- #1 Drug Life: Gangster Simulator
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TwoRushGames
Windows
Step into the gangster underworld: grow weed, strike dangerous deals, and battle rival gangs for control. Upgrade your rides, secure your turf, and build a criminal empire that fears no one.
Why similar: Crime 27.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Management 12.2%, Action 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #2 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Idler 30.8%, Automation 18%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 9%
- #3 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
96% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Idler 31.9%, Automation 19.1%, Simulation 14.2%, Top-Down 8%, 2D 6.6%
- #4 Crime Empire Idle
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Litwire Games
Windows · Linux
Build your criminal dynasty in a deep idle/incremental game. Run crimes, launder dirty cash, upgrade your empire, use the black market, craft weapons & gear to fight criminal opponents while you balance heat and notoriety.
Why similar: Idler 33.4%, Crime 16.8%, Automation 15.3%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 9.6%
- #5 Drug Dealer Schedule
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MindBrew Studio
Windows
Start from the streets and rise to the top produce, sell, and manage a growing drug empire. Expand operations, evade the law, and crush the competition. Build labs, hire dealers, and dominate the underworld. Will you rule or get rolled?
Why similar: Crime 23.4%, Automation 12.2%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Simulation 9.4%
- #6 Schedule I
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 288,530 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Crime 26.5%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 8.1%
- #7 Dirty Business
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plan Dirty Games
Windows
Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base, operate cartel airstrip and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crime 21.6%, Automation 11.9%, Management 10%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.9%
- #8 Closed Circuit: Recursive Idle
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kealsoft
Windows
Build, upgrade, and automate a circuit of ever-looping machines. Turn small node chains into powerful functions and unlock exponential idle growth that never stops.
Why similar: Idler 45%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 14.4%, Top-Down 12.6%, 2D 6.8%
- #9 Assembly Line 2
91% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Idler 21.8%, Simulation 16%, Management 13.5%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #10 DRUG Schedule
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CrimsonRoute Games
Windows
Build your empire! Cook and make illegal drugs, expand your cartel, and outsmart rivals and law enforcement. Play solo or team up in co-op to dominate the underworld! Your empire, your rules. Rise to power! Don't get high on your own dope!
Why similar: Crime 19.3%, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 10%, Management 10%, Crafting 9.9%
- #11 WeedEx: Drug Express Delivery
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
Start as a street dealer and rise to criminal power — produce and distribute various illegal substances across the dark streets of Hyland Point. Expand your empire by purchasing property, growing your business, acquiring new cars, and building a powerful underground network.
Why similar: Crime 30.9%, Management 12.4%, Action 10.5%, Simulation 10%, Base Building 9.6%
- #12 AetherRift
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Slade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Place magical constructs around a swirling cosmic rift, chain together exotic energies, and collapse reality to grow stronger in this deep incremental game.
Why similar: Idler 33.9%, Automation 17.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #13 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Idler 38.1%, Automation 20.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 9.7%, Building 7%
- #14 Resources Assemble!
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Idler 34%, Automation 20%, Crafting 12.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Management 11%
- #15 Mulerun – Retro Bootlegger Simulator
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ABK
Windows
Start solo or in online co-op, with each player taking on different roles: brew master, getaway driver, shady negotiator, or air support pilot. You’ll need to cooperate (or yell at each other) as you dodge cops, complete ridiculous tasks, and climb the ranks of two very dangerous worlds...
Why similar: Crime 19.4%, Automation 16.1%, Simulation 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 8.3%
- #16 Mashinomat
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Demigrz
Windows
Mashinomat is being rebuilt from the ground up new gameplay, new setting, new direction. This page is a placeholder while I rebuild Mashinomat.
Why similar: Idler 46.6%, Automation 20%, Management 16%, 2D 7.5%, Simulation 4.8%
- #17 Disappearance Simulator
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OneHotChicken
Windows
A crime simulation where you run shady shops, create fake identities, manage risk, and expand an empire while trying not to get caught.
