
Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Idler, Resource Management, Incremental, Simulation.

Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.

Astra Nauta
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.

All Hail the Orb
All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Idler 12.3%, Automation 12%, Resource Management 8.4%, Incremental 8.3%
All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Incremental 20%, Automation 13.9%, Idler 13%, Choices Matter 7.3%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Incremental 15.3%, Idler 12.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Automation 11%
Stranded in a strange world. Explore. Survive. Find your way home. Death is inevitable, but every rebirth makes you stronger. In this text-based incremental game, choose your actions, plan your path, and uncover the truth behind the world.
Why similar: Incremental 17.2%, Idler 14.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 11.3%
A chill, exploration-based incremental game about harvesting and cleansing an alien planet of its radiation with a swarm of high-tech toasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Idler 16.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Incremental 11.7%, Minimalist 10.6%
Manage the production of your village's resources in this minimalist incremental game. Assign villagers to jobs, balance production and resources, and weather the seasons. Hunger, cold, and disease threaten your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Incremental 17.1%, Idler 14.6%, Automation 13.6%, Text-Based 9.7%
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations. You're a scientist who runs life simulations in order to gain points to spend in a big skill tree.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Incremental 17.9%, Idler 13.9%, Resource Management 11%, Management 8.6%
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Why similar: Incremental 18.5%, Idler 15.3%, Automation 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Text-Based 9.2%
Upgrade! Inc. is a satisfying text-based idle game about unlock and upgrade a series of production lines, hire employeesa nd researching for powerful bonuses. Simple, cozy, addictive, and endlessly engaging. Start your empire today!
Why similar: Idler 19%, Resource Management 16.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Minimalist 12%, Crafting 10.4%
Gather food to grow your colony. Evolve and upgrade specialized worker types. Discover and combine interesting synergies. Optimize your production, customize your strategy and feed the Queen ever-increasing amounts of food!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Incremental 24.2%, Idler 16.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Automation 7.6%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Incremental 19.6%, Automation 14%, Idler 12.7%, Management 7%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Incremental 19.4%, Idler 14.2%, Automation 12.2%, Management 6.2%
Lead a tiny ant colony through a giant candy world. Crush sweets, collect crumbs, unlock upgrades, grow your colony, and help the Queen evolve in this cozy incremental game.
Why similar: Incremental 23.8%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Idler 16.5%, Automation 15.8%, Resource Management 14%
Grow and spread mycelium from spores across a dark substrate in this relaxing incremental.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Incremental 20.7%, Idler 18.6%, Automation 10.3%, Resource Management 6.4%
A text-based management game set in the Norse Viking Age, focused not on war, but on peaceful colony building. Assign villagers to tasks, build production chains, and stockpile food and firewood before winter sets in. Survive, found a saga, and return stronger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Incremental 18.4%, Idler 13.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 9.4%
Manage an expedition of dwarves as they build out a colony under the surface in this incremental game. Assign your dwarves to farm food, forge runes, hunt trolls and mine ore!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Incremental 19%, Idler 14.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Minimalist 7.6%
Village Incremental is an incremental game where you harvest resources and grow your village and research tools.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Incremental 22.6%, Idler 14.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Automation 9.1%
Start with a single sickle and a small field. Cut and sell grass, automate your workforce, optimize supply chains, and build a sprawling incremental empire.
Why similar: Incremental 21.7%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Idler 15.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Automation 14.2%
Run a chaotic Christmas gift factory with mischievous gnomes! Get to Work, Gnomes! Christmas Factory is a short management game where you prepare gifts for children before Christmas. Package gifts, build production lines, manage gnomes, and assign tasks to turn a workshop into an efficient factory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Incremental 15.9%, Idler 13.6%, Automation 12.6%, Management 12.4%
Become the ultimate energy tycoon in this strategic incremental game. Start with humble coal mines, build complex supply chains, manipulate the stock market, and fund cutting-edge research to build the ultimate power source: a Dyson Sphere.
Why similar: Incremental 25.6%, Idler 17.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Automation 15.6%, Management 8.9%
Cratebreaker: Wasteland Workshop is a post-apocalyptic idle clicker and strategy game about smashing crates, salvaging relics, building vehicles, running factories, scanning radio signals, and raiding bandit bases to rebuild your place in the wasteland.
