- #1 Industry Idle
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 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 27.7%, Clicker 16.6%, Idler 14.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%
- #2 Incremental Factory
96% 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: Automation 37%, Idler 19.6%, Resource Management 18.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 5.9%
- #3 Gridkeeper
96% matchMixed68% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: pixelwide
Windows
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: Clicker 29.3%, Automation 22.9%, Idler 20.7%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 6.3%
- #4 Sixty Four
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,629 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Clicker 26.2%, Resource Management 15.9%, Idler 13.5%, Simulation 5.7%
- #5 Idle Colony
94% matchVery Positive83% of 544 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.5 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 33.9%, Clicker 26.1%, Idler 17%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 4%
- #6 shapez
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 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 43.6%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 20%, Procedural Generation 4.9%, Strategy 3.2%
- #7 Factory Town Idle
93% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Automation 29.9%, Clicker 23.7%, Idler 18.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Casual 3.6%
- #8 Feed the Reactor
92% matchVery Positive82% of 475 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Clicker 45.3%, Idler 27.7%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 6.8%, Casual 5%
- #9 Factorio
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 47.3%, Base Building 24.1%, Resource Management 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 2.3%, Strategy 2.3%
- #10 Military Incremental Complex
91% matchVery Positive85% of 627 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 32.7%, Clicker 25.1%, Idler 19.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 5.8%
- #11 Tower Wizard
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,855 reviews2025
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Why similar: Clicker 34.1%, Idler 24.2%, Resource Management 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, Strategy 4.3%
- #12 Beltmatic
89% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 17.4%, Idler 14.3%, Simulation 5%
- #13 Incredicer
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,070 reviews2025
Dev: pochi
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Automation 25.3%, Clicker 24.1%, Idler 18.3%, Resource Management 16%, Simulation 4.3%
- #14 Upload Labs
88% matchVery Positive92% of 6,472 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Idler 18.6%, Clicker 14.9%, Time Management 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%
- #15 Scratch Inc.
86% matchVery Positive91% of 1,373 reviews2025
Dev: Makopaz
Windows · Mac
Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Clicker 23.3%, Idler 19.7%, Time Management 14.7%, Simulation 4.3%
- #16 Universe Horizon
87% matchVery Positive89% of 217 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 30.6%, Clicker 23.2%, Idler 18.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, Simulation 3.1%
- #17 shapez 2
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 40.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Futuristic 7%
- #18 Outpath
84% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 16.6%, Idler 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
- #19 Microcivilization
84% matchVery Positive80% of 1,364 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Clicker 23.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, Idler 11.6%
- #20 Crafting Idle Clicker
86% matchMixed49% of 899 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Clicker 26.8%, Idler 19.1%, Simulation 5.2%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #21 Idle Research
83% matchVery Positive84% of 1,828 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 78.0 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 28.5%, Clicker 24.4%, Idler 19.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, Simulation 5.6%
- #22 Trainatic
81% matchVery Positive91% of 898 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan Forrester
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.
Why similar: Clicker 40.6%, Idler 24.6%, Procedural Generation 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Casual 6.5%
- #23 (the) Gnorp Apologue
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,586 reviews2023
Dev: MycoPub: (Myco)
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Why similar: Clicker 37.7%, Idler 29.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%, Strategy 4.4%
- #24 Final Upgrade
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 43.7%, Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 20%, Simulation 6.4%, Strategy 3.4%
- #25 Mob Factory
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 43.6%, Resource Management 20.1%, Base Building 19.5%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 3%
- #26 FOUNDRY
80% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.6%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 19.6%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Simulation 6.2%
- #27 Factory Town
79% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 43.9%, Base Building 23.6%, Resource Management 22.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 2.6%
- #28 Dyson Sphere Program
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 48%, Base Building 25.1%, Resource Management 18.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Strategy 2.1%
- #29 Click and Conquer
77% matchVery Positive93% of 1,912 reviews2025
Dev: SOCKHOUSE STUDIOS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Click and Conquer is a short, relaxing incremental game. Drop bombs through the fog of war, uncover hidden enemies, collect rewards, and spend currency to boost passive income, increase bombing power, and unlock new maps.
