Games Like Orb of Creation

Welcome to Magic Research 2, an incremental RPG from the creator of Magic Research. Learn countless spells, face powerful foes, and command a team of Wizards who can cast spells for you as you journey to find or create the Philosopher's Stone.

Why similar: Incremental 45.1%, Magic 22.5%, Idler 13%, Crafting 8.2%, Minimalist 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep magic-themed progression and active research mechanics that mirror the complexity of the seed game.

Magic Research is a text-based incremental game about Magic. You are the headmaster of a newly-created institution of Magic. Will you be able to lead your school to win the prestigious Tournament of Magic?

Why similar: Magic 29.7%, Incremental 19.6%, Resource Management 19.2%, Idler 15.4%, Minimalist 9%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the sequel, offering a similar focus on active spellcasting and strategic resource management.

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Incremental 55.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Idler 7.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, active incremental game that relies on puzzle-like progression and satisfying resource loops.

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 72%, Idler 11.4%, Resource Management 7.4%, Minimalist 5.9%, Casual 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly active, puzzle-focused incremental game that requires careful time and resource management.

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

Why similar: Incremental 71.8%, Idler 9.3%, Resource Management 6.6%, Strategy 5.5%, Minimalist 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines active strategy and resource management with a unique, satisfying gameplay loop.

RPG/Idle hybrid about becoming the most powerful wizard there is. Pick a class, get a pet, configure and improve your character in a myriad ways!

Why similar: Incremental 49.8%, Resource Management 17%, Magic 14.7%, Idler 13.9%, Casual 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a complex magic system and deep progression trees that appeal to fans of wizard-themed incrementals.

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

Why similar: Incremental 77.8%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 6.3%, Idler 6.2%, Casual 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers immense strategic depth and active playstyles through its faction and alignment systems.

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

Why similar: Idler 40.4%, Strategy 25.5%, Resource Management 18.6%, Casual 10.3%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for active incremental games, offering deep strategic layers and constant progression.

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 52.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Idler 11.5%, Strategy 7%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features structured, active progression mechanics that focus on resource optimization and research.

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: Idler 34.7%, Strategy 24.7%, Incremental 15.3%, Casual 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic incremental game that demands active strategy and careful management of resources and units.

"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 3,000 unique story actions and it's still growing.

Why similar: Incremental 67.5%, Idler 21.8%, Magic 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG-heavy incremental game that rewards active decision-making and character progression.

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 53.2%, Resource Management 17.7%, Magic 13.3%, Crafting 7.7%, Casual 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A magic-themed incremental game that keeps the focus on active clicking and spell management.

Train your stats, cast spells, feed your minion, defeat monsters and bosses, raise demons, craft gems, go fishing and so much more in Wizard and Minion Idle--WAMI. This free to play, solo developed, Idle/active hybrid game has flexible pacing for long-time play-ability.

Why similar: Incremental 68.9%, Idler 14.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Casual 4.7%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: A magic-themed incremental game that offers a blend of active strategy and long-term progression.

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 43.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Magic 12.8%, Idler 9.4%, Minimalist 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines active management and automation in a way that feels rewarding and strategic.

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 52.1%, Resource Management 17.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Idler 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features crafting and magic-themed progression that aligns well with the core themes of the seed game.

Strategic idle game. Develop the kingdom, then abdicate and get gold! For gold, you can buy new tiles and expand the territory.

Why similar: Incremental 73.4%, Idler 15.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic incremental game that focuses on expansion and resource management with active elements.

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: Incremental 28.4%, Idler 24.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Casual 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex, highly rewarding incremental game that emphasizes active experimentation and optimization.

NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

Why similar: Incremental 78.5%, Idler 15.9%, Indie 2.5%, Casual 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous and deep incremental game that requires active management of stats and equipment.

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 71.5%, Idler 10.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Strategy 3.6%, Casual 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational classic that established the active clicking and progression mechanics found in many modern incrementals.

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 85.6%, Casual 6.5%, Idler 4.2%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven, active incremental game that focuses on minimalist design and creative resource generation.

Become the Pinball Wizard you were destined to be! Master the pinball machine, cash out for powerful upgrades and automation, and climb the corporate ladder in this Pinball Incremental.

Why similar: Incremental 71.3%, Idler 11%, Strategy 9%, Casual 7%, Indie 1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, active incremental game that emphasizes puzzle-like mechanics and strategic growth.

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 65.2%, Resource Management 18%, Idler 8%, Casual 3.8%, Strategy 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features resource management and active building mechanics that provide a satisfying sense of growth.

A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.

Why similar: Incremental 71.2%, Resource Management 6.8%, Idler 6.4%, Strategy 5.3%, Minimalist 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, active, and relaxing incremental game that focuses on unique resource consumption mechanics.

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 66.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Magic 9.2%, Idler 7.4%, Strategy 5%

Magic is a wonderful thing, so why not make more? In Mana Maker, your goal is to make mana so you can conjure minions to do it for you! Once you conjure Cthulhu you may ascend and unlock even more possibilities!

Why similar: Incremental 71.7%, Magic 16.8%, Casual 10.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, magic-themed incremental game that offers a relaxing yet engaging progression experience.

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 59.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Magic 11.4%, Idler 10.4%, Casual 2.8%

Start from nothing and grow into a legendary Slayer. Explore countless dimensions, collect souls, unlock powerful upgrades, craft powerful gear, defeat epic bosses, and enjoy a deep idle RPG with active and offline progression.

Why similar: Incremental 71.6%, Idler 16.7%, Casual 6.3%, Strategy 3.3%, Indie 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: Incorporates active movement and platforming elements into the traditional incremental progression loop.

Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!

Why similar: Incremental 68.3%, Idler 13.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Casual 5.8%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on active crafting and complex resource management chains that reward player input.

Oraxum Trials is an incremental game where you conduct experiments with the Oraxum, a hexagonal board with magical properties. Harvest souls and use mystical crystals to create wild concoctions. Take on the mantle of soul alchemist and forge your fate, choosing between light and dark forces.

Why similar: Incremental 51.1%, Resource Management 18.7%, Idler 10.6%, Magic 9.8%, Casual 5%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management incremental game that emphasizes active progression and trial-based challenges.

An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.

Why similar: Incremental 75.5%, Idler 9.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Casual 3.9%, Mystery 1.1%

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: Magic 28.6%, Idler 21.3%, Resource Management 20.1%, Casual 13.5%, Strategy 12.3%

All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.

Why similar: Incremental 78.8%, Idler 13.6%, Casual 5%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Wild Growth is a short, actionpacked incremental healer game set in a grim norse world.

Why similar: Incremental 80%, Strategy 12.1%, Casual 6%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 85.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused incremental game that requires active management of resources to build a society.

Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.

Why similar: Incremental 63.1%, Resource Management 14.1%, Idler 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%, Casual 4%

Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

Why similar: Incremental 62.1%, Magic 16.8%, Idler 10%, Strategy 5.2%, Casual 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: Resource Management 34.2%, Idler 21.8%, Crafting 18.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Minimalist 8.6%

Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.

Why similar: Incremental 74.1%, Idler 10.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Casual 5.8%, Indie 0.5%

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 84.2%, Idler 7.4%, Casual 5%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Stunning sphere-themed idle/incremental game. Experience simplicity's beauty.

Why similar: Incremental 69.3%, Idler 15.7%, Minimalist 11.1%, Resource Management 3.8%

Keep on Mining! – Worlds is an incremental mining game where you mine rocks, collect resources, and travel through many unique worlds, finding artifacts, crafting pickaxes, and purchasing many permanent upgrades!

Why similar: Incremental 68.3%, Idler 9.4%, Resource Management 8.1%, Casual 6.2%, Minimalist 2.9%

An incremental game where you must make $1,000,000 to escape! Throw darts, drop pachinko balls, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, and discover powerful synergies as each new game affects all the others!

Why similar: Incremental 64.6%, Resource Management 16.4%, Idler 12.7%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 1.4%

Journey to Incrementalia is an active incremental auto-battler about a necromancer on a short quest. Cast diabolical spells, summon an army and open the gates of hell on your quest to break down 99 walls and reach the lost city of Incrementalia.

Why similar: Incremental 73.2%, Idler 10%, Strategy 7.9%, Minimalist 6.4%, Mystery 1.7%

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: Incremental 62.7%, Resource Management 19.5%, Idler 8.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Indie 1%

Upload Simulator Silicon is an incremental game about uploading, making money, hacking, and ascending as a powerful entity that controls the very laws of the universe using powerful technologies you discover throught your journey.

Why similar: Incremental 64.1%, Idler 12.7%, Resource Management 8%, Crafting 7.5%, Casual 7.1%

An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.

Why similar: Resource Management 32.7%, Magic 27.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Puzzle 9.9%

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 58.3%, Resource Management 17.2%, Idler 12.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Casual 3.4%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Resource Management 43.6%, Crafting 28.5%, Strategy 20.4%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Big Golden Rock is a pixel incremental clicker about a huge golden rock. Gather resources, hire shooters and archers, build towers, launch rockets, summon UFOs, and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.

Why similar: Incremental 59.6%, Resource Management 18.5%, Idler 11.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Indie 1.2%

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: Resource Management 43.5%, Crafting 22%, Strategy 16.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Casual 5.3%

A short incremental game about splitting atoms and triggering exponentially growing chain reactions.

Why similar: Incremental 57.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Minimalist 8.3%, Strategy 8%, Idler 7.7%

ULTRATAP is an incremental game about defeating monsters and bosses, getting stronger and enjoying the process. Buy upgrades, complete quests and equip powerful items.

Why similar: Incremental 61.4%, Idler 11.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Casual 8.2%, Minimalist 6%

Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

Why similar: Incremental 73.6%, Idler 9.3%, Strategy 6.9%, Minimalist 5.2%, Casual 4.3%

Orbit a planet, fire your laser, and mine it to the core. Upgrade your ship and conquer seasonal hazards across four unique zones. A satisfying incremental mining game set in space.

Why similar: Incremental 58.2%, Strategy 14.5%, Idler 14.3%, Casual 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Snake, but with a skill tree

Why similar: Incremental 65.3%, Resource Management 16.7%, Idler 7.7%, Strategy 5.7%, Casual 2.7%

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 63.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Idler 9.4%, Minimalist 7.1%, Casual 4.5%

Conquer PickCrafter, the hit indie idle game! Break blocks, forge equipment, and collect powerful Pickaxes. Prestige to legendary tiers with the new Ascension Skill Tree. Discover biomes and battle epic bosses. Make meaningful choices and invent complex builds in this addictive endless adventure!

Why similar: Incremental 43.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Magic 13.4%, Idler 9.4%, Crafting 7.9%

Become a Tower Lord! Build and upgrade your tower in this incremental idle game. Fight off the forces of the Dark Lord, conquer new lands, and challenge his dominion with the power of your dragon.

Why similar: Incremental 49.5%, Resource Management 16%, Magic 15.1%, Idler 10.2%, Strategy 7.3%

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: Incremental 69.3%, Idler 10.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Casual 4.2%, Strategy 3.3%

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 62.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Idler 12%, Resource Management 7.6%, Casual 2.2%