- #1 Microcivilization
97% matchVery Positive80% of 1,383 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: 4X 21.3% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Historical 11%, Idler 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the CivIdle experience by combining historical civilization building with deep incremental and clicker mechanics.
- #2 Industry Idle
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Idler 17.6%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sophisticated automation and resource management system that appeals to players who enjoy the logistical side of CivIdle.
- #3 Factory Town Idle
95% matchVery Positive91% of 1,215 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 73.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Automation 24.8%, Idler 23.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game distills the complexity of city-building into a streamlined, idle-focused experience centered on production chains.
- #4 SimPocalypse
96% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, Automation 17.8%, Idler 15.4%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a post-apocalyptic take on civilization management, focusing heavily on automation and long-term strategic choices.
- #5 Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
94% matchVery Positive90% of 26,928 reviews2021
Dev: Computer Lunch
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 82.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Why similar: Idler 53.1%, Historical 31.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Strategy 0.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the grand historical scope of CivIdle, allowing players to manage the evolution of life and civilization through incremental progression.
- #6 Paragon Pioneers
94% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Idler 24.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 11.8%, Medieval 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the colony-building and resource-management aspects of CivIdle with a focus on efficient, idle-friendly expansion.
- #7 Realm Grinder
93% matchVery Positive87% of 7,385 reviews2017
Dev: Divine GamesPub: Kongregate
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 131.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Idler 29.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic in the genre, it offers deep strategic choices and faction management that resonate with the complexity of CivIdle.
- #8 Captain of Industry
92% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 33.3%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Management 8.7%, City Builder 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While more active, its focus on massive-scale industrial automation and resource logistics is a natural progression for CivIdle fans.
- #9 Manor Lords
91% matchVery Positive84% of 87,232 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Historical 15.7%, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Medieval 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This provides a more immersive, visually detailed medieval city-building experience that shares the historical management themes of CivIdle.
- #10 Incremental Factory
91% 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 30%, Idler 24.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the core loop of building and scaling production chains, which is central to the CivIdle gameplay experience.
- #11 Sumerians
89% matchVery Positive88% of 323 reviews2023
Dev: Decumanus GamesPub: Melqart Games
Windows
Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Historical 16.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Trading 10.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses on historical accuracy and resource management, mirroring the early-era progression found in CivIdle.
- #12 Nova Roma
88% matchVery Positive95% of 1,833 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 19.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Historical 12.9%, Grand Strategy 12.8% ★, City Builder 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines grand strategy with city-building, offering the scale and historical management depth that CivIdle players enjoy.
- #13 Rise of Industry
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Management 14.4%, Trading 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep economic simulation that challenges players to manage complex supply chains, similar to the management requirements in CivIdle.
- #14 Foundation
86% matchVery Positive86% of 23,739 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Medieval 14.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This grid-less city-builder focuses on organic growth and resource management, offering a relaxing yet strategic alternative to CivIdle.
- #15 Civitatem
89% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Medieval 11.4%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes survival and growth, capturing the foundational struggle of starting a new civilization.
- #16 Kingdoms and Castles
85% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 13.8%, Medieval 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a lighthearted but strategic approach to medieval city-building and defense that complements the base-building elements of CivIdle.
- #17 Widget Inc.
84% matchVery Positive86% of 747 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Idler 19.9%, Resource Management 15.4%, Simulation 4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a straightforward approach to automation and resource management that mirrors the early-game loop of CivIdle.
- #18 Territory Idle
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,703 reviews2019
Dev: Aleksandr Golovkin
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 174.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Strategic idle game. Develop the kingdom, then abdicate and get gold! For gold, you can buy new tiles and expand the territory.
Why similar: Idler 81.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on expanding your reach and managing resources, capturing the 4X-lite feel of CivIdle.
- #19 Idle Civilization
87% matchMixed51% of 180 reviews2015
Dev: Very Simple Idea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 62.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Simulation 41%, Indie 15.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core premise of managing a civilization through time, focusing on simple yet addictive incremental growth.
- #20 Military Incremental Complex
83% matchVery Positive85% of 672 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Idler 20%, Trading 13.4%, Capitalism 11%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the industrial and military aspects of civilization building, providing a more aggressive take on the incremental genre.