Why similar: Incremental 19.1%, Idler 16.3%, Text-Based 12.3%, Strategy 10.1%, Minimalist 10%
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Incremental 20.3%, Idler 14.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Automation 12.4%
A chill hand-drawn idle clicker where you dig, upgrade, and manage miners.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Incremental 15.8%, Idler 14.4%, Automation 13.4%, Management 6.2%
An idle factory-builder where you mine, smelt, manufacture, and research your way up a deep production chain while defending your base from a growing threat, then choose between two permanent endings to escape or end it all.
Why similar: Incremental 19.5%, Idler 17.4%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
Raise a civilization from its first campfire to the age of artificial intelligence in this contemplative idle strategy game. Assign people, grow knowledge, automate every human craft, and listen as ORACLE remembers what progress creates—and what it quietly leaves behind.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Incremental 19.5%, Idler 13.9%, Automation 9.9%, Text-Based 7.9%
Build and upgrade production loops, manage resources and workers, and expand your realm. Trade, adapt and survive hunger, pressure, decay, and threats in a tense, multi-layered strategy game where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Automation 13.6%, Survival 9.8%, Management 9%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Incremental 14.9%, Idler 12.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Automation 7.8%
An idle game about growing a forum while desperately trying to keep it under control.
Why similar: Incremental 19.9%, Idler 17.9%, Automation 14.3%, Text-Based 10.4%, Management 8.3%
Kill the Lich is a minimalist incremental game about time compression and resource flow. Route your primary resource—Momentum—downstream to unlock over 300 actions. Design granular automation, visualize exposed formulas, and trigger deep prestige layers to ultimately defeat the Lich!
Why similar: Incremental 23.9%, Idler 18.1%, Automation 17.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Minimalist 8.1%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Automation 9.5%, Simulation 6.5%
A sci-fi incremental about industrializing the universe, collapsing it into Stardust, and rebuilding stronger. Automate twelve tiers of impossible machines, chart a finite galaxy, draft run-changing Cosmic Laws, light five constellations, and descend into the endless Abyss
Why similar: Incremental 24.8%, Idler 18.4%, Automation 15.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 8.4%
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Incremental 17.7%, Idler 13.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Automation 10.8%
Under the Rust is a tactical UI-based bunker simulation. Take control of the C.O.R.E. system, manage life support resources, assign personnel, and survive the post-apocalyptic decay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 6.3%
Feed the nest. Grow the swarm. Devour the world. A dark incremental ant colony game where one ant becomes thousands. Gather food, upgrade the nest, uncover strange offerings, and fight for survival. Face the HUNGER - or become it...
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Incremental 18%, Resource Management 12.9%, Idler 12.6%, Management 6.6%
Idle Cosmos Clicker is a space-themed idle simulation where you grow the universe from asteroids to black holes. Produce, automate, and evolve resources while unlocking planets, stars, and galaxies. A relaxing yet deep incremental experience with endless progression.
Why similar: Incremental 25.7%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Idler 18.5%, Management 8.6%, Automation 8.3%
Goblincremental is a cozy incremental game about helping goblins build thriving settlements. Gather resources, unlock new industries, and learn magic spells to automate tasks and discover new ways to make deez goblins thrive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Incremental 21.9%, Idler 19.8%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 6.2%
A fungal idle game where you grow a mycelial empire from a single filament. Click to harvest nutrients, build living organisms, trigger sporulation to prestige, and let your Twitch viewers join the network.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Incremental 19.2%, Idler 16.8%, Automation 10.9%, Management 5.6%
An idle space 4X drawn entirely in Minitel-era text. Your empire builds, scans and colonizes while the game is closed — but the Hegemony raids on ninety seconds' warning, and something at the centre of the galaxy has started listening.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Incremental 19.3%, Idler 17.1%, Text-Based 8.9%, Strategy 7.7%
StarColony is a resource management & incremental space colony building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Incremental 22.9%, Resource Management 18.9%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.3%
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 6.7%
Build your own scrap empire in this incremental idle game. Collect, process, and automate your production chain while optimizing resources and scaling your industrial system.