Why similar: Crime 25.7%, Automation 12.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Management 11.9%, Stealth 8.6%
- #18 Coconut CEO Idle
84% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: grantlerr
Windows
Build a coconut empire in this short incremental game! Gather coconuts, hire workers, and buy upgrades to transform your coconut startup into a coconut empire!
Why similar: Idler 57.4%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 4.9%, Casual 4.9%
- #19 The Factory
85% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Awesome Studios
Windows
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Idler 29%, Automation 19.3%, Simulation 18.4%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 6.3%
- #20 Die for Pay
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Woziva
Windows
Die for Pay is a CO-OP Multiplayer action crime game where you try to rise from nothing in a world where riots break out every night. Make money by day, gather your crew. By night, stand your ground with honor, or run. When the siren sounds, there's no mercy.
Why similar: Crime 32.4%, Simulation 15.5%, Action 15.1%, Automation 11.2%, Crafting 6.7%
- #21 DesktopVivarium
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: If Game
Windows
Your computer desktop will no longer be just a static background, but a living, breathing ecosphere. You’ll watch plants and animals thrive as fish swim freely across your screen. In your downtime, you can feed the creatures, clean up their waste.
Why similar: Idler 48.6%, Simulation 20.9%, Automation 14.3%, Building 10.4%, Casual 4.3%
- #22 Bang Business
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Centum Dev
Windows
Rise to become Blizwood’s top gun mogul — craft outrageous weapons and hustle them across the city. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, a loyal crew, and more.
Why similar: Crime 26.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Automation 13.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Management 11.4%
- #23 Idle Lab Rats
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex BrownPub: FAFF Games
Windows
Train rats in a series of mazes and help them improve their stats. Submit rats for grant money and use it to upgrade your lab with new tools and buy new rats with powerful abilities! These new rats have such amazing potential. How smart are these rats becoming?
Why similar: Idler 37.5%, Simulation 21.6%, Automation 13.3%, Top-Down 12.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #24 Amozon Extraplanetary Colonization Program
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows · Linux
AECP is a chaotic 2D roguelike factory builder inspired by games like Factorio. Build unique and wacky factories using whatever means you have available, and use your revenue to expand further!
Why similar: Idler 31%, Simulation 11.6%, Top-Down 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 8.9%
- #25 Beltex
82% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Idler 25%, Automation 19%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 8.9%
- #26 Factory Works Idle
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EnricoBC
Windows · Linux
Factory Works Idle is a captivating incremental game that puts you in control of an ever-expanding industrial empire. Begin with humble manual labor and gradually build an automated manufacturing powerhouse that spans from primitive stone tools to futuristic singularity technology.
Why similar: Idler 37.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 13.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Building 11.3%
- #27 Node Math
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Idler 31.2%, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 10%
- #28 University Tycoon - The College Management Simulator
81% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Robert Gould
Windows
Build and manage a University, with realistic curriculum scheduling, reputation system, and a multiple building campus
Why similar: Simulation 22.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Management 21.5%, Top-Down 14.9%, Building 9.1%
- #29 419
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AVALON_STUDIOS
Windows
Start as a small-time filler and work your way up to kingpin. Buy CC info, print blanks, card online and launder your money through crypto. But watch out: the more you scam, the more heat you get. Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Crime 28.6%, Automation 17.3%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%
- #30 WattWorks
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IceMan
Windows · Linux
WattWorks a chill Idle game where can build and expand your power grid. You play as the manager controlling your company by building power generators and expanding your company in your small world. To Expand further you have to sell your company and rebuild a stronger company
Why similar: Idler 37.9%, Simulation 21.6%, Top-Down 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.7%
- #31 Incremental Factory
78% 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: Idler 31.2%, Automation 19.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #32 Molo's Revenge
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: MelonStudios
Windows · Mac
Molo's Revenge is the incremental journey of a mole dragon to avenge his village by doing the thing he does best: Digging.
