Skip to content

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.

Only
  1. Mushies! cover art

    Mushies!FeaturedComing soon

    Also prestige

    Click the big mushroom, hire worker shrooms, build houses and dig underground in a cozy pixel-art mushroom village. Over 85 upgrades and a Wisdom prestige loop.

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.

    75% steam
    60% idle
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

  15. 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
  16. 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

  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  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. 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