Auto-Idle Steam Games on Startup
The Automatic Idler lets you build a list of games that SGI will start idling automatically every time it launches. Once configured, you don't need to manually start anything — SGI handles it in the background.
This works best when combined with Run At Startup and Start Minimized, so SGI launches silently with Windows and begins idling your games without any input from you.
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Join thousands of users who are already using Steam Game Idler to enhance their Steam experience.
You can idle a maximum of 32 games simultaneously. This limit is set by the Steam client.
Setting Up Automatic Idler
Click Automatic Idler in the sidebar
Go to the All Games tab and click on individual games to add and remove them
The next time SGI launches, the games in this list will be idled automatically
Alternatively, click Start Manually to start idling them right now without waiting for a restart
Like Playtime Booster, Automatic Idler only increases playtime hours. It does not farm trading cards or unlock achievements. For those, see Card Farming and Achievement Unlocker.
Enabling and Disabling Individual Games
Each game card in the list has a checkbox that lets you toggle it on or off without removing it from the list. Games that are unchecked will be skipped when idling starts, both on launch and when using Start Manually.
This is useful when you want to temporarily pause idling a specific game while keeping it in your list for later.