- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 23.8%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it offers the same core logistics and automation gameplay but with a more hands-on, 3D world-building experience.
- #2 Industry Idle
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 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 18.2%, Idler 16.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Clicker 11.4%, Resource Management 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the spreadsheet-style management and complex production chains found in Factory Town Idle.
- #3 Paragon Pioneers
96% 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 24.5% ★, Idler 21.5%, City Builder 20.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building and resource management with idle mechanics, making it a perfect fit for fans of colony-sim progression.
- #4 Settlemoon
95% matchVery Positive86% of 279 reviews2023
Dev: Lepioid LLC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 34.1 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 23.8%, Idler 23.8%, Minimalist 13.2%, Magic 7.6%, Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This minimalist city-builder focuses on idle growth and resource management, capturing the same cozy, 2D aesthetic.
- #5 Orb of Creation
94% matchVery Positive90% of 1,469 reviews2022
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is an active 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: Idler 24%, Resource Management 18.5%, Clicker 16.5%, Magic 15.9%, Minimalist 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, incremental resource management experience with a unique fantasy theme that rewards strategic planning.
- #6 Sixty Four
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,629 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Clicker 19.9%, Idler 16.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation game that focuses on scaling production and resource conversion through satisfying, incremental clicks.
- #7 Kubifaktorium
93% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 22.8% ★, Automation 22.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on logistics, automation, and colony management, offering a more visual take on the resource-chain mechanics you enjoy.
- #8 Melvor Idle
92% matchVery Positive90% of 15,655 reviews2021
Dev: Games by MalcsPub: Jagex Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 50.7 hrsMean: 366.4 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 36.5%, Automation 17.1%, Minimalist 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Magic 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the gold standard of idle games, it provides an incredibly deep progression system that respects your time.
- #9 Idle Research
91% matchVery Positive84% of 1,828 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 78.0 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 21%, Automation 17.9%, Clicker 16.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Minimalist 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the research and automation aspects of incremental progression, offering a highly satisfying loop of exponential growth.
- #10 Incremental Factory
91% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 27.4%, Idler 24.5%, Resource Management 16.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Minimalist 7%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated automation-focused idle game that challenges you to optimize production chains for maximum efficiency.
- #11 Idle Colony
89% matchVery Positive83% of 544 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.5 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 20.2%, Idler 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Clicker 16.3%, Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward idle game that captures the essence of colony management without the need for constant active input.
- #12 SimPocalypse
90% matchMixed68% of 115 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 17.9%, Idler 17.1%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Clicker 13.8%, City Builder 13%
Why You'll Like It: It is a post-apocalyptic colony management game that relies heavily on idle mechanics and long-term resource optimization.
- #13 shapez
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 40.7%, Resource Management 22.1%, Crafting 16.9%, Management 11.3%, 2D 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pure, minimalist automation experience that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on building efficient production lines.
- #14 Blueprint Tycoon
89% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Management 18.1%, City Builder 17.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Simulation 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and logistics of a colony, requiring careful planning to ensure your production lines remain profitable.
- #15 Autonauts
87% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 35.3%, Colony Sim 24% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the automation of labor through programming, allowing you to build a self-sustaining colony from the ground up.
- #16 Mindustry
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 52.9%, Resource Management 35%, Management 7.3%, 2D 3.7%, Indie 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends automation and resource management with tower defense, providing a more combat-oriented take on logistics.
- #17 Tower Wizard
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,855 reviews2025
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Idler 27.2%, Clicker 23.9%, Resource Management 18.4%, Magic 8.7%, Fantasy 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This fantasy-themed idle game uses resource management and strategy to help you build and upgrade your magical tower.
- #18 Incremental Town RPG
86% matchMixed60% of 96 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 18.1%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Automation 13.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of RPG progression and town building that offers a unique, casual way to expand your settlement.
- #19 Widget Inc.
84% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 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 29.9%, Clicker 23.7%, Idler 18.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Casual 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A clicker-based automation game that focuses on scaling the production of simple items into a massive industrial empire.
- #20 CivIdle
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 974 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 79.6 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 24.8%, Idler 23.9%, City Builder 16%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game brings historical 4X elements into an idle format, focusing on long-term civilization growth and resource management.
