An idle game is a bet that watching a number go up is more satisfying than making it go up, and it is usually right. The craft is in the first ten minutes — before the automation exists, when you are still doing the work by hand and can feel exactly what you are about to buy your way out of.
Pizza Farm Tycoon runs the whole chain: cut the wheat, bake the pizzas, keep the drive-thru moving, then buy the machine that does each step so you can go and worry about the next one. Farm Factory is the pure automation one — plant, build the line, and watch the farm run itself. Idle Mogul is the broadest: one stall, reinvested until it is not one stall.
Progress is kept in your own browser rather than on an account, which has one consequence worth knowing before you start: it is tied to that browser on that device, and clearing site data clears it.
