PPG Game Of The Year 2024 - 30 - Idle Time

While the mere existence of the idle and clicker genres is meant to be satire on how games are, at base, manipulative skinner boxes designed to take space up in your brain that could be filled with "real" knowledge, the genre itself has proved that even simple compounding mechanics can be used in clever, interesting and sometimes affecting ways.

The Gnorp Apologue
Strategy Idle Clicker
A fun idle game with a defined end point and some screen bending pixel physics.

Sixty Four
Expanding Automation Clicker
An evolving clicker that has a definitive end and synergies to discover, with some hidden messages to be found beneath the surface.

LakeSide
Cozy Idle Townbuiling
A slow paced townbuilder idle game about creating anything from a small town to a mega metropolis that becomes the envy of the world at a lakeside picturesque location.

Lemon Apocalypse
Satirical Clicker
Go from roadside lemonade stand to controlling global politics to bringing about the apocalypse thanks to capitalism - for free!

Rusty's Retirement
Bottom Of Screen Tool
An idle productivity(?) tool that sits at the bottom of your screen, with a robot that goes about creating a lovely little retirement farm with your occassional input.

Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago
Creature Raising Tamagochi
Raise a hero tamagochi style in order to defend the realm, but with a bit more interactivity in good minigames and a story to follow.

Nodebuster
Experimental Minimalist Incremental
Classic exponential power curve about going from a single clicking block to becoming an omnipotent unbeatable god. Chill, short, cheap.

Fantasy Map Generator (EA)
World Map Simulation
Part map creation tool and part fascinating alt-reality creator. Watch history pass, with empires rising and falling in minutes yet across centuries. Very perspective inducing experience.

Journey to Incrementalia
Summon Armies, Break The Walls
Auto Battler RPG where you, a necromancer, summon undead armies to fight through the walls of hell to get to your destination.

And The Best Idle/Clicker Game Of 2024 Is…

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions
Gamified Focus Tool
Millions of people have happily used the “lofi beats to study to” video to focus on work, study, or just background noise to sink into a vibe and relax. This tool does that with a bit more gaminess to it, allowing you to customize your personal space and collect little spirit buddies.