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
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 WuxiaUpdated
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
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
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
IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated
Also exploration
Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.
86% steam
Celestial Incremental
Also narrative
A large Modding Tree game built by a small team, with its own music, lore, and extras like a buy-max toggle that most tree games lack.
4.2★ galaxy
Gravend
Also narrative
A dark fantasy RPG incremental where an amnesiac hero among slimes recovers memories, fights monster hordes, and chooses between a good or darker path.
4.4★ galaxy