Games like Melvor Idle
If Melvor Idle is your kind of game, the closest matches are High Fantasy Idle, Lingyao Garden | 虚空灵药园 and Loop Alchemist — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its mimics mmo depth, number go up and offline leveling. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Melvor Idle: Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.
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Steam players who put hours into Melvor Idle also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
High Fantasy Idle
WHY THIS
Top pick for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melvor Idle.
High Fantasy Idle is an idle RPG with unique class-based gameplay and hundreds of achievements and secrets to find. Level up by farming, battling, and researching while buying items and perks, then rebirth to find newfound power! Embark on a journey of fantasy and mystery to unravel your destiny.
Lingyao Garden | 虚空灵药园
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
He mistakenly entered the secret realm of the void with abundant aura, met the seriously injured female master, and then embarked on the life of cultivating pills
Loop Alchemist
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melvor Idle.
You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form
Magic Research 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Melvor Idle.
Ranked #4 for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
Welcome to Magic Research 2, an incremental RPG from the creator of Magic Research. Learn countless spells, face powerful foes, and command a team of Wizards who can cast spells for you as you journey to find or create the Philosopher's Stone.
Factory Town Idle
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Melvor Idle.
Ranked #5 for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
第一次挂机
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Casual with Melvor Idle.
Defeat monsters in dungeons for XP and materials. Level up to craft better gear and enchantments using skill points and materials. Challenge bosses for rare gem drops. Socket gems into equipment to boost power.
Magic Research
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a chill mood with Melvor Idle.
Ranked #7 for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Melvor Idle.
Magic Research is a text-based incremental game about Magic. You are the headmaster of a newly-created institution of Magic. Will you be able to lead your school to win the prestigious Tournament of Magic?
Minimon: Tiny Idle Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Melvor Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
A tiny idle monster-tamer that sits quietly in the corner of your screen. While you go about your day they fight for loot, levels, and glory.
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Old School RuneScape
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Melvor Idle.
The best retro fantasy MMORPG on the planet. Old School is RuneScape but… older! This is the open world you know and love, but as it was in 2007. Saying that, it’s even better than that – Old School is shaped by you, its players, with regular new content, fixes and expansions voted for by the fans!
RuneScape ®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Melvor Idle.
RuneScape is a high fantasy open world MMORPG. Explore an ever changing and evolving living world where new challenges, skills, and quests await. Featuring unprecedented player freedom, you choose how to play, adventure, and grow.
Trimps
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.
Bloobs Adventure Idle
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a relaxing mood with Melvor Idle.
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melvor Idle.
A massive RuneScape-inspired idle RPG built for long-term progression. Train 24 skills, defeat bosses, collect over 500 souls, and bank offline time to accelerate your progress whenever you choose.
Idle Clans
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Melvor Idle.
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
Idle Clans is a multiplayer idle game that combines the classic MMORPG experience with simplified gameplay and less time commitment. Features include a player-driven economy, PvE, trading, quests, crafting and opportunities to play, socialize and collaborate with other players.
IdleOn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Melvor Idle.
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
The management RPG where your heroes keep fighting even when you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental Wizard to Cannon Pirate, and level up 19 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and even Construction!
Yu Crossing Animals
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Melvor Idle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Melvor Idle.
Yu's got a new job - working as a mayor's assistant in a small town.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Melvor Idle at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melvor Idle.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melvor Idle.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Melvor Idle.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Melvor Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melvor Idle.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Melvor Idle.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Melvor Idle.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Melvor Idle.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melvor Idle.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Melvor Idle.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melvor Idle.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Melvor Idle
- Does Melvor Idle run on Steam Deck?
- Melvor Idle is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Melvor Idle cost?
- Melvor Idle is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Melvor Idle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Melvor Idle are High Fantasy Idle, Lingyao Garden | 虚空灵药园, Loop Alchemist.
- Who developed Melvor Idle?
- Melvor Idle was developed by Games by Malcs and published by Jagex Ltd.
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