Cool Idle Games

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Shark Game
An idle game about resources, discovery and sharks. Trade fish for helpers, then find out what else is down there.
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A Dark Room
Light a fire in a cold, dark room. Then find out what is outside it. About three hours, and it keeps turning into a different game.

Particle Clicker
Run a particle physics lab. Click the detector for data, hire staff, and spend reputation on real research from CERN's history.

Progress Knight
Beg in the street, get a job, train, and climb the ranks. You die at seventy and start again stronger.

Trimps
Trap creatures that farm your food and fight your battles. Push as far as you can, reset, and get further next time. Desktop only.

Candy Box 2
It starts as a candy counter on an empty page. It turns into a full role-playing game with quests, weapons and a lollipop farm.
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2048
Slide the grid, merge the pairs, and try to reach a tile you have never reached before.

HexGL
A hovering racer on a track with no brakes worth using.

Clumsy Bird
One button, two pipes, and the same thirty seconds over and over.

Evolve Idle
Start as protoplasm, pick what you evolve into, then run a civilisation from stone tools to a black hole. Free, open source, and enormous.

Mykonos Island
A voxel sandbox with a whitewashed Mediterranean palette and no way to lose.

JavaScript Tetris
Tetris, running at a steady sixty frames a second, with nothing else on the screen.

Invaderz
Space invaders where the survivors breed, so every wave inherits what beat you.

Astray
A marble, a maze in three dimensions, and a camera that will not show you the way out.

Civis
Found a city, work the land around it, and take the long way through an age or two.

Slot Machine
A slot machine built out of emoji, arranged in a circle.
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Evolve Idle
Start as protoplasm, pick what you evolve into, then run a civilisation from stone tools to a black hole. Free, open source, and enormous.

Antimatter Dimensions
Buy dimensions that build dimensions that build dimensions. Reset it all, come back faster, and keep going for months.

Advent Incremental
Twenty five doors, one layer behind each, and an actual ending on the twenty fifth.

Ankyria
Wake on a derelict orbiting station, ration your water, and rebuild the shuttle one upgrade at a time.

Axiom
Start at the successor function and climb through addition, multiplication and exponentiation to layers named after theorems.
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Blastar
A 1984 type-in space shooter, rebuilt so a browser can run it.

Classic Snake
Snake in nine kilobytes, with a score, a restart, and nothing else.

Clumsy Bird
One button, two pipes, and the same thirty seconds over and over.

Connect Four
Four in a row on a board where gravity decides half your move for you.

Horse Racing
A hundred pounds, four horses, and no way to get more.