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Games like The Upgrade Plane

The Upgrade Plane. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Diggin cover art

    DigginUpdated

    Also upgrade tree, exploration

    Play a young mole drilling into a meteor crater, upgrading gear through a giant skill tree and digging up relics of a vanished mole tribe.

    80% steam
  2. Hero Tale cover art

    Hero Tale

    Also upgrade tree, exploration

    A background auto-battler: a hero fights across a fantasy island while you check in to spend points in a 300-node skill tree and swap loot.

    71% steam
    90% idle
  3. Mr.Mine cover art

    Mr.Mine

    Also exploration

    Dig a mine deeper and deeper, hire miners, discover what lives at the bottom.

    92% steam
    75% idle
  4. Master Healer Kale with useless party cover art

    Master Healer Kale with useless party

    Also upgrade tree

    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
  5. Rock Bottom cover art

    Rock BottomUpdated

    Also upgrade tree

    Swing a pickaxe through generated caves, smelt ore into bars and buy permanent skill tree upgrades to push through eight themed depths.

    94% steam
  6. Click and Conquer cover art

    Click and ConquerUpdated

    Also 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
  7. FEED THE AI cover art

    FEED THE AI

    Also upgrade tree

    A short, very active incremental about an AI you feed with data. Shape it into a Protector, Rational or Tyrant; each ending makes the next run stronger.

    90% steam
    3–9h ending
    0% idle
  8. Ink Remnant cover art

    Ink Remnant

    Also 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
  9. What Lurks Below cover art

    What Lurks Below

    Also 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★ galaxy
    50% idle
  10. Nodebuster cover art

    NodebusterComplete

    Also 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
  11. It's Fine cover art

    It's FineUpdated

    Also upgrade tree

    Survive the last 24 hours of a game dev crunch under your dog manager. Each station has its own mechanics, sleep powers a deep prestige tree, and there are alternate endings to find.

    89% steam
    has ending
  12. Garbage Growth cover art

    Garbage GrowthUpdated

    Also 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
  13. Digseum cover art

    Digseum

    Also 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
  14. Berry Bury Berry cover art

    Berry Bury Berry

    Also upgrade tree

    Grow berries in a first-person garden and drop them into a strange hole for cash, upgrading helpers while an unsettling mystery with several endings unfolds.

    98% steam
    has ending
  15. Shelldiver cover art

    Shelldiver

    Also 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
  16. absorber cover art

    absorber

    Also upgrade tree

    An idle RPG where you take the abilities of beaten enemies, build through skill trees, and prestige to grow stronger.

    4.4★ galaxy
  17. (the) Gnorp Apologue cover art

    (the) Gnorp Apologue

    Also upgrade tree

    Strike a rock for shards and hire a growing crew of gnorps to smash and haul them, stacking synergies until the numbers explode.

    96% steam
  18. Mine Your Way Out 2 cover art

    Mine Your Way Out 2

    Also exploration

    Dig through a fully destructible pixel world and upgrade your gear to escape the underground, in about an hour.

    4.4★ galaxy
    has ending
  19. No Blink Allowed Prologue cover art

    No Blink Allowed Prologue

    Also upgrade tree

    Stop a clock as near zero as you can to earn shards for a large skill tree, while glitches and hidden timers get in the way.

    4.6★ galaxy
  20. IDLE_DIRECTIVE cover art

    IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated

    Also exploration

    Manage a limited grid inventory of producers and automation items while scavenging a dying world, trading with survivors, and resetting for augments.

    86% steam
  21. Antivirus PROTOCOL cover art

    Antivirus PROTOCOLDormant

    Also upgrade tree

    Destroy viruses to collect code fragments, spend them in an upgrade tree for new weapons and powers, and beat each level's boss to advance.

    87% steam
  22. Outhold cover art

    OutholdDormant

    Also upgrade tree

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

    4.4★ galaxy
  23. Space Rock Breaker cover art

    Space Rock BreakerUpdated

    Also 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
  24. Cavern Crawler cover art

    Cavern Crawler

    Also 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