- #1 Industry Idle
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,488 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 21.1%, Idler 17.1%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same core DNA of balancing complex resource chains and watching numbers scale exponentially in an idle-friendly format.
- #2 Microcivilization
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,455 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21.8% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 12.6%, Historical 11.4%, City Builder 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines retro 4X civilization building with fast-paced incremental mechanics reminiscent of the seed game.
- #3 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 32%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, City Builder 10%, Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep industrial automation and resource management on a grand scale for players looking for more active logistics control.
- #4 Factory Town Idle
95% matchVery Positive91% of 1,262 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 24.2%, Idler 23.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Streamlines the factory management genre into an accessible idle-focused experience.
- #5 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 36.9%, Base Building 25.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 6.7%, City Builder 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential automation and base-building game that pushes the logistical optimization found in CivIdle to its absolute limit.
- #6 Kingdoms and Castles
94% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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: 4X 23.1% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on medieval city-building and resource management where you watch your settlement grow and withstand challenges.
- #7 Dyson Sphere Program
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 32.3%, Base Building 23%, Resource Management 10.7%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines massive scale automation with planetary resource harvesting and long-term base building.
- #8 Revolution Idle
91% matchVery Positive87% of 12,507 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 181.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 26.9%, Idler 24.1%, Grand Strategy 16.7%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers pure incremental growth and scaling numbers for fans of the idler genre.
- #9 Crafting Idle Clicker
93% matchMixed49% of 934 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Idler 22%, Grand Strategy 17.4%, Management 10.8%, Capitalism 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on crafting chains and incremental progression mechanics.
- #10 shapez
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 9.8%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on abstract factory building and infinite scaling automation without the stress of combat.
- #11 Anno 1800
89% matchVery Positive81% of 32,498 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.8 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 47.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Historical 10%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides intricate historical city-building and complex multi-tiered resource supply chains.
- #12 SimPocalypse
90% 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 21.9% ★, Automation 17.1%, Idler 14.8%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends idle simulation with apocalyptic management and strategic choices.
- #13 Idle Commonwealth
89% matchMixed66% of 140 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 31.1%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 15.3%, Management 9.4%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on empire-building through casual idle strategy and resource balancing.
- #14 Farthest Frontier
86% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, City Builder 15%, Historical 12.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed medieval survival city-builder that emphasizes deep farming and resource supply chains.
- #15 Timberborn
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unique vertical base-building and water-physics-based resource management with a beaver society.
- #16 Territory Idle
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,733 reviews2019
Dev: Aleksandr Golovkin
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 174.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 80.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a minimalist approach to territorial expansion and incremental strategy.
- #17 Idle Research
87% matchVery Positive84% of 1,909 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 76.4 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 31.2%, Automation 29.2%, Resource Management 14%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the satisfaction of complex laboratory automation and exponential upgrades.
- #18 Hearth and Hamlet
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,235 reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, City Builder 21.7%, Idler 20.1%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy incremental city-builder that emphasizes growing a medieval settlement over time.
- #19 Widget Inc.
84% matchVery Positive85% of 779 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.4 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 34.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Idler 19.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides casual automation and resource management mechanics centered around production efficiency.
- #20 Incremental Factory
85% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 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 29.4%, Idler 23.8%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Merges factory-style automation loops with classic idle progression.
- #21 Nova Roma
82% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 18.5% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Grand Strategy 13.2%, Historical 13.1%, City Builder 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic city-builder set in ancient times requiring careful economic management.
- #22 Banished
83% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 48.1%, Medieval 11.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 8.1%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: The classic historical survival city-builder where managing tiny resource loops is paramount to community survival.
- #23 Rise of Industry
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 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 17.4%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Trading 12.7%, Automation 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and optimizing sprawling industrial supply chains in a historical era.
- #24 Idle Colony
79% matchVery Positive82% of 578 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 21.7 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 33.2%, Idler 25.5%, Management 12.5%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with idle mechanics for a lightweight progression loop.
- #25 City idle
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 231 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 16.9%, Management 15.1%, Medieval 12.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 12%
Why You'll Like It: Simplifies urban management into an idle-friendly resource loop.
- #26 Civitatem
81% matchMixed63% of 134 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 27.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Medieval 11.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval city builder where you manage villagers, resources, and survival.
- #27 Idle Cave Miner
78% matchVery Positive81% of 1,239 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Hours
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 128.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 47.1%, Management 23.3%, Resource Management 19.2%, Simulation 6.2%, 2D 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Satisfies the urge for continuous resource extraction and upgrade loops.
- #28 Crownhold
76% matchVery Positive85% of 504 reviews2026
Dev: Tobias Mikula
Windows · Linux
Noble Rulers — grow your realm and expand your castle in this short incremental game! Manage resources, discover foreign lands and build up an army to lay siege to your enemies.
Why similar: Idler 26.3%, Historical 16.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Medieval 13.8%, Management 11.6%
- #29 Automation Empire
79% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 30.6%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 10%, City Builder 9.6%, Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: Centers entirely on building massive, multi-tiered industrial processing networks.
- #30 Little Incrementisle
75% matchVery Positive82% of 976 reviews2026
Dev: AM TEAMPub: Unexpected
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Little Incrementisle is an incremental colony-building game where you land on one wild island after another. On each island, you gather resources, construct buildings, recruit villagers, and develop your colony, until you’re ready to set sail for the next one.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, City Builder 29.1%, Medieval 14.3%, Strategy 11.5%, 2D 4.8%
- #31 Grand Ages: Medieval
80% matchMixed48% of 1,977 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 20.9%, Grand Strategy 16.6%, Medieval 13.7%, City Builder 13%, Historical 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers strategic trade and empire management across a medieval European map.
