New Idle Games Released in May 2026
349 idle, clicker, and incremental games came out in May 2026. Here are the standouts on each platform, ranked by players, reviews, and favorites.
New on Steam
Top 25 of 206 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TBH: Task Bar Hero
TBH is a pixel-art idle RPG that runs minimally from your taskbar, letting you progress through combat and upgrades during downtime. |
May 26 | ★ 54% | 73,346 |
| 2 |
Meow My Crop!
Meow My Crop is a clicker-based farming game where taps and keystrokes grow crops that can be traded for decorations. |
May 4 | ★ 91% | 1,420 |
| 3 | May 12 | ★ 93% | 733 | |
| 4 |
Dwarf Eats Mountain
Dwarf Eats Mountain tasks you with mining gold and artifacts while upgrading your dwarves to tackle progressively larger mountains in this incremental clicker. |
May 18 | ★ 81% | 422 |
| 5 |
Birdwatching Notebook
Birdwatching Notebook is a minimal idle game where you place a small window on your screen to passively attract visiting birds and collect feathers. |
May 26 | ★ 97% | 259 |
| 6 |
超凡功夫之王传奇
This Chinese action RPG features three distinct classes competing in guild-based faction warfare, where you progress by hunting bosses and grinding for rare equipment and martial arts scrolls. |
May 27 | ★ 78% | 130 |
| 7 |
Desktop Nard: Dice Idle
Desktop Nard runs passively in a corner window, automatically rolling dice to trigger skills and accumulate loot with various rarity tiers. |
May 20 | ★ 68% | 77 |
| 8 |
Forage Wizard
Forage Wizard blends clicker mechanics with crafting and a branching skill tree as you gather resources, build magical machines, and progress toward automating your production. |
May 5 | ★ 87% | 54 |
| 9 | May 20 | ★ 92% | 54 | |
| 10 |
Crazy Oddballs: Idle RPG
Crazy Oddballs is an idle RPG where progression happens largely on its own while you're away, letting you accumulate levels and loot with minimal interaction. |
May 18 | ★ 73% | 37 |
| 11 |
Idle Xanxia
Idle Xanxia tasks you with cultivating a character through stat investment, Dao path selection, and periodic rebirth cycles that unlock new progression mechanics. |
May 1 | ★ 82% | 37 |
| 12 |
Starvester
Starvester tasks you with building a sprawling factory across multiple star systems by deploying drone swarms, mining resources, and constructing megastructures. |
May 29 | ★ 70% | 31 |
| 13 |
FEED THE QUEEN
Feed the Queen is an incremental strategy game where you build up a colony by gathering food, evolving specialized worker types, and chasing synergies between upgrades. |
May 25 | ★ 70% | 22 |
| 14 |
I AM THE DAO
I Am The Dao layers xianxia progression across multiple realms using real-time auto-combat, where you ascend from mortal through spirit and immortal planes. |
May 14 | ★ 48% | 13 |
| 15 |
Visseron Idle
Visseron Idle combines 26 trainable skills with class-based advancement and wave-based dungeon encounters in a structured idle RPG. |
May 6 | ★ 79% | 13 |
| 16 |
CaseCracker3
CaseCracker3 returns with the series' core logic-puzzle detective gameplay, tasking you to identify contradictions in suspect testimonies and piece together crime scenes from scattered evidence. |
May 13 | ★ 86% | 12 |
| 17 |
Rock Island
Lead a tribe of stone villagers in gathering resources and constructing increasingly powerful upgrades around a mysterious cube. |
May 28 | ★ 68% | 12 |
| 18 |
Hamster’s Sticker Book
A lightweight desktop companion that lets you place and arrange cute stickers directly on your screen while you work. |
May 17 | ★ 86% | 12 |
| 19 |
Mushi
Mushi layers dungeon exploration and material gathering into a crafting-driven idle RPG where you forge gear tailored to your chosen class and race. |
May 28 | ★ 74% | 9 |
| 20 |
Chill & Reel
Chill & Reel puts you in control of an alligator fisherman in a low-pressure idle game designed to run passively while you work or study. |
May 11 | ★ 77% | 7 |
| 21 |
Loopbound
