Fervo·Nov 4Relaxing incremental games on Steam: calm idle games to unwind withFive calm picks from Cookie Clicker to Idle Spiral, what makes them relaxing, and One Mote (Dec 17, 2026)
Prabhaswara·Oct 27Despite The Incrementals…The instant gratification of progress in incremental games
Fervo·Oct 25Your network is the soundtrack: designing live music for an idle gameDesign notes on how One Mote turns light into notes, and why that matters when a game stays open for hours
Fervo·Oct 24A prestige loop you can watch: how One Mote folds a whole network into one starEvery incremental game eventually asks you to throw your progress away. It's called prestige, or rebirth, or ascension, and it's the moment…
Fervo·Oct 20Incremental games with endings: finish lines, then optional endlessA lot of incremental games are built to run forever. Prestige loops, new seasons, another layer of multipliers. That is fine when you want…
Fervo·Oct 10One Mote: an incremental game drawn and scored entirely by codeOne Mote is an incremental game about a single mote of light. You click the crystals around it and their light flows home. You build…
Samuel Yudi Gunawan·Jan 21Building IdleCloud: A Cloud-Native Incremental Game Engine with Real-Time Leaderboards and…IdleCloud is a cloud-native incremental clicker game built for the Cloud Services course
Martin Jakubík·Oct 18, 2025Outward retrospectiveThis is a quick retrospective for my game Outward, which I made in two days for Ludum Dare 58. I had a lot of fun and made my best game…
InAndré GamesbyAndré Guerrero·Oct 11, 2025Idle vs Incremental vs Tycoon: Understanding the core mechanicsIf you’ve ever dreamed of creating your own idle empire or clicker success story, this post is for you 👇.A response icon1A response icon1
Ravs·Oct 26, 2024Reflections on “compulsive clicking” or otherwise known as Incremental Games.There is something very exposing about playing incremental games. It is not that I feel bad when I play them; I just feel scared about…
