How to Play
New to CyberIdle? This guide will help you understand the basics of building your cyberpunk tech empire.
Getting Started
Your first 10 minutes in the game. Build your first factory and start production.
Core Loop
Understand the fundamental gameplay: build, produce, automate, expand.
Resources & Constraints
The tiered resource system and four key constraints that drive your empire.
Production Chains
How resources flow through your empire from raw materials to complex products.
Three Ways to Play
Active, Observing, or Away—all designed to be satisfying. The game adapts to you.
Progression
Constraints, bottlenecks, and the shifting puzzles that drive advancement.
The Journey
CyberIdle takes you from humble beginnings to transcendent power:
Scraping by in the digital underworld. Manual work, small operations, basic resources.
Rising influence. Automation kicks in. Controlling networks, real power emerging.
Clean server farms. Professional infrastructure. You're somebody now.
Massive data centers. Galactic reach. Incomprehensible scale.
Beyond human limitations. Reality itself bends to your will.
Three Ways to Play
CyberIdle is designed to be satisfying whether you have 5 minutes or 5 hours:
Active
Optimize, expand, make strategic decisions. Feel powerful as your choices create dramatic breakthroughs.
Observing
Step back and watch your automated systems work. Feel proud of what you've built.
Away
Close the game knowing progress continues. Return to satisfying gains, never punishment.