- #21 Nebuchadnezzar
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,804 reviews2021
Dev: Nepos GamesPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Trading 19.1%, Historical 15.9%, Management 12.5%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic-style historical city-builder that focuses on monument construction and trade, echoing the wonder-building aspects of CivIdle.
- #22 Settlement Survival
82% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Medieval 15.1%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-focused city-builder requires careful resource management and long-term planning, similar to the challenges in CivIdle.
- #23 Trimps
81% matchVery Positive91% of 1,450 reviews2022
Dev: Greensatellite
Windows
Median: 15.2 hrsMean: 389.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Idler 33.9%, Management 13%, Building 7.4%, Strategy 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly influential incremental game that features deep progression and resource management mechanics similar to the core loop of CivIdle.
- #24 Dyson Sphere Program
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 33.3%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, City Builder 9.6%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on space, its massive scale and intricate automation systems are the logical next step for players who love optimizing production in CivIdle.
- #25 Satisfactory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Base Building 30.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 9.6%, Exploration 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the automation and resource management of CivIdle into a 3D first-person perspective, offering a more immersive building experience.
- #26 Banished
81% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: City Builder 47.1%, Medieval 11.2%, Resource Management 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A seminal city-builder that emphasizes the harsh realities of resource management and population growth in a medieval setting.
- #27 Antimatter Dimensions
79% matchVery Positive92% of 4,364 reviews2022
Dev: Hevipelle
Windows · Mac
Median: 26.3 hrsMean: 217.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Earn antimatter through dimensions! Gain Infinite antimatter to collapse the universe!
Why similar: Idler 63%, Automation 13%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Indie 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is a gold standard for incremental complexity, offering the same 'numbers go up' satisfaction found in CivIdle.
- #28 Chests, City, Clicker
82% matchMixed46% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: E-Crew
Windows
The principle is simple, the more time you spend, the richer you will be, you can do nothing and get money, but the decisions you make will allow you to get even more!
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Idler 22.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Trading 16.5%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends city-building with clicker mechanics, providing a casual experience that aligns with the idle nature of CivIdle.
- #29 Factorio
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 14%, Management 6.7%, City Builder 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation game, it provides the deep logistical challenge that CivIdle players often seek to master.
- #30 Revolution Idle
77% matchVery Positive87% of 11,167 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 172.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Idler 24.2%, Grand Strategy 16.1% ★, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #31 Anno 1800
79% matchVery Positive81% of 31,402 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 46.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Historical 9.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an unparalleled experience in complex supply chain management and industrial expansion within a historical framework.
- #32 Idle Commonwealth
76% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Qbusik Games
Windows
Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.
Why similar: Idler 31.9%, City Builder 19.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Management 9.5%, Building 7.9%
- #33 Idle Research
76% matchVery Positive84% of 1,854 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Idler 31.5%, Automation 29.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 11.8%, Strategy 5.1%
- #34 Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 888 reviews2023
Dev: Benjamin StaugaardPub: Benzoft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Vacuum Warrior is a Free to Play incremental idle game. Listen to the crisp crackle of dust and debris entering your vacuum as you vacuum ridiculous amounts of dust. Upgrade your vacuums, idle gains, and robot vacuums, earn achievements, and explore numerous locations in the Vacuum Warrior universe!
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Idler 33.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 7%, Management 6.2%
- #35 Incremental Town RPG
75% matchMixed60% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Idler 22.5%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 12.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #36 Crafting Idle Clicker
77% matchMixed49% of 913 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Idler 22.4%, Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, Management 10.9%, Capitalism 7.7%
- #37 IDLE BOSS RUSH
73% matchMixed67% of 792 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Why similar: Idler 24.7%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Automation 9.9%
- #38 Idle Spiral
74% matchVery Positive80% of 1,862 reviews2022
Dev: Idle System, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 118.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!
Why similar: Idler 43.1%, Automation 37.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 2.9%
- #39 Slimeward
71% matchVery Positive94% of 218 reviews2026
Dev: ByeolGamesPub: ByeolByte
Windows
Slimeward is an idle game where players build and upgrade a village, recruit heroes, and defeat Monster 'Slime' that fell in front of the house one day,
Why similar: Idler 23.3%, Automation 19.2%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Medieval 8.8%
- #40 Galaxy Idle Clicker
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,155 reviews2025
Dev: SoehnlePub: TimeLost Gaming
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 350.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Embark on an interstellar journey with Galaxy Idle Clicker! Conquer galaxies, upgrade your spaceship, and face off against a myriad of enemy ships. With engaging minigames, powerful upgrades, GIC delivers an unparalleled idle space adventure. Join the cosmic conquest today and dominate the universe!
