Games like Hero Tale
Hero Tale mostly idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Melvor Idle
Also rpg, skilling · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
RuneScape's skilling loop distilled into menus. Train twenty skills, fight dungeons, fill the completion log.
90% steam85% idle
修炼成仙
Also very idle, rpg · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
A minimal text cultivation game: create a character and it fights, loots, and trains on its own from its first steps toward ascension and rebirth.
71% steam90% idle
Beyond The Blight
Also rpg, upgrade tree, exploration
A first-person 2.5D dungeon crawler: loot, pick skills from a large tree and survive poison air to hunt the source of a blight.
3.9★ galaxy
Legends of IdleOn
Also rpg, skilling · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.
77% steam80% idle
IdleOn - Idle RPGUpdated
Also rpg, skilling · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
Manage a whole roster of characters who keep fighting while you are gone, choosing among 19 classes and leveling skills like farming, sailing and construction.
90% idle
Bloobs Adventure Idle
Also skilling, rpg
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% steam75% idle
挂机神话
Also rpg, very idle
A meme-heavy Chinese cultivation idler about farming procedurally generated gear and characters through an endless tower. Chinese-language store text.
90% steam70% idle
Eldara
Also skilling, rpg
A dark fantasy idle RPG with 17 linked skills from fishing to cremation, a pet for each mastered skill, and a world that keeps progressing while you are away.
81% steam75% idle
Evitania Online - Idle RPG
Also rpg, skilling
An online idle RPG with classes and talent trees where your character fights and gathers while offline, and alts can level mining and woodcutting.
78% steam75% idle
Koltera 2
Also skilling, rpg
Level gathering and crafting skills, summon over 120 creatures to automate them, and send teams on expeditions, with all progress continuing offline.
78% steam75% idle
Idle ClansUpdated
Also skilling, rpg
A multiplayer idle RPG where you pick a task and your character trains around 20 skills even while you are offline, with a player economy and clans.
74% steam75% idle
Idle IktahUpdated
Also skilling, rpg
An idle skilling RPG set in the Pacific Northwest, with local wildlife, minigames, moon-phase item effects, a real tide tracker and offline progress.
76% steam75% idle
Between Adventures IDLE
Also rpg, skilling
A pixel-art idle RPG where you watch your hero fight, then train 11 gathering and crafting skills, enchant gear and shape a skill tree. Progress continues offline.
68% steam75% idle
Vespera
Also rpg, skilling
A class-based idle RPG with subclass talent trees, gathering and crafting, mercenary expeditions, and factions that fight world bosses with other players. Full offline progress.
63% steam75% idle
Master Healer Kale with useless party
Also rpg, 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
Cauldron
Also upgrade tree, rpg
A young witch grinds minigames for resources that power up her party, uncovering the map through turn-based fights and huge skill trees.
96% steam
Loot LoopUpdated
Also rpg, 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
Wizard And Minion Idle
Also rpg, skilling
A wizard trains stats, casts spells and raises a pet minion, with fishing, gem crafting, dungeons and reincarnation mixed into one long grind.
90% steam50% idle
LurkBait Twitch Fishing
Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
A Twitch overlay where viewers cast lines through chat, points or subs, and the fishing plays out on its own while you stream.
98% steam90% idle
Legends of Dragaea: Idle DungeonsUpdated
Also rpg, exploration
A first-person idle dungeon crawler where parties from nine races explore dungeons, take on 9-hero raids and grow your own guild and town.
86% steam
Rusty's Retirement
Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
A tiny robot farm that lives at the edge of your screen while you do other things. Idle in the purest sense.
97% steam15–30h ending95% idle
The Dream Globe
Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
A tiny world inside a snow globe runs on its own while you check in to buy upgrades. Discover over 100 gems, crops and foods across dream regions.
94% steam90% idle
Fishing The Abyss
Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
A small robot fishes by itself in a tall window beside your work, leveling up to reach deeper water and stranger catches. Clicking helps but is optional.
95% steam90% idle
My Little Life
Also very idle · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)
A small person lives out their life in a strip along the bottom of your screen, working, decorating and chasing dreams while you do other things.
91% steam90% idle