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Games like Idle Research

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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. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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% steam
    4.6★ galaxy
    200–600h ending
    55% idle
  3. The Prestige Tree cover art

    The Prestige TreeComplete

    Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A skill tree where every node is a prestige layer. It spawned the Modding Tree and a thousand descendants.

    4.6★ galaxy
    30–80h ending
    50% idle
  4. DodecaDragons cover art

    DodecaDragons

    Also prestige, pure numbers · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Twelve dragons, twelve colours of magic, and one of Galaxy's most-favourited games. Big numbers, handsome UI.

    4.6★ galaxy
    has ending
    55% idle
  5. Revolution Idle cover art

    Revolution Idle

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

    Wheels inside wheels. A clean, abstract prestige stack with a lot of layers and very little fluff.

    87% steam
    60% idle
  6. Distance Incremental cover art

    Distance Incremental

    Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

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

    4.4★ galaxy
    55% idle
  7. Synergism cover art

    SynergismUpdated

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

    Five prestige layers stacked like a tower, each one reshaping the ones below. For people who liked AD and want more.

    75% steam
    60% idle
  8. Incremental Mass Rewritten cover art

    Incremental Mass RewrittenDormant

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

    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
  9. Cell to Singularity cover art

    Cell to Singularity

    Also science, prestige

    Evolve life from a single cell to a technological singularity, with a surprising amount of real science in the tooltips.

    89% steam
    70% idle
  10. Fundamental cover art

    Fundamental

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    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
  11. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    Heroes fight on their own in automated turn-based combat while you tune the automation and push toward double-exponent numbers through stacked prestiges.

    78% steam
    70% idle
  12. Incremental Epic Hero cover art

    Incremental Epic Hero

    Also prestige, alchemy

    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% steam
    70% idle
  13. Underworld Idle cover art

    Underworld Idle

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    Run an underworld where higher units spawn lower ones, across four factions each producing its own resource, with a prestige system.

    71% steam
    70% idle
  14. Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up cover art

    Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Push kiwis through an upgradable delivery line, clear bottlenecks, and pick professions that favor clicking, potions or automation.

    95% steam
    50% idle
  15. Time Clickers cover art

    Time Clickers

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Shoot cubes for gold, upgrade your pistol and hire a sharpshooter squad, then trade Time Cubes for artifacts after wave 100.

    88% steam
    50% idle
  16. Leaf Blower Revolution cover art

    Leaf Blower Revolution

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Blow leaves. Blow more leaves. Somehow blow leaves across multiple dimensions with a crafting system.

    94% steam
    55% idle
  17. PickCrafter cover art

    PickCrafter

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Break blocks with a growing arsenal of pickaxes, forge gear, and prestige through ascension tiers while exploring biomes up to Mars.

    86% steam
    50% idle
  18. Orb of Creation cover art

    Orb of Creation

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow a wizard's orb into a world. Spell circles, resource webs, and a real finale.

    84% steam
    20–40h ending
    50% idle
  19. Idle Colony cover art

    Idle Colony

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    Merge fruits into higher tiers for exponential cash, recruit creatures to automate the orchard, then sacrifice the colony for new tech.

    82% steam
  20. Idle Spiral cover art

    Idle SpiralUpdated

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    Grow a mathematical spiral ever outward by buying formula upgrades, stacking several prestige resets, and use the spiral as a weapon in battles.

    79% steam
  21. Upload Simulator cover art

    Upload Simulator

    Also prestige, science

    Download and upload files for credits, then upgrade hardware, research tech, automate part production, overclock, and prestige.

    84% steam
  22. Swarm Simulator: Evolution cover art

    Swarm Simulator: Evolution

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    Hatch larvae into drones and ever bigger bug units, sacrificing smaller ones and ascending repeatedly to grow a galaxy-scale swarm.

    78% steam
  23. Magic Research 2 cover art

    Magic Research 2

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    The sequel adds exploration, a spell-crafting system and a much longer story arc.

    93% steam
    50–120h ending
    55% idle
  24. Game of Grass cover art

    Game of Grass

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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