- #21 Crafting Idle Clicker
86% matchMixed49% of 899 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 22.7%, Idler 21.9%, Clicker 19.1%, Management 10.1%, Capitalism 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the crafting and resource-selling loop, making it a great choice for players who enjoy the economic side of Factory Town Idle.
- #22 Magic Archery
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,620 reviews2024
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Idler 27.6%, Clicker 22.5%, Resource Management 16.6%, Magic 7.9%, Fantasy 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the economy of a fantasy world, using idle mechanics to manage resources and upgrade your capabilities.
- #23 Idle Cave Miner
82% matchVery Positive80% of 1,058 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Hours
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 125.1 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 26.7%, Clicker 21.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the mining and crafting aspects of resource management, providing a classic idle experience with a clear progression path.
- #24 Little Big Workshop
82% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 28%, Resource Management 22.3%, Management 20%, Simulation 10.3%, City Builder 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that tasks you with running a factory, focusing on production scheduling and worker efficiency.
- #25 Revolution Idle
78% matchVery Positive86% of 10,404 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 167.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?
Why similar: Idler 29.2%, Automation 20.6%, Clicker 18.8%, Minimalist 8.5%, Resource Management 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy idle game that focuses on the societal and economic shifts required to progress through different eras.
- #26 Rise of Industry
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 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 29.7%, Management 19.4%, Resource Management 19%, Automation 15.7%, Capitalism 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a more complex, strategic approach to logistics and supply chain management for those who want to scale their operations.
- #27 Feudal Fantasy Incremental
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 101 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 23.6%, Clicker 20.6%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 8.7%, Minimalist 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed clicker that uses resource management to simulate the growth of a feudal society.
- #28 Idle Commonwealth
79% matchMixed66% of 103 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 24.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Clicker 18.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Minimalist 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A casual resource management game that tasks you with overseeing a growing population and their production needs.
- #29 Fill Up The Hole
76% matchVery Positive91% of 1,071 reviews2025
Dev: Fluffy Lotus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Idler 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Clicker 18%, Management 8.4%
- #30 IDLE BOSS RUSH
77% matchMixed67% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 37.8 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 21.3%, Clicker 18.3%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #31 Village Tale
77% matchVery Positive85% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 20.5%, Idler 19.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 9.6%
- #32 Holyday City: Reloaded
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,613 reviews2018
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 113.1 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: Clicker 23.2%, Capitalism 20.9%, Idler 20.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A humorous take on the capitalism-themed clicker genre, perfect for players looking for a lighthearted idle experience.
- #33 Idle Pixel Fantasy
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 767 reviews2025
Dev: Max Ritters
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Clicker 33.6%, Automation 31.1%, Idler 8.7%, Management 7.2%, Casual 6.8%
- #34 Captain of Industry
75% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 35%, Resource Management 21.8%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Management 9.7%
- #35 Midas Gold Plus - Idle Clicker
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,775 reviews2017
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 179.1 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: Clicker 27%, Idler 19%, Capitalism 13.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Point & Click 8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic, casual clicker that focuses on wealth accumulation and simple resource-based upgrades.
- #36 Microtopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Automation 21.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.6%
- #37 Mini Settlers
73% matchVery Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 22.8% ★, Automation 22.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Minimalist 12.8%, Management 9.6%
- #38 Paragon Pioneers 2
75% matchVery Positive93% of 57 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 27.6% ★, City Builder 23%, Idler 22.5%, Management 7.2%, Fantasy 5.1%
- #39 Click Mage
72% matchVery Positive92% of 2,408 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Clicker 28.6%, Resource Management 23.2%, Crafting 15.3%, Magic 10.3%, Fantasy 7.6%
- #40 Digseum
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,550 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: Idler 21.5%, Clicker 18%, Minimalist 12.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.6%
- #41 Idle Skilling
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,338 reviews2022
Dev: Lavaflame2
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 96.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!