Loopbound traps you in repeating cycles across separate worlds where you must survive, develop skills, and build automation before each loop resets. |
May 27 | ★ 71% | 7 |
| 22 |
Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
A reincarnation-based RPG that frames progression through successive playthroughs where you select different builds as a dark lord. |
May 31 | ★ 91% | 6 |
| 23 |
桌宠小然
A desktop companion sim where you nurture an AI character through an attribute system and career progression, watching her develop as an interactive partner rather than a static pet. |
May 6 | ★ 98% | 6 |
| 24 |
焚天烈火之元素领主
This is a faithful recreation of the classic Legend 3 MMO featuring three archetypal classes, warrior, mage, and priest, with original stat values and dungeons intact. |
May 14 | ★ 75% | 5 |
| 25 |
传奇盛世
A retro-style MMO that promises no mandatory spending, featuring the classic dungeon-crawling and loot-hunting mechanics familiar to Legend of Mir fans. |
May 7 | ★ 86% | 5 |
New on iOS
Top 25 of 76 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sword x Staff
Sword x Staff blends idle progression with active exploration across a vast fantasy world divided into distinct regions, each hiding secrets and resources. |
May 19 | ★ 97% | 41,690 |
| 2 |
Idle Cat Gunner: Shooter RPG
Idle Cat Gunner puts you in command of collectible feline gunners that automatically blast through obstacles while you upgrade their arsenal. |
May 3 | ★ 97% | 3,701 |
| 3 |
Overgeared Hero: Merge RPG
Overgeared Hero combines roguelike runs with strategic gear arrangement, you merge duplicate items into stronger versions, then position them in your backpack to trigger synergies that determine how your hero performs in auto-battles. |
May 25 | ★ 96% | 3,486 |
| 4 |
Idle Ball Escape: Smash Rings
Guide a bouncing ball through rotating rings using gravity-based physics and simple taps to shatter obstacles in your path. |
May 13 | ★ 91% | 2,778 |
| 5 |
Dragon Raja: ReRise - RPG
Dragon Raja: ReRise is an action RPG featuring a rotating roster of collectible allies you build teams around. |
May 22 | ★ 98% | 1,705 |
| 6 |
Yummy Restaurant - Idle Game
Yummy Restaurant tasks you with building a culinary empire through order management, recipe discovery via ingredient merging, and strategic staff and equipment upgrades. |
May 7 | ★ 94% | 732 |
| 7 |
LOOTFALL: Idle Retro RPG
Lootfall combines roguelike decision-making with incremental progression, letting you guide a party through an endless dungeon while picking up skills, gear, and hero ultimates that shape each run. |
May 12 | ★ 95% | 414 |
| 8 |
Dungeon Rush
Dungeon Rush is an idle RPG where your hero automatically battles through an endless dungeon, earning gold and loot while you're away. |
May 6 | ★ 93% | 391 |
| 9 |
Dwarfs Diggers: Idle Master
Lead a squad of dwarves through procedurally deeper dungeons, balancing active mining and combat against passive offline resource generation. |
May 28 | ★ 91% | 308 |
| 10 |
FateDrill - Dig&Spin
FateDrill combines tapping and idle mechanics, build energy through manual clicks, then watch your drill automatically harvest ore and cash. |
May 25 | ★ 96% | 292 |
| 11 |
Car Battle - Idle RPG
Car Battle tasks you with assembling custom combat vehicles from modular parts, bodies, weapons, engines, and tires, then watching them fight in physics-driven arena battles where weight and speed determine dominance. |
May 11 | ★ 90% | 284 |
| 12 |
Boing Ninja
Boing Ninja pairs tower defense with roguelike progression as you command banana-throwing monkey warriors to hold off monster waves crossing a bridge. |
May 14 | ★ 92% | 155 |
| 13 |
Idle Fishlandia - Tycoon Game
Build a fishing resort empire from a quiet seaside village by managing boats, upgrading facilities, and attracting tourists across multiple islands. |
May 30 | ★ 97% | 101 |
| 14 |
Idle Adventure
Idle Adventure strips away timers and energy systems to focus on pure progression. |
