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Games like Rejected Draft

Rejected Draft leans active, finishes in about 1000h. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. TrimpsDormant

    Also combat, prestige, automation

    Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.

    55% idle
  2. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also prestige, automation · Has an ending, about 200–600h

    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% steam
    4.6★ galaxy
    200–600h ending
    55% idle
  3. Orb of Creation cover art

    Orb of Creation

    Also prestige, narrative · Has an ending, about 20–40h

    Grow a wizard's orb into a world. Spell circles, resource webs, and a real finale.

    84% steam
    20–40h ending
    50% idle
  4. Four Divine Abidings cover art

    Four Divine Abidings

    Also prestige, narrative · Has an ending

    A Buddhist-inspired idle game where you cultivate four virtues, follow guided tasks and pass through rebirths toward full liberation.

    81% steam
    3.3★ galaxy
    has ending
    50% idle
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    Magic Research 2

    Also prestige, narrative · Has an ending, about 50–120h

    The sequel adds exploration, a spell-crafting system and a much longer story arc.

    93% steam
    50–120h ending
    55% idle
  6. Starvester cover art

    Starvester

    Also automation, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans active) · Has an ending

    Send drone swarms to mine a star system and grow a factory that builds megastructures, with prestige along a roughly five hour campaign.

    69% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
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    Transport Defender

    Also automation, prestige, combat

    Guard a cargo ship from boarding waves with a turret and auto weapons, scripting auto upgrades and auto ascension for long idle runs.

    80% steam
    70% idle
  8. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

    Also automation, combat, prestige

    Heroes fight on their own in automated turn-based combat while you tune the automation and push toward double-exponent numbers through stacked prestiges.

    78% steam
    70% idle
  9. Idle Space Raider cover art

    Idle Space Raider

    Also automation, prestige, combat

    Patrol space as a station guard, mining ore and fighting in raids, then upgrade your ship and station. Toggles automate most systems, and a stargate opens a second reset tier.

    74% steam
    70% idle
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    FEED THE AI

    Also narrative, prestige · Has an ending, about 3–9h

    A short, very active incremental about an AI you feed with data. Shape it into a Protector, Rational or Tyrant; each ending makes the next run stronger.

    90% steam
    3–9h ending
    0% idle
  11. Infi-Knight cover art

    Infi-KnightUpdated

    Also combat, prestige, narrative

    A desktop companion game: an immortal knight battles the undead while you work, growing stronger with each death.

    3.6★ galaxy
  12. XiuzhenWorld2 cover art

    XiuzhenWorld2

    Also prestige, combat · Has an ending

    Rise from mortal to immortal in a 3D cultivation world, fighting monsters for loot, capturing pets, and reincarnating with better base stats. Has an AFK mode.

    70% steam
    has ending
    50% idle
  13. Military Incremental Complex cover art

    Military Incremental ComplexDormant

    Also automation, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans active)

    Start by making bullets by hand and grow into an arms giant producing tanks and nukes, playing the stock market and lobbying government.

    82% steam
    2.7★ galaxy
    25% idle
  14. Final Profit: A Shop RPG cover art

    Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant

    Also narrative, automation · Has an ending

    A story-driven shop RPG where an exiled fae queen builds a business empire, buying buildings for passive income and automating systems over 35+ hours.

    95% steam
    has ending
  15. Realm Grinder cover art

    Realm Grinder

    Also prestige, deep

    Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.

    87% steam
    55% idle
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    Dragon Cliff

    Also combat, deep

    A semi-idle party RPG built around deep itemization: 25 classes, talent trees, reforging, and battles that run on their own until you spend rage.

    89% steam
    50% idle
  17. Orbit Foundry cover art

    Orbit FoundryComing soon

    Also automation, prestige · Has an ending

    Grow one extractor into an orbital factory: place machines beside the right neighbors, time reactor pulses for bursts, and Reforge for permanent upgrades until you light a new star.

    has ending
  18. Time Clickers cover art

    Time Clickers

    Also prestige, combat

    Shoot cubes for gold, upgrade your pistol and hire a sharpshooter squad, then trade Time Cubes for artifacts after wave 100.

    88% steam
    50% idle
  19. Feed the Reactor cover art

    Feed the Reactor

    Also prestige, narrative · Has an ending

    Feed fuel into a reactor, combine exotic elements for energy, and loop through prestige-style resets to learn the reactor's purpose across multiple endings.

    82% steam
    has ending
  20. Power Inherited cover art

    Power Inherited

    Also combat, prestige · Has an ending

    A cursed family descends a dungeon over generations, each heir stronger than the last, aiming to beat the boss in room 22.

    4.2★ galaxy
    has ending
  21. Spaceplan cover art

    SpaceplanComplete

    Also narrative · Same active/idle balance (leans active) · Has an ending, about 1–3h

    A stranded ship, a potato, and a soundtrack that makes the finale land. A short, focused story idler.

    91% steam
    1–3h ending
    30% idle
  22. Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999 cover art

    Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999

    Also narrative, prestige · Has an ending

    A short idle RPG where a reborn dark lord picks branching paths across lives, with shadow servants to automate and several endings.

    4.0★ galaxy
    has ending
  23. Idle Chapel cover art

    Idle Chapel

    Also prestige, narrative · Has an ending

    Convert cultists into worshipers whose prayers fund your chapel, purify 12 areas, and reset through penance for lasting upgrades in a pixel dark fantasy.

    78% steam
    has ending
  24. Execute cover art

    ExecuteDormant

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (leans active) · Has an ending

    A dark comedy on a retro Windows desktop: capture people and escalate from a guillotine to nukes until the world population hits zero.

    91% steam
    has ending
    25% idle