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Games like Tower Ball - Incremental Tower Defense

Tower Ball - Incremental Tower Defense leans idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Mushies! cover art

    Mushies!FeaturedComing soon

    Also prestige

    Click the big mushroom, hire worker shrooms, build houses and dig underground in a cozy pixel-art mushroom village. Over 85 upgrades and a Wisdom prestige loop.

  2. Desktop Defender cover art

    Desktop Defender

    Also tower defense, prestige

    A lone tower in the corner of your screen holds off waves while you work, dropping gear to equip and resetting runs for permanent ascension upgrades.

    92% steam
    90% idle
  3. Fundamental cover art

    Fundamental

    Also physics, prestige · 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★ galaxy
    65% idle
  4. Incremental Mass Rewritten cover art

    Incremental Mass RewrittenDormant

    Also prestige, physics

    Gain mass, become a black hole, then an atom, then a supernova. The numbers get absurd quickly and never stop.

    4.4★ galaxy
    60% idle
  5. Cookie Clicker cover art

    Cookie Clicker

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    The grandma of the genre, literally. Click a cookie, buy grandmas, ascend, and discover the game is much stranger than it looks.

    96% steam
    70% idle
  6. Distance Incremental cover art

    Distance Incremental

    Also prestige, physics

    Go faster, go further. Rockets, time reversal and a very long list of layers from the Prestige Tree author.

    4.4★ galaxy
    55% idle
  7. Idling to Rule the Gods cover art

    Idling to Rule the Gods

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Train clones, fight gods, rebirth. An old-school Unity idler that still has a loyal crowd.

    85% steam
    75% idle
  8. Cell to Singularity cover art

    Cell to Singularity

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Evolve life from a single cell to a technological singularity, with a surprising amount of real science in the tooltips.

    89% steam
    70% idle
  9. 拖拖拉拉小菲镇 cover art

    拖拖拉拉小菲镇

    Also physics · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Drag and fling crowds of chibi VTuber fan characters into jobs to gather resources, research and upgrade a growing town, with ragdoll physics.

    97% steam
    75% idle
  10. AdVenture Capitalist cover art

    AdVenture Capitalist

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (mostly idle)

    Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.

    88% steam
    80% idle
  11. Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG cover art

    Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPGUpdated

    Also tower defense · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    An endless tower defense where you recruit and place fantasy heroes against infinite waves, and they keep fighting and collecting rewards while the game is closed.

    82% steam
    75% idle
  12. Idle Gumball Machine cover art

    Idle Gumball MachineUpdated

    Also physics, prestige

    Fire gumballs into spinning gears in a plinko-style board, buy upgrades for explosive number growth, and ascend to trade everything for stronger bonuses.

    91% steam
    25% idle
  13. Idle Skilling cover art

    Idle Skilling

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Dozens of skills that feed each other, with very fast prestige loops early on.

    70% steam
    75% idle
  14. Idle Bouncer cover art

    Idle Bouncer

    Also physics, prestige

    Drop balls that make energy on every bounce, upgrade them, then sell off the lot for meta-energy that rewrites gravity and density.

    82% steam
  15. Bloobs Adventure Idle cover art

    Bloobs Adventure Idle

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    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% steam
    75% idle
  16. Samawa Idle cover art

    Samawa Idle

    Also tower defense, prestige

    Pick and level towers against monster hordes, shaping runs with random gear, passives and a skill tree across two prestige layers.

    68% steam
    50% idle
  17. Unnamed Space Idle cover art

    Unnamed Space Idle

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A ship, a sector map and a tidy prestige loop. Quietly one of Galaxy's most-played games.

    92% steam
    4.5★ galaxy
    70% idle
  18. Zen Idle: Gravity Meditation cover art

    Zen Idle: Gravity MeditationUpdated

    Also physics, prestige

    Upgrade physics-driven balls and stages for income, collect cards for permanent bonuses and prestige with evolving perks, playing passively or with strategy.

    50% idle
  19. Idle Fishing cover art

    Idle FishingUpdated

    Also prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    A crew fishes for you while you are away, and you hire crewmates, raise pets, and cycle through ascension and rebirth resets, plus a separate excavation mode.

    83% steam
    75% idle
  20. Grow Defense cover art

    Grow Defense

    Also tower defense, prestige

    Level a castle's weapons and skills to hold back monsters across zones, chase rare drops from raid bosses and rebirth for permanent perks.

    77% steam
  21. castle idler cover art

    castle idlerUpdated

    Also tower defense, prestige

    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
  22. Pincremental cover art

    Pincremental

    Also physics, prestige

    Play a real pinball table and cash out scores for upgrades that gradually automate flippers, upgrades and the automation itself.

    76% steam
  23. PegIdle cover art

    PegIdle

    Also physics, prestige

    Aim balls at peg boards like pachinko, hitting gold and prestige pegs to buy new balls and permanent upgrades across challenges.

    75% steam
  24. NGU Idle cover art

    NGU Idle

    Also prestige · 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% steam
    65% idle