The Incrementals, Fall 2026 Edition
Coan
Covering some of my top incremental/idler games of Next Fest 2026.
Lumberboy – Frantic Forest Farming
You're a lumberjack and you're ok.
Spellogger – Swinging for the Fences
A retro-styled open world RPG where you're a wizard lumberjack.
Pay The House – Card Collecting or Go Broke Trying
A quick review of Pay The House, an old timey gambling roguelike by the creator of Pip My Dice.
Factory Magnate – Simplified Satisfactory
No resource limits, a minimal UI, simple (perhaps to a detriment) conveyor belts, Factory Magnate calls itself a casual factory builder for everyone. Where it’s hard to go wrong, easy…
Once Upon a Kingdom – Cycles, Cards and Cities
So, Once Upon a Kingdom starts off with a cool cutscene and a bit of story and setting up on your little plot of land. Sadly, from there it’s a…
Greenhearth Necromancer – Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Fade to a black thumb. Well, at least as a necromancer, you can revivify your plants when they die. Which is one of the core aspects of Greenhearth Necromancer, in…
Jumpstarting February’s Next Fest
Digging around Steam’s news, it seems indie.io has an event on right now for some demos that’ll be featured in the next Next Fest. Just three titles have piqued my…
Winter Burrow – Chill Survival
A survival game where you are a small mouse in a big forest, trying to restore your childhood home and make a life for yourself.
Swap Meat – Build Your Fighter
Swap Meat is a co-op objective based shooter that has you dropping onto planets, taking care of business, and trying to get out before the big bads show up and…