
Inspired by many automation and idle games, I wanted to create something centered around ores. With modern desktop games being so easy to run in the background, this is the perfect game to have running while working or gaming on the side.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Idler, Singleplayer, Automation, Indie.

Inspired by many automation and idle games, I wanted to create something centered around ores. With modern desktop games being so easy to run in the background, this is the perfect game to have running while working or gaming on the side.

Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!

Energy Collector
An idler about collecting energy. Automate the collection process, manage your resources by transferring them between fields and buy awesome upgrades. For what? To get more energy!
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Idler 29%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Indie 5.7%
An idler about collecting energy. Automate the collection process, manage your resources by transferring them between fields and buy awesome upgrades. For what? To get more energy!
Why similar: Automation 48.2%, Idler 40.5%, Indie 11.3%
Grow, process, sell and use different Crops on dozens of recipes. Get ready to strategically use items and other consumables in this 2D idle adventure.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Idler 35.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Indie 8.5%, Strategy 8.5%
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 39%, Idler 31.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Indie 7.8%
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: Automation 39.3%, Idler 34.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Indie 5%
Manage your party, develop skills, and shape the fate of a living world in this strategy-driven RPG.
Why similar: Automation 41.8%, Idler 36.3%, Indie 11.3%, Strategy 10.6%
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 50.2%, Idler 21.2%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 13.9%
In The Plus One Kingdom, you are the ruler of a fragile, crumbling domain. Time is relentless—1 real-world second equals 1 in-game day. Seasons change every 90 seconds. Winter is approaching, and if you’re unprepared, everyone will perish.
Why similar: Idler 45.9%, Indie 18.8%, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 17.5%
Placement game, free to add points, customize equipment attributes at any time, idle resources in exchange for permanent bonuses to attributes, challenge the limits of survival in the ruins, brave the unknown. You can control your character to get extra resources and abilities
Why similar: Idler 48.1%, Automation 24.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Indie 13.3%
Feed The Flame is a simple incremental game where you grow a flame to burn down the world. Buy better resources, unlock upgrades and employ thousands of workers to mine, chop and hunt down fuel for the flame. Easy. Satisfying. Highly addictive.
Why similar: Idler 38.4%, Automation 34.4%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 13.1%
In this cozy management sim, you get to run your own sushi train restaurant! Cook delicious meals, serve hungry customers, and grow your business with automation, decorations, and the help of a cat chef and robot assistants.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Idler 23.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 14.8%, Strategy 14.3%
You can strive for peak efficiency by upgrading strategically, or simply enjoy the soothing sights and sounds. Find your own way to have fun.
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Idler 37.7%, Indie 22.7%
Train rats in a series of mazes and help them improve their stats. Submit rats for grant money and use it to upgrade your lab with new tools and buy new rats with powerful abilities! These new rats have such amazing potential. How smart are these rats becoming?
Why similar: Idler 33.2%, Automation 25.1%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Indie 6.4%
Home Office Simulator is a relaxing and cute simulator game about the experience of a girl called Ayame, working remotely. Part of the game is to keep Ayame free from distractions and keep her focused.
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Idler 35.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Indie 6.3%, Simulation 6.3%
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Idler 26.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Indie 5.5%
A cyberpunk idle pinball game that lives on your desktop. Smash blocks, automate your build, upgrade your Reactor and Launcher, and let your neon machine print profit while you work or play.
Why similar: Idler 38.5%, Automation 33.4%, Strategy 20.3%, Indie 7.9%
Code your territory's AI to make it prosper! Manage production and processing, strengthen your adventurers and let them explore! Can you prevent enemy invasion and win the war? This is a hex-based 2D game in which coded Lua scripts are registered with NPCs to run a territory.
Why similar: Automation 49.8%, Idler 27.8%, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 6.7%
Mix light. Discover color. Idle forever. Place geometric nodes, connect them, and watch colored orbs flow through your factory. Combine primaries to create 256 named colors — each one waiting to be discovered.
