Games like Forest Hustle
Forest Hustle finishes in about a while. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Shelldiver
Also animals, exploration
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
Outpath: First Journey
Also automation, exploration
A free prologue to a first-person clicker where you gather, craft and automate a base, buying new islands, in either an active or idle style.
96% steam50% idle
Outpath
Also automation, exploration
A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.
94% steam50% idle
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
Also automation, animals
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
Survivor Island-Idle GameUpdated
Also resource management, exploration · Has an ending
Keep castaways fed and healthy on a foggy island, crafting tools and tending the bonfire while you repair a ship to escape.
has ending
Plantera
Also automation, animals
Grow a garden of crops, trees and animals while round helpers harvest for you, and keep earning even with the game shut.
89% steam50% idle
IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated
Also resource management, exploration
Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.
86% steam
Finn Dorset's Institute For Livestock Replication
Also animals, automation
Clone moon sheep on a dwarf planet, automate wool production and fend off hawks in a hand-drawn cartoon incremental meant to run in the background.
83% steam75% idle
Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game
Also automation, exploration
Suck up dust with upgraded vacuums and robot helpers, sell it, hire managers and prestige to multiply gains across several locations.
82% steam
DigginUpdated
Also exploration, animals
Play a young mole drilling into a meteor crater, upgrading gear through a giant skill tree and digging up relics of a vanished mole tribe.
80% steam
Under the blue horizon
Also animals, automation
A small aquarium sits on your screen beside other windows. Feed fish, turn their droppings into currency, and hire crawfish and jellyfish helpers to expand the sea.
82% steam90% idle
War Tortoise
Also exploration, animals
Ride a giant battle tortoise across an open world, summoning rodent and beetle units, collecting heroes and pilots, and fishing for permanent abilities.
80% steam
Tuin
Also automation, animals
Tend a vegetable garden with eight crops and farm animals, buying plots, irrigation, and power until the whole farm runs itself.
80% steam70% idle
无休仙途
Also exploration, resource management
Lead an immortal-cultivation sect across a floating continent, gathering resources, recruiting disciples and following a story toward ascension.
73% steam
Moose Miners
Also animals, resource management
Moose run the mine; you spend their gem profits on miners, gear, rails and grinders to reach deeper and richer layers.
69% steam50% idle
SimPocalypse
Also resource management, automation
Grow a post-apocalyptic settlement into a global empire, managing citizens, a large research tree, and a supply-driven market, with game speed and task automation.
68% steam
Farmtale
Also exploration, automation
Start an island farm with one chicken, then add crops, animals and hired workers, decorate buildings, and explore as upgrades pile up. Part idle, part clicker.
68% steam50% idle
Scrap Yard IdleUpdated
Also automation, resource management
Collect scrap by hand, then build crushers, separators and assemblers until the whole processing chain runs itself.

Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game
Also resource management, exploration
Wake alone in a magic-ruined world and stretch scarce resources while waiting, reading and uncovering what happened.
4.5★ galaxy
Idle Lab Rats
Also animals, resource management
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
Antimatter DimensionsUpdated
Also automation · Has an ending, about 200–600h
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% steam4.6★ galaxy200–600h ending55% idle
The Adventure of NAYU
Also animals · Has an ending
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
THE LONGING
Also exploration · Has an ending
Wait 400 real days in an underground palace for a king to wake. The clock runs while the game is closed, so you can explore or simply leave.
92% steamhas ending70% idle
Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant
Also automation · Has an ending
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