- #1 Dyson Sphere Program
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 49.1%, Space 26.1%, Management 12.8%, Space Sim 6.8%, Strategy 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive space-based automation game featuring massive 3D industrial assembly lines and interstellar logistics.
- #2 Industry Idle
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 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 47.9%, Idler 28.6%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 7.5%, 2D 1.1%
Why You'll Like It: Perfectly bridges the gap between complex industrial management and idle-style incremental progression.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 76.9%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 6.3%, Indie 1.6%, 2D 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, offering deep logistical challenges and complex production chains.
- #4 Satisfactory
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 92.4%, Strategy 5%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person 3D factory building experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and vertical construction.
- #5 Final Upgrade
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 42%, Space 22.8%, Management 14.5%, Space Sim 11.8%, Strategy 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed automation game that tasks you with building complex logistics networks across a galaxy.
- #6 Astro Colony
94% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 48.6%, Space 26.9%, Space Sim 11.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Indie 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating space colonies while managing resources across multiple celestial bodies.
- #7 Mindustry
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,625 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 74.3%, Strategy 12%, Management 9.3%, Indie 1.9%, 2D 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines factory automation with tower defense mechanics, requiring you to build supply lines to fuel your war effort.
- #8 Captain of Industry
92% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 71.7%, Management 18.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep industrial supply chain management and logistics that will appeal to fans of complex assembly.
- #9 shapez
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 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 66.9%, Management 17.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Casual 2.3%, Indie 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, pure automation game that focuses on the logic and efficiency of assembly lines.
- #10 Space Haven
89% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Space 34.4%, Management 27.4%, Space Sim 21.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base management and ship building with survival elements in a space-faring environment.
- #11 Stationeers
91% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 51.6%, Space 27.3%, Management 21.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly deep space engineering and atmospheric management for players who enjoy complex systems.
- #12 Idle Research
90% matchVery Positive84% of 1,854 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 77.4 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: Automation 40.3%, Idler 31.8%, Management 15.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Indie 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep incremental game that focuses on scaling production and automation to reach massive numbers.
- #13 Avorion
89% matchVery Positive90% of 14,391 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 99.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Space 43.4%, Space Sim 31.9%, Management 24.6%
Why You'll Like It: An excellent choice for battleship assembly and space combat, allowing for highly customizable ship designs.
- #14 Incremental Factory
87% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 52.1%, Idler 31.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Management 4.7%, 2D 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated idle game centered on building and optimizing efficient production chains.
- #15 orbit.industries
88% matchMixed61% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Space 29.5%, Management 15.6%, Space Sim 14.2%, Strategy 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space station management and the logistics of building in a zero-gravity environment.
- #16 Unnamed Space Idle
85% matchVery Positive93% of 4,158 reviews2023
Dev: SylvPub: Jdog Corp
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 293.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.
Why similar: Idler 41.8%, Space 26.6%, Automation 23.3%, Casual 5.1%, 2D 2%
Why You'll Like It: A simple, space-themed idle game with straightforward incremental progression.
- #17 Assembly Line 2
86% matchMixed64% of 66 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 51.7%, Management 18.5%, Idler 17.2%, Strategy 10.2%, 2D 2%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and focused automation simulation that emphasizes building efficient production lines.
- #18 Idle Dyson Swarm
84% matchMixed61% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsided Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ever wanted a Dyson swarm of your own? Now you can have one with just a few clicks! Manage a solar empire, produce bots which will make solar panels for you. Send your panels to the sun to generate energy and sell that energy to make money which you can spend on even more bots!
Why similar: Idler 43%, Space 31.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Casual 5.2%, 2D 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: An incremental game centered on space-scale energy production and resource management.
- #19 Timberborn
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 62.6%, Management 27.5%, Strategy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features complex resource management and automation mechanics in a unique post-apocalyptic setting.
- #20 FOUNDRY
83% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 83.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based 3D factory builder that emphasizes large-scale automation in an infinite world.
- #21 Crafting Idle Clicker
86% matchMixed49% of 913 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 40.4%, Idler 26.1%, Management 16.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Casual 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic idle game focused on crafting and managing complex production chains.
- #22 Universe Horizon
82% matchVery Positive89% of 227 reviews2025
Dev: Jarkem
Windows · Linux
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: Automation 38.8%, Idler 26.4%, Space 22.9%, Strategy 5.6%, Indie 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: An idle game that emphasizes space exploration and incremental resource gathering.
