Games Like SweatShop

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 56.4%, Casual 24.8%, Strategy 11%, Indie 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive incremental game that set the standard for satisfying clicker progression and upgrade loops.

In Idle Weaponshop, you are handed your very own weapon shop to manage. Design and sell weapons, build up your local community, hire employees, and send adventurers off into danger for fun and profit... all before prestiging to earn powerful bonuses, all so you can do it all over again.

Why similar: Incremental 46.7%, Casual 34.1%, Strategy 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the shop management theme of the seed game with a focus on crafting and selling items.

Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

Why similar: Incremental 55.3%, Casual 44.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic business-themed incremental game that perfectly mirrors the goal of scaling production and hiring managers.

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Incremental 60%, Casual 24.2%, Strategy 11%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar production-chain management style with a humorous take on resource accumulation and scaling.

Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

Why similar: Incremental 54.1%, Casual 27%, Strategy 10.4%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational clicker experience that emphasizes constant growth through hero upgrades and prestige mechanics.

Dwarf Shop is a Shop Simulator with, you guessed it, Dwarves! Help the Dragon Clan lure their very own dragon by amassing piles and piles of glorious gold. Send one dwarf deep into the caves to find ingredients while the others craft various equipment and sell them to unsuspecting customers!

Why similar: Incremental 39.3%, Casual 33.7%, Strategy 27%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar management and crafting loop where you run a shop while balancing inventory and customer demand.

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

Why similar: Incremental 39.4%, Casual 30.3%, Strategy 21.8%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on production chains and automation, requiring strategic planning to optimize your output.

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 48.3%, Casual 38.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of active movement to the traditional incremental loop, keeping the gameplay engaging over long sessions.

Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!

Why similar: Incremental 76.9%, Strategy 23.1%

Why You'll Like It: A business simulation that focuses on the retail management aspect of growing a small store into an empire.

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

Why similar: Incremental 63.5%, Strategy 20.2%, Casual 13.7%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep incremental strategy with complex faction management and persistent upgrades.

Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!

Why similar: Casual 41%, Incremental 24.5%, Strategy 22.3%, Indie 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines shop management with pixel-art aesthetics and a focus on resource gathering and inventory organization.

Pop the top on some legendary action with Soda Dungeon, the fresh and fizzy hit mobile RPG adventure, now available on your desktop! Manage your team as you raid the local dungeons, upgrade your tavern, and attract new party members. Gold, legendary items, and more await you.

Why similar: Incremental 46%, Casual 39.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends shop management with incremental dungeon crawling, allowing you to upgrade your tavern to attract better heroes.

This Game is Basically a Market Management Simulator. Make Your Store Get The Best Profit With Various Upgrades and Unlocks. Including Basic Clicking stuff, Managing Your Own Market , Upgrading and A game with the theme of reaching to going to next level.

Why similar: Incremental 52.5%, Casual 47.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on retail management and store expansion with classic clicker-style progression.

In Shop manager: video game tycoon your uncle entrusts you his video game shop. Your goal is to make it profitable so that one day you can inherit your business.

Why similar: Casual 49.6%, Strategy 35.4%, Indie 15%

Why You'll Like It: A business simulation that captures the feel of running a niche shop with incremental growth elements.

Build, link and upgrade factories to produce and sell products.

Why similar: Casual 64.6%, Incremental 35.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and efficiency of production, perfect for players who enjoy the management side of incremental games.

You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power. Complete missions, mine ore, kill enemies, research new tech, return to base to upgrade ship and repeat.

Why similar: Casual 40.4%, Incremental 31.2%, Strategy 28.4%

Why You'll Like It: An incremental management game that applies the familiar clicker loop to a sci-fi setting.

Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on Steam!

Why similar: Casual 33.8%, Strategy 27.8%, Incremental 27.6%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist clicker game that focuses on the pure satisfaction of unlocking achievements and incremental numbers.

Recruit Ninjas, Hire Workers, build your base, train your Ninjas and send them on Missions!

Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused incremental game that tasks you with building and expanding a ninja-themed business.

Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.

