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Games like Swarm Simulator

Swarm Simulator mostly idle, never really ends, stacks 1 prestige layer. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Cookie Clicker cover art

    Cookie Clicker

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

    The grandma of the genre, literally. Click a cookie, buy grandmas, ascend, and discover the game is much stranger than it looks.

    96% steam
    70% idle
  2. AdVenture Capitalist cover art

    AdVenture Capitalist

    Also prestige, classic · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.

    88% steam
    80% idle
  3. Idling to Rule the Gods cover art

    Idling to Rule the Gods

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

    Train clones, fight gods, rebirth. An old-school Unity idler that still has a loyal crowd.

    85% steam
    75% idle
  4. Clicker Heroes cover art

    Clicker Heroes

    Also prestige, classic

    Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.

    90% steam
    60% idle
  5. Exponential Idle cover art

    Exponential Idle

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

    A math idler where the upgrades are literally terms in an equation. Graduate, then play the custom theories.

    75% idle
  6. Incremental Mass Rewritten cover art

    Incremental Mass RewrittenUpdated

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    Gain mass, become a black hole, then an atom, then a supernova. The numbers get absurd quickly and never stop.

    4.5★ galaxy
    60% idle
  7. Revolution Idle cover art

    Revolution Idle

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    Wheels inside wheels. A clean, abstract prestige stack with a lot of layers and very little fluff.

    87% steam
    60% idle
  8. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

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

    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. Underworld Idle cover art

    Underworld Idle

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

    Run an underworld where higher units spawn lower ones, across four factions each producing its own resource, with a prestige system.

    71% steam
    70% idle
  10. Synergism cover art

    SynergismUpdated

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    Five prestige layers stacked like a tower, each one reshaping the ones below. For people who liked AD and want more.

    76% steam
    60% idle
  11. Fundamental cover art

    Fundamental

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    Start with a single particle and build up the universe. Galaxy's most-played game by total hours, by a lot.

    4.4★ galaxy
    65% idle
  12. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    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
  13. Cell to Singularity cover art

    Cell to Singularity

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

    Evolve life from a single cell to a technological singularity, with a surprising amount of real science in the tooltips.

    89% steam
    70% idle
  14. DodecaDragons cover art

    DodecaDragons

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    Twelve dragons, twelve colours of magic, and one of Galaxy's most-favourited games. Big numbers, handsome UI.

    4.5★ galaxy
    has ending
    55% idle
  15. Mogul Forge cover art

    Mogul Forge

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    Work odd jobs, buy businesses and hire managers to run them, then open new districts and reset into Legacy for a stronger empire.

    80% idle
  16. NGU Idle cover art

    NGU Idle

    Also prestige

    Joke-dense RPG idler with dozens of interlocking systems. Beating a boss is the easy part; allocating energy is the game.

    96% steam
    65% idle
  17. Distance Incremental cover art

    Distance Incremental

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    Go faster, go further. Rockets, time reversal and a very long list of layers from the Prestige Tree author.

    4.4★ galaxy
    55% idle
  18. Idle Skilling cover art

    Idle Skilling

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

    Dozens of skills that feed each other, with very fast prestige loops early on.

    70% steam
    75% idle
  19. Bloobs Adventure Idle cover art

    Bloobs Adventure Idle

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

    A RuneScape-style idle RPG with 24 linked skills, automated boss fights, soul collecting and skill prestige, plus banked offline time to spend later.

    88% steam
    75% idle
  20. The Prestige Tree cover art

    The Prestige TreeComplete

    Also pure numbers, prestige

    A skill tree where every node is a prestige layer. It spawned the Modding Tree and a thousand descendants.

    4.6★ galaxy
    30–80h ending
    50% idle
  21. Idle Spiral cover art

    Idle SpiralUpdated

    Also prestige, pure numbers

    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
  22. Realm Grinder cover art

    Realm Grinder

    Also prestige

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

    87% steam
    55% idle
  23. Egg, Inc. cover art

    Egg, Inc.

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

    Build a chicken empire, launch eggs into space, co-op contracts with strangers. The mobile idler that sticks.

    70% idle
  24. Space Company cover art

    Space CompanyDormant

    Also classic · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Mine, power, research, and expand into the stars. A classic resource-chain idler from the golden age.

    70% idle