- #23 Space Miner - Idle Adventures
84% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: FrontRunnerTek
Windows · Linux
A casual idle / active-idle asteroid mining game where you fly around mining and make the numbers go UP! Lasers, Drones, a dash of humor, RPG, science, research, crafting, games and more.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Idler 23.8%, Space Sim 13.4%, Space 12.8%, Strategy 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A casual idle game focused on space mining and basic automation mechanics.
- #24 Factory Town
82% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 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 65.8%, Management 24.7%, Strategy 6.7%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends logistics and automation with town management, focusing on moving goods efficiently.
- #25 Oxygen Not Included
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Management 35.2%, Space 31.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Space Sim 9.4%, 2D 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging management simulation that requires intricate automation of life-support systems.
- #26 Beltmatic
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,089 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 57.2%, Idler 25.8%, Strategy 7.8%, Casual 4.4%, 2D 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: Uses automation and math-based puzzles to manage production lines in a unique, logic-heavy way.
- #27 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
79% matchVery Positive94% of 12,599 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Space 44.5%, Space Sim 27.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Indie 6.9%, 2D 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed ship-building system that is essential for tactical space combat.
- #28 ReFactory
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 51.3%, Management 18%, Strategy 16.1%, Casual 5.6%, Indie 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation with exploration and base defense on an alien planet.
- #29 Idle Colony
78% matchVery Positive83% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 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 44.2%, Idler 25%, Management 15.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Casual 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a space colony through accessible idle mechanics and resource collection.
- #30 Orbitmine
77% matchVery Positive84% of 353 reviews2026
Dev: vibemaker1
Windows
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: Space 31.3%, Automation 31.2%, Idler 19.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Casual 4.1%
- #31 Scratch Inc.
76% matchVery Positive91% of 1,726 reviews2025
Dev: Makopaz
Windows · Mac
Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 42.1%, Idler 31.1%, Space 14%, Strategy 7.2%, Casual 3%
- #32 Island Robot Farm
76% matchVery Positive87% of 162 reviews2025
Dev: MoraCocoPub: Wise Games
Windows
Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.
Why similar: Automation 43.2%, Idler 30.5%, Management 16.4%, Casual 4%, Indie 2.8%
- #33 星际工业国:崛起
77% matchVery Positive90% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: 游戏养家工作室Pub: 跪求愿望
Windows
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
Why similar: Automation 36%, Space 17.4%, Space Sim 11.7%, Loot 9.7%, Idler 9.1%
- #34 Starbase
78% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Space 55.5%, Space Sim 44.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space engineering, ship design, and industrial automation in a massive multiplayer universe.
- #35 xiuzhen idle
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,363 reviews2025
Dev: 游戏养家工作室
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 110.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
This is a xiuzhen simulation placement game! From the refining of qi, building the foundation to the ascension of the celestial realm, crossed into the divine realm. (The game has been updated with the english mod, but you will need to select the "english" beta in the properties option to update it)
Why similar: Idler 49.2%, Word Game 30.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 6%, Casual 5.4%
- #36 Astrodle
74% matchVery Positive89% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: Robin Nicolet
Windows
Ready for some chill time in space? Astrodle has you covered. Watch the numbers soar as you upgrade your ship and travel the stars. Oh, and you might just become a god.
Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Idler 31.4%, Space 20.6%, Casual 3.9%, Indie 2.8%
- #37 3D Printer Manager
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: Smushii
Windows · Mac · Linux
Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive idle tycoon game.
Why similar: Automation 48.6%, Idler 33.6%, Management 9%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 2.1%
- #38 Outworld Station
72% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 49%, Space 26.8%, Management 17%, Strategy 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #39 Idle Space Navy
75% matchMixed48% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Phoenix Aura
Windows · Mac
A sci-fi idler. Upgrade your ships, get new items, and conquer the stars.
Why similar: Idler 48.2%, Space 23%, Strategy 17%, Casual 7.3%, 2D 3.5%
- #40 Node Math
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 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: Automation 49.3%, Idler 29%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Casual 4.3%
- #41 shapez 2 - Factory
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 58.1%, Management 25.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Indie 3.3%, Casual 3.3%
- #42 Factory Planner
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 342 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 60.3%, Management 23.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Casual 3.5%, 2D 2.3%
- #43 挂机手游模拟器
70% matchVery Positive93% of 1,071 reviews2025
Dev: 天光
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 39.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Idle farming for treasures, summoning heroes, collecting compendiums, crafting equipment, unlocking formations, researching technologies, sweeping maps, and competing for resources!
Why similar: Idler 40.4%, Loot 37.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 5.8%, 2D 1.7%
- #44 Galaxy Idle Clicker
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,155 reviews2025
Dev: SoehnlePub: TimeLost Gaming
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 350.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Embark on an interstellar journey with Galaxy Idle Clicker! Conquer galaxies, upgrade your spaceship, and face off against a myriad of enemy ships. With engaging minigames, powerful upgrades, GIC delivers an unparalleled idle space adventure. Join the cosmic conquest today and dominate the universe!
