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.
3.7★ galaxy25% idle
OdyssosDormant
Also incremental, exploration
Train across four realms, explore zones for artifact shards, climb a tournament, and rebirth for essence.
3.2★ galaxy
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
War Tortoise 2Dormant
Also incremental, exploration
Pilot a heavily armed tortoise tank across a large world, gearing up with loot, pilots and heroes.

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
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
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
Leaf it Alone
Also incremental
Clear a yard buried in leaves with a rake, a blower or bare hands, upgrading tools until the slow chore turns fast and the garden comes back to life.
95% steam