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Games like Bitburner

Bitburner leans idle, never really ends, stacks 2 prestige layers. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Screeps: World cover art

    Screeps: World

    Also programming, automation, deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Run a colony in a persistent MMO by writing JavaScript that controls your units around the clock, even while you are logged off.

    87% steam
    70% idle
  2. The Perfect Tower II cover art

    The Perfect Tower II

    Also automation, programming · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Tower defence as an idle engine, plus factories, mining and an in-game scripting language.

    87% steam
    60% idle

  3. TrimpsDormant

    Also automation, deep · 2 prestige layers

    Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.

    55% idle
  4. Project: Idle Takeover cover art

    Project: Idle TakeoverUpdated

    Also cyberpunk, automation, deep

    A cyberpunk idle management game where a mainframe AI and its clones take on jobs and contracts for factions across cities.

  5. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 3 prestige layers

    Heroes fight on their own in automated turn-based combat while you tune the automation and push toward double-exponent numbers through stacked prestiges.

    78% steam
    70% idle
  6. NGU Idle cover art

    NGU Idle

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Joke-dense RPG idler with dozens of interlocking systems. Beating a boss is the easy part; allocating energy is the game.

    96% steam
    65% idle
  7. Farmer Against Potatoes Idle cover art

    Farmer Against Potatoes Idle

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A farmer at war with sentient potatoes, and approximately forty interlocking upgrade screens.

    95% steam
    70% idle
  8. Realm Grinder cover art

    Realm Grinder

    Also deep · 3 prestige layers

    Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.

    87% steam
    55% idle
  9. Synergism cover art

    SynergismUpdated

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 5 prestige layers

    Five prestige layers stacked like a tower, each one reshaping the ones below. For people who liked AD and want more.

    75% steam
    60% idle
  10. Bloobs Adventure Idle cover art

    Bloobs Adventure Idle

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A RuneScape-style idle RPG with 24 linked skills, automated boss fights, soul collecting and skill prestige, plus banked offline time to spend later.

    88% steam
    75% idle

  11. EvolveUpdated

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 6 prestige layers

    Evolve a species from primordial ooze, build a civilisation, then blow it up in a dozen different ways to start again.

    60% idle
  12. Legends of IdleOn cover art

    Legends of IdleOn

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.

    77% steam
    80% idle
  13. Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding) cover art

    Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)Updated

    Also programming, automation

    Mash keys to write code, then build a production grid and hire AI agents that ship projects, including while the game is closed, before prestiging.

    74% steam
    2.7★ galaxy
    50% idle
  14. The Farmer Was Replaced cover art

    The Farmer Was Replaced

    Also programming, automation

    Write Python-like scripts for a drone that farms for you, then spend the harvest on new tech that opens tougher automation puzzles.

    97% steam
  15. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also automation · 4 prestige layers

    Buy dimensions that buy dimensions, then break infinity, then break reality. The reference point every numbers-go-up game is measured against, and it has a real ending.

    92% steam
    4.6★ galaxy
    200–600h ending
    55% idle
  16. Upload Labs cover art

    Upload Labs

    Also automation, programming

    Wire together window-like nodes into data pipelines that download, process and upload files, then research, hack and code your way toward stopping heat death.

    90% steam
  17. Leek Factory Tycoon cover art

    Leek Factory TycoonUpdated

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Automate a leek restaurant with factories and conveyor belts, arranging the layout for the best idle income and comparing strategies on leaderboards.

    75% idle
  18. Code: Terraform cover art

    Code: Terraform

    Also programming, automation

    Write Python-like scripts to run rovers, power grids, smelters and drone fleets on a frozen alien world, with your code working while you plan.

    83% steam
  19. Space industrial empire cover art

    Space industrial empire

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Lay out flat conveyor lines for mining, smelting and research, then build warships to take other planets.

    87% steam
    70% idle
  20. Coin Flipper cover art

    Coin Flipper

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Pick heads or tails and flip coins for currency, buying upgrades until the flipping runs on its own. Past a million coins you can inflate for permanent bonuses.

    89% steam
    70% idle
  21. Cookie Clicker cover art

    Cookie Clicker

    Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    The grandma of the genre, literally. Click a cookie, buy grandmas, ascend, and discover the game is much stranger than it looks.

    96% steam
    70% idle
  22. Clicker Heroes cover art

    Clicker Heroes

    Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 2 prestige layers

    Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.

    90% steam
    60% idle
  23. Industry Idle cover art

    Industry IdleDormant

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Build factories on generated maps, optimize production chains, trade on a player market and prestige for new maps, with offline earnings tied to company value.

    77% steam
    75% idle
  24. Transport Defender cover art

    Transport Defender

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Guard a cargo ship from boarding waves with a turret and auto weapons, scripting auto upgrades and auto ascension for long idle runs.

    80% steam
    70% idle