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Casual · Woodland Software

Idle Time

Idle Time
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7 user reviews · 29% of 7
DeveloperWoodland Software
GenreCasual
Wait for a sale Chip's verdict · US updated 2 hr. ago

No real discount right now, sitting 100% of the way from its all-time low to full price. One to watch rather than buy today.

Why this verdict
Price position between all-time low and full price 100%
All-time low $3.99 · 16d ago
Player reviews 29% positive of 7
Quality score 29/100 · small sample
Value score 0/100

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About this game

What this game is, in the developer's words

Harvest crystallized time from parallel universes where people waste their lives playing idle games. Build extractors, automate logistics networks, and research new technology to fuel Bill Tyme's time machine in this factory-building incremental game.

Somewhere across the multiverse, people are wasting their lives playing idle games. Their lost moments condense into Chronum — crystallized time — and you're going to harvest every last drop of it.

Idle Time is a factory-building incremental game where you extract, transport, and process Chronum to fuel a time machine built by Bill Tyme, an eccentric physicist with a fractured timeline and questionable ethics. Start by dragging glowing time crystals to your factory by hand. End by orchestrating vast automated networks of extractors, relay towers, and reactors across a procedurally generated landscape.

Key Features

  • Build a Chronum empire — Place extractors on resource nodes, connect them to your factory with automated Idlers, and watch the Minutes roll in. Optimize throughput with buffers, compressors, splitters, and speed-boosting accelerators.

  • Research 7 tiers of technology — Progress from simple extraction to advanced buildings like the Time Warper, which batches and multiplies Chronum value, and the Rift Stabilizer, which tears open portals to ultra-rich resource nodes.

  • Design complex logistics networks — Route Chronum through pipe networks that follow grid paths, bundle along shared routes, and navigate around large structures. Split production lines, chain relay towers, and balance throughput across your operation.

  • Prestige and push further — Complete each run to bank Universal Idle Time, then spend it on permanent upgrades that carry across future playthroughs. Each cycle starts faster and reaches further.

  • Procedural terrain — Every map is generated fresh with concrete sprawl, wind-swept desert dunes, and fields of animated grass that sway in the breeze. A dynamic day cycle casts drifting cloud shadows across the landscape.

  • Meet Bill Tyme — Your guide, mentor, and the reason you're doing all of this. He's brilliant, unstable, and not entirely sure this whole thing is going to work out.

Media

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Price intelligence

Accepted price history and the lows that matter

Historical lows
All-time low ATL $3.99 2026-06-27
3-month low $3.99
12-month low $3.99
Current $4.99
Price events From the accepted price history · updates automatically
Jul 9, 2026
Sale ended · back to $4.99
Jun 27, 2026
New all-time low $3.99

Idle Time price history and best deals

Idle Time for PC currently sells from $4.99 at authorized stores. Its all-time low is $3.99, set on 2026-06-27.

Frequently asked questions

Answered from this game's own price and edition data

Should I buy Idle Time now or wait?
Our verdict is wait. At 100% of the way to full price, it usually drops harder in seasonal sales, so patience tends to pay.
Is $4.99 a good price for Idle Time?
$4.99 sits 100% of the way from the all-time low of $3.99 to the full price. It has been cheaper before, so there is room to wait.
Where can I buy Idle Time?
Idle Time is tracked at steam. We only list authorized stores here and always link out with a clean outbound link.
Scores
Steam reviews 7 user reviews · 29%
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Tech
Requirements
System requirements platform
Minimum
Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 / Vulkan 1.0 compatible
  • Storage: 256 MB available space
Recommended
Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Minimum
Minimum:
    Recommended
    Recommended:
      Minimum
      Minimum:
      • OS: SteamOS 3.0 / Ubuntu 20.04
      • Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
      • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
      • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 / Vulkan 1.0 compatible
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        DeveloperWoodland Software
        PublisherWoodland Software
        ModesSingle-player
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