Why similar: Idler 49.5%, Resource Management 25.5%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 6%, Indie 3.1%
- #41 Idle Cave Miner
73% matchVery Positive80% of 1,113 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Hours
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 128.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
Why similar: Idler 47.2%, Management 23.1%, Resource Management 19.6%, Simulation 6%, 2D 3.1%
- #42 Idling to Rule the Gods
74% matchVery Positive85% of 2,096 reviews2016
Dev: Shugasu GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 592.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Idling to Rule the Gods is a free to play Idle-Game with a lot of content and some Minigames. Depending on your play-style, you can play it fast or slow. Either way it can be fun for hundreds of hours!
Why similar: Idler 44.7%, Management 25.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 10%, Indie 3.5%
- #43 Idle Colony
72% matchVery Positive83% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 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 33.9%, Idler 25.9%, Management 12.3%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #44 City idle
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 219 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Building 16.7%, Management 15.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Medieval 12.3%, Simulation 12%
- #45 Let Them Trade
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,081 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Trading 17.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 10.7%
- #46 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
69% matchVery Positive85% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).
Why similar: Historical 16.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Trading 14.9%, Base Building 13.9%
- #47 Territory: Farming and Warfare
68% matchVery Positive85% of 715 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 18.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.7%
- #48 Mini Settlers: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 18.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 8.6%
- #49 Holyday City: Reloaded
71% matchVery Positive81% of 1,626 reviews2018
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 113.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build, manage & grow your city in Holyday City: Reloaded! An idle clicker game where you're the business tycoon, expanding your metropolis. Master resource & time management to upgrade businesses and thrive. Experience the ultimate town builder adventure with Holyday City.
Why similar: Idler 30.2%, Capitalism 25.6%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 4.4%
- #50 Automatic Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Medieval 12.6%
- #51 Norland
66% matchVery Positive82% of 9,913 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 19.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Grand Strategy 11.7% ★, Historical 11.5%, City Builder 11.2%
- #52 Creature Card Idle
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 171 reviews2019
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Linux
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Creature Card Idle is an incremental game that fuses strategic grid-based gameplay with the thrill of collecting cards. Experience an evolving journey across expansions, each introducing new mechanics and cards. Play for free without microtransactions.
Why similar: Idler 72.2%, Strategy 13.4%, 2D 4.8%, Indie 4.4%, Management 2.9%
- #53 MMO98
66% matchMixed70% of 458 reviews2026
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Why similar: Idler 29.7%, Capitalism 14.1%, Automation 12.1%, Trading 9.9%, Management 9.2%
- #54 Marble Age
70% matchVery Positive83% of 744 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Historical 15.7%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 8.9%
- #55 Grand Ages: Medieval
71% matchMixed48% of 1,971 reviews2015
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Why similar: Trading 21.4%, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Medieval 13.4%, City Builder 12.5%, Historical 9.5%
- #56 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
63% matchVery Positive91% of 25,891 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: 4X 15.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Grand Strategy 13.6% ★, Historical 13.5%
- #57 Unnamed Space Idle
65% matchVery Positive93% of 4,158 reviews2023
Dev: SylvPub: Jdog Corp
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 293.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.
Why similar: Idler 50.7%, Automation 21%, Resource Management 17.2%, Simulation 7.5%, 2D 2.2%
- #58 Automation Empire
68% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 9.1%, City Builder 9.1%
- #59 Incremental Cubes
67% matchMixed69% of 1,012 reviews2021
Dev: Idle System, Inc.
Windows
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 54.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Cube based incremental game that is simple but very deep!
Why similar: Idler 81.7%, Simulation 13.9%, 2D 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #60 Castle Clicker : Idle City Tycoon
69% matchMixed67% of 703 reviews2017
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Castle Clicker is a more strategy focused clicking game that required you to think about how to manage your resources and build your city. If you're looking for a more in depth but still casual clicking game, this is for you!
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Building 24.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Indie 6.5%