Games like IDLE: Intergalactic Defense League Exterminators
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Nodebuster and Shelldiver play most like IDLE: Intergalactic Defense League Exterminators. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its incremental and idler; 12 came out in the last year and 18 are free or under $10. The best known is Shelldiver, with 17,002 Steam reviews.
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Shelldiver
Nov 16, 2025 · Gagonfe
Both: Incremental · Resource Management · Management
Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!
IncrementalCasualResource ManagementManagementArcadeIdlerRelaxingSimulation2DColorful👍 17,002Moon Garden
Sep 11 · 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 ManagementBuildingManagementRelaxingCuteAtmosphericCasualHearth and Hamlet
Aug 19 · Phorust Studios
Both: Incremental · Base Building · Management
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
IncrementalCity BuilderBase BuildingCasualManagementIdlerRelaxingResource ManagementSimulationBuilding👍 2,190Artillery Miner
Sep 9 · Alextgr8
Both: Incremental · Management · Idler
An incremental mining game, where you mine through massive blocks using guns, fire, lasers and nuclear missiles. Discover new ores, unlock new worlds and weapons as you progress through the upgrades tree and become the ultimate Artillery Miner!
IncrementalMiningManagementCasualIdlerIsometricSimulationResource ManagementEconomyRelaxing👍 243Widget Inc.
Oct 31, 2024 · Leaping Turtle
Both: Incremental · Resource Management · Base Building
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.
IncrementalAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingCasualSimulationTime ManagementIdlerPixel GraphicsProcedural Generation👍 764Garbage Growth
Jun 23 · apepatrickdev
Both: Idler · Incremental · Relaxing
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!
IdlerIncrementalAutomationCasual2DSimulationEconomyRelaxingManagementNature👍 356Fracture Field
Apr 20 · Type Ten
Both: Incremental · Idler · Resource Management
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
IncrementalIdlerMiningAutomationResource ManagementCasualRelaxingBuildingSingleplayerManagement👍 1,231Idle Colony
Dec 16, 2024 · Faith G.
Both: Incremental · Idler · Management
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👍 553Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
Mar 30 · Pauloondra
Both: Incremental · Idler · Resource Management
A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
IncrementalIdlerCasualStrategy2DPixel GraphicsTower DefenseColorfulCuteResource Management👍 1,857You Know The Drill
Jun 4 · ludokai
Both: Incremental · Idler · Relaxing
You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!
IncrementalMiningCasualRoguelikeIdlerRelaxingRetroSimulationRobotsArcade👍 1,029Snakecremental
Apr 22, 2025 · Walking Cat
Both: Incremental · Resource Management · Management
Snake, but with a skill tree
IncrementalRetroArcadeResource ManagementSimulationManagementStrategyIdlerIndieTime Management👍 431The Greenening
May 7 · Erkberg Games
Both: Incremental · Idler · Relaxing
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👍 486Pibcremental
Sep 14 · Arcane Cabinet
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
A cozy, chaotic idle-incremental clicker about growing a civilisation of tiny creatures called Pibbles in a giant tree, set in a post-human world.
SimulationIdlerIncrementalCasual2DColorfulPixel GraphicsStrategyEconomyResource Management👍 326
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