IdleOn

IdleOn is what happens when your favorite pixel RPG and your worst procrastination habits collide, and it’s glorious. This zany idle MMORPG starts like any classic grindfest: you pick a character, whack slimes, gather loot, and giggle at the game’s tongue-in-cheek tutorial that mocks the very concept of tutorials. But then it flips the genre on its head by letting you create an army of up to 20 specialized characters, each grinding away simultaneously even when you’re too busy napping, doomscrolling, or doing literally anything else.

Every hero you spawn becomes a cog in your pixelated productivity machine: one’s chopping trees, another’s mining, a third’s beating up bosses, all while you’re offline. It’s like Cookie Clicker had a love child with RuneScape, but instead of endless clicking, you orchestrate a symphony of AFK adventurers who level up, collect gear, and complete quests so you can bask in their achievements later.

IdleOn’s 11 classes and 15 skills aren’t just window dressing, either. Each offers genuinely different talents and combos, from crafting absurdly powerful gear to breeding pets or cooking up stat-boosting delicacies. Its GBA-inspired art packs charm into every sprite, and the constant stream of self-deprecating jokes, including a developer who documents their own descent into madness, keeps things fresh.

It’s a gleeful middle finger to idle games that fizzle out in weeks; IdleOn only gets bigger with each update, making it a surprisingly deep, endlessly entertaining timesink.