Industry Idle
Released Sep 2024
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.
77% positive · 1,487 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Industry Idle left Early Access with its 1.0 update on September 13, 2024, when FishPond said the game had been content complete for some time and that the update mostly focused on polish. The two Expansion Packs shipped on March 20, 2021 and March 28, 2022, and the most recent major content update was a Halloween seasonal event on October 18, 2022. On October 29, 2022 the developer said the core mechanics and content were largely stable and moved the project toward community-driven open-source development with no fixed release schedule. The store lists only the two Expansion Packs, both already available. Since 1.0, the developer's posts have concerned server operations rather than new content. A proposal dated October 25, 2025 described daily player trade limits and the removal of the leaderboard as ways to reduce server and anti-cheat costs, with the decision left to the community. A July 25, 2026 update announced that leaderboards will shut down, that Steam account verification will be limited to players who own an Expansion Pack, and that trading limits for unverified accounts have been relaxed. The developer reports the game has been running at a loss and has been covered by income from the newer CivIdle. The game's content has been complete since its last major update on October 18, 2022.
Evidence
1.0 update takes the game out of Early Access. The developer says the game has been content complete for a while and the update mostly focuses on polish.
The developer says core mechanics and content are more or less stable, moves the game to open-source community contributions with no fixed release schedule, and shifts attention to a new project.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Fish Pond Studio
Achievements
71
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer
About this game
Feature Highlights
- 130+ different factories to build and manage
- 90+ different resources to produce, buy and sell
- Realistic market simulation that challenges your trading skill
- 12+ Procedurally generated maps with both hex grid and square grid
- Unlock 50+ powerful policies that drastically change the gameplay
- Manage and optimize your economy with detailed charts and data tools
- Offline earning based on your company's valuation
- Prestige and unlock powerful upgrades
Choose Your Own Play Style
Each factory has a lot of tweaks that you can micromanage and optimize. Or you can just sit back, trust the game AI and watch the numbers go up, either way, you can enjoy the game with your own play style. And you even get earnings when you are offline!Optimize Your Economy
There are a lot of tools in the game to help you analyze your production bottlenecks, wasted resources, and imbalanced resource distribution. There are powerful policies that allow you to take your economy to a whole new direction.Trade with Global Players
Trade resources with global players in the real-time player market. Take advantage of lucrative deals from "big sharks" to advance in early games until you become a big shark and outsource your productions to other players.Prestige and Progress Further
Prestige allows you to unlock new maps with new resources and endless possibilities. You also earn $wiss money to unlock permanent upgrades to help with start faster and expand bigger.Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Oct 9, 2026
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