Why similar: Idler 38.2%, Automation 18.3%, Strategy 15.8%, Indie 15.8%, Simulation 12%
A First Person Idle Game where you are tasked with producing as much energy as possible, for your company. Generate power that you can send back to your company, and you will be rewarded with ways to create even MORE power!
Why similar: Idler 43.7%, Automation 40.4%, Simulation 15.9%
Immortal cultivation hanging game, with a rich system, experience the world of immortal cultivation
Why similar: Idler 47.6%, Automation 43.8%, Indie 8.5%
This is a placement game. Due to the invasion of EB and D&D, humans learn and research new technologies, which enable them to manufacture and transform mechas; It can also cultivate pilots and develop cities. Finally eliminate all invading enemies
Why similar: Idler 41.2%, Automation 38.7%, Indie 20.1%
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 41.2%, Idler 33.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 9%, Indie 7.2%
一款玄幻类的文字挂机冒险游戏,可放置可探索剧情,即刻进入一个系统丰富且娱乐快捷的挂机世界吧!
Why similar: Idler 44.6%, Automation 34.5%, Strategy 20.9%
Become an oil magnate in a few days! Without investing real money, you'll get real pleasure from the profits! From pipette of oil to sales of trains to the Kingdom of Esvatini!
Why similar: Idler 37.1%, Automation 28.6%, Indie 20%, Strategy 14.4%
Lock, Load, Click. A slick clicker game where every click pulls the trigger. Earn shells, unlock wild gun cosmetics, and stack permanent multipliers. Simple to play, hard to quit. Lock, load, and click your way to glory.
Why similar: Automation 44%, Idler 36.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Indie 6.9%
Your computer desktop will no longer be just a static background, but a living, breathing ecosphere. You’ll watch plants and animals thrive as fish swim freely across your screen. In your downtime, you can feed the creatures, clean up their waste.
Why similar: Idler 45.5%, Automation 28.3%, Simulation 18.5%, Indie 7.6%
Recruit tacos, fight food enemies, survive the week. Build your team, pick your battles, and defeat the Health Inspector in this roguelike autobattler.
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Indie 25.3%, Idler 22.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 7.1%
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
Why similar: Automation 49.1%, Idler 29.8%, Indie 12.4%, Strategy 8.6%
A short, incremental game where you solve Captchas and get a bot to automate this process.
Why similar: Idler 37.7%, Automation 32.7%, Simulation 20.8%, Indie 8.8%
An incremental idler about recursively creating several famous fractals, managing your workers, and balancing multiple production lines to prevail against the exponential growth inherent in the mathematics of fractals.
Why similar: Automation 41.9%, Idler 38.9%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 5.5%
Kkokko Industry is a relaxing idle game where you manage a chicken farm. The game runs on one side of your monitor, allowing you to enjoy it comfortably while working on other tasks.
Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Idler 39.7%, Simulation 12%, Indie 6.7%
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 58.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Indie 13.5%, Strategy 13.3%
A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Idler 35.9%, Indie 12%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 2.5%
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 22.1%, Indie 17.6%
An idle clicker game that features moments of active and passive play, with a dynamic window system that allows you to toggle the game on top of other applications and adjust it to your preference.
Why similar: Idler 47.1%, Automation 44.6%, Indie 8.3%
An incremental clicker game where you HEROICALLY… click a button to light a fire. That’s it... The fire makes ash, you assign recipes to arcane forges, materials appear, upgrades unlock, numbers go up, and somehow.... you’re still optimizing it all. Repeat forever.
Why similar: Automation 33%, Idler 29.2%, Indie 19.8%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%
Food Facility is a 2D factory automation game where you design and build complex production lines to create delicious food, sell your goods, and grow your business empire!
