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

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
Outpath: First Journey
Also crafting, exploration
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
Outpath
Also crafting, exploration
A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.
94% steam50% idle
NG Space Company
Also incremental, exploration
A space incremental about mining resources, exploring between stars and conquering systems.
4.2★ galaxy
The Depths of Xia'phas
Also exploration, crafting
Explore a strange cave, gathering and crafting odd items in search of an artifact that can save your flooded village.
4.1★ galaxy
Project IridiumDormant
Also incremental, exploration
Explore a mythical world while bending time, repairing structures and tearing down walls over about an hour.
3.9★ galaxy
Poofle Mutation IdleDormant
Also incremental, exploration
Forage, fight and steal for fusion materials to mutate, grow stronger and ascend while exploring a city.
3.6★ galaxy
Magnetic CatchUpdated
Also crafting, exploration
Cast a magnet into rivers to haul up scrap and treasure, then sell, craft and upgrade. Every catch is manual.
3.6★ galaxy25% idle
More Than EnoughUpdated
Also 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.

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
Survivor Island-Idle GameUpdated
Also crafting, exploration
Keep castaways fed and healthy on a foggy island, crafting tools and tending the bonfire while you repair a ship to escape.
has ending
War Tortoise 2Dormant
Also incremental, exploration
Pilot a heavily armed tortoise tank across a large world, gearing up with loot, pilots and heroes.

Dragon Forge
Also 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
Mr.Mine
Also exploration
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam75% idle
Ink Remnant
Also exploration
A short incremental where a mage starts with nothing in a magical city and researches upward, with new systems revealed as the story unfolds.
4.6★ galaxy
What Lurks Below
Also exploration
A 30-minute game jam incremental set in 1881, where you push deeper beneath the town of Old Gloomhollow to find what is down there.
4.6★ galaxy50% idle
Garbage GrowthUpdated
Also incremental
Pick up trash that people throw at you, add more polluters and hire rats to automate collection. A short, crude incremental with a skill tree.
91% steam3.9★ galaxy
The Climb - Demo
Also crafting
Demo of an incremental RPG about climbing a monster-filled tower, with crafting, growing equipment, enchant cards, quests, and automatic combat.
4.5★ galaxy50% idle
Leaf Blower Revolution
Also crafting
Blow leaves. Blow more leaves. Somehow blow leaves across multiple dimensions with a crafting system.
94% steam55% idle
Shelldiver
Also exploration
An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.
98% steam
Mine Your Way Out 2
Also exploration
Dig through a fully destructible pixel world and upgrade your gear to escape the underground, in about an hour.
4.4★ galaxyhas ending
Pacifish
Also crafting
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
Idle DeepcoreUpdated
Also incremental
Mine blocks by hand, smelt ore into ingots, and grow into a network of automated mines running in parallel across claimed zones on a world map.
85% steam
Cavern Crawler
Also exploration
A short prototype where you repeatedly crawl through caverns and grow stronger between attempts; all content fits in under an hour.
4.3★ galaxy