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  1. IDLE_DIRECTIVE cover art

    IDLE_DIRECTIVEUpdated

    Also resource management, 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
  2. Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game cover art

    Unnamed Fantasy Waiting Game

    Also resource management, exploration

    Wake alone in a magic-ruined world and stretch scarce resources while waiting, reading and uncovering what happened.

    4.5★ galaxy
  3. NG Space Company cover art

    NG Space Company

    Also space, exploration

    A space incremental about mining resources, exploring between stars and conquering systems.

    4.2★ galaxy
  4. Forest Hustle cover art

    Forest Hustle

    Also resource management, exploration

    Dropped in a forest with a 100k debt, chop wood, mine stone, trade and hire dog workers until you pay it off.

    90% steam
    has ending
  5. Vanguard Galaxy cover art

    Vanguard Galaxy

    Also space, exploration

    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
  6. Space Company cover art

    Space CompanyDormant

    Also space, resource management

    Mine, power, research, and expand into the stars. A classic resource-chain idler from the golden age.

    70% idle
  7. Dark Forest Village cover art

    Dark Forest VillageDormant

    Also resource management, space

    Grow and defend a village against hostile outside forces, with the long-term aim of leaving for the stars.

    3.5★ galaxy
  8. Void Salvage cover art

    Void SalvageUpdated

    Also space, exploration

    An FTL-like ship sim with pick-one-of-three rewards and choice encounters, where you combine SYSTEM parts and fit SOCKET INSERTs.

    3.1★ galaxy
  9. Cosmic Forge cover art

    Cosmic ForgeUpdated

    Also space, exploration

    Start from hydrogen atoms, research tech, mine asteroids for antimatter and find megastructures as you conquer the star map and head home.

    3.0★ galaxy
    has ending
    25% idle
  10. 无休仙途 cover art

    无休仙途

    Also exploration, resource management

    Lead an immortal-cultivation sect across a floating continent, gathering resources, recruiting disciples and following a story toward ascension.

    73% steam
  11. Wasteland Life: Survival Idle cover art

    Wasteland Life: Survival IdleUpdated

    Also resource management, exploration

    Vacuum sand off a desert wasteland to uncover junk and space, then build settlements from what you find.

  12. Survivor Island-Idle Game cover art

    Survivor Island-Idle GameUpdated

    Also resource management, exploration

    Keep castaways fed and healthy on a foggy island, crafting tools and tending the bonfire while you repair a ship to escape.

    has ending
  13. Space Travel Idle cover art

    Space Travel Idle

    Also space, exploration

    Fly from Earth to distant moons and stars, researching engine tech, cutting ship weight and settling each world, with light card battles.

    63% steam
    70% idle
  14. Idle Expanse cover art

    Idle Expanse

    Also space, exploration

    Run a greedy corporation that equips mercenary squads and sends them to 64 alien planets for resources, setting their tactics and researching a time skip.

    55% steam
  15. Space Colonizers Idle Clicker cover art

    Space Colonizers Idle ClickerUpdated

    Also space, exploration

    Upgrade a spacecraft to find new planets for humanity, using black holes as shortcuts and meeting alien species along the way.

    45% steam
  16. 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
  17. Unnamed Space Idle cover art

    Unnamed Space Idle

    Also space

    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. Shark Game: New Frontiers cover art

    Shark Game: New Frontiers

    Also resource management

    Sharks discover the ocean, then science, then other worlds. A text-forward successor to the old Shark Game.

    4.6★ galaxy
    55% idle
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. LORED cover art

    LORED

    Also resource management

    A pixel-art resource web where every resource-generator is a little character. Deep and dense.

    4.4★ galaxy
    55% idle
  22. Astro Prospector Prologue cover art

    Astro Prospector Prologue

    Also space

    A bullet-heaven incremental where you mine coffee asteroids, fight SpaceCorp and upgrade your ship. This build is an early prologue.

    4.6★ galaxy
  23. The Alterhistorian's Conquest cover art

    The Alterhistorian's Conquest

    Also resource management

    Run machines on a pannable grid, moving resources by hand between slots, to distill concepts and fluid elements into an elixir of immortality.

    4.5★ galaxy
  24. 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