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Games like Transport Defender

Transport Defender leans idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. Idle Space Raider cover art

    Idle Space Raider

    Also space, automation, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Patrol space as a station guard, mining ore and fighting in raids, then upgrade your ship and station. Toggles automate most systems, and a stargate opens a second reset tier.

    74% steam
    70% idle
  2. Unnamed Space Idle cover art

    Unnamed Space Idle

    Also space, prestige, combat · 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
  3. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

    Also automation, combat, prestige · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Heroes fight on their own in automated turn-based combat while you tune the automation and push toward double-exponent numbers through stacked prestiges.

    78% steam
    70% idle

  4. TrimpsDormant

    Also combat, prestige, automation

    Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.

    55% idle
  5. Rejected Draft cover art

    Rejected DraftComing soon

    Also combat, prestige, automation

    You are the doodle the Artist threw away. Fight community-drawn sketches, absorb their powers and claw your way back for revenge.

    4.2★ galaxy
    1000h ending
    35% idle
  6. Space industrial empire cover art

    Space industrial empire

    Also space, automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Lay out flat conveyor lines for mining, smelting and research, then build warships to take other planets.

    87% steam
    70% idle
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    Coin Flipper

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

    Pick heads or tails and flip coins for currency, buying upgrades until the flipping runs on its own. Past a million coins you can inflate for permanent bonuses.

    89% steam
    70% idle
  8. Orbit Foundry cover art

    Orbit FoundryComing soon

    Also space, automation, prestige

    Grow one extractor into an orbital factory: place machines beside the right neighbors, time reactor pulses for bursts, and Reforge for permanent upgrades until you light a new star.

    has ending
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    Starvester

    Also space, automation, prestige

    Send drone swarms to mine a star system and grow a factory that builds megastructures, with prestige along a roughly five hour campaign.

    69% steam
    has ending
    25% idle
  10. Industry Idle cover art

    Industry IdleDormant

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

    Build factories on generated maps, optimize production chains, trade on a player market and prestige for new maps, with offline earnings tied to company value.

    77% steam
    75% idle
  11. Galactic Idle cover art

    Galactic Idle

    Also space, combat, automation

    Grow one planet into a space empire: research tech, raise fleets and conquer 20 worlds, with battles auto-resolved or fought squad by squad.

  12. Galaxy Idle Clicker cover art

    Galaxy Idle Clicker

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

    Upgrade a spaceship to conquer over 5,000 areas across seven universes, with four reset systems, four minigames and offline farming.

    74% steam
    75% idle
  13. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also prestige, automation

    Buy dimensions that buy dimensions, then break infinity, then break reality. The reference point every numbers-go-up game is measured against, and it has a real ending.

    92% steam
    4.6★ galaxy
    200–600h ending
    55% idle

  14. IdleSpaceDormant

    Also space, combat, automation

    A space combat idle game where you design ships and send fleets into automated battles.

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    IdleSpace 2Dormant

    Also space, combat, automation

    The successor to IdleSpace, an idle space game of fleet building and automated battles.

  16. Idle Cooking Emperor cover art

    Idle Cooking Emperor

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

    Train as a cook, win restaurants in duels, staff them with beaten rivals, and tune recipes and ingredient combos. Retire to raise a stronger pupil.

    55% steam
    70% idle
  17. IDLE BOSS RUSH cover art

    IDLE BOSS RUSH

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

    Troops keep fighting huge bosses while you are gone, and the loot turns a bleak camp into a kingdom with advisors, item combos and town upgrades.

    66% steam
    75% idle
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    Time Clickers

    Also prestige, combat

    Shoot cubes for gold, upgrade your pistol and hire a sharpshooter squad, then trade Time Cubes for artifacts after wave 100.

    88% steam
    50% idle
  19. Vanguard Galaxy cover art

    Vanguard Galaxy

    Also space, combat

    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. Idle Factory Tycoon: Business! cover art

    Idle Factory Tycoon: Business!Updated

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

    Build workstations across factories, hire managers to automate sales and prestige factories for more output.

    75% idle
  21. Idle Space Farmer Manager cover art

    Idle Space Farmer ManagerDormant

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

    Run an anime-styled space farm, recruiting agents from gacha pulls to fight monsters and upgrading ships across planets with prestige.

    75% idle
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    Mogul Forge

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

    Work odd jobs, buy businesses and hire managers to run them, then open new districts and reset into Legacy for a stronger empire.

    80% idle
  23. Endless World Idle RPG cover art

    Endless World Idle RPG

    Also combat, prestige

    A 3D hero-team RPG you can leave on auto or micromanage, with PvP arenas, dungeons, resource mines, and restarts that leave you stronger.

    78% steam
    50% idle
  24. Lazy Galaxy cover art

    Lazy Galaxy

    Also space, combat

    Lead a lazy alien race: grow your base idly and either take direct control in RTS battles or let the ships fight alone. Achievements unlock permanent research.

    80% steam
    50% idle