Idle Time

Idle Time

Woodland Software · April 3, 2026 · Simulation, Strategy, Idler, RTS, Sandbox

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Idle Time price by region

Idle Time costs $3.29 in Georgia (USD), £4.29 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$6.49 in Canada, NZ$7.39 in New Zealand, A$7.50 in Australia, R$16.99 in Brazil and zł22.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Idle Time offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $3.29 $3.29 — 1
United Kingdom £4.29 £4.29 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.99 €4.99 — 1
Canada CA$6.49 CA$6.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$7.39 NZ$7.39 — 1
Australia A$7.50 A$7.50 — 1
Brazil R$16.99 R$16.99 — 1
Poland zł22.99 zł22.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Idle Time

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.

Idle Time — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

Not recommended May 26, 2026
Game is completely broken. Dev is AWOL; stopped communicating 4 days after release.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended May 21, 2026
Got to the "second" tier of the game and I hit a brick wall with the next goal. The game introduces "idler buffers" "towers" and "idlers" Idler Buffers don't do much since the only thing that can unload from them loads at the same speed, and they're not allowed to logjam the main queue into the "factory". So the idlers will sit there, "idle"(wow it's in the name) because they're not allowed to send their outputs, and they don't get a queue to send things over the wire, if there's not a spot in the buffer, they won't send anything, even if the buffer might be empty by then, or the "spot" hasn't actually been taken yet because the "unit of time?" hasn't made it to the factory yet, they don't get to do anything. Dozens of items surrounded by idle item senders, while the main processing queue reads ~2/10.I tried a handful of ideas, and the one that seemed least supported by the game worked marginally worse. I like the idea of this game, but I felt unable to meaningfully interact with the game to make the number go up faster. The game appears to be bottlenecked by things outside of your choices and your upgrades.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 22, 2026
Game does not work, you get stuck because the time processor does not process any more than 4.8 k time per second no matter if i upgrade both storage and amount processed by. Game is broken sadly seemed cool tho
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 7, 2026
So tl;dr "wow i wish the dev didn't suck because this game is rather cool!" So lets get the easy and short part out of the way What this game is/wants to be is amazing and so much fun, it's like if factorio was more chill and more idle I beg anyone to steal this idea but do it right So why am i say thing dev sucks this game doesn't have "bugs" there is a game somewhere mixed in with the bugs. it's to the point where i refuse to believe the dev played their own game. it's BAD there are mechanics that move resources around, but they don't work well together nor make alot of sense how they work. it's fun when you get it going and you learn all the annoying bullsheit the dev used ai in the game, to make the achievement and i'm 70% sure to code the game too only about 5ish hours of gameplay. just enough you can't refund it That's how i feel about this game, some ai trash thrown together to make a quick buck. and if that's not the truth, it's even worse than i thought
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 7, 2026
Really digging this! Super soundtrack! The concept of Minutes as currency is clever and the network mechanics are neat. Overall, I'm enjoying it.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 4, 2026
A lot of gameplay for the price, would recommend it, had a lot of fun, enjoyed Bill Tyme's split personality :D
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