- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the direct predecessor to the idle version, offering a more hands-on approach to the same automation and logistics mechanics.
- #2 Industry Idle
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,484 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.8 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 17.6%, Idler 15.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Incremental 12.2%, Resource Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the spreadsheet-style interface and complex supply chain management that makes Factory Town Idle so addictive.
- #3 Idle Colony
96% matchVery Positive82% of 577 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 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 19.3%, Incremental 18%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Idler 16.1%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core focus on managing a growing population through automation and incremental resource gathering.
- #4 Idle Research
95% matchVery Positive84% of 1,898 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 76.3 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 20%, Incremental 17.6%, Automation 17.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Minimalist 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at combining automation with a clear, rewarding progression path through scientific research.
- #5 Orb of Creation
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,201 reviews2026
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 48.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
Why similar: Incremental 43.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Magic 12.8%, Idler 9.4%, Minimalist 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, thoughtful incremental experience that rewards careful resource management and strategic planning.
- #6 Sixty Four
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,665 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Incremental 22.3%, Automation 21.7%, Idler 15.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This minimalist incremental game focuses on resource extraction and automation in a highly satisfying, loop-based environment.
- #7 Incremental Town RPG
93% 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: Colony Sim 16.7%, Idler 16.7%, Incremental 14.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Automation 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It merges town-building elements with incremental progression, creating a satisfying loop of growth and expansion.
- #8 Melvor Idle
92% matchVery Positive90% of 16,141 reviews2021
Dev: Games by MalcsPub: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48.8 hrsMean: 362.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.
Why similar: Idler 35.6%, Automation 16.8%, Minimalist 9.5%, Crafting 9%, Magic 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: While RPG-focused, its deep resource management and crafting systems provide a similar sense of long-term progression.
- #9 CivIdle
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,104 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 82.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Idler 23.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game applies idle mechanics to civilization building, focusing on historical progression and resource automation.
- #10 Widget Inc.
89% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 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 28.5%, Incremental 27.3%, Idler 17.3%, Resource Management 17%, Casual 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward incremental game that focuses on the automation of production lines to generate wealth.
- #11 Blueprint Tycoon
91% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Management 17.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Simulation 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the logistics and management side of production, requiring you to balance resources to keep your colony thriving.
- #12 Kubifaktorium
90% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 21.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with automation, allowing you to build complex production chains in a charming voxel world.
- #13 Tower Wizard
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,856 reviews2025
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Why similar: Incremental 37.7%, Idler 21.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Magic 7.5%, Fantasy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines fantasy elements with incremental mechanics, focusing on resource management to power your wizard's tower.
- #14 Autonauts
89% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces programming-based automation to colony management, perfect for those who enjoy the logic-building aspect of factory games.
- #15 shapez
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 40%, Resource Management 21.6%, Crafting 17.5%, Management 11.5%, 2D 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game strips automation down to its purest form, focusing entirely on optimizing geometric production lines.
- #16 Idle Pixel Fantasy
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 914 reviews2025
Dev: Max Ritters
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Recruit hard-working helpers and magical creatures that automatically collect gold and crystals. Unlock new levels, invest in stronger units, and work your way up to the powerful dragon boss at the top. A relaxing pixel-style idle clicker!
Why similar: Incremental 30.7%, Automation 28.4%, Idler 13.9%, Fantasy 8.7%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This fantasy-themed incremental game focuses on automating resource gathering and character progression.
- #17 Revolution Idle
85% matchVery Positive87% of 12,167 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 178.2 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: Incremental 16.7%, Automation 16.5%, Idler 16%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Minimalist 10%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a clean, simulation-based incremental experience that rewards long-term planning and automation.
- #18 Feudal Fantasy Incremental
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 106 reviews2023
Dev: Luminosity Interactive
Windows
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
Why similar: Idler 22.4%, Incremental 21.8%, Resource Management 15%, Minimalist 8.6%, Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic fantasy setting paired with deep resource management and incremental growth systems.
