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

Stuck In Time
Also planning, optimization, exploration
Plan action lists for each time loop, let them run, and refine routes through a pixel-art world as you work toward escape.
85% steamhas ending70% idle
The Board is YoursUpdated
Also optimization, planning
Buy chess squares and pieces and position them so defended pieces boost each other's output, with prestige perks that change your strategy.
97% steam4.2★ galaxy50% idleIdle Loops
Also planning, optimization
Plan a list of actions, run the loop, get stronger, plan a better loop. Pure optimisation; the Omsi fork is the one to play.
35% idle
Cavernous II
Also exploration, planning
Guide clones through a cave, pulling mana from strange rocks to reach deeper areas. A demanding puzzle game with a rough interface.
3.6★ galaxy
Little Incrementisle
Also optimization, planning
Settle one island after another, each with modifiers and a disaster, then spend prestige points on a permanent talent tree before sailing on.
82% steam
Incremental rush
Also planning, optimization
A puzzle-leaning speedrun incremental: beat each of seven increasingly hard stages within 60 seconds, helped by autobuy.
3.2★ galaxyMycelia (共生之网)Updated
Also biology, optimization
A fungal-network incremental where you design a 2D mycelium graph instead of a production list, with tech, automation, challenges and prestige.

Endless EscalationComing soon
Also optimization, planning
Build defenses and specialize units against ever stronger waves, where shared upgrade costs force real trade-offs.
3.0★ galaxy
Coin Factory
Also planning, optimization
Lay out factory tiles around an output tile, level them and place modifiers to find synergies, with handmade levels plus daily and nightly challenge maps.
77% steam
Incremental Factory
Also optimization, planning
Build out a factory across parcels and clusters, managing resource flow and reworking production chains as the operation expands.
72% steam
Creature Card Idle
Also planning, optimization
Place cards on a grid so they produce resources, then spend those on booster packs. Each expansion is its own small idle game, and later ones add battles.
71% steam70% idle
FEED THE QUEENUpdated
Also biology, optimization
Grow an insect-like colony by breeding specialized workers and combining foods, evolving the species via a genetics talent tree.
69% steam
Idle Flight ManagerUpdated
Also planning, optimization
Draw routes on a real world map and grow from one prop plane to a jumbo jet fleet, with flights earning offline.
75% idle
Space Travel Idle
Also exploration, optimization
Fly from Earth to distant moons and stars, researching engine tech, cutting ship weight and settling each world, with light card battles.
63% steam70% idle
Mr.Mine
Also exploration
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam75% idle
4.7★ galaxy
Ink Remnant
Also 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
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
Black Hole FishingUpdated
Also biology
Use a black hole to vacuum fish from a pond, then breed, inject traits into and research them while feeding the singularity to grow it.
89% steam
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
Cavern Crawler
Also exploration
A short prototype where you repeatedly crawl through caverns and grow stronger between attempts; all content fits in under an hour.
4.3★ galaxy
Outpath: First Journey
Also exploration
A free prologue to a first-person clicker where you gather, craft and automate a base, buying new islands, in either an active or idle style.
96% steam50% idle