Games Like Upload Labs

Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Why similar: Programming 36% ★, Automation 26%, Idler 17%, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the intersection of programming, automation, and incremental growth found in Upload Labs.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 48.8% ★, Automation 16.6%, Logic 12.6%, Hacking 10.3% ★, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to build a computer from the ground up using logic gates, mirroring the system architecture focus of the seed game.

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 45.2%, Management 14.6%, Logic 10.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished, node-based automation experience that challenges your ability to optimize complex production lines.

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Why similar: Programming 37.5% ★, Automation 23.3%, Idler 17.8%, Hacking 16.1% ★, Simulation 4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, text-based programming and hacking game that features significant idle and automation progression mechanics.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 52.4% ★, Automation 30.4%, Logic 8.2%, Simulation 5.5%, Hacking 2.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building hardware and writing assembly code, which is the ultimate challenge for fans of system-level simulation.

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 32.6%, Idler 23.4%, Clicker 10.3%, Economy 8.4%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends complex resource management with idle mechanics, perfect for those who enjoy the scaling nature of Upload Labs.

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.

Why similar: Programming 32.6% ★, Automation 28.6%, Hacking 15.1% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Logic 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A specialized programming and automation puzzle game that requires logical thinking to optimize data flow.

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Automation 24.4%, Hacking 19.8% ★, Logic 6.5%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game tasks you with writing code to control agents in a system, providing a similar 'hacker-architect' feel to Upload Labs.

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 67.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that rewards players for building efficient, interconnected systems to manage resources.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Programming 39.4% ★, Automation 37.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 5%, Resource Management 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automation with a visual programming language, allowing you to build a self-sustaining world through logic.

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 34.7%, Idler 24.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Economy 7.5%, Mining 7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated automation-focused incremental game that emphasizes building and optimizing production chains.

A incremental game about downloading files, uploading, and upgrading your setup. This is the official PC version of Upload Simulator.

Why similar: Idler 43.8%, Clicker 20.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 8.3%, Sci-fi 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core thematic focus on file management and system optimization within an idle framework.

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 30.4%, Idler 28.6%, Clicker 13.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly satisfying incremental loop focused on scientific automation and resource management.

Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.

Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Idler 16.2%, Programming 15.1% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Logic 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that tasks you with managing hardware and data flow, directly aligning with the theme of Upload Labs.

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

Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Idler 20.2%, Clicker 15.4%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique clicker-automation hybrid that focuses on scaling production through logical progression.

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 33.9%, Automation 29.9%, Clicker 13.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A clean, math-focused idle game that provides a satisfying sense of progression through automation.

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Why similar: Programming 55% ★, Simulation 22.9%, Hacking 22.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logic and hardware design aspects of computing, challenging you to build efficient circuits.

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Automation 38.7%, Logic 8.2%, Simulation 8%, Sandbox 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle game focuses on building machines to automate chemical reactions, emphasizing spatial logic and efficiency.

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

Why similar: Idler 59.4%, Clicker 19.5%, Automation 13.8%, Resource Management 4.4%, Space 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic of the idle genre that emphasizes mathematical progression and strategic automation.

NGU INDUSTRIES (sequel to NGU IDLE) is a Free To Play Idle game and Factory Manager! It's packed with weird humor, tons of upgrades, and many hours of content! If you want that sweet, sweet dopamine release that comes with making Numbers Go Up, NGU INDUSTRIES is your game!

Why similar: Idler 43.9%, Clicker 21.1%, Time Management 12.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a humorous but deep take on the idle-automation genre, focusing on scaling production systems.

DEFRAG is a game about cleansing corrupted sectors and refining them through optimization to build a stronger system. Collect resources, adjust configurations, and complete your build as you progress.

Why similar: Idler 26.3%, Hacking 15% ★, Management 12.1%, Clicker 10.6%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused idle game that mimics the feel of system maintenance and optimization.

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

Why similar: Idler 34.7%, Clicker 19.1%, Hacking 15.1% ★, Simulation 12.2%, Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on node-based progression and clicking mechanics, making it a casual but relevant alternative.

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Why similar: Programming 67.7% ★, Automation 19.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Logic 4.5%, Sandbox 1%

Why You'll Like It: It uses visual programming to solve tasks, making it an excellent entry point for logic-based automation fans.

