Game Groups > Genre: Incremental games

Incremental games are a very simple type of games where the main mechanic is to accumulate some kind of resource (money, mana etc.), by repeatedly executing some simple action (e.g. clicking on a button), or simply by leaving the game running in the background.

Often, the resource can be spent on upgrades which allow to collect the resource even faster. These games usually have no goal other than accumulating as many riches as possible, and seeing all the various upgrades that get unlocked with time.

This game group does not differentiate between pure idle games where no interaction is needed to progress, clicker games where progress is only achieved through user interaction, or a mix of both. Instead the pacing genre persistent is used to show the game progresses without user intervention. A game like Clicker Heroes that uses a mix of both, uses the pacing genre real-time as well as persistent.

External links

• "Incremental game" at Wikipedia