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Idling Gears

Idling Gears

Click! Place gears, click! Make money, click! Place more gears, click! Make even more money, click, click and above all click!

Released Nov 7, 2023 Developer guilemus Platforms Windows ClickerIdlerCasualSingleplayerEconomy
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.

70.9%positive354 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“[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
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“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
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“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 played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.

655all-time peak
0 250 500 2024 2025 2026 324 avg · Nov 2023

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.

39achievements
11.4%median completion
1.4%rarest: END GAME IS NEAR, MAYBE?
99.3% of players 99.3% of players 99.0% of players 95.6% of players 70.9% of players 46.2% of players 38.6% of players 26.6% of players 25.0% of players 24.2% of players 22.4% of players 19.8% of players 18.9% of players 15.6% of players 15.1% of players 14.7% of players 13.6% of players 12.6% of players 12.0% of players 11.4% of players 10.7% of players 10.4% of players 10.1% of players 9.2% of players 8.9% of players 7.7% of players 7.7% of players 7.5% of players 7.3% of players 7.2% of players 7.2% of players 6.9% of players 4.9% of players 3.9% of players 3.5% of players 2.5% of players 2.4% of players 1.7% of players 1.4% of players 99.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
99.3%CLICK —
99.3%CLICK CLICK —
99.0%KEEP CLICKING —
Rarest badges of honor
1.4%END GAME IS NEAR, MAYBE? — Ascend 50 times
1.7%Mr. Skinner — Upload a Gear skin to the Steam Workshop
2.4%RICK? — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$4.99current · sampled 2026-09-25 21:36 UTC
$3.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-07
US4.99 USD
EU4.99 EUR
UK4.59 GBP
Australia6.95 AUD
Canada5.99 CAD
Japan655 JPY
Brazil19.49 BRL
China22.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$3.3 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$6.1

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $5 $10 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-16 09-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 08, 2026
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

Feb 03, 2026
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

Jan 24, 2026
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

Jun 11, 2025
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

Feb 02, 2025
Simplified Chinese Rework

Translation to Simplified Chinese has been reworked Thanks Liano for the help!

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresCasual
Player tagsClicker · Idler · Casual · Singleplayer · Economy · Resource Management · 2D · Management · Capitalism · Cartoon · Funny · Memes (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · Mouse Only Option · Playable without Timed Input
LanguagesEnglish, French, Spanish - Spain, Catalan, Galician, Spanish - Latin America, Italian, German, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian,…
Achievements39
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3340 Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space