Games like Synergism
Synergism leans idle, never really ends, stacks 5 prestige layers. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Antimatter DimensionsUpdated
Also pure numbers, prestige, challenges · Same active/idle balance (balanced) · 4 prestige layers
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
Realm Grinder
Also prestige, deep · Same active/idle balance (balanced) · 3 prestige layers
Pick a faction, build a kingdom, abdicate, reincarnate, ascend. Every run changes which of eleven factions is optimal.
87% steam55% idle
Incremental Mass RewrittenUpdated
Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 8 prestige layers
Gain mass, become a black hole, then an atom, then a supernova. The numbers get absurd quickly and never stop.
4.5★ galaxy60% idle
NGU Idle
Also prestige, deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)
Joke-dense RPG idler with dozens of interlocking systems. Beating a boss is the easy part; allocating energy is the game.
96% steam65% idleEvolveUpdated
Also prestige, deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 6 prestige layers
Evolve a species from primordial ooze, build a civilisation, then blow it up in a dozen different ways to start again.
60% idle
Revolution Idle
Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)
Wheels inside wheels. A clean, abstract prestige stack with a lot of layers and very little fluff.
87% steam60% idleTrimpsDormant
Also prestige, deep · Same active/idle balance (balanced) · 2 prestige layers
Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.
55% idle
Incremental Adventures
Also prestige, pure numbers · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 3 prestige layers
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% steam70% idle
Exotic Matter Dimensions
Also pure numbers, prestige, deep · 2 prestige layers
A big-number incremental inspired by Synergism and Antimatter Dimensions, set in an eight-dimensional universe.
4.1★ galaxy
Clicker Heroes
Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 2 prestige layers
Click monsters, hire heroes, ascend, transcend. The game that made idle RPGs mainstream on Steam.
90% steam60% idle
Idle SpiralUpdated
Also prestige, pure numbers, 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
Kittens GameUpdated
Also prestige, deep · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Run a civilisation of kittens from catnip fields to space elevators. Deep, slow, and endlessly spreadsheetable.
55% idle
CryptoClickers: Crypto Idle Game
Also prestige, challenges, pure numbers · 2 prestige layers
A fake crypto incremental that reaches e10000-scale numbers, with two prestige layers, 21 challenges, speedrun challenges, two upgrade trees and weekly events.
65% steam
The Prestige TreeComplete
Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced) · 20 prestige layers
A skill tree where every node is a prestige layer. It spawned the Modding Tree and a thousand descendants.
4.6★ galaxy30–80h ending50% idle
Bloobs Adventure Idle
Also prestige, deep
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% steam75% idle
Exponential Idle
Also pure numbers, prestige · 2 prestige layers
A math idler where the upgrades are literally terms in an equation. Graduate, then play the custom theories.
75% idle
Smashing Simulator IdleDormant
Also prestige, challenges · Same active/idle balance (balanced) · 2 prestige layers
Smash everything in sight across an element tree and a second skill tree, with missions, challenges and two prestige layers.
73% steam50% idle
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% steam70% idle
Omega Layers
Also prestige, challenges, pure numbers
Buy generators, clear challenges, and prestige up an endless ladder of Greek-letter layers, like Antimatter Dimensions with no cap on layers.
4.1★ galaxy
BitburnerUpdated
Also deep · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 2 prestige layers
A cyberpunk incremental where you write real JavaScript to hack servers and automate everything.
95% steam70% idle
Idle Wizard
Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle) · 2 prestige layers
Choose a wizard class, stack spells, transcend. A class-based prestige game with lots of build variety.
86% steam60% idle
DodecaDragons
Also prestige, pure numbers · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Twelve dragons, twelve colours of magic, and one of Galaxy's most-favourited games. Big numbers, handsome UI.
4.5★ galaxyhas ending55% idle
Fundamental
Also prestige, pure numbers · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)
Start with a single particle and build up the universe. Galaxy's most-played game by total hours, by a lot.
4.4★ galaxy65% idle
Distance Incremental
Also pure numbers, prestige · Same active/idle balance (balanced)
Go faster, go further. Rockets, time reversal and a very long list of layers from the Prestige Tree author.
4.4★ galaxy55% idle