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Incremental games with skill trees

A skill tree gives an incremental game a shape. Instead of buying the next upgrade in a column, you pick a branch, and the order you take nodes in changes how the run plays out. Many of the best short incrementals are little more than one big tree and a reason to fill it.

This list collects every game in the directory tagged skill tree, sorted by our ranking. It updates by itself when a new game gets the tag, so there's no need to wait for a new edition.

Some of these are short games where the tree is everything, like Nodebuster or Snakecremental. Others use a tree as one system among many, like IdleOn. If you want the ones with an ending, start with short incremental games you can finish in a weekend.

Know a skill-tree incremental that's missing? Submit it. For more ways to narrow things down, see the prestige and upgrades tags.