multiple ventures, hire managers to handle operations, and reinvest profits into upgrades. |
Jan 27 | — | — |
| 19 |
Slime Arena: Idle RPG
Slime Arena is an idle RPG where you shoot arrows at slimes to earn experience and level up before running out of ammunition each round. |
Jan 7 | — | — |
| 20 |
Idle Merge 2048
Idle Merge 2048 combines tile-matching mechanics with idle progression and prestige systems. |
Jan 22 | — | — |
| 21 |
Idle Slime Evolution
Idle Slime Evolution tasks you with gathering essence through automated industries and manual taps, then prestiging to gain permanent multipliers that accelerate future runs. |
Jan 12 | — | — |
| 22 |
Zombie Fortress: Idle Defense
Zombie Fortress combines tower defense with idle mechanics, tasking you with building and upgrading a zombie-proof base while your troops earn resources between sessions. |
Jan 14 | — | — |
New on Browser
19 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Favorites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Birb
Evolve from a small bird into a galactic powerhouse by pecking for popcorn and rare fish while constructing your nest. |
Jan 27 | ★ 94% | 718 |
| 2 |
Super Rarity Orbs
Super Rarity Orbs is an incremental game built on the foundation of Rarity Orbs XL, featuring rebalanced progression and a new reset layer alongside expanded orb types and spawner mechanics. |
Jan 2 | ★ 75% | 160 |
| 3 |
The Timewall Tree Remake
The Timewall Tree Remake is a custom prestige-tree game where you accumulate Timewall currency across ten progression layers, each packed with upgrade decisions and repeatable challenges. |
Jan 15 | ★ 70% | 108 |
| 4 |
All Hail the Orb
All Hail the Orb puts you in charge of a cult dedicated to powering a mysterious artifact through clicks and recruitment. |
Jan 30 | ★ 84% | 99 |
| 5 |
Power Inherited
Power Inherited blends incremental progression with dungeon exploration, tasking you with descending through 22 rooms to break a family curse that grants growing power at the cost of shortened lives. |
Jan 19 | ★ 86% | 89 |
| 6 |
Lord of Idle
Lord of Idle combines idle progression with action RPG mechanics, letting you passively level combat, mining, and crafting while hunting for rare loot in multiplayer boss encounters. |
Jan 15 | ★ 58% | 86 |
| 7 |
Whack-A-Monster Demo
Whack-A-Monster is a click-based action game where you tap monsters to defeat them, then spend earned loot on a skill tree to unlock new hammers and gear. |
Jan 21 | ★ 78% | 46 |
| 8 |
Pachincro
Pachincro (galaxy) combines pachinko-style ball physics with incremental progression, letting you upgrade and customize your board through an expansive skill tree. |
Jan 29 | ★ 66% | 44 |
| 9 |
A Dungeon Is You - Demo
You play as a dungeon core managing defenses against raider waves, collecting mana to upgrade your core and summon minions in this early-stage incremental game. |
Jan 12 | ★ 58% | 36 |
| 10 |
Cult Nation - Demo
Cult Nation is a darkly comedic incremental game where you build a cult by recruiting followers, then sacrifice them to accumulate blood and progress toward summoning the devil. |
Jan 22 | ★ 73% | 23 |
| 11 |
Excremental Game
Excremental Game is a chaotic incremental where you shoot bouncing poop to earn points and level up your projectiles. |
Jan 17 | ★ 71% | 19 |
| 12 |
Get Stoned
Get Stoned blends incremental progression with tower defense by letting you gather resources and unlock increasingly powerful boulder projectiles to defend your castle. |
Jan 11 | ★ 69% | 17 |
| 13 |
Sunsave Demo
Sunsave presents a laid-back incremental experience centered on destroying meteors to gather resources and systematically enhance your Sun through upgrades. |
Jan 21 | ★ 60% | 16 |
| 14 |
PS: Miniscule Multipliers: Refactored!
PS: Miniscule Multipliers: Refactored reimagines the original mod by emphasizing modest, incremental multipliers rather than exponential jumps. |
Jan 23 | ★ 71% | 16 |
| 15 |
Feed me!
A prototype where you guide a growing catfish around the screen, consuming food and enemies to accumulate experience and currency for upgrades. |
Jan 21 | ★ 66% | 15 |
| 16 |
FORMâ: Mutation
FORMâ: Mutation strips incremental gaming down to its essence: clicking generates points that crystallize into geometric shapes, each with individual progression paths and mutation upgrades that persist across runs. |
Jan 15 | ★ 44% | 14 |
| 17 |
A Certain Incremental Exoplanet
A Certain Incremental Exoplanet blends idle production with active defense as you automate an alien colony while fending off pirates with rockets. |
Jan 15 | ★ 56% | 11 |
| 18 |
Remnant: Ash Idle
Remnant: Ash Idle combines monster slaying with idle progression, letting you accumulate upgrades and equipment as you push through successive areas. |
Jan 23 | ★ 56% | 11 |
| 19 |
Bot incremental
Bot Incremental Galaxy is a casual incremental game designed to satisfy the core loop of clicking and watching numbers grow. |
Jan 23 | ★ 43% | 7 |