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Games like Idle Space Raider

Idle Space Raider leans idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Transport Defender cover art

    Transport Defender

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

    Guard a cargo ship from boarding waves with a turret and auto weapons, scripting auto upgrades and auto ascension for long idle runs.

    80% steam
    70% idle
  2. Unnamed Space Idle cover art

    Unnamed Space Idle

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

    A ship, a sector map and a tidy prestige loop. Quietly one of Galaxy's most-played games.

    92% steam
    4.5★ galaxy
    70% idle
  3. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

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

    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
  4. Starvester cover art

    Starvester

    Also space, automation, mining

    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. Vanguard Galaxy cover art

    Vanguard Galaxy

    Also space, mining, combat

    Fight, mine, salvage and trade across a procedural galaxy, played full screen or docked on your desktop with an autopilot that can run things.

    90% steam
    50% idle
  6. PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator cover art

    PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator

    Also space, mining, automation

    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
  7. Idle Galaxy cover art

    Idle Galaxy

    Also space, mining, combat

    One persistent ship across ten planets: mine, fight, craft gear and trade with other players. A playable beta, updated often.

    85% idle

  8. TrimpsDormant

    Also combat, prestige, automation

    Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.

    55% idle
  9. Rejected Draft cover art

    Rejected DraftComing soon

    Also combat, prestige, automation

    You are the doodle the Artist threw away. Fight community-drawn sketches, absorb their powers and claw your way back for revenge.

    4.2★ galaxy
    1000h ending
    35% idle
  10. Space industrial empire cover art

    Space industrial empire

    Also space, automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Lay out flat conveyor lines for mining, smelting and research, then build warships to take other planets.

    87% steam
    70% idle
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    Coin Flipper

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

    Pick heads or tails and flip coins for currency, buying upgrades until the flipping runs on its own. Past a million coins you can inflate for permanent bonuses.

    89% steam
    70% idle
  12. Fracture Field cover art

    Fracture Field

    Also mining, automation, prestige

    Break quarry rocks with timed swings, add drones to automate, clear space with bombs and shatter the whole operation for prestige currency.

    75% steam
  13. Astro Prospector Prologue cover art

    Astro Prospector Prologue

    Also space, mining, combat

    A bullet-heaven incremental where you mine coffee asteroids, fight SpaceCorp and upgrade your ship. This build is an early prologue.

    4.6★ galaxy
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    Bounty Below

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

    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% steam
    70% idle
  15. Orbit Foundry cover art

    Orbit FoundryComing soon

    Also space, automation, prestige

    Grow one extractor into an orbital factory: place machines beside the right neighbors, time reactor pulses for bursts, and Reforge for permanent upgrades until you light a new star.

    has ending
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    A Mining Game

    Also mining, combat · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    An idle miner with leaderboards, an army to build, a combat tower you can climb with friends, and daily events.

    66% steam
    70% idle
  17. Industry Idle cover art

    Industry IdleDormant

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

    Build factories on generated maps, optimize production chains, trade on a player market and prestige for new maps, with offline earnings tied to company value.

    77% steam
    75% idle
  18. Galactic Idle cover art

    Galactic Idle

    Also space, combat, automation

    Grow one planet into a space empire: research tech, raise fleets and conquer 20 worlds, with battles auto-resolved or fought squad by squad.

  19. Galaxy Idle Clicker cover art

    Galaxy Idle Clicker

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

    Upgrade a spaceship to conquer over 5,000 areas across seven universes, with four reset systems, four minigames and offline farming.

    74% steam
    75% idle
  20. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also prestige, automation

    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

  21. IdleSpaceDormant

    Also space, combat, automation

    A space combat idle game where you design ships and send fleets into automated battles.

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    IdleSpace 2Dormant

    Also space, combat, automation

    The successor to IdleSpace, an idle space game of fleet building and automated battles.

  23. Orebital Dynamics cover art

    Orebital DynamicsUpdated

    Also mining, space, automation

    Run a deep-space mining platform whose drills fire lasers at lanes of ore, upgrading and automating while hazards reshape the field.

    3.3★ galaxy
  24. Stardust Tycoon cover art

    Stardust TycoonUpdated

    Also space, prestige, mining

    Mine stardust by clicking, buy auto-miners from drones to black holes, and prestige for a permanent production bonus.