A new genre of video game!

Criteria: runs in a browser using javascript, innocuously easy entry with a steady complexity curve (usually involving some sort of counter that starts at 0), mandatory time sinks, no social or pay to win features.

The best of these surprise the player and keep her just barely constantly doing something.

• Candy Box
• A Dark Room
• Cookie Clicker
• Gold and Gems
• Candy Box 2
• Particle Clicker
• Swarmism
• Egg Inc (phone)

An honorable mention, which doesn’t fit the browser criteria, is Little Inferno.

Updates as more good ones are made.