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

GLONK
Also short, upgrade tree, humor
Feed a hungry creature called Glonk to earn gold, spend it in a skill tree and add more Glonks. Short, with an ominous twist to its appetite.
89% steam
Ancient Russian Life Simulator
Also humor, upgrade tree, incremental
A meme-heavy clicker where ancient warriors fight lizards, learn absurd techniques from a skill tree and sacrifice their foes for blessings.
95% steam
The Count of Monte Clicker
Also humor, short, incremental
Retell The Count of Monte Cristo as a short incremental: learn from the Abbe, plan an escape from prison and hunt for the island's treasure.
86% steam
Pegfinity
Also short, upgrade tree, incremental
Launch balls into a pachinko board where hits chain into combos, then buy permanent upgrades like explosive pegs, portals and lasers between runs.
76% steam
Master Healer Kale with useless party
Also short, upgrade tree
Play the healer of a hopeless party, keeping them alive with spells and a 200-node skill tree until they can face the Demon King in about four hours.
95% steam4.0★ galaxyhas ending
All Hail the Orb
Also short, humor
Click a mysterious orb for power, recruit cultists to take over the work, and explore a dungeon full of ducks in a short game meant to be finished.
93% steam4.2★ galaxyhas ending
Click and ConquerUpdated
Also short, upgrade tree
Bomb a fog-covered grid to uncover enemies, invest in passive income and power across 12 maps, and prestige for permanent upgrades in a two-to-four-hour run.
92% steamhas ending
ExecuteUpdated
Also humor, short
A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.
91% steamhas ending25% idle
NodebusterComplete
Also short, upgrade tree
Sweep your cursor over nodes, spend the bits on a huge upgrade web, go again. A tight, active, few-hour hit.
97% steam3–6h ending10% idle
Digseum
Also short, upgrade tree
Dig up relics across a dozen sites and display them in your museum to fund better tools. A compact run of a few hours.
98% steam
It's FineUpdated
Also humor, upgrade tree
Survive the last 24 hours of a game dev crunch under your dog manager. Each station has its own mechanics, sleep powers a deep prestige tree, and there are alternate endings to find.
88% steamhas ending
(the) Gnorp Apologue
Also upgrade tree, humor
Strike a rock for shards and hire a growing crew of gnorps to smash and haul them, stacking synergies until the numbers explode.
96% steam
Space Rock BreakerUpdated
Also short, upgrade tree
Blast asteroids with guns and lasers, then drop the ore through an upgradable Plinko board for credits to spend on a large skill tree.
96% steam
Far Fishing
Also short, upgrade tree
Chase fish inside a circle from a small boat, upgrading it as you sail to the edge of the world across nine locations in about two hours.
97% steamhas ending
Lemonade Apocalypse: First Squeeze
Also short, humor
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
Lazy KickersUpdated
Also humor, incremental
Grow soccer balls from plants and kick them into goals for coins, hiring and assigning players to climb leagues on a desktop-friendly field.
90% steam3.8★ galaxy50% idle
Instruction
Also humor, short
Meet power quotas at a plant using five generation systems while its sarcastic AI mentor reveals a story. A student project.
94% steam
Loot LoopUpdated
Also short, upgrade tree
Send a party of tiny heroes into dungeon runs that last seconds, then spend the loot on a large skill tree between attempts.
92% steam
Keep on Mining!Dormant
Also upgrade tree, short
Sweep your cursor over rocks to break them, smelt ores into bars and spend them in a large skill tree, with talent cards and an automatic mine for idle gains.
91% steam50% idle
Far Mining
Also short, upgrade tree
Pilot a ship that auto-fires at nearby asteroids, then spend the haul on a large tech tree to escape deep space. A short run of about three hours.
95% steamhas ending
Click To Continue
Also humor, short
You wake in a white room with a single button and keep pressing it to open panels of odd upgrades. A short, surreal clicker where the numbers count down instead of up.
92% steam25% idle
castle idlerUpdated
Also short, upgrade tree
A tower defense incremental without waves, where you place and upgrade towers against slimes and unlock a prestige skill tree across harder levels.
79% steam3.6★ galaxy
Unfair Flips
Also short, humor
Flip a rigged coin with a 20% heads chance and upgrade the odds, aiming for ten heads in a row in a bleak far-future setting.
88% steamhas ending25% idle
SkelesellerUpdated
Also short, humor
A dead adventurer returns as a skeleton shopkeeper who hires heroes, sends them into battle and sells their loot to grow the town. Finite, with small numbers and no prestige.
91% steamhas ending