Idle Expanse overview

Overview

Idle Expanse comes from Lyrical Games LLC and is published by Lyrical Games LLC. It arrived on Steam on Sep 7, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, In-App Purchases, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, and Remote Play on TV. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Idle Expanse's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 09:00:55 UTC, with a tracked peak near 7. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 56% positive across 151 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Idle Expanse is available in 1 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Idle Expanse has sold up to 4,590 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 Expanse overview details

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

Steam Store description

Idle Expanse is a sci-fi themed incremental game where you play the role of the planet's most successful industrialist, whose greed knows no bounds. Your objective is to grow your wealth beyond what anyone has ever imagined, but why do it yourself when you can hire others to do it for you? Core gameplay revolves around hiring mercenaries, equipping them with the most "state of the bada** art" weaponry and gear, then sending them to remote planets to collect resources. Unlike most other incremental games where you send teams heroes out and just wait for their return, Idle Expanse allows you to have (in)direct control over what your mercenaries do and how they achieve it. Prior to deploying a squad of mercenaries to a planet, you get to decide what tactics they'll use: Will they all stay together or will they split up? Will they seek out and engage enemy aliens or will they focus on gathering resources? As your squads of mercenaries explore the galaxy, they'll uncover new technologies, which in-turn will unlock new features. One such feature is the ability to skip forward in time - why sit around waiting for your squads to return from their deployments when you, with the simple press of a button, can jump into the near future? Despite the galaxy being expansive (64 planets to be exact) it is still finite. Once you've explored the entire galaxy and grown bored with what it has to offer, you'll be able to reset the clock and do it all over again... this time with some impressive perks! Not in the mood to start over? That’s fine… you can also choose to up the difficulty (and th…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Idle Expanse is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, In-App Purchases, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, and Remote Play on TV, and is associated with Casual, Free To Play, Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 09:00:55 UTC, a tracked peak of 7, and 56% positive reviews.

Overview tags

CasualRPGStrategyFree to PlayIndieIdlerClicker2DCartoonyAliensFunnyManagementRelaxingSci-fiSpace

Content descriptors

Contains mild language and cartoon violence.

Highlighted achievements

Support and legal notes

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