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Idling Gears
Click! Place gears, click! Make money, click! Place more gears, click! Make even more money, click, click and above all click!
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“[Cool idea, weaker long-term hook] Recommended if you like toy-like systems, light idle games, and messing with satisfying mechanical setups. Not recommended if you want the progression itself to feel as clever as the core concept. What it is: Idling Gears is an idle game built…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Idling Gears, developed and published by guilemus, is an incremental idle game that attempts to differentiate itself from the genre’s usual abstract number growth by grounding its mechanics in a system inspired by physical motion. Instead of simply stacking multipliers and…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“adding more structures slows everything down, meaning i actually earn less money than if i only connected one structure. not really sure what to do after the first structure since im actively punished for expanding to others. cool idea but execution is a bit lacking”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:45 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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The Balance Update you were waiting for!
Hi guys, today's update improves drastically the load/speed ratio. I've read tons of complaints about this, about how adding load to the system would bring your speed down very fast, my bad. I am here
22nd Minor Update
Here is the patch that was teased on the latest patch notes, here is what's new: Added Steam Rich presence Added smooth transitions in game menus Fixed some issues with certain characters when creatin
21st Minor Update
Hello there, today's patch addresses the following issues: fixed an error that would cause progress to be lost (thanks to Yarik for reporting and helping me out fixing this issue) Increased the charac
20th Minor Update
Hi guys, today's update is quite small but I am sure some of you will really really appreciate it. Here are the changes: Added blueprint sorting (you can move blueprints up and down in the buildings m
Simplified Chinese Rework
Translation to Simplified Chinese has been reworked Thanks Liano for the help!
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual |
| Player tags | Clicker · Idler · Casual · Singleplayer · Economy · Resource Management · 2D · Management · Capitalism · Cartoon · Funny · Memes (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | English, French, Spanish - Spain, Catalan, Galician, Spanish - Latin America, Italian, German, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian,… |
| Achievements | 39 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3340 Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space