- #1 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Idler 25.3%, Automation 25.3%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8%
- #2 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Idler 23.2%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11%, Management 10%
- #3 Candy Machine
97% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Colossal Wreck
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 214.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy
Why similar: Idler 21.5%, Building 14.5%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10.9%
- #4 Fellwood
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Allerton Apps
Windows · Mac
Build a wild fantasy lumber empire that bombards a forest across the valley with axes, ballistas, cannons, and magic. Harvest flying logs, stack absurd upgrades, and automate your way to unstoppable woodcutting power.
Why similar: Idler 20.6%, Automation 19.4%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #5 Feed The Forest
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indoor Sunglasses
Windows · Linux
A short, innocent incremental forest-builder. Unlock snail powers to spread life in a barren desert. Feed the mysterious Forest with juice. And remember: Blood is a type of juice.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Idler 20.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Economy 8.1%, Building 8%
- #6 Starvester
93% matchMixed70% of 696 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Idler 19.1%, Building 11.2%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #7 Apiary in Flow
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AkinoEgo
Windows
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: Automation 27.4%, Idler 25.4%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 7%
- #8 Chronominion Idler
92% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Indie Addict Game Studio
Windows
Manage your party, develop skills, and shape the fate of a living world in this strategy-driven RPG.
Why similar: Idler 28.4%, Automation 28.3%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #9 BOREWORKS
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 11.9%
- #10 Moon Garden
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kairos Games LLC
Windows
A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!
Why similar: Idler 29.2%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%
- #11 Cursor Kingdom
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oba Games
Windows
Create an army of cursor clones by recording your actions. Automate resource gathering, production, and defense while your kingdom grows on its own.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Idler 20.6%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.3%, Economy 9.6%
- #12 Idle Colony
89% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Automation 22.6%, Idler 18.8%, Economy 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.3%
- #13 Astral Enterprises
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15%, Management 14.3%, Economy 13.8%, Building 12.6%
- #14 Monster Flipper
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NovaScreen
Windows
Monster Flipper is a short incremental game where you buy and level monsters, smash them with a giant hammer for gold, and unlock swords and artifacts to automate your progress.
Why similar: Idler 27.4%, Automation 22.1%, Economy 13.6%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 9.9%
- #15 Incremental Factory
88% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Idler 21.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Economy 8.9%
- #16 ComboCraft Legendary
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: While !fun continue;
Windows
An Idle incremental clicker focused on crafting symbols, merging combinations, and building automated production. Reset your run to unlock permanent upgrades and grow stronger each cycle.
Why similar: Idler 22.8%, Building 15.8%, Economy 13.6%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 8.1%
- #17 Captain of Industry
86% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.8%
- #18 Mito
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 13%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 9.9%
- #19 Doodle Factory
85% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.2%, Idler 13.1%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #20 Orbit to Riches
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ThinKING Cat Games
Windows
Orbit to Riches is a short, relaxing incremental space game where you mine asteroids, upgrade ships, and grow stronger over multiple runs - no timers, no rush.
Why similar: Idler 23.7%, Automation 15%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.9%, Strategy 9.5%
- #21 Into the Planet's Flesh
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chugget
Windows
Hatch all kinds of parasites, spread veined buildings through the earth, and collect many different grotesque resources to make the planet hurtle toward its doom even faster.
Why similar: Idler 27%, Building 17.8%, Automation 17.4%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #22 Progress Bar Deluxe
82% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Diego Schram Games
Windows
Loading, loading, loading… when will it ever be ready? Will you finally see the bar reach 100%? In Progress Bar Deluxe, your mission is simple — fill the ultimate progress bar to 100%! Click, upgrade, and wait as you chase that sweet moment of completion.
Why similar: Idler 23.6%, Automation 21.9%, Economy 14.7%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #23 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
83% matchPositive84% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Idler 26.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Building 11.8%, Management 7.5%
- #24 Crime Empire Idle
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Litwire Games
Windows · Linux
Build your criminal dynasty in a deep idle/incremental game. Run crimes, launder dirty cash, upgrade your empire, use the black market, craft weapons & gear to fight criminal opponents while you balance heat and notoriety.