Why similar: Idler 34.4%, Space 29%, Space Sim 13.6%, Management 11.5%, Indie 5.1%
- #45 Idle Armada
73% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2020
Dev: Corfe83
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deep idle game with NO ads, NO in-app-purchases. Watch your fleet battle automatically. Collect items and upgrade your buildings and fleet to reach progressively higher levels!
Why similar: Idler 33.8%, Loot 24%, Space 17.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Casual 6%
- #46 Reincarnation : Hero of the Gun
73% matchMixed68% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: 六轮鸭SixLonDuck
Windows
Text Idle Game
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Idler 29.5%, Word Game 18.5%, Loot 9.4%, Casual 2.7%
- #47 Fracture Field
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 872 reviews2026
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fracture Field is an idle/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: Automation 45.2%, Idler 30.6%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 3.6%, Casual 3.3%
- #48 Immortal IDLE
70% matchMixed69% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: 伯乐Couple
Windows
This is an IDLE cultivation game. Rise from mortal to immortal! Explore a world inspired by Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions as you master swordplay, elemental magic, or Buddhist powers. Grow spirit crops, craft items, defeat monsters, and loot treasures. Your path to immortality awaits!
Why similar: Idler 34%, Loot 28.3%, Automation 15.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Casual 5.4%
- #49 Automation Empire
72% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 66.5%, Management 18.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 1%
- #50 The Eastern Sacrifice
69% matchMixed62% of 403 reviews2025
Dev: 五条虾仁(5 shrimps)
Windows
“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: Automation 26.3%, Idler 24.3%, Management 16.9%, Word Game 16.5%, Strategy 7%
- #51 Idle Spiral
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,862 reviews2022
Dev: Idle System, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 118.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!
Why similar: Automation 42.6%, Idler 36.7%, Space 9.2%, Casual 3.9%, Strategy 3.6%
- #52 Revolution Idle
66% matchVery Positive87% of 11,167 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 172.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Automation 42.7%, Idler 27.9%, Management 18.2%, Casual 3.8%, Indie 3.7%
- #53 CivIdle
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,037 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 78.6 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 45%, Idler 29.1%, Management 16.7%, Strategy 5.2%, Indie 2.1%
- #54 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 823 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Space 24.5%, Space Sim 14.4%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 9.5%
- #55 Idle Expanse
71% matchMixed55% of 152 reviews2020
Dev: Lyrical Games LLC
Windows
A sci-fi themed incremental game which allows you to expand your capitalistic empire across the galaxy! Hire mercenaries to pillage alien planets for resources, with the singular goal of making as much money as possible as quickly as possible! Totally not a playful commentary on real Terran society.
Why similar: Idler 37.9%, Management 18.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Space 13.4%, Casual 6.8%
- #56 PC Building Empire
66% matchVery Positive87% of 189 reviews2025
Dev: Moose Games
Windows
Build PCs of different rarities, hire workers with buffs and debuffs, and expand your shop. Train stats in special rooms, customize floors and colors, and relax in a cozy idle indie game in Early Access that grows with feedback from the community.
Why similar: Idler 55.9%, Management 31.8%, Casual 7.2%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #57 Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 888 reviews2023
Dev: Benjamin StaugaardPub: Benzoft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 100.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Vacuum Warrior is a Free to Play incremental idle game. Listen to the crisp crackle of dust and debris entering your vacuum as you vacuum ridiculous amounts of dust. Upgrade your vacuums, idle gains, and robot vacuums, earn achievements, and explore numerous locations in the Vacuum Warrior universe!
Why similar: Automation 46.7%, Idler 33.7%, Management 8.3%, Casual 4.9%, Indie 2.9%
- #58 Idle Grid
68% matchMixed64% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Lake Country Games
Windows
Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.
Why similar: Automation 48%, Idler 30.5%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 6.4%, 2D 2%
- #59 Idle Plant Game
69% matchMixed53% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: FootoftheHare
Windows
Idle Plant Game, an idle and offline progress or clicker plant simulation!
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Idler 35.2%, Management 16.2%, Casual 5.1%, Strategy 4.3%
- #60 Sky Realm Idle
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: 323GamePub: Star Seeker Ltd
Windows
Sky Realm Idle is a Xianxia RPG combining Spirit Array strategy with estate management. Forge artifacts, cultivate pills, and recruit companions. Ascend from mortal to immortal through deep customization and idle growth.
Why similar: Idler 54.7%, Management 37.3%, Casual 8%