Why similar: Clicker 32.7%, Idler 23.7%, Resource Management 16.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%
- #30 Mindustry
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 41.7%, Base Building 26.3%, Resource Management 23.2%, Strategy 3.9%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%
- #31 Builderment
79% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 42%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 19.6%, Simulation 4.5%, Procedural Generation 2.9%
- #32 Fill Up The Hole
75% matchVery Positive91% of 1,071 reviews2025
Dev: Fluffy Lotus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Why similar: Clicker 31.6%, Idler 23.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 4.8%
- #33 Captain of Industry
76% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 44.7%, Resource Management 23.5%, Base Building 22.7%, Simulation 5.4%, Strategy 3.1%
- #34 Increlution
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,223 reviews2021
Dev: Gniller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 55.8 hrsMean: 556.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
Why similar: Idler 29.5%, Time Management 28.3%, Clicker 24.6%, Resource Management 12%, Casual 2.1%
- #35 Upload Simulator Silicon
77% matchMixed69% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
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: Clicker 39.8%, Idler 27.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Casual 7.1%, Futuristic 6%
- #36 CivIdle
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 974 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 79.6 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 35.5%, Idler 20.3%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 15.4%, Simulation 3.9%
- #37 Click Mage
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,408 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Clicker 41.7%, Resource Management 30%, Simulation 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Casual 5.5%
- #38 Incremental Town RPG
75% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Idler 17.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Clicker 14.2%
- #39 Gamblers Table
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,010 reviews2026
Dev: greenpixels
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Automation 36%, Clicker 21.1%, Idler 18%, Resource Management 10.2%, Top-Down 3.7%
- #40 Particul
72% matchVery Positive82% of 438 reviews2026
Dev: MILLION PIXELS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Clicker 30.8%, Idler 22.1%, Automation 18.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Casual 7.4%
- #41 Coin Factory
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 210 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Idler 42%, Resource Management 28.6%, Casual 10.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 5.7%
- #42 FACEMINER
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,271 reviews2025
Dev: WristworkPub: Wristwork Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
Why similar: Clicker 46.8%, Idler 28.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Strategy 4.4%
- #43 A Game About Feeding A Black Hole
70% matchVery Positive89% of 2,623 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.
Why similar: Clicker 37.5%, Idler 21.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 6.6%, Casual 6.1%
- #44 Beltex
73% 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: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 17%, Idler 14.7%, Simulation 5.2%
- #45 IDLE BOSS RUSH
71% matchMixed67% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 37.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Why similar: Clicker 25.9%, Idler 18.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Automation 11.4%
- #46 Critter Clicker
74% matchMixed57% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: TimeWastingGames
Windows
Casual farming simulator with unique, flexible gameplay. Autoclicker is built-in and free. Gather resources, upgrade critters and buildings, sell your farm when you want a bigger one and never stop expanding.
Why similar: Clicker 26.1%, Idler 21.3%, Automation 18.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #47 To The Core
69% matchVery Positive93% of 5,073 reviews2023
Dev: SomethingExtra
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
Why similar: Clicker 55.8%, Procedural Generation 18.2%, Idler 9.8%, Casual 8.3%, 2D 4.8%
- #48 Final Factory
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 18.8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #49 Infiniclick
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Nacho AB
Windows
Combine, automate and upgrade programs to amass a fortune! Infiniclick is a relaxing (or not, it's up to you) incremental game in which your goal is to pay an unfair debt with Fun Corp.
Why similar: Clicker 32%, Idler 23.5%, Automation 21.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Casual 7.2%
- #50 Microtopia
68% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 36.4%, Resource Management 19.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Futuristic 7.4%
- #51 Nodebuster
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,575 reviews2024
Dev: Goblobin
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Why similar: Clicker 40.1%, Idler 28.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Casual 6%, Strategy 5.4%
- #52 SimPocalypse
71% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Clicker 18%, Idler 13.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #53 Assembly Planter
70% matchVery Positive91% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 16.3%, Time Management 11.4%, Idler 11.3%
- #54 Idle Spiral
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,846 reviews2022
Dev: Idle System, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 118.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 24.4%, Clicker 21.7%, Idler 18.5%, Time Management 13.9%, Simulation 5.6%
- #55 Piñata Go Boom
66% matchVery Positive92% of 578 reviews2025
Dev: tissue inu
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A small incremental game about smashing piñatas, collecting toys, and climbing the corporate ladder as you unlock a vast upgrade tree.
Why similar: Clicker 37.5%, Idler 23.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Casual 6.1%
- #56 Autonauts
68% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Automation 50.3%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Casual 4.3%
- #57 Assembly Line 2
68% 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 53.5%, Idler 15.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
- #58 MineMogul
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 47.2%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 18.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 3.9%
- #59 DEFRAG
65% matchVery Positive95% of 393 reviews2025
Dev: BlueDot Studio
Windows
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: Clicker 24.7%, Resource Management 24.6%, Idler 24%, Simulation 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #60 Orb of Creation
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,469 reviews2022
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is an active incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
Why similar: Clicker 29.5%, Resource Management 29.2%, Idler 26.7%, Casual 6.5%, Strategy 6.2%