Games Like Microcivilization

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: 4X 21.3% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Historical 11%, Idler 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest direct match, combining 4X civilization progression with deep idle and automation mechanics.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Historical 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more active, it offers a similar roguelite city-building experience where you manage resources and make difficult choices to survive.

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 21.7% ★, Automation 13.7%, Incremental 13.1%, Base Building 9.9%, City Builder 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the historical progression and resource management of the seed game while utilizing an idle-heavy gameplay loop.

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 16.8%, Incremental 13.2%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at the automation and resource management aspects that drive the economy in Microcivilization.

The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

Why similar: Incremental 52.5%, Idler 17.7%, Historical 16%, God Game 12.2% ★, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the historical and evolutionary scope of the seed game through a highly satisfying incremental clicker interface.

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: City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Historical 17.6%, 4X 11.7% ★, Diplomacy 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more grounded, high-fidelity historical city-building experience that complements the strategic base-building found in the seed.

Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!

Why similar: Incremental 43.3%, City Builder 21%, Idler 10.9%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic in the genre that offers deep strategic choices and faction management similar to the good vs. evil paths in the seed game.

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: Incremental 21.5%, Automation 20.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 15.2%, Idler 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation and logistics side of city-building, stripping away the complexity for a pure idle experience.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: 4X 19.8% ★, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Historical 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique colony-sim experience where you manage a civilization of ants, mirroring the god-game and strategy elements.

Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Why similar: Incremental 55.5%, Idler 28.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, 2D 1.3%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a roguelite time-management layer to the incremental genre, creating a unique sense of progression.

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 17.7% ★, Diplomacy 12.3% ★, Historical 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A historical strategy game that focuses on the survival and growth of an ancient civilization through resource management.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Base Building 39.2%, Resource Management 31%, Building 20.4%, 2D 3.5%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly blends incremental resource gathering, crafting, and base-building in a way that feels like a more active version of the seed.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 39.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 10.4%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and resource management, fitting the base-building theme of the seed.

A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Idler 25.1%, Management 12%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly strategic incremental game that requires careful planning and resource allocation to progress through tiers.

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: Incremental 27.2%, Automation 24.8%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 15.9%, Idler 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pure clicker and automation game that focuses on the satisfaction of scaling production lines.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: 4X 21.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Historical 11.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep historical simulation and strategy, focusing on the management of a noble family and their city.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 15.5%, Idler 12.5%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental clicker-crafting game that focuses on rapid expansion and resource accumulation.

Lazy Galaxy 2 is an idle/clicker game with base-building and RTS elements. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe! Expand your base, fight vicious foes, and conquer the galaxies. Acquire combat experience and convert into candy, the most precious alien resource!

Why similar: Incremental 44.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Idler 15%, Building 7.6%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines idle mechanics with RTS-style strategy, perfect for those who enjoy the combat aspects of the seed game.

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: Incremental 23.3%, Automation 21.8%, Idler 12.8%, Economy 11.8%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual approach to colony-building that relies on automation and idle mechanics to manage your population.

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: Incremental 21.7%, Automation 18.5%, Diplomacy 17.9% ★, Idler 15.2%, Resource Management 13%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the research and technology tree aspects of incremental games, which is a core component of the seed.

The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!

Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Incremental 18.5%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 15.6%, Idler 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers immense depth in its incremental systems, requiring strategic planning to optimize your base defenses.

Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.

Why similar: 4X 36.2% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 13.6%, Building 7.5%, Historical 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X city-builder that emphasizes economic management and long-term civilization development.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Base Building 32.9%, City Builder 31.6%, Building 19.3%, Management 14%, 2D 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A crafting and base-building game that starts small and evolves into a complex technological progression system.

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Incremental 39%, City Builder 32.5%, Strategy 23.6%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy strategy game that focuses on the economic and social management of a growing settlement.

Idle Iktah is a game about leveling up in the Pacific Northwest. It features local plants and animals, 18 skills, 5+ minigames, items affected by the phase of the moon, and even a real-time Oregon coast tide tracker. If you like idle RPGs, give this one a shot!