Why similar: Idler 31.1%, Clicker 23.5%, Resource Management 17.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Management 7.9%
- #42 refarm
71% matchVery Positive87% of 286 reviews2024
Dev: otterhands
Windows
The ocean took it all… now take it back! In this short semi-idle island builder you’ll resurface fertile farmland - tile by tile. As you plant, harvest and expand you’ll obtain helping hands and discover what else lies below the surface.
Why similar: City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Clicker 14.7%, Automation 13.4%
- #43 City idle
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 214 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 50.6% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Colorful 5.8%
- #44 Coin Factory
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 210 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 33.7%, Capitalism 26%, Resource Management 16.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Casual 7.6%
- #45 Crusaders Quest : Hero Town
70% matchVery Positive84% of 253 reviews2026
Dev: CQ LABSPub: LoadComplete
Windows · Mac
Welcome to 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》! A little town inside your PC! Gather heroes and rebuild the town in 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》, a desktop idle RPG that can be enjoyed even during work hours.
Why similar: Idler 28.9%, Clicker 18.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Automation 14.7%, Management 7.3%
- #46 Skeleseller
69% matchVery Positive94% of 249 reviews2026
Dev: Xtonomous
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.5%, Capitalism 21.7%, Management 14.9%, Fantasy 8%, Casual 6.2%
- #47 Loafing Town
68% matchVery Positive86% of 505 reviews2025
Dev: GoblinZzPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 43.0 hrsMean: 87.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.6%, Clicker 19.9%, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 11.3%, Management 7.1%
- #48 Idle Weaponshop
71% matchMixed59% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: Deki
Windows
In Idle Weaponshop, you are handed your very own weapon shop to manage. Design and sell weapons, build up your local community, hire employees, and send adventurers off into danger for fun and profit... all before prestiging to earn powerful bonuses, all so you can do it all over again.
Why similar: Idler 22.5%, Clicker 16.4%, Capitalism 15.1%, Automation 13.6%, Management 10.6%
- #49 Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: The Evergloom Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 33.1%, Clicker 24.3%, Idler 13.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #50 Beltmatic
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Idler 19.5%, Resource Management 16.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Minimalist 10.9%
- #51 STARIO: Haven Tower
66% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Automation 18.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Idler 11.6%
- #52 Idle Awakening: Mages Path
67% matchVery Positive80% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Matter Gaming
Windows
Embark on a journey of a fledgling mage. Start with nothing. Improve yourself, develop your skills through a vast tree, unlock upgrades, learn spells, gather resources, and craft unique items. Your progress never stops – it continues even while you're offline.
Why similar: Idler 32.7%, Automation 15.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Magic 11.2%, Management 10.7%
- #53 Gamblers Table
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,010 reviews2026
Dev: greenpixels
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 22.2%, Idler 18.6%, Clicker 13.6%, Minimalist 12.4%, Capitalism 11.8%
- #54 Masterplan Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Resource Management 21.8%, Minimalist 18.3%, Management 15.8%, 2D 5%
- #55 Keep on Mining!
64% matchVery Positive94% of 7,558 reviews2025
Dev: EagleEye Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Keep on Mining! is a short incremental mining game. Mine rocks, gather materials, find artifacts, craft pickaxes and spend your materials on permanent upgrades inside the big skill tree!
Why similar: Idler 29.7%, Clicker 24.7%, Capitalism 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Minimalist 6.2%
- #56 Mob Factory
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 40.3%, Resource Management 22%, Crafting 14.1%, Management 9.2%, Fantasy 7.1%
- #57 Idle Baker Boss
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 156 reviews2025
Dev: Doopwee Games
Windows
Grow your bakery franchise and manage bakeries in this cute idle tycoon game with over 150 desserts, 100+ in game awards, daily challenges, skill tree system, events each month with unique desserts and much more...
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Idler 21.2%, Clicker 16%, Resource Management 12%, Capitalism 11.3%
- #58 Idling Gears
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 343 reviews2023
Dev: guilemus
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 36.2 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 33%, Clicker 30%, Resource Management 11.5%, Capitalism 9.9%, Management 7.6%
- #59 Island Idle RPG
69% matchMixed67% of 94 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 19.4% ★, Idler 18.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Automation 14.1%, Resource Management 11.9%