Next time you need to feel like a gamer but stay on task, try one of these excellent idle games to keep you company.

Like many idle games, Tiny Pasture has a pretty simple gameplay ... but they do hop around and occasionally drop items for the player to pick up. As one reviewer notes, “It’s not intrusive ...

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Tiny Pasture is more pet care ...

At least, that's how I felt when I first dove into Elysia: The Astral Fall, a fresh-faced idle RPG that very much reminds me ...