Clicker games also widely known as idle games, incremental games, or clicking games. It’s a category of games with gameplay that consists of the player performing simple actions such as clicking the mouse repeatedly or how its also called – grinding, to earn currency or some other goods.
In some of these games, even the clicking becomes unnecessary after a time, as the game starts to play itself, including in the player's absence, this gave it one of its other name as an idle game.