- #19 Settlemoon
83% matchVery Positive86% of 288 reviews2023
Dev: Lepioid LLC
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Idler 22.5%, Minimalist 13.4%, Magic 7.8%, Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A charming, minimalist city-builder that utilizes idle mechanics to manage the growth of your settlement.
- #20 Magic Archery
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,328 reviews2024
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Why similar: Incremental 27.8%, Idler 25%, Resource Management 15.2%, Magic 7.6%, Fantasy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends fantasy resource management with incremental mechanics to drive economic growth.
- #21 Crafting Idle Clicker
84% matchMixed49% of 933 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Idler 21.1%, Incremental 20.4%, Management 10%, Capitalism 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the crafting and production chain aspect of incremental games.
- #22 SimPocalypse
84% 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: Automation 17.3%, Idler 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Incremental 14.5%, City Builder 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex civilization-management experience where automation is key to surviving and expanding.
- #23 FEED THE QUEEN
81% matchMixed70% of 575 reviews2026
Dev: Quiétude
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gather food to grow your colony. Evolve and upgrade specialized worker types. Discover and combine interesting synergies. Optimize your production, customize your strategy and feed the Queen ever-increasing amounts of food!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Incremental 24.2%, Idler 22.6%, Automation 10.9%, Resource Management 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It brings colony-sim mechanics into the incremental genre, requiring you to manage resources to sustain a growing hive.
- #24 Idle Grid
82% matchMixed60% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Lake Country Games
Windows
Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Idler 18.7%, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15.3%, Incremental 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses a grid-based system to manage automation, offering a unique spatial puzzle element to the idle genre.
- #25 Idle Commonwealth
81% matchMixed66% of 133 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 23%, Incremental 19.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Minimalist 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on strategic resource management and incremental growth within a colony-building framework.
- #26 Fill Up The Hole
78% matchVery Positive90% of 1,193 reviews2025
Dev: Fluffy Lotus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Why similar: Incremental 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Idler 19.3%, City Builder 18.2%, Management 7.9%
- #27 Idle Cave Miner
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,203 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Hours
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 129.7 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 25.7%, Incremental 22.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game centers on mining and resource management, providing a classic incremental loop with a focus on crafting.
- #28 IDLE BOSS RUSH
78% matchMixed67% of 829 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 17.7 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: Incremental 21%, Idler 19.8%, Colony Sim 13.1%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 10%
- #29 Factory Town 2: Paradise
76% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 9.1%
- #30 Starvester
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 788 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 22.3%, Idler 21.2%, Incremental 20.5%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 8.5%
- #31 Holyday City: Reloaded
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,640 reviews2018
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 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: Incremental 25.3%, Capitalism 20.4%, Idler 19.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A capitalism-themed incremental game that focuses on managing businesses and scaling production for profit.
- #32 Hearth and Hamlet
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,503 reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: City Builder 25.6%, Incremental 25.2%, Idler 19.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 11%
- #33 Incremental Factory
77% matchMixed68% of 247 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 27%, Idler 23.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Minimalist 7.3%
- #34 Forage Wizard
74% matchVery Positive87% of 1,486 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Incremental 21%, Automation 20%, Idler 16.1%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 15%
- #35 Simultree
75% matchVery Positive86% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: PIPAPOUPub: Coduck Studio
Windows
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations. You're a scientist who runs life simulations in order to gain points to spend in a big skill tree.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 17.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 9.6%
- #36 Cultivation Idle
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: 老鱼工作室
Windows
A casual cultivation-themed incremental idle RPG. Start as a Qi Refining cultivator, auto-train, idle, break through realms, explore maps and dungeons, defeat monsters, collect gear, skills, materials, pills, spirit stones and pets, farm, fish, chop wood, mine, cook, forge, and plan long-term growth
Why similar: Idler 25.1%, Automation 21.6%, Incremental 19.8%, Resource Management 14.9%, Point & Click 4.8%
- #37 Tiny Biomes: Cozy Idle
73% matchVery Positive86% of 447 reviews2026
Dev: Orca Point Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Tiny Biomes is a relaxing idle game where animals peacefully produce resources and you gather wood in a calm harvesting zone. Build small biomes, earn gold, and enjoy steady progression without pressure, timers, or stress. Play at your own pace and unwind.
