Games like PANOPTYCA : Idle RPG Manager
PANOPTYCA : Idle RPG Manager. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Loot LoopUpdated
Also rpg, auto battler
Send a party of tiny heroes into dungeon runs that last seconds, then spend the loot on a large skill tree between attempts.
92% steam
SkelesellerUpdated
Also rpg, auto battler
A dead adventurer returns as a skeleton shopkeeper who hires heroes, sends them into battle and sells their loot to grow the town. Finite, with small numbers and no prestige.
91% steamhas ending
Legends of Dragaea: Idle DungeonsUpdated
Also rpg, auto battler
A first-person idle dungeon crawler where parties from nine races explore dungeons, take on 9-hero raids and grow your own guild and town.
86% steam
Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPGUpdated
Also rpg, auto battler
An endless tower defense where you recruit and place fantasy heroes against infinite waves, and they keep fighting and collecting rewards while the game is closed.
82% steam75% idle
Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising
Also rpg, auto battler
A Lovecraftian idle RPG where fully automatic battles fill your bags with loot, while you build a cult town, craft runewords and take on seasonal challenges.
77% steam
壶中日月 Timeless Teapot
Also rpg, auto battler
Lead a cultivation sect inside a magic teapot, recruiting disciples who train, fight and break through realms automatically while you tune gear and formations.
77% steam
Incremental Epic Hero 2
Also rpg, auto battler
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
Bard Idle
Also auto battler, rpg
Assemble a party of heroes with randomized race, class and weapon, then back them with ballads you compose and jelly dwarfs across arena and titan modes.
69% steam50% idle
Guild Quest
Also planning, rpg
Stock islands with guild members and design custom quest lines for them to run, collecting rewards between visits.
66% steam70% idle
Endless EscalationComing soon
Also auto battler, planning
Build defenses and specialize units against ever stronger waves, where shared upgrade costs force real trade-offs.
3.0★ galaxy
LegendumUpdated
Also rpg, planning
Plan each day of a hero's life, auto-battle hordes and train skills before old age, carrying your soul forward to the next life.
4.6★ galaxy
Lootborne
Also rpg, auto battler
A dark fantasy auto-battler that runs in a small desktop window, with a hero fighting and looting on its own. Forge duplicates, stack elemental synergies and battle other builds in async PvP.
61% steam90% idle
Miseria
Also rpg, auto battler
Guide a party of damned souls deeper into an abyss as they fight automatically. Level stats, forge equipment and use the Reborn reset for permanent power.
58% steam
Summoners Greed: AFK TD TowerUpdated
Also auto battler, rpg
Summon heroes, place them on a grid to hold off waves, and collect rewards that build up while the game is closed.
75% idle
Legend of Slime: Idle RPGUpdated
Also rpg, auto battler
Lead a clan of slimes through automatic battles, evolving heroes and gathering loot even while offline.
75% idle
Auto Battles Online: Idle RPGUpdated
Also auto battler, rpg
Gear a team of heroes from thousands of items, place them on the field, and let them fight other players' teams automatically.

Idle Horizons: Dawn of HeroesUpdated
Also auto battler, rpg
Draft heroes, tune deep skill trees and positioning, and run dungeons and raids in an auto-battler built for theorycrafters.

Dunidle: Auto Battler RPG GameDormant
Also auto battler, rpg
Lead an 8-bit hero party through dungeons and bosses, gearing them up while they battle on their own.

Paper WarDormant
Also rpg, auto battler
Summon paper characters, place them in battle and merge weaker units into stronger ones to take on bosses.

NGU Idle
Also rpg
Joke-dense RPG idler with dozens of interlocking systems. Beating a boss is the easy part; allocating energy is the game.
96% steam65% idle
Clicker Heroes
Also rpg
Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.
90% steam60% idle
Soda Dungeon
Also rpg
Hire soda-fuelled adventurers from your tavern, send them into a deep dungeon on manual or auto combat, and spend loot on upgrades.
94% steam50% idle
Soda Dungeon 2
Also rpg
Staff a tavern with adventurers who crawl a dungeon for you, upgrade the whole town, and script their battle behavior with custom AI.
94% steam
Melvor Idle
Also rpg
RuneScape's skilling loop distilled into menus. Train twenty skills, fight dungeons, fill the completion log.
90% steam85% idle