Why similar: Casual 77.2%, Indie 22.8%

Why You'll Like It: A business management simulation that uses incremental upgrades to grow your facility and attract more customers.

Tech Store Simulator is a game in which you have to build your own tech store. Buy goods, put them on the shelves, sell them at an inflated price and beat the thieves!Also in the game there is a huge number of opportunities to customize the store and make it the way you would like it in life

Why similar: Casual 58.7%, Strategy 41.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retail management game that allows for incremental upgrades to your store's inventory and layout.

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: Casual 85.7%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a crafting and management loop that rewards players for optimizing their business processes.

Become the new king of cryptocurrency! Bitcoin Farm is a clicker game where you will aim to undermine a maximum of Bitcoins!

Why similar: Casual 75.9%, Indie 24.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simple business-themed incremental game that focuses on generating wealth through digital assets.

A short incremental game about catching bugs and running a shop filled with parakeets. Upgrade equipment, purchase game-breaking abilities, and maximize the profits of your Budgie-powered empire!

Why similar: Incremental 44.8%, Casual 38.5%, Strategy 16.8%

In this game you will have an exciting immersion in the world of mining. You can earn the crypto currency and after selling it, follow the exchange rates, choose the currency that you like more and buy equipment to improve your farm.

Why similar: Casual 75.9%, Indie 24.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features basic clicker mechanics centered around resource gathering and facility upgrades.

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 47.5%, Casual 28.7%, Strategy 18.5%, Indie 5.3%

Ever wanted to know what achievement hunting is like? Earn money, buy games, and idle for achievements with the goal of reaching 100,000 achievements.

Why similar: Casual 48.8%, Incremental 45.9%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-clicker game that focuses on the satisfaction of numbers going up through simple, repetitive actions.

Astro Emporia is a CASUAL turn based randomised trading game where your objective is to make as much money in a limited amount of turns.

Why similar: Casual 52.3%, Strategy 33.5%, Indie 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy and management game that tasks you with running a shop in a space-themed setting.

Help save Christmas in this idle builder game! Build workshops and presents!

Why similar: Casual 51.3%, Strategy 33.7%, Indie 15%

Why You'll Like It: A seasonal incremental game that uses simple mechanics to build up your production output.

Build your workshop and turn it into a fashion business. Interact with your customers and design unique collections to sell in your store. Upgrade your workshop until you rule the fashion industry.

Why similar: Casual 76.9%, Indie 23.1%

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Why similar: Incremental 63.6%, Strategy 36.4%

Buttons Up! is a incremental button collecting game where you hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing intruders. Get those Buttons Up by buying buildings, using skills and by automating your income.

Why similar: Incremental 42.8%, Casual 32.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Indie 1.9%

Chicken Farm is a management game with clicker aspects, where you buy chickens, catch the eggs, work at the market, sell your chickens and ultimately profit.

Why similar: Incremental 41.4%, Casual 28.8%, Strategy 20.7%, Indie 9.1%

Paperwork is a first-person office-building incremental game where you optimize an office to generate more and more money. Step into the office of Clarity, become a productive worker and watch profits grow.

Why similar: Incremental 85.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Indie 4.4%

Catx11 is a short incremental game. Harvest crops, buy upgrades, hire cats, fight bosses, and level up your gear! Many different strategies and ways to play.

Why similar: Incremental 40.6%, Casual 32.8%, Strategy 26.6%

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: Casual 39.8%, Incremental 33%, Strategy 23.2%, Indie 4.1%

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: Casual 50.2%, Incremental 49.8%

You are dropped into a forest with one goal - making money and paying off your 100k debt. Collect resources, make deals, upgrade, build and hire workers to do the job for you. 🐕

Why similar: Incremental 48.7%, Casual 29.3%, Strategy 17.9%, Indie 4.2%

FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!

Why similar: Incremental 53.5%, Casual 37.1%, Indie 9.4%

Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!

Why similar: Incremental 54.9%, Casual 39.6%, Indie 5.5%

Citalis is a fast paced city simulation game where you must carefully manage your city to avoid crime and disasters such as floods and droughts - all whilst making a profit!

