Chop Chop Idle

A little forest for the corner of your screen.

Chop Chop Idle is a cozy pixel-art idle game that sits quietly beside whatever else you're doing. Click the tree whenever you feel like it, or let your auto-chopper keep swinging while you work, browse or play something else. Every log goes towards a sharper axe, a new forest, a rare bird, or a legacy you carry into your next expedition.

Built for your desktop

• Compact, borderless window in seven sizes, from 300 to 1200 pixels.
• Tree-only, "low profile" widget mode: just the tree, from 180 pixels. Drag it anywhere and auto-chop keeps going!
• Transparent background so the forest floats on your desktop.
• Stay on top of other windows, or don't. It's your choice.
• Adjustable audio.

Chop, sell, upgrade

Start with a rusty axe and a single oak. Sell your timber, then spend the coins on better tools: 12 axes from Rusty to the legendary Wordsplitter, auto-choppers that work while you don't, and skills for critical hits, felling bonuses and follow-through. Swing big, land a crit, and every so often strike a Golden Log.

Ten forests to explore

Travel from a sunny Woodland through Pine Woods, Dark Woods and Autumn Grove, into the Misty Forest and Ancient Grove, and on to the Cursed Woods, Frozen Forest, Ashen Forest and finally the Enchanted Forest. That's 50 trees to fell, each forest with its own wood. The best upgrades need timber from more than one forest, so you'll always have a reason to go back.

Collect 40 birds

Nests turn up as you fell trees. Hatch their eggs in the Aviary, fill your flock, and equip a feathered companion to speed up your auto-chopper. There are 40 to find, from the humble robin to the mythic Cinder Phoenix.

Weather that changes the day

Rainfall, Sunbreak, Wind, Fog and Snowfall drift through your forest, each bringing its own short-lived bonus.

Leave a lasting legacy

Finish an expedition to earn Ancient Seeds, then spend them on permanent upgrades across the Strength, Industry and Forestry branches before setting out again, stronger than before. Your birds, eggs and journal always come with you.

It keeps chopping while you're away

Close the game and come back to a welcome-back summary of the logs, Golden Logs and nests your auto-chopper found while you were gone.

Track every discovery

Fill in the Woodcutter's Journal, climb six Forest Ranks from Sapling to Forest Master, and chase 59 achievements (a few of them secret).

System requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
• Graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 support
• 350 MB of free disk space, including the runtime extracted on first launch
• Mouse. Menus also support the keyboard

No installer and nothing else to install. Unzip and run ChopChopIdle.exe. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning for new games: choose More info → Run anyway. 

Credits

Made by Wickerbyte Games with Godot Engine.
Font: Pixel Operator 8 by Jayvee Enaguas (CC0), modified for uppercase text.
Music: “Calm and sad” by tyops (CC BY 4.0), distributed as MP3.
Trailer music: “Happy background music” by Migfus20 (CC BY 4.0), edited for the trailer.
Sound effects from freesound.org by Evcy, igroglaz, super8ude, Veridiansunrise, dmk67, Christopherderp, Breviceps and Rocotilos (CC0).