Why similar: Idler 59.7%, Simulation 23.1%, 2D 9.7%, Casual 5.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #33 Deficiency
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buraas Interactive
Windows
A First Person Idle Game where you are tasked with producing as much energy as possible, for your company. Generate power that you can send back to your company, and you will be rewarded with ways to create even MORE power!
Why similar: Idler 49.5%, Automation 21.6%, Simulation 19%, 3D 5.7%, Casual 2.8%
- #34 Square Game
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joshua Sherrard
Windows · Linux
Watch the Square bounce around the screen in this idle incremental Game about squares, dots and other shapes. Upgrade, Prestige and even build a deck of awesome abilities in Square Game!
Why similar: Idler 56.6%, Simulation 31%, 2D 9.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #35 Forest Factory Simulator
75% matchMixed47% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Samle Indie Studio
Windows
Build, automate, and thrive in Forest Factory! Chop trees, craft wooden goods, and sell them to grow your factory. Manage your depot, fulfill orders, and balance nature with machinery in a serene forest setting. Experience automation in the wild!
Why similar: Idler 24.6%, Automation 20.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.9%
- #36 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 26%, Idler 20.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Simulation 17%, Building 7.7%
- #37 摸鱼仙村
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 不怕虎工作室
Windows
This idle game blends card-based building, resource management, and relaxed gameplay. Expand your village, master sect skills, explore realms, and enjoy offline rewards. Effortless fun awaits—start your journey to immortality!
Why similar: Idler 31.9%, Automation 19%, Management 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Simulation 10.9%
- #38 Upgrade! Inc.
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: rexty
Windows · Linux
Upgrade! Inc. is a satisfying text-based idle game about unlock and upgrade a series of production lines, hire employeesa nd researching for powerful bonuses. Simple, cozy, addictive, and endlessly engaging. Start your empire today!
Why similar: Idler 42.5%, Simulation 16.9%, Automation 13.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Management 8.5%
- #39 Screen Savior
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kirill Losev
Windows
Screen Savior is a short incremental action game about swarms of insects that attacked your monitor. Exterminate them with your hammer, unlock incremental upgrades from an uncapped skill tree to become stronger and get new weapons of annihilation!
Why similar: Idler 39.2%, Management 15.6%, Simulation 11%, Action 10.8%, Top-Down 10.4%
- #40 Nodes
76% matchMixed61% of 46 reviews2022
Dev: Damaged Axons
Windows
Node production simulator. Purchase nodes to produce resources, so you can advance in the technology tree and build yourself a large production line. This game will satisfy your need for incremental simulators with the large amount of content.
Why similar: Idler 28.1%, Simulation 22.3%, Management 17.8%, Automation 14.8%, Crafting 8.3%
- #41 Drug Dealer 2049
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nextazio972
Windows
In Drug Dealer 2049, build your cartel, manage production, negotiate with customers, and survive against the police.
Why similar: Crime 22.3%, Idler 18.2%, Automation 14.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%
- #42 Revolution Idle
70% 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 50.6%, Automation 19.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 7.6%, 2D 5.1%
- #43 Stolen Legacy Rise of The Fallen
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Mojkaw
Windows
Stolen Legacy!! Click, hustle, invest. From nobody to legend!
Why similar: Idler 33.4%, Crime 27.5%, Simulation 14.5%, Management 8.2%, Automation 7.2%
- #44 GunOre
72% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Smooby, LLC
Windows
In GunOre, your gun is your ultimate tool - use it for movement, collecting resources, purchasing upgrades, robots, and defending your mine! Automate your operations and build your defenses as you master the art of movement. Have a cozy time in this active idler mining ore and fighting monsters!
Why similar: Idler 47.1%, Action 22.3%, Automation 15.6%, 2D 8.2%, Casual 5.3%
- #45 Lazy Train Game
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Warden Games
Windows · Linux
Lazy Train Game is a relaxing game about building out your railway, collecting resources, crafting tracks, overcoming obstacles, and unlocking new tracks, scenarios, and engines. Set up your railway in such a way that your trains can do most of the work for you.
