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

Outpath: First Journey
Also automation, crafting, exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
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
Farmtale
Also exploration, automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Start an island farm with one chicken, then add crops, animals and hired workers, decorate buildings, and explore as upgrades pile up. Part idle, part clicker.
68% steam50% idle
Dragon Forge
Also automation, crafting, exploration
Play a dragon lifting a curse by gathering and crafting, while goblin minions run an ever-growing automated city across 80 areas to explore.
50% steam
Micro Macro Farm
Also crafting, automation
Plant, harvest, and cook produce in a small garden, leveling up to unlock seeds and machines, with gnome helpers that keep things going while you do other tasks.
79% steam70% idle
Forest Hustle
Also automation, exploration
Dropped in a forest with a 100k debt, chop wood, mine stone, trade and hire dog workers until you pay it off.
90% steamhas ending
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Grow a garden around a magic oak with round helpers who harvest for you, even while the game is closed, and reach for golden acorns.
95% steam50% idle
Forage Wizard
Also automation, crafting
Forage with your cursor, refine items through alchemy and build self-running machines and farms, following a branching skill tree toward a powerful artifact.
87% steam
The Greenening
Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Water an ash-covered planet to reveal what lies beneath, upgrade your abilities, and tend a garden aboard your spaceship in about three hours.
96% steam50% idle
Lootun
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Send up to three adventurers into dungeons while you salvage, craft and enchant their loot, choosing from four classes with ascendancies.
94% steam50% idle
Widget Inc.
Also automation, crafting
Craft widgets by hand, then automate and lay out a sprawling factory through twelve tech tiers on the way to building a rocket.
87% steamhas ending
IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated
Also exploration, crafting
Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.
86% steam
Plantera
Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Grow a garden of crops, trees and animals while round helpers harvest for you, and keep earning even with the game shut.
89% steam50% idle
Wizard And Minion Idle
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
A wizard trains stats, casts spells and raises a pet minion, with fishing, gem crafting, dungeons and reincarnation mixed into one long grind.
90% steam50% idle
Leaf Blower Revolution
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Blow leaves. Blow more leaves. Somehow blow leaves across multiple dimensions with a crafting system.
94% steam55% idle
Vanguard Galaxy
Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Fight, mine, salvage and trade across a procedural galaxy, played full screen or docked on your desktop with an autopilot that can run things.
90% steam50% idle
PickCrafter
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Break blocks with a growing arsenal of pickaxes, forge gear, and prestige through ascension tiers while exploring biomes up to Mars.
86% steam50% idle
Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game
Also automation, exploration
Suck up dust with upgraded vacuums and robot helpers, sell it, hire managers and prestige to multiply gains across several locations.
82% steam
Antimatter DimensionsUpdated
Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Buy dimensions that buy dimensions, then break infinity, then break reality. The reference point every numbers-go-up game is measured against, and it has a real ending.
92% steam4.6★ galaxy200–600h ending55% idle
Pacifish
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Fish six areas, fight back against what you disturb, hatch and eat fish for stats, and craft poles, playable idly or actively for speed.
84% steam50% idle
refarm
Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Raise sunken tiles from the sea one at a time, farming each to fund more land and unlocking basic helpers. A short, click-heavy run of about two hours.
87% steamhas ending50% idle
Potion Commotion
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Grow a garden of odd plants and creatures for a broke wizard, combine their ingredients into potions, and shoo pests with your cursor or gnome guards.
84% steam50% idle
Idle Slayer
Also platformer · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
A runner-platformer bolted onto an idle economy. Jump for coins when you're around; let it grind when you're not.
84% steam45% idle
MergeCrafter
Also crafting, exploration
Merge matching items into better resources, craft and enchant tools, set up passive drills and tree farms, and explore biomes and dungeons.
71% steam
Tower Walker: MMO Grind Simulator
Also crafting · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Guide a hero up a huge tower through indirect control, like watching an MMO character grind. Loot gear, pick from 20+ classes, craft, and earn faction infamy.
80% steam50% idle