Idle Startup overview

Overview

Idle Startup comes from Merrill Lines and is published by Merrill Lines. It arrived on Steam on Jun 21, 2026, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, In-App Purchases, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Idle Startup's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 52 players at 6 October 2026 - 22:03:45 UTC, with a tracked peak near 445. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 58% positive across 215 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Idle Startup is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Idle Startup has sold up to 29,109 units and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Idle Startup overview details

Idle Startup combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

From a garage to a global empire You started with a laptop and an idea. Idle Startup is a relaxing incremental game about growing that idea into a global tech company — one completed task at a time. Pick a skill and it goes to work: progress bars fill, XP rolls in, money stacks up. Spend it, level up, and watch new skills and whole departments unlock as your company climbs from a one-person Garage Startup to a Corporate Office. Six skills, each its own journey Every one of the six skills has its own upgrade tree gated by level and cost, backed by a company-wide store and an R&D lab. Push each skill through milestones at levels 25, 50, 75 and 99 for permanent, company-wide bonuses — and when a skill maxes out it keeps earning Mastery , a slow bonus that never stops growing. Prestige, and go again — faster Cash out your company for Founder Points and spend them in the Founder Store on permanent, cross-run upgrades: extra parallel skill slots, compounding growth, seed capital, a veteran team. Every run resets the ramp so the next climb is faster and reaches higher. It's an endless prestige loop with real teeth. Automate the grind Once you know the loop, hand it off. The Auto tab lets you toggle Auto-Hire, Auto-Train, Auto-Invest, Auto-Research, Auto-Accept-Contracts — even Auto-Refound. Build a machine that runs your whole company while you watch the numbers climb, or walk away entirely and come back richer. Take on contracts, climb the boards Accept contracts for bonus goals, then measure yourself against everyone else: global and friends leaderboards , plus time-to-99 spe…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Idle Startup is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, In-App Purchases, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Free To Play. SteamPulse's latest observation records 52 players at 6 October 2026 - 22:03:45 UTC, a tracked peak of 445, and 58% positive reviews.

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