Build and upgrade production lines
Start with a single battered still. Buy breweries and distilleries, upgrade them, and watch each one pay out bigger and faster.
Free idle tycoon game · iOS & Android
Idle Distiller Tycoon
Build a booze empire. Buy breweries and distilleries, hire the managers who keep them running, and collect what they earned when you come back.
- 4.6App Store · 2.9K ratings
- 4.4Google Play · 14K reviews
- 1M+downloads on Google Play
- Freeoptional in-app purchases
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What you do
Build production lines. Hire managers. Let it run.
A storyline with a corrupt mayor
Every season moves the story forward in comic strips. A crooked mayor wants your business shut down. Out-earn him.
Weekly events and leaderboards
Limited-time events run almost constantly with their own economies, goals and global leaderboards. Compete with friends or the world.
Player reviews
What players say
Read all on the App Store (2.9K ratings) or Google Play (14K reviews).
★★★★★
This is a proper idle game, not like the ones which claim to be idle games but which actually require huge amounts of constant gameplay. The graphics are pleasant, the storyline is amusing, events are simple and add to the game rather than add to the complexity of the game.
★★★★★
I'm on Season 23 and this game still has my interest with the stories and events. For me, the stories change the dullness other idle games have had.
★★★★★
Honestly one of the best idle games I’ve played. I don’t write reviews often, but I genuinely love this game. It’s constantly got me coming back to it to check every few hours or so to see if I’ve got enough money saved up for a big customer bonus. Overall, get this game; it’s fun, the gameplay keeps itself fresh with events, and each season has a new story, so you get to look forward to that too.
★★★★★
I mostly leave it open whilst working and gaming and hit those bottle cap ads and seagull when they pop up. Regardless, I’m super hooked. The frequent side events are a great way to increase the longevity of the game because I focus on those instead of the main questline. I’ve found my new time waster! The min-maxer in me can’t stay away from ensuring I run every brewery as efficiently as possible.
About the game
How Idle Distiller Tycoon plays
You start with one small still, sell the first batch and reinvest. Buy more businesses, upgrade them, and hire a manager for each line so it runs without tapping. A managed line keeps producing while the app is closed, so you come back to a stack of earnings rather than a timer. Tapping speeds a line up if you want to play actively; checking in twice a day works too.
Each season is a new town. You start with a brewery and work through whisky, vodka, tequila, wine, gin, absinthe, rum, brandy, liqueur, cider, mead, sour beer, sake, moonshine, champagne, a shots bar and soju, so the same buy, upgrade, automate loop plays out across a whole drinks industry. You run the company, not the taproom. Milestone multipliers at set business levels are where the big jumps come from, so the real decision each session is which line to push first.
What it adds to the business idle formula
The loop is the one AdVenture Capitalist and Idle Miner Tycoon players know: buy, automate, hit milestone multipliers, prestige into the next season. Three things are different here. A storyline told in comic strips, in which a corrupt mayor tries to shut you down and each season advances the plot. Events that run almost continuously, each with its own short economy, milestone rewards and leaderboard. And managers upgraded with bottle caps, which come from milestones, daily goals, crates, event rewards and rewarded ads, so events are also the fastest way to automate later lines.
If you play either of those games, games like AdVenture Capitalist and games like Idle Miner Tycoon show where this one sits. Looking for the brewing theme specifically? The idle brewery game page covers that angle.
Free to download and play
Idle Distiller Tycoon is free on the App Store and Google Play. It is supported by optional in-app purchases and rewarded ads: watching an ad can double an earnings collection or grant bottle caps, and premium currency is for sale if you want to move faster. Every season can be completed without paying. The FAQ covers devices, offline earnings, bottle caps and support.
Meet the cast
The crew that runs your empire
Mike
Runs the day-to-day of the whole booze startup. Lives to check things off the list, one distillery at a time.
Ashley
Infinite energy, childlike enthusiasm, and a new favourite thing every week. The brewery runs on her momentum.
Nick
Found inner peace making artisanal beer by hand. Minds his own business and does it properly.
Maria
Makes success look effortless and chooses to see the best in everyone. The tequila line has never been happier.
Luis
A famous actor between roles, a little full of himself, and one of the hardest workers in the yard.
Stout
Showed up one day and never left. Quite possibly the smartest one here, quietly nudging the whole crew the right way.
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Questions
Frequently asked questions about Idle Distiller Tycoon
Is Idle Distiller Tycoon free?
Yes. Idle Distiller Tycoon is free to download and play on iOS and Android. It is supported by optional in-app purchases and rewarded ads. You can complete every season without paying.
Does Idle Distiller Tycoon work offline?
It earns offline. Any business with a manager assigned keeps producing while the app is closed, and you collect the accumulated earnings when you come back. Opening the game needs an internet connection so events, leaderboards and your cloud save can sync, so it is an offline idle game in the earning sense rather than a fully offline one.
What kind of game is Idle Distiller Tycoon?
It is an idle tycoon game, sometimes called an incremental or idle business game. You buy businesses, upgrade them, hire managers to automate them, and reinvest the profits. It sits in the same family as AdVenture Capitalist and Idle Miner Tycoon, with a brewery and distillery theme, a storyline and weekly events. Our explainer on what idle games are covers the genre.
Is Idle Distiller Tycoon an idle game with a story?
Yes, and players say it is the reason they stay. Each season advances a comic-strip storyline about a corrupt mayor trying to shut your business down, and events carry their own short stories. Reviews on both stores single out the storyline and the events as what separates it from other idle games.
Is there an Idle Distiller mod APK or cheat codes?
No. Kano does not publish mods, hacked APKs or cheat codes for Idle Distiller Tycoon, and third-party APKs are a common source of malware and banned accounts. The official game is free on the App Store and Google Play, and in-game events give the same boosts legitimately.
What devices does Idle Distiller Tycoon support?
iPhone and iPad running iOS 15.2 or later, and Android phones and tablets running Android 8.0 or later. The App Store lists the game as 18+ because of the alcohol theme; Google Play rates it Teen. There is no browser version. On Windows the game is listed through Google Play Games on PC, which has its own system requirements. There is no separate Mac game, but the iPhone and iPad app can be installed from the Mac App Store on Macs with Apple silicon (macOS 12.1 or later).
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