Games like Scrap Yard Idle
Scrap Yard Idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Idle Lumber Chopper Empire IncUpdated
Also tycoon, automation, production chain
Chop trees by hand at first, then hire lumberjacks and add machinery to automate a full timber business from forest to factory.

Lumber IncUpdated
Also tycoon, production chain, automation
Turn logs into planks in a sawmill, hiring lumberjacks and automating lines, with profits growing while you are away.
75% idle
Idle Distiller TycoonUpdated
Also tycoon, automation, production chain
Brew, bottle and sell across breweries, distilleries and vineyards, hiring managers to automate production while a light storyline unfolds.
50% idle
Meth Master
Also tycoon, production chain, resource management
Build a criminal drug operation by growing and cooking product, hiring dealers and chemists, and paying off cops, lawyers and politicians to avoid raids.
67% steam
Idle DeepcoreUpdated
Also automation, production chain
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
Beltmatic
Also production chain, automation
Mine numbers from the map and route them along belts through adders and multipliers to deliver target values to the hub.
95% steam
Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant
Also tycoon, automation
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% steamhas ending
Factory Town Idle
Also production chain, resource management
A town builder run from menus: assign workers, craft and sell goods, research upgrades, and expand into new biomes.
91% steam
Asbury Pines
Also production chain, automation
Link the work of townsfolk across eras from the stone age to the far future, building automated production that uncovers a small-town murder mystery.
90% steam
Forest Hustle
Also automation, resource management
Dropped in a forest with a 100k debt, chop wood, mine stone, trade and hire dog workers until you pay it off.
90% steamhas ending
Assembly Planter
Also automation, production chain
Grow from hand farming to automated planters, harvesters and belts, and merge whole machine setups into one compact block.
92% steam
Space industrial empire
Also production chain, automation
Lay out flat conveyor lines for mining, smelting and research, then build warships to take other planets.
87% steam70% idle
Widget Inc.
Also production chain, automation
Craft widgets by hand, then automate and lay out a sprawling factory through twelve tech tiers on the way to building a rocket.
87% steamhas ending
Boba Simulator : Idle Shop Management
Also tycoon, resource management
Run a bubble tea shop by tuning recipes to shifting customer tastes, stocking ingredients, hiring staff and opening branches.
88% steam
Holyday City: Reloaded
Also tycoon, resource management
Grow a town of shops and restaurants into a metropolis as businesses earn in the background and you reinvest in upgrades.
82% steam70% idle
Beltex
Also production chain, automation
Pull numbers from a hex map, run them through math buildings, and belt the results to your core to level up and unlock more.
85% steam
Military Incremental ComplexDormant
Also production chain, 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
Project P.I.T.T.
Also automation, production chain
As an intern, craft rubber ducks and feed them to a growing corporate pit, building physics contraptions of magnets, fans and launchers to raise throughput.
79% steam
Supply Chain Idle
Also production chain, tycoon
Link factories that turn raw goods into apple pie, cars and computers, selling products to fund more and bigger plants.
80% steam
Industry IdleDormant
Also production chain, automation
Build factories on generated maps, optimize production chains, trade on a player market and prestige for new maps, with offline earnings tied to company value.
77% steam75% idle
Sixty Four
Also automation, production chain
Build machines that dig up cubes and spend them on stranger machines, moving from clicking toward a fully automated factory.
75% steam50% idle
The Alterhistorian's Conquest
Also production chain, resource management
Run machines on a pannable grid, moving resources by hand between slots, to distill concepts and fluid elements into an elixir of immortality.
4.5★ galaxy
Incremental Factory
Also automation, production chain
Build out a factory across parcels and clusters, managing resource flow and reworking production chains as the operation expands.
72% steamIdle Planet Miner
Also tycoon, production chain
Mine planets, smelt ore, craft, sell. A tidy mobile-first production chain.
80% idle