Tycoon and idle games occupy a weird, productive corner of the internet — the games you leave running while you work. The genre's appeal is well understood: numbers go up, decisions are low-stakes, the dopamine hits steadily without requiring focus. The picks below are our favorites of the genre on the free web.
We've grouped them by setting rather than mechanic, because in this genre the setting *is* the gameplay. There's a donut shop, a supermarket, a jungle mart, an Asian-cuisine kitchen, and a few sub-genres around them. Each is a clean little economy you can grow over twenty minutes or twenty days.
All games are free, run in any modern browser, and save progress locally. None of them will pressure you into in-app purchases — Peekade doesn't host that pattern. The only ad surface is the optional video ad between sessions.
