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Idle Grid
Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“just play it and train your brain, "How am I supposed to make this super efficient?" finished all achievements in 90 minutes—could've been longer if the devs were still maintaining the game. feels a bit like AI slop in places, so I think the dev needs to rework parts of the UI,…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The game needs an option to disable building animations. No matter what computer you use you will be lagging. Game is over in about 15-30 minutes depending on how well you optimize (I was pretty slow on the optimization as upgrading factories later on is actually a bad thing)”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“scale is too small to read anything”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 0.3.4
Patch 0.3.4 * Reduce Building Cost Scaler From 35% -> 21% *Example is 116 Factories* https://i.imgur.com/0WnHqr0.png -> https://i.imgur.com/0MoHlnR.png
Patch 0.3.3
Patch 0.3.3 * Fixed Money Formatter * Fixed Income Achievements Ignoring New Prestige Bonus ːsteamhappyː
UI Patch 0.3.2
UI Patch 0.3.2 * Fixed Several UI Panels Not Using Theme colors * Formatting Money with k,b,m etc * Formatting Profit/Sec with k,b,m etc * Formatting Upgrade, Sell, Sell All Costs with k,b,m etc * For
Major Bug Patch 0.3.1 - 2/16/25
Major Bug Fix * Fixed Power Display * Fixed income not properly generating based on profit/second * Fixed power display on building information panel * Misc Fixes to calculations * Fixed GW conversion
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Idler · Automation · Building · Time Management · Sandbox · Immersive Sim · Clicker · Hidden Object · Arcade · City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 27 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) or higher Processor: Intel Core i3 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: N/A Storage: 300 MB available space