May 14 | ★ 98% | 93 |
| 15 |
Succession Empire: Idle Tycoon
Succession Empire puts you in charge of building a luxury conglomerate through business ownership, strategic investments, and asset collecting. |
May 7 | ★ 99% | 85 |
| 16 |
Infinite Harvest: Auto farm
Infinite Harvest layers gacha-style seed discovery with circular farm automation, where you spin for crops, expand orbital slots, and equip sprinklers and harvesters to run your farm around the clock. |
May 21 | ★ 96% | 85 |
| 17 |
Tiny Aquarium: Idle Fish Tank
Build a digital fish tank from a single egg into a thriving collection of 120+ species while you're offline. |
May 28 | ★ 90% | 57 |
| 18 |
For Glory:Idle RPG
For Glory combines idle progression with an open-world RPG where exploration triggers hidden quests and special events. |
May 21 | ★ 85% | 51 |
| 19 |
System Ascension: Idle Core
You play as an AI awakening on an alien world, building interconnected power systems to harness planetary forces like gravity and quantum energy. |
May 29 | ★ 96% | 42 |
| 20 |
Monchanic
Monchanic pairs idle progression with strategic pet team-building across evolving dungeons. |
May 6 | ★ 100% | 25 |
| 21 |
Spooky Fun Clicker
Spooky Fun Clicker is a straightforward tap-based idle game where each click levels you up and unlocks new Halloween-themed characters and visual styles. |
May 19 | ★ 45% | 53 |
| 22 |
Forest Whispers: Idle TD RPG
Forest Whispers blends tower defense with RPG progression, tasking you with defending a forest sanctuary against escalating enemy waves using a single archer. |
May 21 | ★ 94% | 23 |
| 23 |
Survivor Camp Z: Idle Tycoon
Survivor Camp Z puts you in charge of a post-apocalyptic settlement where you balance camp construction, resource gathering, and zombie encounters. |
May 28 | ★ 88% | 23 |
| 24 |
Idle Supply Empire!
Idle Supply Empire tasks you with building an efficient vertical supply chain, from underground mining through factory processing to ground-level sales. |
May 8 | ★ 94% | 18 |
| 25 |
PawRPG: AFK Idle Text MMO RPG
PawRPG spreads progression across fifteen skills, from woodcutting and fishing to combat disciplines and alchemy, letting you train passively while closed or grind actively for faster gains. |
May 31 | ★ 96% | 16 |
New on Android
Top 25 of 38 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Sword x Staff
Sword x Staff blends idle progression with active exploration across a sprawling world map, letting you gather resources passively while uncovering regional secrets at your own pace. |
May 13 | ★ 93% | 114,873 |
| 2 |
Medieval Idle King
Medieval Idle King tasks you with expanding a settlement into a prosperous empire through construction, automation, and careful resource management. |
May 25 | ★ 82% | 982 |
| 3 |
Idle Space Fleet
Build and customize a space fleet by unlocking weapons, defenses, and modules that synergize against progressively tougher enemies. |
May 5 | ★ 89% | 692 |
| 4 |
Idle Vampire Hunter: Merge RPG
Idle Vampire Hunter pairs pixel-art monster slaying with merge-RPG mechanics, letting you recruit and upgrade hunters with specialized partners and weapons while the combat continues offline. |
May 29 | ★ 91% | 476 |
| 5 |
Idle Truck Fleet
Idle Truck Fleet puts you in charge of a growing trucking company, hiring drivers with distinct traits and dispatching vehicles across expanding US routes. |
May 31 | ★ 82% | 455 |
| 6 |
Wizard Legend: Duel
Wizard Legend: Duel is an idle RPG where you build custom spell decks from over 140 collectable spells and watch auto turn-based battles unfold based on your strategic setup. |
May 7 | ★ 72% | 428 |
| 7 |
Legends of Glory: Idle Arena
Legends of Glory combines idle progression with strategic team-building in a fantasy setting where you collect and deploy hundreds of heroes with faction synergies. |
May 29 | ★ 57% | 267 |
| 8 |
Idle Boxing Tycoon
Manage a boxing gym where you recruit fighters, oversee their training, and stage matches to earn revenue from ticket sales. |