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Strategy 25.3%, Indie 19.8%, Simulation 16.6%
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: Automation 42.4%, Idler 40.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 6.5%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Indie 22.3%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 18.7%
A clicker / idle incremental game with simple gameplay, deep progression, and endless strategy. Level heroes, unlock powerful upgrades, and watch the numbers go up. Easy to start, hard to stop.
Why similar: Automation 53.4%, Idler 17.8%, Indie 15.6%, Strategy 13.2%
You're the boss of bureaucracy. Exploit interns, automate the red tape and climb the corporate ladder in this satirical idle empire builder.
Why similar: Idler 44.6%, Automation 26.2%, Strategy 15.5%, Indie 13.7%
It's time for Ruho to show 'em how a plumpy mama gets rich! Trade goods ranging from computers to automatic weapons as you visit the towns dotting a countryside in the sunset world of Tumydorado.
Why similar: Indie 46.8%, Simulation 26.6%, Strategy 26.6%
Automate your growth, uncover a gorgeous city, and chase the ultimate metric: Liveliness. This cozy idle clicker lets you unlock passive income boosts and powerful minigames to rapidly scale your empire. Attract every unique citizen and claim your spot on the global leaderboard!
Why similar: Idler 47.9%, Indie 20.7%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 13.1%
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: Automation 39.3%, Idler 36.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 4.9%
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 38%, Automation 35.5%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 9.3%, Indie 5.3%
CLICK > JUMP > GAIN JUMP BUCKS > BUY UPGRADES > JUMP MORE !!! Hoplings is a hand-crafted pixel art clicker/incremental game that is sure to keep you hopping for more!
Why similar: Automation 44.2%, Idler 36.3%, Indie 9%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 4.1%
Bake cookies endlessly and feed the monsters! Grow cookie monsters with powerful jaws by making strategic upgrades and hiring workers. Use the prestige system to speed up progress, unlock all upgrades, and enjoy the stunning visual feast!
Why similar: Idler 36.1%, Automation 29.5%, Strategy 19.9%, Indie 14.4%
Manage your number factory: extract values, chain multipliers, and optimize to watch them grow. Upgrade buildings permanently, balance resources for leveling up, and enjoy idle progression. Relaxed, infinite automation!
Why similar: Automation 45.8%, Idler 33.1%, Indie 10.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 2.7%
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Why similar: Automation 47.4%, Indie 25.6%, Simulation 23.7%, Strategy 3.3%
Slay endless monsters for legendary loot. Master deep crafting and prestige systems to grow infinitely. Collect an army of companions and conquer the unknown. Do you have what it takes to become a hero?
Why similar: Idler 40.6%, Automation 30.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 6.2%
A casual idle fishing sim that sits quietly at the bottom of your screen while you do other tasks.
Why similar: Automation 44.4%, Idler 39%, Simulation 10.3%, Indie 6.3%
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 62.3%, Strategy 21.7%, Indie 16%
Transform simple ingredients into delicious dishes in Professional Chef. Buy, cook, sell, upgrade, and unlock new recipes. Optimize your processes, master every detail, and rise to culinary excellence in this engaging idle cooking experience!
Why similar: Automation 43%, Idler 35.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Indie 10.3%
An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Idler 35.1%, Indie 10.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 5.5%
Factoridling is an idle game about buying and upgrading Factories.
Why similar: Automation 52%, Idler 48%
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 47.9%, Idler 38.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5%, Indie 2.1%
Start with a Slingshot and evolve into a Galaxy Destroyer. In this Tactical Idle, manage Ammo, automate production, and face bosses in Artillery Mode. Ascend, unlock the Prestige Tree, and dominate absolute firepower.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Indie 24.6%, Idler 23.8%, Simulation 20.7%
Discover elements, feed the blackhole, automate with physics, complete missions, get better tools and build megafarms!
Why similar: Automation 53%, Idler 37.7%, Simulation 9.3%
Dive into a world of adorable hamsters and endless fun! "Hamster Funland" is a charming match-2 puzzle game inspired by the classic Pikachu game. Match tiles, customize your hamsters, and build the playground!