Why similar: Idler 28.5%, Automation 23.4%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Economy 12.7%
- #25 Pumpkin Restaurant
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pumpkin Game
Windows
Let pumpkins and cats run the restaurant for you, serving hearty food to adventurers. This is a casual business simulation game at the bottom of the screen that doesn't interfere with you doing other things.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Idler 25.1%, Building 15.1%, Economy 8.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #26 Resources Assemble!
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Idler 27.3%, Management 12%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #27 Island Robot Farm
79% matchVery Positive87% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: MoraCocoPub: Wise Games
Windows
Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.
Why similar: Idler 25.9%, Automation 25%, Building 13.4%, Management 10.9%, Economy 10.7%
- #28 Star Birds
78% matchVery Positive92% of 2,915 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 8.6%
- #29 Knowmad
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Aey and Mel Gaming
Windows
Build your base, earn passive income, and survive each night. Strategize your way off the planet in this cozy-but-challenging game.
Why similar: Idler 24.3%, Automation 16.7%, Economy 13.9%, Management 11.5%, Building 9%
- #30 Flower Tower
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Polnoch
Windows
A short, relaxing incremental game about growing flowers, where your garden quietly thrives and blooms on its own.
Why similar: Idler 29.4%, Automation 29.3%, Relaxing 8.4%, Management 8.3%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #31 Little Big Workshop
81% matchVery Positive84% of 3,377 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Building 16.4%, Management 15.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #32 Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shotgun Anaconda
Windows
Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to make more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.
Why similar: Idler 20.8%, Automation 11.7%, Building 11.6%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #33 Mashinomat
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Demigrz
Windows
Build a vending machine business, deliver goods across different locations and manage your business using your vehicle.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Idler 31.4%, Economy 16.9%, Management 15.9%, Casual 3%
- #34 Potion Pipeline
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Building 19.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Management 9%
- #35 Hamster City
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doonutsaur
Windows
Hamster City is a relaxing idle-building simulator where roads and buildings fuel your food-gathering empire! Build, unlock, and let your city grow in the background as you climb the leaderboard to become the top Chief!
Why similar: Idler 30.9%, Building 18.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 13.5%, Relaxing 5.8%
- #36 Clicky Coven
75% match8 user reviews0% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Vulty
Windows
Clicky Coven is an incremental game about building a witch coven. Assign witches to gather ingredients, brew potions, and sell them to earn gold. Spend gold to get more witches and pick from upgrades to enhance them. Use prestige upgrades to strategize on how you want your coven to become rich.
Why similar: Idler 24.7%, Building 16.5%, Economy 13.8%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #37 Grandma's Golden Boy: Sheep Shear Madness
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ailuros Peak
Windows
Defend your title as Grandma’s Golden Boy! No one leaves without a bare bum. Shear the wildest sheep, host legendary tea parties for the grannies, craft epic gear, and build your very own Wool Empire!
Why similar: Idler 31.8%, Automation 29%, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 7.2%, Management 7.2%
- #38 Buerokratie Idler: Germany
72% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: AKM Interactive
Windows
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
Why similar: Idler 30.1%, Automation 27.4%, Resource Management 12%, Management 12%, Economy 11.2%
- #39 plexum
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Building 17.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 7.8%
- #40 Astral Industrial Complex
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Con7rad7
Windows
A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11%
- #41 Ember Folks
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hryhorii Trukhan
Windows
Grow your city, accumulate wealth at an enormous rate, and help the Ember Folks reignite a dying Star in this short incremental adventure.
Why similar: Idler 27.2%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 12.3%, Automation 11.6%
- #42 Androsystem Idle
74% matchMixed52% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Produce Androids and create a Fleet that will help you conquer new planets. Mine valuable minerals that will further increase your production capacity.
