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Industry Idle

Industry Idle

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Released Sep 13, 2024 Developer FishPond Publisher Fish Pond Studio Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux AutomationIdlerResource ManagementBase BuildingStrategy
View on Steam ↗ Free (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 2026-09-25.

77.3%positive1,487 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Recommended — but with caveats. 👍🏻 Industry Idle is a straightforward industrial‑management game: build a thriving automotive sector, dive into IT development, outfit your robots with nuclear payloads and sell everything on a fluctuating market. It’s easy to grasp. The loop is…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Pretty chill game once you get into it. You build factories, manage resources and basically keep messing with things until the numbers start going up. There's a lot more to it than I expected, but it can get a bit overwhelming and grindy later on.”

— a player, Steam review · 125 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Have to authenticate pretty early on. but the explanation of how to do that is non-existent. once you stumble into the right menu for that, you get a button... it sends off a request... and nothing... Someone else mentioned you need to have your steam profile public to…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

566all-time peak
0 250 500 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 414 avg · Jun 2021

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-25.

71achievements
1.1%median completion
0.7%rarest: Admiral of the Fish Pond
6.3% of players 3.1% of players 2.6% of players 2.6% of players 2.5% of players 2.4% of players 2.3% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.7% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 6.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
6.3%Norwegian Oil Hobbyist — Earn 100 Swiss Money in Oslo in a single run
3.1%Barbarians At The Gate — Use 1 trillion worth of player trade quota between market updates
2.6%Pinwheel Owner — Earn 100 Swiss Money in Rotterdam in a single run
Rarest badges of honor
0.7%Admiral of the Fish Pond — Build 200 fish ponds on any map in a single run
0.8%Kangaroo — Earn 1000 Swiss Money in Perth in a single run
0.8%Popcorn — Earn 1000 Swiss Money in Kansas City in a single run

Latest official news

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

Jul 25, 2026
Server Sustainability Update

Industry Idle's server will soon enter its sixth year of service. Last year, I posted a proposal to reduce server costs. However, the community did not reach a consensus, so I moved on to work on my o

Oct 25, 2025
Player Trade Server Sustainability

Industry Idle's server will soon enter its 5th year of service. The game has a small but active player base, and the server has been instrumental in keeping the community together. However, running a

Jul 15, 2025
Industry Idle on Sale for Steam Automation Fest

To celebrate Steam Automation Fest, both expansion packs are on sale (30% off). If you have been thinking about getting the expansion packs, now is a good chance! If you want to find out more similar

Sep 13, 2024
Patch 1.0.0 - Industry Idle is out of Early Access

It’s been a while since my last update, but I’ve got some news to share. For those of you following the development of my next game, CivIdle, I’m happy to report that it’s come a long way, and progres

Jan 08, 2024
Steam Capitalism & Economy Fest Discount

Hello fellow capitalists, Capitalists always enjoy a bit of discount, who doesn't? So I wanna pop by and tell you that the game's expansion packs are on discount for Steam Capitalism & Economy Fest. A

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsAutomation · Idler · Resource Management · Base Building · Strategy · Incremental · Simulation · Building · City Builder · Transportation · Minimalist · Hex Grid (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Turkish
Achievements71
Official sitehttps://industryidle.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 Processor: Anything that runs Windows Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: As long as there's one Storage: 200 MB available space