Why similar: Casual 70.4%, Incremental 19%, Indie 10.5%

Build turrets to destroy balls & earn cash, spend it to upgrade and get stronger

Why similar: Incremental 45.4%, Casual 26.2%, Strategy 22.5%, Indie 6%

Chill incremental game about dice making money. 🎲 Upgrade your dice to make more money, to upgrade your dice to make even more money! 😲🤯

Why similar: Casual 50.3%, Incremental 49.7%

Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...

Why similar: Incremental 54.1%, Casual 25.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Indie 4.8%

Absurd incremental game where you turn even liquid assets into financial glory! Spin for jackpots and hire veteran gamblers to automate the madness. Use permanent upgrades and 'mishaps' to accelerate your progress! Simple. Messy. Addictive.

Why similar: Incremental 41.5%, Casual 30.5%, Strategy 20.5%, Indie 7.5%

Run your own Shooting Range. Manage your supplies, rent guns, and sell ammo packs. Expand and upgrade your shop; level up your popularity to get even better equipment. Open various cases and sell the skins you got from them. Join shooting tournaments and much more!

Why similar: Casual 59.4%, Indie 20.4%, Strategy 20.2%

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 46.6%, Casual 26.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Indie 8.3%

In Typing Incremental, type words to earn money, spend money to unlock new words. Repeat until you can prestige to gain permanent bonuses.

Why similar: Incremental 87.7%, Indie 12.3%

Scratchers is an incremental game where you scratch cards to earn cash, unlock upgrades, and hire little scratchers to do the scratching for you. Discover rare cards, and optimize your earnings as you climb to scratcher supremacy!

Why similar: Incremental 50.7%, Casual 49.3%

You're a skeleton shopkeep who hires adventurers to collect loot for you after your untimely demise. Send adventurers into battle, sell what they find, and build up your town in this laid-back idle game!

Why similar: Casual 67%, Strategy 19.9%, Indie 13.1%

Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!

Why similar: Casual 61.7%, Strategy 31.5%, Indie 6.8%

Star Merchant is a galactic trading sim where you become a space entrepreneur. Buy and sell items, fight pirates, upgrade your ship and try to meet your goal without going broke!

Why similar: Strategy 46.5%, Casual 40.6%, Indie 12.9%

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 47.6%, Strategy 30.5%, Casual 21.9%

Run your own scam centre and pay off your debt. Expand your business by recruiting workers through shady means. Bribe the police, trade with others, and use every strategy to survive in this city. Will you rise to power or fall under the pressure? The choice is yours.

Why similar: Strategy 55%, Casual 33.3%, Indie 11.7%

your pawnshop will usher in guests with different needs every day, bargain with them, let the income soar! With the expansion of pawnshops, activities such as sending shop assistants and responding to emergencies are also essential. you seem ordinary transaction may cause the butterfly effect.

Why similar: Casual 100%

More Sushi! is a short incremental game about running a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Serve customers, buy upgrades, hire helpers, and unlock new sushi! Pay off the owner's debt, then turn used plates into stars to buy permanent upgrades.

Why similar: Incremental 63%, Casual 33.1%, Indie 3.9%

Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.

Why similar: Strategy 70.6%, Indie 29.4%

Boba Tea shop simulator. Manage recipe, stock and customer satisfaction.

Why similar: Incremental 65.2%, Casual 18.1%, Strategy 16.7%

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: Incremental 61.5%, Strategy 38.5%

Lead the world to apocalyse with lemonades! Price affects demand, but take into account the cost of each lemonade when selling. Upgrades reduce cost and increase demand. Invest in a factory, and eventually control the politics of the world to increase climate's temperature and beverage consumption.

Why similar: Incremental 64.5%, Casual 35.5%

Build the ultimate number production empire! Automate generators, unlock powerful upgrades, and prestige for permanent bonuses. Compete on global leaderboards and watch your numbers grow to infinity in this addictive idle incremental game.

Why similar: Casual 46%, Incremental 29.8%, Strategy 19%, Indie 5.3%