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
More Than EnoughUpdated
Also automation, exploration, crafting
Forage mycelium and mine stone, ore and crystal across an endless seeded wilderness, then craft tools and extractors until you're producing far more than enough.

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