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Games like Idle Gumball Machine

Idle Gumball Machine leans active. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Mushies! cover art

    Mushies!FeaturedComing soon

    Also prestige

    Click the big mushroom, hire worker shrooms, build houses and dig underground in a cozy pixel-art mushroom village. Over 85 upgrades and a Wisdom prestige loop.

  2. Pachincro cover art

    PachincroUpdated

    Also physics, prestige, short

    Drop balls through pachinko boards to stack multipliers, fight a boss, and spend on a big skill tree across several modes with prestige.

    36% steam
    3.3★ galaxy
  3. Breakfront cover art

    Breakfront

    Also short, physics · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    Bouncing balls chip away at enemy tiles; spend captured points on a branching tree for more, faster and special balls, then beat the boss.

    4.3★ galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  4. Starvester cover art

    Starvester

    Also short, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    Send drone swarms to mine a star system and grow a factory that builds megastructures, with prestige along a roughly five hour campaign.

    69% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  5. Magic Archery cover art

    Magic ArcheryUpdated

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    Train an elf commoner into a master archer by shooting targets, taking quests for gold and buying magic upgrades in a brief, hands-on climb with a set ending.

    98% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  6. Click and Conquer cover art

    Click and ConquerUpdated

    Also short, prestige

    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% steam
    has ending
  7. Execute cover art

    ExecuteUpdated

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.

    91% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  8. Game of Grass cover art

    Game of Grass

    Also short, prestige

    Mow your lawn with increasingly silly tools to prove it beats your neighbor's, grow crops for passive income and prestige for new abilities.

    84% steam
    50% idle
  9. Fundamental cover art

    Fundamental

    Also physics, prestige

    Start with a single particle and build up the universe. Galaxy's most-played game by total hours, by a lot.

    4.4★ galaxy
    65% idle
  10. Incremental Mass Rewritten cover art

    Incremental Mass RewrittenDormant

    Also prestige, physics

    Gain mass, become a black hole, then an atom, then a supernova. The numbers get absurd quickly and never stop.

    4.4★ galaxy
    60% idle
  11. castle idler cover art

    castle idlerUpdated

    Also prestige, short

    A tower defense incremental without waves, where you place and upgrade towers against slimes and unlock a prestige skill tree across harder levels.

    79% steam
    3.6★ galaxy
  12. Distance Incremental cover art

    Distance Incremental

    Also prestige, physics

    Go faster, go further. Rockets, time reversal and a very long list of layers from the Prestige Tree author.

    4.4★ galaxy
    55% idle
  13. Military Incremental Complex cover art

    Military Incremental ComplexDormant

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    Start by making bullets by hand and grow into an arms giant producing tanks and nukes, playing the stock market and lobbying government.

    82% steam
    2.7★ galaxy
    25% idle
  14. PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator cover art

    PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    Drive a mining train by hand between stations, defend against alien insects and reinvest profits into upgrades and delivery drones, satirizing tech startups.

    98% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  15. Smash Hit Museum cover art

    Smash Hit Museum

    Also prestige, short

    Smash stones to uncover artifacts for a museum, with auto-hammers, a lucky coin flip and 50+ prestige skills bought with tickets.

    85% steam
  16. Cult Nation cover art

    Cult NationUpdated

    Also short, prestige

    Sacrifice cult followers to gather blood and summon the devil, with reincarnation resets that unlock new mechanics over roughly two hours.

    87% steam
    has ending
  17. Click To Continue cover art

    Click To Continue

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    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% steam
    25% idle
  18. Crownhold cover art

    Crownhold

    Also short, prestige

    Grow a castle into a realm, find trading partners and besiege rivals, then restart stronger through meta progression. Deliberately compact.

    84% steam
  19. MetaTree cover art

    MetaTree

    Also short, prestige

    A short Modding Tree mod where progression happens inside a separate layer.

    4.3★ galaxy
  20. Unfair Flips cover art

    Unfair Flips

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    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% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  21. Journey to Incrementalia cover art

    Journey to Incrementalia

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    A necromancer summons minions and casts spells to smash through 99 walls, exploring a big resettable skill tree on a short hands-on run.

    89% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  22. Idle Bouncer cover art

    Idle Bouncer

    Also physics, prestige

    Drop balls that make energy on every bounce, upgrade them, then sell off the lot for meta-energy that rewrites gravity and density.

    82% steam
  23. Spaceplan cover art

    SpaceplanComplete

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    A stranded ship, a potato, and a soundtrack that makes the finale land. A short, focused story idler.

    91% steam
    1–3h ending
    30% idle
  24. [LEGACY] PS: Glorious Generators! cover art

    [LEGACY] PS: Glorious Generators!

    Also prestige, short

    A shortish Modding Tree mod where every layer produces its own currency. The incomplete second entry in the Prestigious Saplings series.

    4.0★ galaxy