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Games like The Greenening

The Greenening balanced. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Tower Wizard cover art

    Tower WizardComplete

    Also short, cozy · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

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

    97% steam
    3–5h ending
    40% idle
  2. What Lurks Below cover art

    What Lurks Below

    Also short, exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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★ galaxy
    50% idle
  3. Raccoon Valley Tycoon cover art

    Raccoon Valley Tycoon

    Also cozy, short

    Dig up resources, vacuum up the loot and rebuild an abandoned raccoon village, hats and all.

    100% steam
    2–5h ending
    65% idle
  4. The Adventure of NAYU cover art

    The Adventure of NAYU

    Also short, cozy

    Click to help a fox and her party fight through a gentle, short story, spending star shards on training and costumes, with an endless mode afterward.

    95% steam
    has ending
    75% idle
  5. Digseum cover art

    Digseum

    Also short, cozy

    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
  6. Shelldiver cover art

    Shelldiver

    Also cozy, exploration

    An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.

    98% steam
  7. Spellbound & Shelved cover art

    Spellbound & Shelved

    Also cozy, short

    Hire gnomes to reshelve thousands of spilled spellbooks in a wizard library. Flip the sign to trade customer income against the mess they make, until the last book is put away.

    87% steam
    has ending
    75% idle
  8. Luna's Fishing Garden cover art

    Luna's Fishing Garden

    Also cozy, short

    Catch fish, trade them to a fox spirit, and spend the proceeds turning an archipelago into a garden. A short pixel-art story you can keep playing after.

    95% steam
    has ending
  9. Cast n Chill cover art

    Cast n Chill

    Also cozy · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A relaxed pixel fishing game with a dog companion where you sell catches for better gear across 16 spots, and can switch to a passive mode that fishes for you.

    95% steam
    50% idle
  10. Outpath: First Journey cover art

    Outpath: First Journey

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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% steam
    50% idle
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    Outpath

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.

    94% steam
    50% idle
  12. Plantera 2: Golden Acorn cover art

    Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

    Also cozy · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow a garden around a magic oak with round helpers who harvest for you, even while the game is closed, and reach for golden acorns.

    95% steam
    50% idle
  13. Deep Space Cache cover art

    Deep Space Cache

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Shoot asteroids for resources, feed them into generators and ship augments, and reach the finish in a couple of hours.

    93% steam
    has ending
    50% idle
  14. Keep on Mining! cover art

    Keep on Mining!Updated

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    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
  15. Drop and Grow cover art

    Drop and Grow

    Also short, cozy

    A short clicker where you drip water onto soil to grow grass, bushes and flowers.

    91% steam
    4.1★ galaxy
  16. Plantera cover art

    Plantera

    Also cozy · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow a garden of crops, trees and animals while round helpers harvest for you, and keep earning even with the game shut.

    89% steam
    50% idle
  17. Aerolicious cover art

    Aerolicious

    Also short, cozy

    Chip away at a huge block wall in a Frutiger Aero landscape, recycling shards for credits and better tools until every block is gone.

    85% steam
    has ending
  18. Lyca cover art

    Lyca

    Also short, cozy

    A magical wolf runs across a wasteland gathering resources to buy through a large upgrade tree, bringing it back to green in a few hours.

    83% steam
    has ending
  19. Vanguard Galaxy cover art

    Vanguard Galaxy

    Also exploration · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Fight, mine, salvage and trade across a procedural galaxy, played full screen or docked on your desktop with an autopilot that can run things.

    90% steam
    50% idle
  20. Burgie's Cozy Kitchen cover art

    Burgie's Cozy Kitchen

    Also cozy · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Run a small burger stand on your desktop, serving picky customers when a bell rings and upgrading the kitchen. Includes a Pomodoro mode and stream chat orders.

    97% steam
    50% idle
  21. Little Dig Game cover art

    Little Dig Game

    Also short, planet

    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
  22. Ink Remnant cover art

    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
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    Game of Grass

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Mow your lawn with increasingly silly tools to prove it beats your neighbor's, grow crops for passive income and prestige for new abilities.

    84% steam
    50% idle
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    refarm

    Also short · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Raise sunken tiles from the sea one at a time, farming each to fund more land and unlocking basic helpers. A short, click-heavy run of about two hours.

    87% steam
    has ending
    50% idle