Why similar: Idler 33.4%, Automation 19.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 11.6%, Building 9.6%
- #46 I Am Not A Robot
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Nilapos
Windows
A short, incremental game where you solve Captchas and get a bot to automate this process.
Why similar: Idler 42.6%, Simulation 24.9%, Automation 17.5%, 2D 7.3%, Casual 6%
- #47 Volt Ventures Idle
71% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Denver
Windows
An idle game of growth and strategy. Build, upgrade, and prestige your way to limitless power.
Why similar: Idler 39%, Automation 21.6%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 10.7%, Top-Down 9.2%
- #48 Fraud Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1 Day DevelopmentPub: 1 Day Publishing
Windows
Take over the coastal town of Faircombe one scam at a time!
Why similar: Crime 25.5%, Automation 14.5%, Idler 12.5%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 10.4%
- #49 Rocket Automashapes
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Idler 20.6%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 10.8%
- #50 Cube Game Server Boss
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: froggyrs
Windows
Feel the thrill of running you own cube game server! Experience the journey of building your server from the ground up by upgrading gamemodes, hiring staff, and more!
Why similar: Idler 51.6%, Simulation 19.9%, Management 18.8%, 2D 7.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #51 Potion Pipeline
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Simulation 14%, Building 12.5%, Management 9.4%
- #52 Shape Sweeper
68% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Code SwordPub: Half Slice Studio
Windows
Shape Sweeper is a idle game where robotic vacuums collect geometric shapes. Deploy PolyBots, merge them to create more powerful collectors, and build your shape-sweeping empire! Huge amount of tech tree upgrades to select from!
Why similar: Idler 41.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Top-Down 13.2%, Automation 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #53 Chronominion Idler
66% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Indie Addict Game Studio
Windows
Manage your party, develop skills, and shape the fate of a living world in this strategy-driven RPG.
Why similar: Idler 45.5%, Automation 24.7%, Management 14.8%, Base Building 5.7%, Strategy 4.5%
- #54 Astral Bloom
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
Grow a living alien world in this incremental base-builder. Cultivate strange plants, command loyal wisps, and reshape the sky with powerful wishes. Automate and expand your ecosystem as you uncover lost memories. As your sanctuary grows, will you stay... or leave in search of something more?
Why similar: Idler 36%, Automation 19.1%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.9%
- #55 开家小店
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The wind blows again
Windows
You take over a new store, and as a new owner, you're going to make it your own, how are you going to run it, whether it's to make your store lively, or to make it a gathering place for specific enthusiasts, or to sell your favorite items. The decision is yours.
Why similar: Idler 59%, Simulation 21.5%, 2D 9.6%, Casual 5%, Strategy 3%
- #56 Hamster City
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doonutsaur
Windows
Hamster City is a relaxing idle-building simulator where roads and buildings fuel your food-gathering empire! Build, unlock, and let your city grow in the background as you climb the leaderboard to become the top Chief!
Why similar: Idler 44.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 11.7%
- #57 Nightwater
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Idler 30.5%, Automation 19.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 7.9%
- #58 Fracture Field
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Fracture Field is an incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Idler 41.8%, Automation 19.3%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Top-Down 5.1%
- #59 Void Core
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badgertainment
Windows
Start as a microscopic speck, become the end of everything. Void Core is a minimalist sci-fi idle game where you control a black hole. Harvest matter, bend spacetime to automate your growth, and consume entire galaxies. Consume. Grow. Evolve.
Why similar: Idler 40.8%, Automation 18%, Management 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Simulation 10.1%
- #60 The RailIdle
69% matchMixed59% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Henapokoya
Windows
Run the rails at the base, collect materials, and use them to head out on your adventure. The rails run automatically, so you can leave them alone! The further you advance, the more side content you unlock!
Why similar: Idler 52.7%, Simulation 19.2%, Management 19.2%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%