Games like Project: Idle Takeover
Project: Idle Takeover. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

BitburnerUpdated
Also cyberpunk, automation, deep
A cyberpunk incremental where you write real JavaScript to hack servers and automate everything.
95% steam70% idle
Realm Grinder
Also factions, deep
Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.
87% steam55% idle
Screeps: World
Also automation, deep
Run a colony in a persistent MMO by writing JavaScript that controls your units around the clock, even while you are logged off.
87% steam70% idleTrimpsDormant
Also automation, deep
Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.
55% idle
NGU Idle
Also deep
Joke-dense RPG idler with dozens of interlocking systems. Beating a boss is the easy part; allocating energy is the game.
96% steam65% idle
Antimatter DimensionsUpdated
Also automation
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
All Hail the Orb
Also automation
Click a mysterious orb for power, recruit cultists to take over the work, and explore a dungeon full of ducks in a short game meant to be finished.
93% steam4.2★ galaxyhas ending
Theory of Magic (Arcanum)
Also deep
A text-heavy mage's apprenticeship with hundreds of spells, classes and dungeons. Dense, charming, community-kept.
4.5★ galaxy45% idle
Scratch Inc.Updated
Also automation
Scratch cards for points, upgrade grids and multipliers, automate the scratching and prestige through several layers across industries.
90% steam
ExecuteUpdated
Also automation
A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.
91% steamhas ending25% idle
Black Hole FishingUpdated
Also automation
Use a black hole to vacuum fish from a pond, then breed, inject traits into and research them while feeding the singularity to grow it.
89% steam
Farmer Against Potatoes Idle
Also deep
A farmer at war with sentient potatoes, and approximately forty interlocking upgrade screens.
95% steam70% idle
(the) Gnorp Apologue
Also automation
Strike a rock for shards and hire a growing crew of gnorps to smash and haul them, stacking synergies until the numbers explode.
96% steam
Celestial Incremental
Also deep
A large Modding Tree game built by a small team, with its own music, lore, and extras like a buy-max toggle that most tree games lack.
4.2★ galaxy
MR FARMBOYDormant
Also automation
Build a farm with crops and livestock, attract villagers to buy goods, and hire workers to automate production and hauling.
85% steam
The Farmer Was Replaced
Also automation
Write Python-like scripts for a drone that farms for you, then spend the harvest on new tech that opens tougher automation puzzles.
97% steam
Legends of IdleOn
Also deep
An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.
77% steam80% idle
Outpath: First Journey
Also automation
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
ULTRATAPUpdated
Also automation
Fight through stages of monsters and bosses, completing quests and equipping items while hundreds of upgrades automate the grind.
89% steam4.2★ galaxy
Outpath
Also automation
A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.
94% steam50% idle
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
Also automation
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
Beltmatic
Also automation
Mine numbers from the map and route them along belts through adders and multipliers to deliver target values to the hub.
95% steam
Idle SpiralUpdated
Also deep
Grow a mathematical spiral ever outward by buying formula upgrades, stacking several prestige resets, and use the spiral as a weapon in battles.
79% steam
Military Incremental ComplexDormant
Also automation
Start by making bullets by hand and grow into an arms giant producing tanks and nukes, playing the stock market and lobbying government.
82% steam2.7★ galaxy25% idle