Which idle or tycoon game should you start with?
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Idle and tycoon games here keep earning while you are away, and you return to spend what they made. All four are free to play in your browser. Start with 
Deepvein Mine Tycoon for the clearest loop: dig, lift, sell, then upgrade the slowest station.
What do you build?
Deepvein Mine Tycoon is a side-view mine on four sites, each with its own rock and a hazard such as cave-ins or floods. Hire managers to run a station on its own for up to two hours while you are away.
Bollard Port Tycoon is a harbour seen from above: unload container ships, stack the yard, truck boxes out for cash and fill contracts on a clock. You charter your way through five ports.
Ingot Factory Tycoon builds an ore factory pad by pad on four plots, with droppers, belts, upgraders and furnaces. Spall Idle Clicker is the hands-on one: tap stone sentinels to break them, and hire a crew whose links set each other off.
What happens when the first upgrades run out?
Each game gives you a reset that pays off for good. Selling a mine in Deepvein opens the next site with a higher income, a rebirth in Ingot gives gears worth 25% more income, and from stage 25 Spall lets you start over with cairn stones worth extra damage. Bollard has you charter a new port, which unlocks a hard mode.
Frequently asked questions
Do idle games keep earning when I close the tab?
They credit what you earned while you were away, and with managers or a crew hired that can be a lot, but nothing runs while the page is closed.
Is there a daily challenge?
Yes. 
Ingot Factory Tycoon has a daily sprint: everyone gets the same plot for four minutes and every coin counts toward the score.
Can I play an idle game with a friend?
Spall Idle Clicker has online play: press Play with a friend and send the link. The other three are single-player.