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
Rejected DraftComing soon
Also automation, deep
You are the doodle the Artist threw away. Fight community-drawn sketches, absorb their powers and claw your way back for revenge.
4.2★ galaxy1000h ending35% 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
ExecuteDormant
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
Idle DeepcoreUpdated
Also automation
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
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
A Game of Chance
Also automation
Flip coins and chase rare events, spending the rewards on upgrades and new modes until the game runs on its own, even with the tab closed.
4.3★ galaxy70% 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