Games like Exponential Locomotion
Exponential Locomotion. 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
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
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
Pipegame
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A factory incremental in the style of Miner's Haven, where you lay out machines to process and sell materials, made without the monetization.
4.3★ galaxy
Lemonade Apocalypse: First Squeeze
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Set lemonade prices against demand, invest in farms and factories, and eventually steer world politics to heat the planet across three story levels.
95% steam
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
AdVenture Capitalist
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Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.
88% steam80% idle
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
Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant
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A story-driven shop RPG where an exiled fae queen builds a business empire, buying buildings for passive income and automating systems over 35+ hours.
95% steamhas ending
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
SimuLadron
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A satirical Argentine politics clicker: print money, add ministries and fake jobs, and ride runaway inflation.
94% steam
4.1★ galaxy
FACEMINER
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A 1999 office desktop where you classify faces for a shady biometric firm, scaling hardware and reading the messages that reveal its plans.
92% steam
SCP Idle: SECURE. CONTAIN. PROGRESS. Demo
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Run an SCP facility: upgrade containment, unlock new SCPs, earn science from experiments and hire scientists before a breach.
4.3★ galaxy
Ensis IDLEUpdated
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A text-based dark fantasy incremental in early development, meant to be played actively and finished within a few weeks. Community translations included.
3.9★ galaxyhas ending25% idle
Scam ArtistUpdated
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Fill your apartment with rigged slot machines and empty card packs, expand rooms and place decorations that boost earnings.
4.1★ galaxy
Midas Gold Plus - Idle Clicker
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Turn stones to gold with a mythic touch, build a city, and recruit champions who suit clicking, idling, or a hybrid of both.
86% steam50% idle
Farm RPGDormant
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A menu-based farming MMO where you grow crops, fish, craft and explore, trading and teaming up with other players.
88% steam
The Gold Factory: Regilded
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A fan remake and expansion of The Gold Factory, a text-based incremental RPG in the vein of Candy Box and A Dark Room.
3.7★ galaxy
墨仙箓
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A text-based cultivation game where you pick a map area and your character trains and adventures on its own, with sects, player trading and turn-based fights.
89% steam
Boba Simulator : Idle Shop Management
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Run a bubble tea shop by tuning recipes to shifting customer tastes, stocking ingredients, hiring staff and opening branches.
88% steam
3.7★ galaxy