Idle Atomic

Idle Atomic

Checkbox Entertainment · July 15, 2021 · Post-apocalyptic, Idler, Simulation, Pixel Graphics, Crafting

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Idle Atomic is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Idle Atomic

Idle Atomic is an Incremental Idle RPG in a post-apocalyptic world.

You stand alone in the wasteland and must fight monsters, salvage resources and refine materials to survive!

Key features:
- Defeat monsters, gain power, unlock new zones and hunt down bounties!- Gather a large variety of loot and discover rare salvaging spawns!- Use resources gathered to refine materials, craft permanent power-ups and suit upgrades, enhance item efficiency and more!- Unlock and cast fighting and utility spells, discover unique essence to enhance your spells!- Hunt 20+ mutant creatures that appear during gameplay, each with their own loot table!- Earn and level up companions to unlock powerful bonuses! - Complete various Tasks and Missions to unlock stat enhancements!- Find and use items to make yourself more powerful and provide helpful utilities! - Idle Wasteland has a plethora of content, play the game to discover much more!

Idle Atomic — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players are deeply divided on this game. Those enjoying it praise the idle mechanics and satisfying upgrade progression that keeps casual players engaged, but critics overwhelmingly dismiss it as low-quality mobile game bloatware with poor graphics, aggressive monetization through DLC, and technical issues like launch crashes. The core complaint is that the game feels underpolished and overpriced compared to full-featured alternatives, representing broader industry trends toward extractive mobile-style monetization.

Recommended Sep 4, 2026
A fun game for people who prefer more active idle games.
Recommended Aug 5, 2026
Have hundreds of hours on this game on mobile. Kinda sad its basically abandoned. Their discord is pretty dead too after some of their worse fans drove off a bunch of people being horrible. Anyway its a pretty fun idle game with lots of grind and just enough interaction.
Not recommended Jul 30, 2026
Yes its an "Idler" but the extent of it is very misleading. This game requires a TON of manual interaction and attention in order to progress (Especially if you want 100%). Idling will work for a very few small things (If Task/Mission is do kill, catch creatures, cast spells or gather scrap thats really about it). The game looks like it'd be cool but honestly I wish I didn't bother with this. There is also a bug that I've read about and encountered where if a hard crash is encountered you can lose lots of progress (Read online someone losing about 500 hours). For myself it was about 13 hours which may have been due to me properly closing the game earlier. Due to this I usually close the game for about 15-20 minutes just in case but to this point I have not encountered this again even with a power outage. So may different mechanics that requires you to interact. - The "Button" - Conditions to complete Missions - Conditions to complete Tasks - Clicking the "Loot Drone" which provides "Nuclear Material" one of the most important items you need to progress and requires tens of thousands (Drone will give about 4-6 each time) - Getting exp for certain pets - Challenges - Crafting mater…
Recommended Jun 20, 2026
Its fine.
Not recommended Jun 17, 2026
this is just a huge pile of mobile game garbage that somehow crawled its filthy way into the steam store.
Recommended Apr 19, 2026
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