Games like Idle Research
by Considera Games LLC
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.
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$4.99Factory Town Idle
Jan 8 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
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!
CasualIdlerIncrementalMinimalist2DResource ManagementFantasyCity BuilderAutomationColony Sim👍 1,232
$5.99Idle Colony
Dec 16 · Faith G.
Both: Incremental · Automation · Idler
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.
IncrementalCasualAutomationStrategyIdlerEconomyManagementColony SimRogueliteBuilding👍 553
FreeIdleOn - The Incremental MMO
Nov 6 · Lavaflame2
Both: Idler · Incremental · Management
The incremental idle MMO where your heroes keep fighting while you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental-Wizard to Cannon-Pirate, and level 20 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and Construction!
IdlerFree to PlayIncrementalMMORPGMultiplayerPixel GraphicsRPGManagementCraftingResource Management
$5.99Magic Research 2
May 21 · Maticolotto
Both: Idler · Automation · Management
Welcome to Magic Research 2, an incremental RPG from the creator of Magic Research. Learn countless spells, face powerful foes, and command a team of Wizards who can cast spells for you as you journey to find or create the Philosopher's Stone.
Auto BattlerIdlerText-BasedAutomationRPGMagicFantasyManagementIncrementalCrafting👍 610
FreeIdle Cave Miner
Dec 7 · Cold Hours
Both: Idler · Incremental · Management
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.
IdlerIncrementalMiningManagementCraftingPixel Graphics2DResource ManagementSimulationCute
FreeIdle Wizard
Jan 24 · TwoWizards
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
RPG/Idle hybrid about becoming the most powerful wizard there is. Pick a class, get a pet, configure and improve your character in a myriad ways!
IdlerIncrementalResource ManagementFree to PlayMagicIndieDark FantasyCasualMouse OnlyManagement
FreeNGU INDUSTRIES
Apr 5 · 4G
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
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!
IdlerFree to PlayIncrementalComedyResource ManagementAdventureBuildingParody CartoonyCollectathon
-40%$5.39Desktop Raid
Mar 8 · Lee_Studio
Both: Idler · Incremental
Assemble your adventure squad on the desktop! Classic RPG meets idle play—no grind, no stress, just nonstop progress. Your heroes fight, level up, and loot while you work or study. Explore rich classes, powerful skills, and thrilling gear drops. RPG excitement, anytime, anywhere!
IdlerRPGIncrementalDesktop CompanionCreature CollectorLootCasualPixel GraphicsAdventureExploration👍 679
FreePickCrafter
Dec 14 · Fiveamp
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
Conquer PickCrafter, the hit indie idle game! Break blocks, forge equipment, and collect powerful Pickaxes. Prestige to legendary tiers with the new Ascension Skill Tree. Discover biomes and battle epic bosses. Make meaningful choices and invent complex builds in this addictive endless adventure!
MiningIdlerIncrementalFree to PlayCollectathonResource Management2DPixel GraphicsCraftingFantasy
FreeClicker Heroes
May 13 · Playsaurus
Both: Incremental · Idler · Management
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.
IncrementalIdlerCasual2DFree to PlayManagementIndieFunnyMultiplayerStrategy👍 749
$6.99荒域奇谭
Apr 29 · 清友工作室
Both: Idler · Incremental · Automation
Legends of Wastelands is an idle RPG where you shape your hero’s growth. Choose among six classes, master 100+ skills, and combine talents and gems for unique synergies. Idle for rewards or dive into boss fights and shifting wastelands, with pets and gear adding endless build variety.
IdlerIncrementalLootAutomationCombatStrategy RPGStrategyPoint & ClickRogueliteHand-drawn👍 320
FreeCryptoClickers: Crypto Idle Game
Jun 19 · Considera Games LLC
Both: Idler · Incremental
CryptoClickers is a complex Incremental Game revolved around Cryptocurrencies that's full of unique game modes, upgrades, challenges, events, and a double layer prestige system!
Free to PlayIndieIdlerIncrementalStrategySimulationCapitalismMinimalistExperimentalEarly Access
$2.99Plantera
Jan 28 · VaragtP
Both: Incremental · Idler · Automation
In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.
IncrementalIdlerCollectathonSandboxAgricultureAutomationBuildingFarming SimPoint & ClickRPG👍 4,522
-20%$4.79xiuzhen idle
Feb 4 · 游戏养家工作室
Both: Idler · Incremental
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)
IdlerIndieWord GameCasualRPGEarly AccessSimulationIncrementalStrategyTime Management👍 2,314
$3.99Alchemist's Garden
Apr 21 · Lumis Entertainment
Both: Incremental · Idler · Management
Alchemist's Garden is a cozy and relaxing incremental crafting game. Forage to uncover hidden ingredients across mystical lands. Experiment with them at your crucible to discover potions and items, stock your shop's shelves, and watch your potion shop grow!