Why similar: Idler 25.6%, Incremental 21.3%, Automation 14.6%, Minimalist 10.7%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #38 Paragon Pioneers
76% 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: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 21.2%, Idler 20.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 9.6%
- #39 Skeleseller
72% matchVery Positive92% of 418 reviews2026
Dev: Xtonomous
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're a skeleton shopkeep who hires adventurers to collect loot for you after your untimely demise. Send adventurers into battle, sell what they find, and build up your town in this laid-back idle game!
Why similar: Idler 31.4%, Capitalism 21.9%, Management 15.4%, Fantasy 9.3%, Casual 6%
- #40 Digseum
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,115 reviews2024
Dev: Rat Monthly
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Digseum is a short incremental journey about digging up ancient relics and building the greatest museum ever!
Why similar: Incremental 23.3%, Idler 19.5%, Minimalist 12%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #41 Click Mage
71% matchVery Positive92% of 2,575 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Incremental 29.4%, Resource Management 22%, Crafting 15.4%, Magic 10.5%, Fantasy 7.8%
- #42 Midas Gold Plus - Idle Clicker
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,783 reviews2017
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 183.8 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: Incremental 29.1%, Idler 17.8%, Capitalism 12.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Point & Click 8.1%
- #43 City idle
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 229 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: Colony Sim 50.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Colorful 5.9%
- #44 Village Tale
70% matchVery Positive83% of 321 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Idler 20.4%, City Builder 20%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 10.6%
- #45 Island Idle RPG
73% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 14%, City Builder 14%, Automation 10.8%
- #46 Paragon Pioneers 2
71% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 23.8%, Idler 21.3%, Management 7.1%, Fantasy 5.2%
- #47 Coin Factory
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 218 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!
Why similar: Idler 32.7%, Capitalism 26.1%, Resource Management 15.8%, City Builder 13.2%, Casual 8.1%
- #48 Founders' Fortune
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4%, City Builder 26.5%, Resource Management 9%, Management 7.7%, Crafting 5.7%
- #49 Loafing Town
67% matchVery Positive86% of 571 reviews2025
Dev: GoblinZzPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 43.0 hrsMean: 114.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.
Why similar: Idler 25.2%, Incremental 20.8%, City Builder 19.4%, Automation 11%, Management 7%
- #50 Mob Factory
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Resource Management 21.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Management 9.2%, Fantasy 7.5%
- #51 Mini Settlers
67% matchVery Positive81% of 742 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic 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: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 21.8%, City Builder 18.6%, Minimalist 13%, Management 9.4%
- #52 Infinite Ruins
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Kileka Games
Windows
An incremental mining game where you manage golems, destroy blocks, unlock upgrades, and descend infinitely in search of ever more valuable resources.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Idler 19.1%, Incremental 17.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Capitalism 10.6%
- #53 Dwarf Eats Mountain
65% matchVery Positive81% of 1,070 reviews2026
Dev: Green Wizard
Windows · Linux
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Why similar: Idler 28.8%, Incremental 26.6%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 9.4%, Fantasy 6%
- #54 Idling Gears
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 355 reviews2023
Dev: guilemus
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 35.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Click! Place gears, click! Make money, click! Place more gears, click! Make even more money, click, click and above all click!
Why similar: Idler 31.6%, Incremental 31.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Capitalism 9.9%, Management 7.6%
- #55 Crafting Town
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Crafting 24.9%, Incremental 24.1%, Resource Management 22.9%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Simulation 5.6%
- #56 Captain of Industry
66% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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 33.6%, Resource Management 20.8%, Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Management 9.5%
- #57 Fellwood
66% matchMixed66% of 83 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 19.7%, Incremental 18.9%, Automation 17.1%, Capitalism 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%
- #58 Gamblers Table
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,823 reviews2026
Dev: greenpixels
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Incremental 18.5%, Minimalist 13.1%, Capitalism 12%, Idler 11.8%
- #59 Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator
68% matchMixed69% of 219 reviews2022
Dev: The Evergloom Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Incremental 24.6%, Idler 12.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 5.3%