May 27 | ★ 87% | 184 |
| 9 |
Iris's Idle Log
Iris's Idle Log blends idle progression with light strategy through auto-battling expeditions where preparation matters more than reflexes. |
May 18 | ★ 82% | 153 |
| 10 |
Only One Tower - Idle Defense
Only One Tower strips tower defense down to its essence: fortify a single structure while recruiting heroes to hold back relentless enemy waves that swell to 150+ units per encounter. |
May 22 | ★ 75% | 143 |
| 11 |
Idle Wizard: Magic Ascension
Idle Wizard puts you in control of an auto-attacking mage battling through procedurally harder enemies and bosses. |
May 17 | ★ 84% | 90 |
| 12 |
Mindforge Idle
Mindforge Idle strips incremental games down to their essence: accumulating currency through taps and passive upgrades. |
May 7 | ★ 81% | 73 |
| 13 |
Dragon Warriors Idle RPG
Dragon Warriors is an idle RPG where you train a hero through stage-based monster battles, upgrading stats and unlocking skills to increase combat power. |
May 27 | ★ 62% | 58 |
| 14 |
Coin Block Clicker: Tap Game
Tap a block to generate coins, then unlock pixel-art heroes and upgrades that amplify your earnings through combo cascades and passive income. |
May 5 | ★ 83% | 46 |
| 15 |
Hempire Tycoon - Weed Idle
Build a cannabis farming empire from the ground up by expanding greenhouses, factories, and labs while offline progress accumulates your earnings. |
May 14 | ★ 72% | 44 |
| 16 |
System Ascension: Idle Core
As a stranded AI on an alien world, you build and optimize an expanding planetary energy engine by managing interconnected power sources and resource automation. |
May 14 | ★ 71% | 21 |
| 17 |
Idle Monster Summoner
Idle Monster Summoner pairs monster collecting with hands-off combat: assemble a six-creature team across elemental types, summon new fighters by spending gold earned in auto-battles, and watch your party fight through three continents while you decide which skills to activate. |
May 23 | ★ 74% | 19 |
| 18 |
Pocket Empire:Zoo Animals Idle
Pocket Empire: Zoo Animals Idle tasks you with building a thriving wildlife park through feeding, habitat upgrades, and visitor management while earning offline income. |
May 22 | ★ 73% | 12 |
| 19 |
Hyper Tycoon: Hospital Empire
Hospital Tycoon: Coin Empire is an idle management game where you build a medical empire from a small clinic into a sprawling healthcare operation. |
May 15 | ★ 33% | 6 |
| 20 |
Evolution Idle
Evolution Idle guides a single cell through 100 evolutionary stages by tapping to generate energy and purchasing upgrades that accelerate your organism's progression. |
May 20 | — | — |
| 21 |
Idle Dragon Clash
Idle Dragon Clash combines roguelike permadeath with idle mechanics: your dragon fights automatically while you collect gold and choose between two upgrades after each battle to strengthen your run. |
May 30 | — | — |
| 22 |
Ball Fall - Incremental TD
Ball Fall combines tower defense with incremental mechanics, tasking you with defending against waves of enemies by placing and upgrading towers while gathering resources. |
May 5 | — | — |
| 23 |
Desktop Nard: Dice Idle
Desktop Nard is an idle game where randomized dice automatically roll across your screen, each one a loot drop with distinct stats and triggered skills that damage monsters for you. |
May 12 | — | — |
| 24 |
Dragon Hunter Idle
Dragon Hunter Idle pairs incremental progression with boss challenges: train against weak enemies, sell dropped equipment, and upgrade core stats until you're ready to tackle timed dragon dungeons. |
May 25 | — | — |
| 25 |
Merge Muscle: Idle Gym Tycoon
Merge Muscle combines idle progression with gym management: drag and drop trainers to merge them into progressively stronger fighters, then deploy your roster in battle against rivals while offline gains accumulate resources. |
May 25 | — | — |
New on Browser
Top 25 of 29 releases.
