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Games like The Fire Must Be Fed

The Fire Must Be Fed. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Master Healer Kale with useless party cover art

    Master Healer Kale with useless party

    Also short, upgrade tree, magic

    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% steam
    4.0★ galaxy
    has ending
  2. Journey to Incrementalia cover art

    Journey to Incrementalia

    Also magic, upgrade tree, short

    A necromancer summons minions and casts spells to smash through 99 walls, exploring a big resettable skill tree on a short hands-on run.

    89% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  3. Magic Archery cover art

    Magic ArcheryUpdated

    Also short, magic

    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% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  4. Click and Conquer cover art

    Click and ConquerUpdated

    Also short, upgrade tree

    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% steam
    has ending
  5. Ink Remnant cover art

    Ink Remnant

    Also short, magic

    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
  6. Nodebuster cover art

    NodebusterComplete

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Sweep your cursor over nodes, spend the bits on a huge upgrade web, go again. A tight, active, few-hour hit.

    97% steam
    3–6h ending
    10% idle
  7. Tower Wizard cover art

    Tower WizardComplete

    Also magic, short

    Climb your tower toward the sky with magic and spirits. A short, calm, finishable idler.

    97% steam
    3–5h ending
    40% idle
  8. Garbage Growth cover art

    Garbage GrowthUpdated

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Pick up trash that people throw at you, add more polluters and hire rats to automate collection. A short, crude incremental with a skill tree.

    91% steam
    3.9★ galaxy
  9. Digseum cover art

    Digseum

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Dig up relics across a dozen sites and display them in your museum to fund better tools. A compact run of a few hours.

    98% steam
  10. Outhold cover art

    OutholdUpdated

    Also upgrade tree, short

    A short tower defense run-based game where you spend collected resources in a large refundable skill tree between attempts.

    4.4★ galaxy
  11. Space Rock Breaker cover art

    Space Rock BreakerUpdated

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Blast asteroids with guns and lasers, then drop the ore through an upgradable Plinko board for credits to spend on a large skill tree.

    96% steam
  12. Far Fishing cover art

    Far Fishing

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Chase fish inside a circle from a small boat, upgrading it as you sail to the edge of the world across nine locations in about two hours.

    97% steam
    has ending
  13. Slotcremental cover art

    Slotcremental

    Also short, upgrade tree

    A short incremental where you win chips and spend them on a skill tree of upgrades.

    4.3★ galaxy
  14. Loot Loop cover art

    Loot LoopUpdated

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Send a party of tiny heroes into dungeon runs that last seconds, then spend the loot on a large skill tree between attempts.

    92% steam
  15. Keep on Mining! cover art

    Keep on Mining!Dormant

    Also upgrade tree, short

    Sweep your cursor over rocks to break them, smelt ores into bars and spend them in a large skill tree, with talent cards and an automatic mine for idle gains.

    91% steam
    50% idle
  16. Breakfront cover art

    Breakfront

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Bouncing balls chip away at enemy tiles; spend captured points on a branching tree for more, faster and special balls, then beat the boss.

    4.3★ galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  17. Far Mining cover art

    Far Mining

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Pilot a ship that auto-fires at nearby asteroids, then spend the haul on a large tech tree to escape deep space. A short run of about three hours.

    95% steam
    has ending
  18. Lumberite-Prologue (Valehands) cover art

    Lumberite-Prologue (Valehands)

    Also short, magic

    Direct two workers who chop and haul wood to an altar each day, upgrading them and the forest to earn a magic pickaxe. A demo for Valehands.

    4.4★ galaxy
  19. Legion Breaker cover art

    Legion BreakerUpdated

    Also short, magic

    Hold off undead hordes as a battlemage, casting spells and raising a holy army.

    4.2★ galaxy
  20. castle idler cover art

    castle idlerUpdated

    Also short, upgrade tree

    A tower defense incremental without waves, where you place and upgrade towers against slimes and unlock a prestige skill tree across harder levels.

    79% steam
    3.6★ galaxy
  21. Forage Wizard cover art

    Forage Wizard

    Also upgrade tree, magic

    Forage with your cursor, refine items through alchemy and build self-running machines and farms, following a branching skill tree toward a powerful artifact.

    87% steam
  22. Sir, We Have an Orc Problem cover art

    Sir, We Have an Orc Problem

    Also upgrade tree, short

    A short tower defense against orc armies in the tens of thousands, where every run, won or lost, feeds a big tree of turret upgrades.

    86% steam
  23. GLONK cover art

    GLONK

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Feed a hungry creature called Glonk to earn gold, spend it in a skill tree and add more Glonks. Short, with an ominous twist to its appetite.

    89% steam
  24. Incredicer cover art

    Incredicer

    Also short, upgrade tree

    Roll dice for money, buy helper hands to automate the rolling and pour extracted dark matter into a dice skill tree.

    85% steam