- #32 The Colonists
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Management 11.9%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cute settlement-building game driven by programming automated bot transport networks.
- #33 Realm Grinder
77% matchVery Positive87% of 7,442 reviews2017
Dev: Divine GamesPub: Kongregate
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 132.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Idler 28.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #34 Synergism
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 284 reviews2026
Dev: PlatonicPub: PLATONIC AND KHAFRA IDLE GAMES OF SYNERGISM AND ULTIMATE PROGRESS BAR LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 29.2 hrsMean: 195.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Synergism is a free-to-play Idle game about... well, Synergy! Explore that concept through hundreds of upgrades, many reset layers and probably thousands of hours of content that allows both idle and active play.
Why similar: Idler 55.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Capitalism 13.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, 2D 3.6%
- #35 Idling to Rule the Gods
76% matchVery Positive85% of 2,137 reviews2016
Dev: Shugasu GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 605.5 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 43.6%, Management 26%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Indie 3.7%
- #36 Idle Spiral
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,904 reviews2022
Dev: Idle System, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 117.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 42.9%, Automation 36.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Resource Management 6.2%, Strategy 3%
- #37 Idle Civilization
77% 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 43.7%, Simulation 40.9%, Indie 15.4%
- #38 Galaxy Idle Clicker
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,214 reviews2025
Dev: SoehnlePub: TimeLost Gaming
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 407.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 49.2%, Resource Management 25.1%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 6.2%, Indie 3.3%
- #39 IDLE BOSS RUSH
73% matchMixed67% of 841 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 18.4 hrsMean: 37.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 23.9%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Automation 9.5%
- #40 Incremental Town RPG
74% matchMixed60% of 99 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%, Base Building 17.4%, Automation 16.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #41 Military Incremental Complex
71% matchVery Positive81% of 754 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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%, Idler 19.7%, Trading 13.6%, Capitalism 11.2%, Management 10%
- #42 Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 935 reviews2023
Dev: Benjamin StaugaardPub: Benzoft
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 97.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 33.8%, Idler 32.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 6.9%, Management 6.3%
- #43 Sumerians
72% matchVery Positive87% of 331 reviews2023
Dev: Decumanus 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 20.5%, Historical 17.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Trading 10%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #44 Slimeward
70% matchVery Positive90% of 352 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 22.4%, Automation 18.4%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 9.1%
- #45 Chests, City, Clicker
73% matchMixed45% 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 24.7%, Idler 22%, City Builder 18.2%, Trading 16.4%, Building 8.8%
- #46 Sim Companies
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,110 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 86.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.
Why similar: Trading 26.8%, Capitalism 19.7%, Management 17.2%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #47 Manor Lords
68% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 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: 4X 22.1% ★, Historical 12.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Grand Strategy 12.5%, City Builder 12.1%
- #48 Holyday City: Reloaded
71% matchVery Positive81% of 1,642 reviews2018
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 115.5 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 29.8%, Capitalism 25.8%, Management 15.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 4.6%
- #49 Let Them Trade
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,191 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.5 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 18.8%, Trading 17.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Medieval 10.7%
- #50 Territory: Farming and Warfare
67% matchVery Positive85% of 766 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 21.7%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 10%, Management 8.5%
- #51 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
68% matchVery Positive82% of 192 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 16.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Trading 14.4%, Base Building 13.9%
- #52 Paragon Pioneers
70% 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 23.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Management 11.6%, Medieval 11.5%
- #53 Farewells clicker
69% matchMixed63% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Team Square
Windows · Mac
Farewells Clicker is an addictive blend of clicker and city builder! Expand your island, develop your city, and produce resources endlessly. Upgrade your buildings and skills through a vast skill tree to progress further and further!
Why similar: Idler 31.5%, City Builder 24.5%, Medieval 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 5.6%
- #54 IDLE_DIRECTIVE
66% matchVery Positive86% of 518 reviews2026
Dev: Kevinfu510
Windows
Median: 24.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 100%
Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.
Why similar: Idler 36.5%, Trading 32.4%, Automation 10.3%, Resource Management 5.8%, Exploration 5.7%
- #55 Automatic Kingdom
67% matchVery Positive88% of 57 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 25.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Medieval 13%
- #56 Unnamed Space Idle
66% matchVery Positive93% of 4,489 reviews2023
Dev: SylvPub: Jdog Corp
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 302.6 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 51%, Automation 20.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Simulation 7.7%, 2D 2.3%
- #57 Marble Age
70% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 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 20.2% ★, Historical 16%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 12.2%, Management 8.6%
- #58 Creature Card Idle
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 174 reviews2019
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 71.2%, Strategy 13.9%, 2D 5%, Indie 4.6%, Management 2.9%
- #59 Castle Clicker : Idle City Tycoon
69% matchMixed67% of 706 reviews2017
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 74.5 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 33.1%, Building 24.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 15.5%, Indie 6.5%
- #60 Midas Gold Plus - Idle Clicker
67% matchVery Positive85% of 1,783 reviews2017
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 184.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Discover Midas Gold Plus, an engaging idle clicker set in a mythical world! Harness King Midas' golden touch, build a legendary city, and unlock powerful champions. Master unique gameplay styles, explore pet battles, and conquer rival cities. Delve into this ancient tycoon adventure today!
Why similar: Idler 43.8%, Capitalism 25.9%, Resource Management 20.2%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 3%