Why similar: Incremental 26.4%, Resource Management 18.2%, Automation 16.3%, Management 11%, Simulation 8.8%
Between a child's first cry and someone's final breath, a tribe's history takes shape. Place its people in buildings, answer unexpected events, and lead the tribe for as long as it can endure in this turn-based tribal survival rogue-lite.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Survival 16.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Strategy 11.2%
Void Grimm Clicker is an upcoming idle game in which you manage a scifi colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Incremental 25.7%, Idler 23.7%, Strategy 7.2%, 2D 2.1%
A cosmic horror idle game where you build the Yellow King’s cult, spread his living mold, and click yourself hollow. Memory by memory. Scream by silent scream, as the sky blooms with eyes watching your beautiful undoing.
Why similar: Incremental 23.3%, Idler 18%, Resource Management 13%, Lovecraftian 12.2%, Minimalist 9.5%
Keep Hell Open is a fast-paced incremental defense game. Harvest energy from Hell to build automated defenses, mutate demons into powerful weapons, and survive relentless demonic hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Incremental 25.8%, Idler 18.2%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 5.6%
Dark web incremental is an incremental idle game where you earn money by doing criminal activities like selling drugs and hacking. Upgrade everything, and find all the pets and secrets around the map while unlocking a myriad of achievements!
Why similar: Incremental 22.5%, Idler 16.8%, Automation 16.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 9%
Place magical constructs around a swirling cosmic rift, chain together exotic energies, and collapse reality to grow stronger in this deep incremental game.
Why similar: Incremental 21.8%, Idler 19.2%, Automation 16.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Management 8.9%
Stack Epoch is a settlement-building card game. Stack cards to gather resources, construct buildings, and battle various creatures. Stack character cards on trees to get wood. Combine wood with other cards to craft huts and expand your territory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Resource Management 17.4%, Survival 14.6%, Management 10%, Strategy 7%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Survival 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%
A short incremental game where you try to download the entire universe. Just one more byte...
Why similar: Incremental 23.4%, Idler 17.8%, Minimalist 13.7%, Text-Based 13%, Resource Management 12.7%
Apiary in Flow is an incremental game with automation elements where you place bees inside a hive to build efficient honey-gathering chains. Unlock new bee types and spend your harvest on permanent skill tree upgrades!
Why similar: Incremental 27.2%, Idler 20.1%, Automation 19.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 6.2%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Minimalist 7.9%
An abstract incremental game about flipping a coin and maybe some other things too
Why similar: Incremental 26.4%, Idler 18.4%, Automation 11.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.3%
A fantasy economy simulator and idle crafting game. Build a massive guild of alternate characters to gather resources, refine epic gear, and manipulate a fluctuating AI-driven Auction House. Chase rare multicraft procs, monopolize the markets, and watch your gold go to the moon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Incremental 20.4%, Idler 14.7%, Automation 12.6%, Crafting 8.2%
Idle Plant Game, an idle and offline progress or clicker plant simulation!
Why similar: Incremental 28.7%, Idler 19.5%, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Minimalist 8.3%
The Rift Machine is an incremental game where you extract resources from inter-dimensional anomalies. Build modular defenses, research advanced technology, automate complex systems, and scale your operation into an unstoppable anomaly-harvesting engine.
Why similar: Incremental 20.8%, Idler 15.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Automation 13.9%, Management 10%
Doom has arrived. But beyond the end… there are still dominoes. Push the dominoes to start a chain reaction, and grow exponentially through offerings and reincarnation. A meditative idle game featuring multi-layered prestige, automation, and strategy-driven challenges.
Why similar: Incremental 24.4%, Idler 22.4%, Automation 18.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Minimalist 10.1%
Immerse yourself in the world of ASCII art. Create works of art from characters. Build factories, upgrade them, and expand your production capacity. Invest in blueprints and reach milestones to earn bonuses. Use the ascension system for additional benefits.
Why similar: Incremental 26.3%, Idler 19.4%, Minimalist 12.2%, Automation 9.7%, Strategy 9.4%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Minimalist 12.2%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 7.8%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8%