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Games like NGU Idle

NGU Idle leans idle, never really ends, stacks 1 prestige layer. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Bloobs Adventure Idle cover art

    Bloobs Adventure Idle

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

    A RuneScape-style idle RPG with 24 linked skills, automated boss fights, soul collecting and skill prestige, plus banked offline time to spend later.

    88% steam
    75% idle
  2. Idling to Rule the Gods cover art

    Idling to Rule the Gods

    Also rpg, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · Built on Unity

    Train clones, fight gods, rebirth. An old-school Unity idler that still has a loyal crowd.

    85% steam
    75% idle
  3. Clicker Heroes cover art

    Clicker Heroes

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

    Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.

    90% steam
    60% idle
  4. Idle Slayer cover art

    Idle Slayer

    Also rpg, prestige · Built on Unity

    A runner-platformer bolted onto an idle economy. Jump for coins when you're around; let it grind when you're not.

    84% steam
    45% idle
  5. Incremental Epic Hero 2 cover art

    Incremental Epic Hero 2

    Also rpg, prestige, deep

    Six heroes battle automatically across a fantasy world while you upgrade nearly everything and juggle many prestige systems, with over 1,000 hours of content.

    72% steam
  6. Farmer Against Potatoes Idle cover art

    Farmer Against Potatoes Idle

    Also humor, deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A farmer at war with sentient potatoes, and approximately forty interlocking upgrade screens.

    95% steam
    70% idle
  7. Realm Grinder cover art

    Realm Grinder

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

    Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.

    87% steam
    55% idle
  8. Synergism cover art

    SynergismUpdated

    Also prestige, deep · 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.

    76% steam
    60% idle
  9. Leaf Blower Revolution cover art

    Leaf Blower Revolution

    Also humor, 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
  10. Tap Titans 2 cover art

    Tap Titans 2

    Also rpg, prestige · Built on Unity

    Tap titans, recruit heroes, prestige. The mobile heir to the Clicker Heroes formula.

    50% idle
  11. Almost a Hero - Idle Adventure cover art

    Almost a Hero - Idle AdventureUpdated

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

    Lead a team of hopeless heroes through dungeons, prestiging for permanent artifacts while they fight while away.

    75% idle
  12. Legends of IdleOn cover art

    Legends of IdleOn

    Also rpg, deep

    An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.

    77% steam
    80% idle
  13. Cell to Singularity cover art

    Cell to Singularity

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · Built on Unity

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

    89% steam
    70% idle

  14. EvolveUpdated

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

    Evolve a species from primordial ooze, build a civilisation, then blow it up in a dozen different ways to start again.

    60% idle
  15. Kittens Game cover art

    Kittens GameUpdated

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

    Run a civilisation of kittens from catnip fields to space elevators. Deep, slow, and endlessly spreadsheetable.

    55% idle

  16. TrimpsDormant

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

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

    55% idle
  17. Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms cover art

    Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

    Also rpg · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · Built on Unity

    Dungeons & Dragons formation-building idler. Heavy on events and collection.

    77% steam
    60% idle
  18. Theory of Magic (Arcanum) cover art

    Theory of Magic (Arcanum)

    Also rpg, deep

    A text-heavy mage's apprenticeship with hundreds of spells, classes and dungeons. Dense, charming, community-kept.

    4.5★ galaxy
    45% idle
  19. 挂机神话 cover art

    挂机神话

    Also rpg, humor · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A meme-heavy Chinese cultivation idler about farming procedurally generated gear and characters through an endless tower. Chinese-language store text.

    90% steam
    70% idle
  20. Firestone Idle RPG cover art

    Firestone Idle RPG

    Also rpg · Built on Unity

    A big, polished free-to-play hero idler with guilds, expeditions and a lot of timers.

    77% steam
    80% idle
  21. AdVenture Capitalist cover art

    AdVenture Capitalist

    Also prestige · Built on Unity

    Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.

    88% steam
    80% idle
  22. Cookie Clicker cover art

    Cookie Clicker

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

    The grandma of the genre, literally. Click a cookie, buy grandmas, ascend, and discover the game is much stranger than it looks.

    96% steam
    70% idle
  23. Bitburner cover art

    BitburnerUpdated

    Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A cyberpunk incremental where you write real JavaScript to hack servers and automate everything.

    95% steam
    70% idle
  24. Soda Dungeon cover art

    Soda Dungeon

    Also rpg, humor

    Hire soda-fuelled adventurers from your tavern, send them into a deep dungeon on manual or auto combat, and spend loot on upgrades.

    94% steam
    50% idle