Idle Runner - AFK Defense RPG

BLACKBYTE

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Welcome to Idle Runner — a fast-paced idle RPG where your wizard fights automatically while you master the art of upgrades and strategy!

🧙 YOUR WIZARD FIGHTS ALONE
Your hero auto-runs, auto-shoots, and auto-battles through endless waves of enemies. Your job? Spend wisely on upgrades to make them unstoppable. Unlock Auto Shoot, boost Bullet Damage, and discover powerful abilities to dominate the battlefield.

🔥 TRUE BACKGROUND PLAY
Unlike most idle games, Idle Runner runs fully in the background. Minimize the app, lock your phone, switch to another app — your hero continues battling, earning coins, and progressing through waves in real time. No need to keep the screen on. Get a notification when your hero falls and jump right back in.

⚔️ WAVE-BASED COMBAT
Survive increasingly difficult waves of enemies. Goblins, trolls, knights, vampires, necromancers, and massive bosses every 10 waves. Each enemy type has unique abilities and attack patterns. How far can you push?

🛡️ DEEP UPGRADE SYSTEMS
• Temporary boosts — spend leafs during each run, reset on death
• Permanent upgrades — invest coins in the Workshop, keep them forever
• Ascension — push beyond max level for permanent percentage bonuses
• Powers — 5 unique abilities, each with upgradeable parameters
• Equipment — loot gear from bosses across 5 rarities with magical properties
• Runes — 14 runes with rarity tiers, equip slots, and synergy bonuses
• Passive Skills — 30 skills that unlock automatically as you hit milestones

🌍 6 UNIQUE WORLDS
Journey from the Enchanted Forest through Dark Cavern, Scorched Desert, Corrupted Forest, Volcanic Wastes, and the mysterious Void Realm. Each world brings exclusive enemies, tougher bosses, higher rewards, and unique visual themes.

🐾 COMPANIONS & COSMETICS
Collect animated companions that fight alongside your wizard and gain XP from every wave survived. Unlock hero skins with unique visual styles. Each companion and skin grants bonus rewards.

🏆 SEASON PASS & QUESTS
30 tiers of free and premium rewards each season. Daily and weekly quests keep you coming back with fresh challenges. Equip War Banners for snowballing bonuses that grow stronger the longer you survive.

💎 FAIR FREE-TO-PLAY
No energy system. No paywalls. Play as much as you want. Diamonds are earned through gameplay, daily chests, quests, and optional ads. Every feature is accessible to free players.

📱 PLAY YOUR WAY
• Quick sessions — each run takes minutes, perfect for on-the-go
• Deep strategy — optimize your build across 50+ upgrades and 14 runes
• Idle progression — your wizard fights while you plan your next move
• Cloud save — sync progress across devices

Download now and start your journey through the Forest of Shadows!

Ratings and reviews

Idle games should have offline gains, or a way to replay stages automatically that's free. I don't get any offline gains. How does that work? Death replay is $16.00? Idle game where you need to be active to restart combat.

Nice little idle, good progression and more content is yet to come.

Great idle game. doesn't need to check the phone that often.

What’s new

• Fixed a freeze on the "Collect" popup after watching an ad during a run
• Diamond rewards now count up right when you tap Collect
• Watch-ad button now also appears on the late-game boost dock
• Removed the ad that interrupted the death screen
• Stability improvements for background play and saving