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 21.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Historical 11.3%, Idler 9.6%

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

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 19.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Historical 17.5%, 4X 11.5% ★, Diplomacy 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, historical city-building experience with complex resource management that mirrors the strategic layer of Microcivilization.

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 22.2% ★, Automation 13.3%, Incremental 12.9%, Base Building 10%, City Builder 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the incremental strategy feel while forcing you to make difficult choices for your civilization's survival.

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 20% ★, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Historical 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy game features intense base-building and resource management mechanics that reward long-term planning and expansion.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: 4X 19.9% ★, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Historical 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines tactical base-building with strategy elements, requiring careful resource allocation to survive against waves of enemies.

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 19.9% ★, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Historical 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder emphasizes constant expansion and difficult decision-making, capturing the high-stakes progression of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Incremental 42.4%, City Builder 21.7%, Idler 10.8%, Resource Management 7.3%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic in the incremental genre that introduces deep strategic choices and faction-based progression systems.

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 32.5%, Idler 24.8%, Management 12%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a complex, multi-layered incremental experience that requires significant strategic planning to advance through the ages.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 25.8%, Resource Management 17.6%, City Builder 7.4%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation and base-building, providing the deep logistical satisfaction found in the seed game's management systems.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 23.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: It scales the automation and resource management concepts to a galactic level, perfect for players who enjoy watching their systems grow exponentially.

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 19.9% ★, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Historical 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that incorporates colony-sim elements and strategic resource management.

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 21.5%, Automation 18.3%, Diplomacy 18.3% ★, Idler 15%, Resource Management 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation and resource management with a scientific theme that feels very similar to the research trees in the seed game.

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Historical 16.2%, Economy 14.4%, Building 13%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that focuses on the logistical challenges of building an ancient civilization.

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 16.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Incremental 13%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends traditional idle mechanics with a robust trading and manufacturing economy.

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 20.7%, Economy 14.6%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on complex supply chains and resource management, mirroring the industrial growth aspects of Microcivilization.

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 21.3%, Automation 20.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 15%, Idler 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist and relaxing take on the automation genre that focuses on efficient production lines.

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 19.3% ★, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Historical 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-strategy city-builder that challenges you to manage a growing Roman settlement with complex logistical needs.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Resource Management 22.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It forces players to make brutal moral choices while managing a city under extreme pressure, similar to the good vs. evil choices in the seed game.

Noble Rulers — grow your realm and expand your castle in this short incremental game! Manage resources, discover foreign lands and build up an army to lay siege to your enemies.

Why similar: Incremental 22.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Idler 14.6%, Historical 13.8%, Economy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed incremental game that focuses on resource management and population growth.

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 17.8% ★, Historical 12.4%, Diplomacy 12.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical simulation game that requires careful management of resources and population to survive the ancient world.

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 26.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Historical 16.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder spans multiple historical eras, allowing you to watch your settlement evolve through time just like in Microcivilization.

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 40.2%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 10%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and resource management.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 54%, Resource Management 25.3%, Strategy 18.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: An environmental strategy game that uses incremental-style progression to restore ecosystems, offering a unique twist on the city-builder genre.

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 39.6%, Idler 19%, Resource Management 10.2%, Economy 10.2%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential incremental game that provides the core addictive loop of clicking and automation found in Microcivilization.

Synergism is a free-to-play Idle game about... well, Synergy! Explore that concept through hundreds of upgrades, many reset layers and probably thousands of hours of content that allows both idle and active play.

Why similar: Idler 36.7%, Strategy 17.3%, Resource Management 14.5%, Incremental 13.4%, Economy 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly complex incremental game that rewards players for finding efficient mathematical synergies between different systems.

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 42.8%, Idler 20.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Economy 14.1%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy incremental game that uses pixel graphics to represent the growth of your empire.

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 36.7% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Economy 13%, Building 7.5%, Historical 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique 4X strategy game that focuses heavily on economy and population management in a prehistoric setting.

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 18.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Idler 14%, Resource Management 13.2%, God Game 10.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a casual approach to the incremental genre with a focus on building and managing a growing nation.

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: Incremental 21.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Idler 10%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 56.1%, Idler 28.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Indie 1.3%, 2D 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique time-management incremental game that uses roguelite loops to push your progression further each time.

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 27.1%, Automation 24.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 15.9%, Idler 10.5%

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 42.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Idler 15.2%, Building 8.5%, Economy 7.4%

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 20.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Idler 12%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 23.2%, Automation 21.6%, Idler 12.7%, Economy 11.7%, Building 8.4%

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 32.6% ★, Mythology 18.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Historical 12.5%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on exploration and procedural generation, offering a different but complementary experience to Microcivilization.

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 19.9% ★, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Historical 10.7%

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: Incremental 21.1%, Automation 20%, Resource Management 13.7%, Idler 13.4%, Economy 9.6%

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 18.5%, Automation 14.8%, Idler 13.8%, Base Building 11.6%

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 31%, Idler 16.9%, Economy 9.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

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 25.7%, Resource Management 16.7%, Idler 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 9.7%

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 28.6%, Automation 24.7%, Idler 16.9%, Resource Management 15.1%, Management 10.4%

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 44.4% ★, Historical 19.4%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 9%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 8.1%

A chill idle/incremental strategy game where you restore souls, build a Faith economy, automate more of your realm, and rebirth for permanent progress before corruption takes over

Why similar: God Game 21.1% ★, Incremental 19.1%, Automation 18.4%, Idler 13.4%, Resource Management 12.2%

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%, Strategy 17.9%, Indie 4.1%

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: Incremental 23%, Idler 15.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Economy 11%

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 28.8%, Base Building 22.7%, Idler 18.8%, Building 10%, Management 9.4%

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 39% ★, Diplomacy 21.7% ★, Historical 16.2%, Economy 10.4%, Management 5.9%

Little Incrementisle is an incremental colony-building game where you land on one wild island after another. On each island, you gather resources, construct buildings, recruit villagers, and develop your colony, until you’re ready to set sail for the next one.

Why similar: Incremental 41%, City Builder 22.2%, Automation 21.1%, Strategy 10.2%, 2D 2.4%

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: Incremental 18.4%, Automation 18.1%, Inventory Management 12.7%, Idler 11.9%, Resource Management 11%

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 21.9% ★, Historical 16.2%, City Builder 15%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 21.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Automation 18%, Resource Management 15.3%, Idler 10.2%

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 16.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Mythology 12%, Base Building 11.8%, Historical 10.7%

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 20.8% ★, Diplomacy 15.1% ★, God Game 14% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%

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 20.6% ★, Historical 15.1%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 9.1%

“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 13.9%, God Game 12.8% ★, Mythology 11.7%, Automation 11%, Inventory Management 10.7%

Farewells Clicker is an addictive blend of clicker and city builder! Expand your island, develop your city, and produce resources endlessly. Upgrade your buildings and skills through a vast skill tree to progress further and further!

Why similar: Incremental 26.9%, City Builder 25.2%, Idler 19.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 6.4%

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 29.2%, Idler 17.8%, Automation 16.9%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 11.7%

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 38%, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 23.7%, Indie 5%

Beaver Clicker is an idle game where you collects logs, then using these logs, you can acquire all sorts of sources for these logs, like convincing squirrels, sponsoring school field-trips, or even taming the fungi found in nature itself to help you in your wood collecting journey.

Why similar: Incremental 35.2%, Automation 13.8%, Idler 11.6%, Economy 9.5%, Building 8.1%