Why similar: Idler 24.7%, Automation 23.3%, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Space 9.8%
- #43 Production Line : Car factory simulation
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Management 17%, Building 14.2%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 11%
- #44 Block Factory
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #45 Outer Factory
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #46 Fracture Field
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 981 reviews2026
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Median: 20.6 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Idler 24.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.2%
- #47 My Shelter
70% matchMixed50% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Tree
Windows
A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study. Research tech, farm crops, raise animals, recruit survivors, unlock mines, hunt mutants, fend off aberrations, gear up your squad, craft with machinery, repair the rocket, build your shelter—and conquer the apocalypse!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Idler 22.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11%, Management 9.6%
- #48 Bricknosis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mike Make Game
Windows
Break bricks to earn stuff to buy things to break more bricks. Half idle brick breaker, half clicker fidget spinner. Fullscreen it or drag it in a corner.
Why similar: Idler 32.5%, Automation 15.9%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Relaxing 8.8%
- #49 Corner Arcade
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Origami Panda Studio
Windows
Live the dream and run your own arcade in this idle management sim. Purchase arcade machines and build your space, your way. Run your arcade, level up and upgrade your machines to attract elite gamers and watch as they empty their pockets to fill yours! Then sit back & enjoy the buzz of the arcade.
Why similar: Idler 24.6%, Building 15.9%, Automation 15.4%, Management 13.5%, Economy 11.4%
- #50 Money Print Factory 3D Tycoon💸
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Obese NinjasPub: Broken Clock
Windows
Greetings, our money hungry player. This is a 3D Clicker Tycoon game where your money making adventure begins. Print money, buy & upgrade machines, and expand your factory. Gain more money, and more money, AND MORE MONEY $$$!
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Idler 22.2%, Economy 14.8%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.1%
- #51 Tiny Isle
67% matchVery Positive92% of 156 reviews2026
Dev: Nature Rituals StudioPub: Etherous Games Limited
Windows
Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.
Why similar: Idler 19.3%, Building 18.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.4%, Automation 9%
- #52 Node Math
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Idler 23.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 9%
- #53 Garbage Growth
67% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: apepatrickdev
Windows
Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!
Why similar: Idler 29%, Automation 28.1%, Economy 14.1%, Management 10.8%, Relaxing 6.2%
- #54 Dirt Clicker
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sailing Bears
Windows
Start with a spoon and a dream. Dig up treasures, unlock upgrades, hire adorable helpers and discover the secrets hidden beneath the dirt.
Why similar: Idler 26.2%, Automation 25.8%, Management 10.1%, Relaxing 8.4%, Strategy 7.5%
- #55 We Need More Steam!
71% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Building 16.8%, Management 15.5%, Base Building 12.8%
- #56 AetherRift
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Slade
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Idler 28.7%, Automation 26.9%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 9.9%
- #57 Slots & Diapers
65% matchVery Positive90% of 397 reviews2026
Dev: Parodie GamesPub: Lazy Otter
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Absurd incremental game where you turn even liquid assets into financial glory! Spin for jackpots and hire veteran gamblers to automate the madness. Use permanent upgrades and 'mishaps' to accelerate your progress! Simple. Messy. Addictive.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Idler 18.9%, Economy 11.1%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #58 Typewriter Monkeys
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: T. T. Hew Games
Windows
Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters will eventually write Shakespeare... right? Find out in this cozy automation idler! Strategically place different kinds of monkeys with typewriters then level them up as you type longer and longer words!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Idler 22.3%, Building 13%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #59 Dyson Sphere Program
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 90,956 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 14.7%, Space 11%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #60 Storefront Simulator
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infium BV
Windows
Build your retail empire! Tired of playing by someone else's rules? Design, build, stock, and manage your own retail paradise, from a humble corner shop to a sprawling commercial enterprise. Create a unique shopping experience and become a retail legend. Your customers are waiting!
Why similar: Idler 18.7%, Building 15.5%, Economy 13.2%, Management 13%, Base Building 10.4%