IncrementalIdlerCollectathonShop KeeperBuildingCapitalismCraftingEconomyManagementPoint & Click👍 182
-30%$6.99Nomad Idle
Apr 4 · The Fox Knocks
Both: Idler · Incremental
Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becoming stronger, and exploring an unfolding storyline. A spin-off of Nomad Survival.
IdlerIncrementalClass-BasedRogueliteCraftingRoguelikeAuto BattlerCasualCharacter Customization2D👍 852
FreeDrugs and Crime Idle
Dec 10 · Konstantin "Kash" Spasoff
Both: Idler · Management · Incremental
Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime! Sell drugs, attack with your gang, gamble your CrimeCoins away and hope, that you get that rare item, finally. Free-to-play. Offline Progression. No Microtransactions except 2 optional DLCs.
IdlerFree to PlayGamblingCrimeManagementIncrementalOld SchoolAutomationUndergroundRelaxing
$9.99Melvor Idle
Nov 18 · Games by Malcs
Both: Idler · Automation
Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.
IdlerRPGCasualIndieSingleplayerAdventure2DMiningAutomationCrafting👍 14,637
FreeIdle Slayer
Dec 21 · Pablo Leban
Both: Idler · Incremental
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.
IdlerCasualIncrementalFree to PlayPixel Graphics2D Platformer2DSingleplayerExperimentalIndie👍 502
FreeThe Magician's Research
Nov 20 · Mad Labyrinth Studios LLC
Both: Incremental · Idler · Management
The MAGICIAN'S RESEARCH is an RPG style IDLE - INCREMENTAL - MANAGEMENT Game! The Experiments of the Mage's Guild have broken out and you are tasked with tracking down, researching, and disposing of them before they can disturb the nearby towns or multiply!
Hack and SlashIncrementalIdlerCollectathonDungeon CrawlerRogueliteAuto BattlerManagementRPGStrategy
$9.99Dragon Cliff
May 11 · Meta Interaction
Both: Idler · Incremental · Management
Dragon Cliff is a Semi-Idle RPG game with deep and complex itemization/skill systems to support endless character builds. Players are to collect adventurers, kill monsters, advance talent trees, enchant/reforge equipment, discover scrolls and finally assemble the most powerful adventure team!
RPGStrategyIdlerLootIncrementalPixel GraphicsCasualAdventureManagementIndie👍 7,680
-15%$5.94Moon Garden
9 days ago · Kairos Games LLC
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!
IdlerStrategyIncrementalResource ManagementBuildingManagementRelaxingCuteAtmosphericCasual
FreeWizard And Minion Idle
Feb 7 · Oni Gaming
Both: Incremental · Idler
Train your stats, cast spells, feed your minion, defeat monsters and bosses, raise demons, craft gems, go fishing and so much more in Wizard and Minion Idle--WAMI. This free to play, solo developed, Idle/active hybrid game has flexible pacing for long-time play-ability.
Free to PlayIncrementalIdlerRPGStrategyCasualIndieSingleplayer2DPixel Graphics
$4.99Samawa Idle
Nov 13 · Samharia Studios
Both: Incremental · Idler
Unleash the power of specialized towers to annihilate hordes of monsters in this idle game with roguelike elements. Collect gold, level up your towers, face powerful bosses, and refine your strategy with an evolving skill tree.
IncrementalIdlerRogueliteAuto BattlerTower DefenseRPGRoguelikeCharacter Customization2DTop-Down👍 600
FreeOraxum Trials
Aug 9 · Prajna Concepts
Both: Resource Management · Incremental · Idler
Oraxum Trials is an incremental game where you conduct experiments with the Oraxum, a hexagonal board with magical properties. Harvest souls and use mystical crystals to create wild concoctions. Take on the mantle of soul alchemist and forge your fate, choosing between light and dark forces.
CasualResource ManagementIncrementalIdlerManagementPoint & ClickBuilding2DTop-DownPuzzle
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Incremental
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$2.99Cornerpond
Apr 21 · foolsroom
Both: Idler · Incremental
A chill idle-fishing desktop toy in the corner of your screen. Buy upgrades, catch rare fish, and customize your avatar at your own pace!
Desktop CompanionIdlerIncrementalSimulationFishingCreature CollectorPixel GraphicsRelaxingCasualCute👍 2,567
$4.99The Greenening
May 7 · Erkberg Games
Both: Incremental · Idler
A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.
IncrementalCasualIdlerExplorationNatureRelaxingCleaningCuteCozyWholesome👍 484