Why similar: Idler 60.9%, Historical 34.2%, Singleplayer 4.2%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management idle game that focuses on tribal progression and crafting, similar to the early stages of the seed game.

Gridkeeper is an incremental game about managing "Grids" and using their power to run MineBots, research tech, and grow your mining empire by getting better Grids.

Why similar: Incremental 29.5%, Idler 18.1%, Automation 17.1%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused clicker that emphasizes building and grid management to optimize your output.

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Why similar: Incremental 39.4%, Idler 19.1%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive clicker game that provides the core 'number go up' satisfaction found in the seed game.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: 4X 19.8% ★, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Historical 10.6%

One part Minesweeper, one part Civilization. With every click of the mouse your empire grows stronger. But will it be strong enough to withstand the barbarian hordes?

Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Mythology 18.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Historical 12.3%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It incorporates procedural generation and turn-based strategy into a resource-management framework.

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: 4X 19.2% ★, Diplomacy 13.7% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Historical 11%

Earn antimatter through dimensions! Gain Infinite antimatter to collapse the universe!

Why similar: Idler 43.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Inventory Management 13.2%, Automation 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in complex incremental design that rewards strategic thinking and long-term planning.

SPACEPLAN is an experimental piece of interaction based partly on a total misunderstanding of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.

Why similar: Incremental 81.8%, Idler 12.2%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven incremental game that uses resource management to tell a story of scientific discovery.

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%, Base Building 12.9%, Idler 12.3%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 43%, Resource Management 15.8%, Idler 15.1%, Building 8.3%, Economy 7.4%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: 4X 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 15.3% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 11%, Historical 10.6%

An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.

Why similar: Incremental 30.9%, Idler 17.1%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Automation 9.1%

Click and Conquer is a short, relaxing incremental game. Drop bombs through the fog of war, uncover hidden enemies, collect rewards, and spend currency to boost passive income, increase bombing power, and unlock new maps.

Why similar: Incremental 42.4%, Idler 20.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 5%

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 26%, Resource Management 16.9%, Idler 16.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 9.8%

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: Incremental 19.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Idler 14.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, God Game 10% ★

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 17%, Historical 16%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 11.5%

This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.

Why similar: God Game 43.9% ★, Historical 19.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 9.2%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 56.7%, Historical 17.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Economy 7.8%, Resource Management 4.3%

(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Why similar: Incremental 39.3%, Idler 16.3%, Economy 11.5%, Building 9.9%, Management 8%

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 28.7%, Automation 24.7%, Idler 16.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Management 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: Incremental 27.4%, Automation 27%, Idler 19.1%, Resource Management 17.6%, Strategy 5.5%

“The Eastern Sacrifice” is an idle game combining simulation with Eastern Cthulhu-inspired themes. In a world spiraling into chaos over authority, vanquish enemy, gather treasures, and build a devoted religion. Your sanctuary will help you reclaim theurgy, ascend to the divine realm.

Why similar: Incremental 24.7%, God Game 10.9% ★, Mythology 10%, Automation 9.9%, Idler 9.5%

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 38.5% ★, Diplomacy 21.8% ★, Historical 16%, Economy 10.8%, Management 6.1%

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: Incremental 78.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Indie 4%

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: Incremental 23.8%, City Builder 18.1%, Automation 15.2%, Idler 14.2%, Base Building 11.4%

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 18.3%, Incremental 18.3%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Idler 12%, Resource Management 11.1%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, Historical 16%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 9.9%

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: God Game 16% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Mythology 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Historical 10.6%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, God Game 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%

In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality.

Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Mythology 15.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Historical 14.5%, Building 9.2%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: God Game 35.4% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.2%

Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.

Why similar: 4X 20.4% ★, Historical 15%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 8.9%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Historical 16.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 9.3%

Digseum is a short incremental journey about digging up ancient relics and building the greatest museum ever!

Why similar: Incremental 35.5%, Idler 18.3%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 11.9%, Economy 11.6%