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

Survivor Island-Idle GameUpdated
Also crafting, resource management, exploration
Keep castaways fed and healthy on a foggy island, crafting tools and tending the bonfire while you repair a ship to escape.
has ending
Leaf Blower Revolution
Also prestige, crafting
Blow leaves. Blow more leaves. Somehow blow leaves across multiple dimensions with a crafting system.
94% steam55% idle
Outpath: First Journey
Also crafting, 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 crafting, exploration
A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.
94% steam50% idle
Forest Hustle
Also resource management, exploration
Dropped in a forest with a 100k debt, chop wood, mine stone, trade and hire dog workers until you pay it off.
90% steamhas ending
PickCrafter
Also prestige, crafting
Break blocks with a growing arsenal of pickaxes, forge gear, and prestige through ascension tiers while exploring biomes up to Mars.
86% steam50% idle
Bloobs Adventure Idle
Also prestige, crafting
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
Crownhold
Also prestige, resource management
Grow a castle into a realm, find trading partners and besiege rivals, then restart stronger through meta progression. Deliberately compact.
84% steam
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.
4.4★ galaxy
Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game
Also prestige, exploration
Suck up dust with upgraded vacuums and robot helpers, sell it, hire managers and prestige to multiply gains across several locations.
82% steam
Idle Cave Miner
Also crafting, prestige
Build a team of miners who dig for you, smelt ores into crafted gear to boost them, and prestige to push deeper into the cave.
81% steam
Planar PioneersDormant
Also crafting, exploration
Gather resources and use them to travel to procedurally generated planes, inspired by Minecraft dimension mods.
4.1★ galaxy
Bounty Below
Also crafting, prestige
Recruited units mine ore for you to smith into gear, while you can dive into a twin-stick roguelike dungeon for extra ore. Includes an upgrade tree and prestige.
80% steam70% idle
The Depths of Xia'phas
Also exploration, crafting
Explore a strange cave, gathering and crafting odd items in search of an artifact that can save your flooded village.
4.1★ galaxy
Artillery Miner
Also crafting, prestige
Blast giant ore blocks with guns, lasers and nukes, smelt and craft materials, and fully destroy worlds to earn prestige cubes that power auto miners.
76% steam
Incremental Epic Hero
Also prestige, crafting
An anime idle RPG with three heroes whose skills you slot and upgrade, plus crafting, potion alchemy and a rebirth system that switches your class.
74% 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
MergeCrafter
Also crafting, exploration
Merge matching items into better resources, craft and enchant tools, set up passive drills and tree farms, and explore biomes and dungeons.
71% steam
SoulstackUpdated
Also crafting, prestige
A card RPG played on a table, where dragging cards together handles everything, with weapon recipes, pet evolutions and prestige classes.
3.8★ galaxy
EverCraft2
Also crafting, prestige
A crafting incremental where any recipe can be prestiged, crafted units go on expeditions, and items ship between separate realms.
3.6★ galaxyEvolveUpdated
Also prestige, resource management
Evolve a species from primordial ooze, build a civilisation, then blow it up in a dozen different ways to start again.
60% idle
Kittens GameUpdated
Also resource management, prestige
Run a civilisation of kittens from catnip fields to space elevators. Deep, slow, and endlessly spreadsheetable.
55% idle
SPECTR: Rekindle the World
Also prestige, exploration
Strike the Core, gather shards and automate production to bring a ruined valley back to life. New cycles keep permanent upgrades, and quests, relics and a keeper's journal carry the story. Released on Steam for Windows on October 30, 2026.

Wrecklanders: Idle Island
Also prestige, exploration
Build a camp after a plane crash, send survivors on expeditions, open their salvage bags and grow through five eras. A rescue starts another island with permanent bonuses. The browser edition is free, with no ads or sign-up.