Games like The Depths of Xia'phas
The Depths of Xia'phas. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Ink Remnant
Also short, exploration
A short incremental where a mage starts with nothing in a magical city and researches upward, with new systems revealed as the story unfolds.
4.6★ galaxy
What Lurks Below
Also short, exploration
A 30-minute game jam incremental set in 1881, where you push deeper beneath the town of Old Gloomhollow to find what is down there.
4.6★ galaxy50% idle
Mine Your Way Out 2
Also exploration, short
Dig through a fully destructible pixel world and upgrade your gear to escape the underground, in about an hour.
4.4★ galaxyhas ending
IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated
Also exploration, crafting
Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.
86% steam
Cavern Crawler
Also short, exploration
A short prototype where you repeatedly crawl through caverns and grow stronger between attempts; all content fits in under an hour.
4.3★ galaxy
Outpath: First Journey
Also crafting, exploration
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
Outpath
Also crafting, exploration
A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.
94% steam50% idle
The Greenening
Also short, exploration
Water an ash-covered planet to reveal what lies beneath, upgrade your abilities, and tend a garden aboard your spaceship in about three hours.
96% steam50% idle
Planar PioneersDormant
Also crafting, exploration
Gather resources and use them to travel to procedurally generated planes, inspired by Minecraft dimension mods.
4.1★ galaxy
Found it, Mountain?Updated
Also short, exploration
A 10 to 15 minute game about searching a foggy world for mountains across three stages, buying upgrades between trips.
4.1★ galaxy
Project IridiumDormant
Also exploration, short
Explore a mythical world while bending time, repairing structures and tearing down walls over about an hour.
3.9★ galaxy
Magnetic CatchUpdated
Also crafting, exploration
Cast a magnet into rivers to haul up scrap and treasure, then sell, craft and upgrade. Every catch is manual.
3.7★ galaxy25% idle
MergeCrafter
Also crafting, exploration
Merge matching items into better resources, craft and enchant tools, set up passive drills and tree farms, and explore biomes and dungeons.
71% steam
Survivor Island-Idle GameUpdated
Also crafting, exploration
Keep castaways fed and healthy on a foggy island, crafting tools and tending the bonfire while you repair a ship to escape.
has ending
Dragon Forge
Also crafting, exploration
Play a dragon lifting a curse by gathering and crafting, while goblin minions run an ever-growing automated city across 80 areas to explore.
50% steam
Magic ArcheryUpdated
Also short
Train an elf commoner into a master archer by shooting targets, taking quests for gold and buying magic upgrades in a brief, hands-on climb with a set ending.
98% steamhas ending25% idle
Mr.Mine
Also exploration
Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.
92% steam75% idle
Master Healer Kale with useless party
Also short
Play the healer of a hopeless party, keeping them alive with spells and a 200-node skill tree until they can face the Demon King in about four hours.
95% steam4.0★ galaxyhas ending
Little Dig Game
Also short
A roughly 40-minute game where you send workers onto a planet to gather resources for a company that strips worlds for profit.
4.7★ galaxy
All Hail the Orb
Also short
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
Click and ConquerUpdated
Also short
Bomb a fog-covered grid to uncover enemies, invest in passive income and power across 12 maps, and prestige for permanent upgrades in a two-to-four-hour run.
92% steamhas ending
ExecuteUpdated
Also short
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
NodebusterComplete
Also short
Sweep your cursor over nodes, spend the bits on a huge upgrade web, go again. A tight, active, few-hour hit.
97% steam3–6h ending10% idle
Tower WizardComplete
Also short
Climb your tower toward the sky with magic and spirits. A short, calm, finishable idler.
97% steam3–5h ending40% idle