The Incredible World of Incremental Games

Nice video.

its criminal to not include antimatter dimensions in this list

universal paperclips is a very well balanced game with a rare case of a good an entertaining story which you can complete in maybe two sittings. I've completed it a couple of times and i still come back to it from time to time

The true art of incremental games (for me atleast) lies in the very rare non-idle incrementals.That would be an incremental game, which is balanced around not having waiting times, and instead compresses it's mechanics(together with the numbers-going-up-dopamine) so you always have something to do. Leading to you playing for ten minutes, looking at a clock and realizing 3 hours have passed Anyways, try orb of creation

The thing about cookie clicker is that it's a little discouraging to see that your most efficient available upgrade will take 20 minutes to pay itself off.

You really didn't play enough NGU Idle to get an appreciation for it. It gets deeper and expands like crazy. I played it for over a year before I beat it.

Out of all the idle games I've played Melvore Idle is my favorite it's basically osrs as an idle game but when extra skills and even a town building skill and minigames. Zero pay to win though it does have a $10 price tag when two expansions at $5 each but it also has a great free demo with no time limit.

As someone who plays a whole bunch of incremental games, the rabbit hole can only go deeper. Some of my favorites include: Antimatter Dimensions FE000000 Evolve Omega Layers Ordinal Markup Time Layers Universal Paperclips The First Alkahistorian(all three chapters and side story) Overall, this is a really great video! It’s the perfect bridge between idle and incremental games.

Grass Cutting Incremental on Roblox is by far the best incremental game i've ever played. Game's got story, vibes, incremental part and just cutting grass

Randomly found this video recommended and it's always nice seeing incremental games being talked about, they are always a great way to give yourself something to do. Personally favorite would be Grass Cutting Incremental. It really doesn't get noticed as much as it should because of the platform it's on. No forced microtransactions, not timewall heavy, lots of progression and variety throughout the reset layers.

surprised you didn't talk about candy box which was what a dark room was based off of

I've been getting a lot of out of pocket gaming recommendations on yt lately. Decided to check this one out and was pleasantly surprised, subscribed.

for anyone looking for another one Grass Cutting Incremental, it has some good lore and fun mechanics but is really overlooked because of the platform it is made on...

Awesome video i love seeing super niche restrospective style content on things that like 99% of people dont really care about its so inspiring

Hey, this is a really cool video :D Nicely conveyed the information and delivered it with a cozy vibe, gotta try some of these!

I would have appreciated some mention of how idle, incremental, and clicker games are different genres that all branched out from the start, but this has been a great video! Here's my suggestions for the comments: 1) Idling To Rule The Gods Its a bit long, at least in terms of finding new mechanics, but its got great story, worldbuilding (in a literal sense too), and the right amount of comedy and customization to be worth coming back to. The pets stuff can be quite confusing, even I still don't understand it, but... eh. 2) Universal Paperclips If cookie clicker is the grandfather, this heck is the grandma. Its something you can get done in a single evening if need be, but its just... cool. Some might call it existential but its still fun. 3) Unnamed Space Idle I know, I know, its unnamed. Ha ha. But seriously, this one's fun. While it says the average playtime to End Of Content is 52 days, I'm 61 days in and I still haven't unlocked some of the larger chunks of content. Prestiging is also a side action here, and not the main upgrader, which can be confusing at first, but after a while you'll get it, and your runs will go from 3 hours to... well my current one is closing in on 11 days and I don't see a reason to prestige for at least another one 4) Antimatter Dimensions Not my cup of tea, but its great. And its got a decent enough sense of humor at the '10e308 is infinity' thing 5) To The Core Not obscure, it hit the youtube algorythm a while back, and its an incremental game instead of the idle games I've put on the rest of this list, but its fun and enjoyable, and worth looking at if you liked Learn 2 Fly 6) World Of Talesworth You know people who pour thousands of hours into MMOs? How about an idle game about that. I keep giving up around the laboratory, but by the end of it you'll be 10boxing raids with literally all of your characters at once, and auto-leveling them all. Its interesting, that's for sure. 7) Realm Grinder Its one to try out. Fun, but the prestiges and unlocks come slow, taking either days of time or multiple hours with ye olde autoclickr. And it seems the community's died out too, since the wiki isn't getting updated with the game anymore 8) Idle Dice 2 Do you like absurdly wacky storyline? Do you like deckbuilding? Do you like dice? No to all three? Doesn't matter, Idle Dice 2 is actually worth playing, at least until you hit EoC. Which, I mean, its fun, but a little bit too grindy at the end, shifting more to pure clicker than the idle/incremental it was 9) Increlution Much like Dark Room, except... well, you'll see! I'd recommend going in blind and uncovering the world as you play, ravenous appetite and all. 10) Your Chronicle Escape the binds of fate, find love, probably kill the demon king several times over. Its going to be a fun ride if you stick with it, but after a few reincarnations in you'll find a bit of a drought while you work towards more content. And one last thing I'd like to say; be wary of the Pincremental game series, there's no way to delete your progress, so you can only play each once

Gonna need to see a few thousand hours into NGU idle so you can give it a proper score! (Great vid, thanks for exposing more people to this wonderful genre.)

I'd recommend the paperclip maximizer game (universal paperclips), it has interesting plot twists, and it also showcases a common dilemma in AI design.

Good video! I personally love this one idle game called "Idle Slayer", I definitely reccomend it. It has pretty good mechanics, good pixelart, a pretty good prestige system, etc. The game is free on Steam AND Mobile devices, so, it has a dedicated Cloud Saving feature that lets you play it on both Systems with the same savefile, I never saw any other game do something like that, so, I reccomend trying that out as well!

I also recommend idle skilling, its a mobile game (free, 100% ad free, not p2w) with about 30 different sections each with tens of little mechanics unlocked fast enough to not be boring but not overwhelmingly fast, that eventually help you get stronger to advance in the game's 10 fight zones. It takes a very long time to get maxed out (10^308 integer limit damage), and you can keep discovering new stuff about the game for months.