Games like Ant Swarm
Ant Swarm. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Shark Game: New Frontiers
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Sharks discover the ocean, then science, then other worlds. A text-forward successor to the old Shark Game.
4.6★ galaxy55% idle
4.6★ galaxy
Theory of Magic (Arcanum)
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A text-heavy mage's apprenticeship with hundreds of spells, classes and dungeons. Dense, charming, community-kept.
4.5★ galaxy45% idle
Budgie's Bug Shop
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Catch bugs and sell them in a shop staffed by parakeets, buying gear and abilities to grow profits.
4.6★ galaxy
Shelldiver
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An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.
98% steam
Ballad of Heroes
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A mostly text-based RPG idler set in Greek mythology. Build a party of up to two heroes and four gods and fight to defend Olympus.
4.5★ galaxy
Ropuka's Idle Island
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A frog mows grass in a small window on your desktop; spend the clippings on better tools and island decorations.
97% steam90% idle
Birdwatching Notebook
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A small postcard scene on your desktop draws in dozens of bird species as you decorate the spot, unlock new habitats and photograph visitors.
97% steam90% idle
Exponential Locomotion
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A console-style jam prototype about building trains and stations and upgrading all of it.
4.4★ galaxy
The Adventure of NAYU
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Click to help a fox and her party fight through a gentle, short story, spending star shards on training and costumes, with an endless mode afterward.
95% steamhas ending75% idle
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
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Grow a garden around a magic oak with round helpers who harvest for you, even while the game is closed, and reach for golden acorns.
95% steam50% idle
Cheeky Chooks
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Hatch and keep unique chickens happy for better eggs, and grow a shed into a sprawling ranch through missions and upgrades.
94% steam
How to Train Your Cock
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A rooster idler that sits on your screen and grows from a chick into a muscled bird while you buy hats, decorate his island and compare size with friends.
94% steam90% idle
Idle Lab Rats
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Buy rats, train them in mazes and with lab equipment, and submit the best ones for grant money to expand your lab.
4.3★ galaxy
Tiny Pasture
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A strip of pasture along the bottom of your screen where you raise, breed and sell animals for coins while you work.
92% steam90% idle
Gibbonacci
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Put a troop of monkeys to work checking numbers to find every one in the Fibonacci sequence.
4.2★ galaxy
The Fly Devourer Tree
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Evolve a creature built to eat as many flies as possible, progressing through nine layers so far.
4.3★ galaxy
修仙小屋
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A multiplayer text-based cultivation idler built for chatting at work, with gear, training maps, a cave dwelling and a player market.
92% steam
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen
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Run a bathhouse for animal guests at the bottom of your screen, setting bath temperatures, snacks and staff while you do other things.
94% steam90% idle
MyVoiceZoo
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Record your own voice as animal calls, and each cry in your zoo earns income to adopt more animals, with little need for active play.
92% steam75% idle
Midnight Idle
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A story incremental styled after gamebooks, following an amnesiac ooze with seven unlockable classes and several prestige layers. Built for mobile too.
4.0★ galaxy
Not Monday Cafe
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A cafe docked at the bottom of your screen where staff cook and serve animal customers, with farm-grown ingredients, 300+ recipes and Twitch chat as guests.
94% steam90% idle
Idle Loops: Squirrel Edition
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A reworked Idle Loops with a pet squirrel companion, new zones, new actions and a tutorial.
4.2★ galaxy
Bugtopia
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Raise and breed over 300 real-world insect species in terrariums you landscape yourself, with breeding boxes that can produce rare new bugs.
92% steam