Games Like Valehands

Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.

Why similar: Dwarves 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Incremental 13.8%, Automation 13.2%, Idler 11.7%

Mine It Down is an incremental game about mining an evil wall inspired by other games like (the) Gnorp Apologue and Tower Wizard. Chip away at the wall with the mouse first, hire masons to work that rock and build different buildings to grow your rock-destroying arsenal.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Dwarves 20.6% ★, Idler 17.1%, Incremental 9.5%, Minimalist 7.4%

A resource management incremental mining game where you rebuild your Mountain Hall. Plan each descent, choose where your dwarves dig, gather gold and rare artifacts, and return home when the torch burns out. Manage production, upgrade your crew, dig deeper, and bring your fallen kingdom back to life

Why similar: Dwarves 38.6% ★, Incremental 13.4%, Idler 11.4%, Cozy 9.8%, Crafting 7.4%

An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.

Why similar: Dwarves 36.8% ★, Automation 18%, Incremental 15.5%, Idler 13.1%, Strategy 3.4%

Idle RPG for your desktop. Mine, fish, smith, farm, and build a factory. Runs for 24 hours while you’re gone. One purchase, no energy, no ads.

Why similar: Cozy 23%, Idler 20.7%, Incremental 20.2%, Automation 12.8%, Crafting 7.2%

Gather food to grow your colony. Evolve and upgrade specialized worker types. Discover and combine interesting synergies. Optimize your production, customize your strategy and feed the Queen ever-increasing amounts of food!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Incremental 21.7%, Idler 16.7%, Automation 10.7%, Strategy 7.4%

Tiny Biomes is a relaxing idle game where animals peacefully produce resources and you gather wood in a calm harvesting zone. Build small biomes, earn gold, and enjoy steady progression without pressure, timers, or stress. Play at your own pace and unwind.

Why similar: Incremental 19.1%, Idler 18.8%, Automation 13.7%, Cozy 10.1%, Minimalist 8%

A chill incremental game about satisfying mining and automated forging. Mine. Gamble. Upgrade. Repeat. Mine another rock while the lantern is burning.

Why similar: Dwarves 27.7% ★, Incremental 18.2%, Idler 14%, Automation 13.1%, Cozy 8.6%

Village Incremental is an incremental game where you harvest resources and grow your village and research tools.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Incremental 19.9%, Idler 14.7%, Automation 12.6%, Medieval 9.9%

A cozy idle RPG in an illustrated woodland. Chop, forage, fish, mine, craft and cook through ten gentle skills as the seasons turn, raise a homestead building by building, and defend the wilds, even while you're away.

Why similar: Cozy 20%, Automation 16.9%, Incremental 15.8%, Idler 15.3%, Crafting 10.3%

A cozy incremental where you choose how your bees evolve, plant flowers, guide your hive, and grow a thriving honey empire.

Why similar: Cozy 20.9%, Incremental 17.7%, Idler 17%, Automation 10.7%, Resource Management 10.1%

Your workday. Their adventure. A free cozy idle game that lives on your taskbar. Run a dwarven forge while you work or browse—mine ore, craft weapons, decorate your shop, and send heroes on expeditions for gems, relics and rare loot.

Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Idler 17.9%, Incremental 17.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Cozy 10.7%

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Dwarves 55% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Automation 10.5%, Crafting 7.5%

Lead a tiny ant colony through a giant candy world. Crush sweets, collect crumbs, unlock upgrades, grow your colony, and help the Queen evolve in this cozy incremental game.

Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Incremental 22%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Idler 17.2%, Resource Management 11.2%

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, Automation 16.8%, Incremental 14.9%, Idler 13.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Help the Dworfs obtain all the Forbidden Gold to Build a Rocket Ship to Outer Space! Click the Rock, Obtain Resources, Build a Village, Gain More Dworfs!

Why similar: Dwarves 36.1% ★, Incremental 16.2%, Idler 13.6%, Automation 10.2%, Side Scroller 7.5%

Dwarfspire is an idle shopkeeper that sits on the edge of your screen. Manage a shop of hand crafted gear while sending expeditions of dwarves up mountains to gather rare materials and forge new items. Mine ore, craft items and become a master shopkeeper!

Why similar: Dwarves 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Cozy 12.8%, Idler 12.8%, Incremental 11%

Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

Why similar: Dwarves 43.2% ★, Incremental 15.7%, Idler 13.6%, Cozy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%

Apiary in Flow is an incremental game with automation elements where you place bees inside a hive to build efficient honey-gathering chains. Unlock new bee types and spend your harvest on permanent skill tree upgrades!

Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Incremental 23.4%, Idler 19.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Cozy 5.8%

A cozy idle island sim that lives on your desktop, just above the taskbar. Five islanders — a Farmer, Woodcutter, Fisherman, Miner, and Chef — farm, fish, mine, cook, and craft on their own. You just make the calls. Glance down between emails and a meal is ready. It never steals your screen.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Cozy 19.2%, Automation 15.6%, Idler 12.5%, Incremental 12.3%

Defend your title as Grandma’s Golden Boy! No one leaves without a bare bum. Shear the wildest sheep, host legendary tea parties for the grannies, craft epic gear, and build your very own Wool Empire!

Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Idler 21.6%, Incremental 20.9%, Cozy 13.7%, Resource Management 11.2%

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: Colony Sim 21.2%, Automation 20.9%, Incremental 18.6%, Idler 13.7%, Resource Management 5.7%

Goblincremental is a cozy incremental game about helping goblins build thriving settlements. Gather resources, unlock new industries, and learn magic spells to automate tasks and discover new ways to make deez goblins thrive!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Idler 19.9%, Incremental 19.5%, Medieval 11.1%, Strategy 7.7%

Swing your axe, drop the trees, and watch a village rise from the stumps. Assign villagers to nine trades, unlock a 54-node talent tree, and carry your settlement through five ages — from a primitive camp to a medieval kingdom with a crown of its own.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Idler 17.1%, Automation 15.4%, Incremental 13.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Dwarves 53.4% ★, Colony Sim 26.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 3.2%, Strategy 3%

Popcorn Idle is a cozy idle automation game about the simple joy of popping corn. Earn money, buy upgrades, automate and turn up the heat to boost production. Grow bigger numbers, unlock flavors and combine effects. Fill the whole machine with colorful, tasty popcorn, one crunchy pop at a time.

Why similar: Incremental 19.9%, Cozy 19.6%, Idler 19.4%, Automation 12.2%, Minimalist 8.4%

Evergarden is a relaxing idle incremental about turning a tiny barren patch into a lush, living island. Restore tiles with your shovel, let workers gather resources, meet pets, and watch the ecosystem quietly spread on its own.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Automation 23.4%, Idler 18.8%, Incremental 12.2%, Nature 6.1%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Dwarves 81.1% ★, Colony Sim 6.1%, Automation 4.4%, Strategy 2.7%, Crafting 2.5%

Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Incremental 16.4%, Automation 12.4%, Idler 10.9%, Resource Management 10.5%

Manage an expedition of dwarves as they build out a colony under the surface in this incremental game. Assign your dwarves to farm food, forge runes, hunt trolls and mine ore!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Incremental 17.9%, Idler 15.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Minimalist 7%

The world's first 3D open-world survival cookie clicker. Mine, chop, and hunt across a living landscape. Teach your dwarf to auto-harvest nearby resources. Research, build, and cook to grow a thriving outpost.

Why similar: Dwarves 54.6% ★, Incremental 23.2%, Cozy 16.4%, Relaxing 3%, Casual 2.1%

An idle miner at galactic scale. Drop thousands of dwarves onto a planet and watch it disappear. No fail states, no lost progress, no rush - just automated mining, upgrades and numbers that always climb

Why similar: Dwarves 21.3% ★, Incremental 16.5%, Automation 16.2%, Idler 14.2%, Colony Sim 13.8%

Espresso Presso is a dangerously satisfying coffee-fueled incremental game. Click, upgrade, automate, chase massive jackpots, slice through chaotic bean frenzies, and race through frantic order rushes as you build an ever-growing caffeine empire.

Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Incremental 22.3%, Idler 18.6%, Cozy 14.3%, Resource Management 12.7%

Clickerite is an incremental mining game where you must collect materials, craft powerful tools, and battle evil monsters in a cube-dimensional world!

Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Incremental 19.4%, Idler 16.4%, Cozy 15.6%, Crafting 13.6%

A cozy idle game about vibe-coding with AI. Hire a crew of agents, climb a five-branch upgrade tree, and dress the whole lab from 80 cosmetics across five tiers. Progress lands in minutes, not days — no subscriptions, no daily check-in. Numbers go up, vibes stay immaculate.

Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Incremental 21.3%, Idler 20.7%, Cozy 18.5%, Resource Management 13.7%

A short, relaxing incremental game about growing flowers, where your garden quietly thrives and blooms on its own.

Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Idler 20.8%, Incremental 16.5%, Cozy 11.4%, Minimalist 6.7%

Grow and spread mycelium from spores across a dark substrate in this relaxing incremental.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Idler 20.3%, Incremental 20%, Automation 15.6%, Resource Management 5.4%

Neighbor Craft is a survival card game where you build a civilization by placing cards next to one another. Decide what to place where, then gather resources, craft, fight, trade, and discover new cards as your civilization evolves.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Automation 24.3%, Cozy 18.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 9.3%

Discover your own private haven in the Scottish Highlands and bring this once thriving home for hairy “coos” back to life. Craft goodies to sell, optimize your farm, and grow a pasture of cute highland cows roaming free on the bottom of your screen in this relaxing idle game.

Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Incremental 18.4%, Idler 17.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Cozy 9.6%

Civilization, automated. Build a nation of moveable regions that runs while you work, then come back and see who took the crown while you were gone.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Automation 18.4%, Incremental 15.2%, Idler 14.2%, Cozy 11.2%

Dwarf Core is an idle-management game about a small colony of dwarves who love to mine. Send them to the mine to gather resources, gain experience, upgrade their stats and craft new pickaxes. Looking for more active gameplay than idle? Take control of one of the dwarves and help them mine!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Dwarves 31.8% ★, Idler 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Side Scroller 8.2%

Another sun-filled day begins in this cozy pixel-art adventure. Gather, craft, upgrade, and help the villagers revive the land. Can you rebuild the grand Sunspire and bring the village back to its golden days?

Why similar: Cozy 20.9%, Incremental 18.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Automation 15.1%, Resource Management 11%

A cozy incremental idle about restoring a dead garden, one tile at a time. Spread life across the seasons and let the soil remember everything you grew.

Why similar: Automation 21%, Cozy 19.9%, Incremental 18%, Idler 15.3%, Nature 7.3%

A chill hand-drawn idle clicker where you dig, upgrade, and manage miners.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 20%, Idler 15.6%, Incremental 15.1%, Strategy 5%

Way Too Many Eggs is an incremental game about turning a tiny chicken farm into egg-filled chaos. Collect eggs, grow your flock, hire helpers, crack giant eggs and unlock permanent upgrades in the skill tree!

Why similar: Cozy 19.4%, Incremental 18.9%, Automation 17.7%, Idler 16.4%, Resource Management 9.8%

Hold to chop wood, earn resources, and grow your idle lumber empire in this relaxing 2D idle clicker game!

Why similar: Automation 18%, Incremental 17.8%, Idler 17%, Cozy 11.4%, Minimalist 9.5%

A fantasy economy simulator and idle crafting game. Build a massive guild of alternate characters to gather resources, refine epic gear, and manipulate a fluctuating AI-driven Auction House. Chase rare multicraft procs, monopolize the markets, and watch your gold go to the moon!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Incremental 18.6%, Automation 17.9%, Idler 15.1%, Crafting 9.6%

A chill, exploration-based incremental game about harvesting and cleansing an alien planet of its radiation with a swarm of high-tech toasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Idler 19.5%, Automation 16%, Resource Management 13.4%, Incremental 12.2%

First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!

Why similar: Dwarves 64.3% ★, Colony Sim 35.7%

Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Incremental 19.6%, Automation 18.9%, Idler 15.9%, Resource Management 11.3%

Every kingdom begins with a letter. A cozy fantasy incremental: the crown asks, and you fill each request by hand — chopping, smelting, building, hiring and carrying every armful yourself. No fail states, no deadlines, nothing ever lost.

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Incremental 20.2%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Medieval 9.3%

A short, active incremental game about cracking dinosaur eggs by upgrading your tools and unlocking chaotic mechanics like sky-falling arrows, a jumping saber-tooth, and more.

Why similar: Incremental 26%, Cozy 24.2%, Idler 20.8%, Automation 12.3%, Resource Management 4.4%

Command dwarves as they build a huge dwarven digging machine. Harvest resources, find powerful artifacts, defend against your foes and conquer the underground in this incremental strategy game.

Why similar: Dwarves 40.2% ★, Idler 20.5%, Incremental 19.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 6.9%

You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form

Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Idler 21.6%, Minimalist 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

In Ants Took the Kitchen, you lead a small colony of ants determined to take over the kitchen. Collect crumbs, carry increasingly larger pieces of food, buy upgrades for each area, automate the collection process, and turn a simple corner of the floor into a hungry swarm.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Incremental 17.8%, Idler 13.7%, Cozy 13.7%, Automation 11.8%

Your sandwiches are getting out of hand. Stack food towers, sell them off to drinks with faces, and eventually hire flying workers until they're doing all the clicking. One evening, and a real ending.

Why similar: Cozy 24.8%, Automation 17.6%, Incremental 17.2%, Idler 15%, Resource Management 9%

Doom has arrived. But beyond the end… there are still dominoes. Push the dominoes to start a chain reaction, and grow exponentially through offerings and reincarnation. A meditative idle game featuring multi-layered prestige, automation, and strategy-driven challenges.

Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Idler 23.3%, Incremental 22.4%, Resource Management 13%, Minimalist 9%

You’re a beaver with only one thing on your mind: chopping trees. Cut down trees, gather wood, buy upgrades, and become the best lumberjack in the forest.

Why similar: Incremental 26.7%, Automation 25.3%, Idler 20.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 9.4%

Welcome to Chop Chop Grove! Chop trees. Hire lumberjacks. Spend your lumber on powerful upgrades. Discover the world across 5 unique islands. A cozy incremental game where tiny workers chop, slash, and shoot their way through forests, while you sit back and watch your pile of lumber grow.

Why similar: Incremental 27.1%, Idler 22.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Automation 10.4%, Cozy 8.8%

Eat 'em up!! Sushi Yummy is a cozy clicker about just eating sushi. Let's eat sushi, upgrade skills, and stack up plates to the sky!

Why similar: Cozy 21%, Automation 18%, Incremental 17.6%, Idler 14.9%, Minimalist 10%