Games like Level 13
Level 13. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

A Dark RoomComplete
Also narrative, text, exploration
Light a fire. Then the text opens up into a village, a map, and a story told almost entirely through what it doesn't say.
3–6h ending25% idle
Ink Remnant
Also narrative, exploration
A short incremental where a mage starts with nothing in a magical city and researches upward, with new systems revealed as the story unfolds.
4.6★ galaxy
Ballad of Heroes
Also narrative, text
A mostly text-based RPG idler set in Greek mythology. Build a party of up to two heroes and four gods and fight to defend Olympus.
4.5★ galaxy
THE LONGING
Also exploration, narrative
Wait 400 real days in an underground palace for a king to wake. The clock runs while the game is closed, so you can explore or simply leave.
92% steamhas ending70% idle
Midnight Idle
Also narrative, text
A story incremental styled after gamebooks, following an amnesiac ooze with seven unlockable classes and several prestige layers. Built for mobile too.
4.0★ galaxyCandy Box 2Complete
Also narrative, exploration
An ASCII adventure that starts as a counter of candies and turns into quests, spells and a lollipop farm.
5–10h ending30% idle
Beggar's LifeUpdated
Also text, narrative
Start as a starving beggar in a text-based medieval city and branch into paths like priest, thief, rat friend or pyromaniac through many skills.
62% steam3.7★ galaxy
Lumberjacked
Also narrative, exploration
A 3D first-person clicker: chop trees, feed logs to a chipper for cash, sharpen your axe for tougher wood, and tunnel into a forest mystery.
83% steam
Cold StarUpdated
Also narrative, text
A minimalist sci-fi incremental in the style of A Dark Room: wake a dying reactor, gather and build to survive, then reach out across the stars.

The Ruins RememberUpdated
Also civilization, narrative
Rebuild civilization on an alien world across ten eras while uncovering ruins from those who came before; prestige is the cycle.

无休仙途
Also narrative, exploration
Lead an immortal-cultivation sect across a floating continent, gathering resources, recruiting disciples and following a story toward ascension.
73% steam
Immortal Taoists-MUD WuxiaDormant
Also text, narrative
Seek immortality as a cultivator in a playable xianxia novel, joining sects, learning arts and raising spirit beasts.

Post Apo Tycoon - Idle BuilderUpdated
Also exploration, narrative
Rebuild a nuclear wasteland into farmland, exploring the map for resources and reading found diaries that reveal how the world ended.

Mr.Mine
Also exploration
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam75% idle
Shark Game: New Frontiers
Also text
Sharks discover the ocean, then science, then other worlds. A text-forward successor to the old Shark Game.
4.6★ galaxy55% idle
Theory of Magic (Arcanum)
Also text
A text-heavy mage's apprenticeship with hundreds of spells, classes and dungeons. Dense, charming, community-kept.
4.5★ galaxy45% idle
FEED THE AI
Also narrative
A short, very active incremental about an AI you feed with data. Shape it into a Protector, Rational or Tyrant; each ending makes the next run stronger.
90% steam3–9h ending0% idle
4.5★ galaxy
What Lurks Below
Also exploration
A 30-minute game jam incremental set in 1881, where you push deeper beneath the town of Old Gloomhollow to find what is down there.
4.6★ galaxy50% idle
Advent IncrementalComplete
Also narrative
Twenty-four days, twenty-four interlocking mini-incrementals, one workshop to save Christmas. Built on Profectus.
4.6★ galaxy20–40h ending40% idle
Berry Bury Berry
Also narrative
Grow berries in a first-person garden and drop them into a strange hole for cash, upgrading helpers while an unsettling mystery with several endings unfolds.
98% steamhas ending
Shelldiver
Also exploration
An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.
98% steam
Rejected DraftComing soon
Also narrative
You are the doodle the Artist threw away. Fight community-drawn sketches, absorb their powers and claw your way back for revenge.
4.2★ galaxy1000h ending35% idle
Mine Your Way Out 2
Also exploration
Dig through a fully destructible pixel world and upgrade your gear to escape the underground, in about an hour.
4.4★ galaxyhas ending