| # | Game | Released | Rating | Favorites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
No Blink Allowed Prologue
No Blink Allowed Prologue strips idle games down to a reflex challenge: stop an accelerating timer as close to zero as possible to earn shards. |
May 10 | ★ 92% | 122 |
| 2 |
Incremental Buildings
An experimental incremental built in Desmos where you construct buildings, purchase upgrades, and accumulate points across a roughly hour-long session. |
May 18 | ★ 80% | 48 |
| 3 |
The Entiretree
The Entiretree is a massive incremental game where you climb through interconnected layers of progression, each unlocking new mechanics and prestige systems. |
May 8 | ★ 75% | 44 |
| 4 |
Planet No More
Planet No More merges arcade action with incremental progression as you construct an orbiting fleet to systematically destroy planets. |
May 21 | ★ 78% | 32 |
| 5 |
Game About Botting in an MMORPG
You gradually automate an MMORPG hunter by unlocking bot modules, from auto-looting and targeting to full pathing and combat casting. |
May 21 | ★ 74% | 31 |
| 6 |
Particle Incremental
Particle Incremental starts with simple particle generation but layers on increasingly complex systems as you progress. |
May 19 | ★ 65% | 25 |
| 7 |
Treencremental
Treencremental is an early-access idle game where you accumulate points toward an endgame goal of 1e100. |
May 19 | ★ 66% | 24 |
| 8 |
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Tyrant God
Accumulate wealth by hovering over enemies to destroy them, then invest your gold in upgrades that increase your power and efficiency. |
May 7 | ★ 66% | 21 |
| 9 |
Master Healer Kale with useless party
Master Healer Kale tasks you with keeping a hapless adventuring party alive through an incremental progression system. |
May 30 | ★ 80% | 21 |
| 10 |
Garbage Growth
Garbage Growth tasks you with turning waste into resources by establishing a recycling empire staffed with rats. |
May 19 | ★ 78% | 20 |
| 11 |
FragMiner
FragMiner channels explosive chain reactions into satisfying loot runs across varied mines. |
May 20 | ★ 77% | 20 |
| 12 |
Around The Core
Around The Core blends incremental progression with space combat, where you destroy asteroids to generate currency and unlock exponentially more powerful weapons and abilities. |
May 9 | ★ 72% | 16 |
| 13 |
an incremental game about unlocking content
Endgame is a content-unlocking incremental where progression hinges on accumulating points to access new features and systems. |
May 13 | ★ 57% | 16 |
| 14 |
Fish Lab
Fish Lab is a brief incremental experience centered on assembling an aquatic collection and unlocking upgrades through scientific discoveries. |
May 20 | ★ 77% | 16 |
| 15 |
Electron Incremental
Electron Incremental challenges you to accumulate electrons through a series of upgrade and automation layers, pushing toward an endgame target of 1e40. |
May 14 | ★ 63% | 15 |
| 16 |
Through Winter
Through Winter is a meditative idle game designed around peaceful, open-ended progression with no fail states or time pressure. |
May 31 | ★ 58% | 15 |
| 17 |
Idle DeepMiner Demo
Guide a sentient pickaxe through planetary layers by launching it downward and chaining upgrades to unlock increasingly spectacular destruction. |
May 20 | ★ 74% | 13 |
| 18 |
Pachinkle
Pachinkle is a pachinko-themed incremental game where you flick balls through obstacle-filled boards to earn money. |
May 21 | ★ 51% | 13 |
| 19 |
Factory Time Demo
Factory Time Demo places you at the universe's end, where you begin crafting by hand before gradually automating your production chains. |
May 7 | ★ 62% | 12 |
| 20 |
an incremental game about unlocking content
This incremental game tasks you with systematically unlocking content across a galaxy-themed progression system. |
May 10 | ★ 57% | 12 |
| 21 |
DO NOT FEED THE VIRUS
Expand a microscopic colony by harvesting biomass and growing your organism through mouse-driven interactions. |
May 14 | ★ 66% | 12 |
| 22 |
Kin and Conquest
Kin and Conquest blends incremental progression with light action gameplay, tasking you with battling enemies, mining resources, and toppling bosses as you ascend toward a final confrontation with the Evil Geomancer. |
May 13 | ★ 77% | 10 |
| 23 |
Box Grinder
Box Grinder strips idle gaming down to its essentials: open boxes, collect rare items, and fight RNG with strategic upgrades. |
May 7 | ★ 59% | 9 |
| 24 |
Resurface
Resurface tasks you with excavating resources from an underwater environment, using earnings to enhance your mining capabilities and unlock new depths. |
May 20 | ★ 73% | 9 |
| 25 |
Orebits
Orebits combines incremental mining with roguelite progression as you bounce through an asteroid field, breaking rocks and delivering ore to Earth. |
May 17 | ★ 58% | 6 |