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 72.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Sci-fi 3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person automation game that allows for massive, complex factory designs and logical system building.

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Programming 38% ★, Simulation 8.6%, Sandbox 5.9%, Logic 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D automation puzzle game where you build factories to assemble products, mirroring the node-based logic of the seed game.

A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Idler 34%, Management 10.4%, Logic 8%, Sci-fi 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based incremental game that requires deep strategy and automation to manage your population and resources.

Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!

Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Hacking 27.4% ★, Logic 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a sandbox for building complex digital logic circuits, perfect for players who enjoy the 'system architect' aspect.

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 38.8%, Automation 18.6%, Clicker 13.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 6.2%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Hacking 74.1% ★, Programming 15.1% ★, Simulation 4.6%, Logic 3.8%, Sci-fi 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A terminal-based hacking simulator that captures the immersive 'computer system' aesthetic of Upload Labs.

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Programming 62.3% ★, Automation 15.1%, Logic 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to program the AI of your robots, emphasizing logic-based combat automation.

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: Automation 37.2%, Idler 18.6%, Clicker 14.9%, Time Management 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Why similar: Programming 32.2% ★, Automation 29.7%, Logic 9.7%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a creative sandbox for building and programming custom robots, focusing on logic and mechanical design.

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 35.9%, Clicker 18%, Time Management 12.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%

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: Idler 28.4%, Automation 27.8%, Clicker 13.1%, Time Management 12.8%, Simulation 9.7%

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 33.7%, Idler 22.8%, Clicker 13.7%, Economy 10.6%, Management 8.6%

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: Idler 41%, Clicker 23.1%, Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%

Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!

Why similar: Idler 41.3%, Clicker 19.6%, Simulation 14%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.7%

Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.

Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Idler 27%, Clicker 12.6%, Time Management 12.1%, Economy 6.9%

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: Idler 40%, Clicker 20.5%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 7.5%

Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.

Why similar: Idler 35.1%, Clicker 17.7%, Mining 15.7% ★, Management 13.6%, Simulation 8.9%

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 57.6%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.1%, Logic 6.7%

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

Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Idler 22.9%, Clicker 12.6%, Management 8.8%, Simulation 7.1%

Start in your bedroom in year 2010. Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto coins. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies.

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Simulation 23.1%, Management 17.6%, Economy 15.3%, Mining 9.2% ★

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 56.5%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Sandbox 5.7%

Cube based incremental game that is simple but very deep!

Why similar: Idler 45.9%, Clicker 19.2%, Time Management 17.8%, Simulation 15.6%, 2D 1.5%

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 41.8%, Idler 32.3%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 6.4%

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: Idler 39%, Automation 25.8%, Clicker 18.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Relaxing 4.1%

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: Idler 31.9%, Automation 26.2%, Clicker 17.8%, Mining 8.3% ★, Simulation 5.3%

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: Idler 38.8%, Clicker 24.9%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Relaxing 3.4%

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Why similar: Automation 38%, Management 13.2%, Logic 12.5%, Economy 11.7%, Simulation 10.6%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Automation 42.7%, Economy 12.9%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Resource Management 7.8%

Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!

Why similar: Idler 37.5%, Clicker 18.7%, Mining 15% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Management 7%

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 57.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Sci-fi 8%

Click to mine particles and watch your pile grow. Turn resources into profit, automate extraction, research new technologies and trade. Can you mine the rarest particle and ascend? There is just one way to find out.

Why similar: Idler 31.1%, Automation 19%, Simulation 18.5%, Clicker 17.1%, Mining 10.9% ★

The management RPG where your heroes keep fighting even when you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental Wizard to Cannon Pirate, and level up 19 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and even Construction!

Why similar: Idler 49.7%, Clicker 15.5%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 7.2%, Simulation 7.2%

An idle dungeon management game, where high tier units can create low tier units.

Why similar: Idler 41.5%, Clicker 20.7%, Economy 14.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 8%

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

Why similar: Programming 33.2% ★, Automation 24%, Hacking 14.8% ★, Simulation 9%, Logic 8.8%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 70.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 7.7%, Management 6.4%, 2D 1.6%

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: Automation 31%, Idler 25.1%, Clicker 12.6%, Economy 9.8%, Management 8.9%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Automation 46.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Management 11.4%, Economy 10.6%, Immersive Sim 10.6%