Games like Trimps
If Trimps is your kind of game, the closest matches are SpacePorts, Swarm Idle and Squimo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and funny. 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 →Trimps, developed and published by Greensatellite in 2022, is a free-to-play idle incremental game with deep automation and effectively endless progression. Players automate their colony to run for hours, prestige for gains, push through zones and uncover new mechanics that keep surprising long-term players, with humour woven through its story logs. Reviewers note it can be played actively or passively and praise the writing in its logs, all with no paywall barriers. Built for massive, grind-friendly solo sessions at a challenging difficulty, it spans strategy, indie and casual tags. The game is listed as unsupported on Steam Deck, holds a 90% positive rating across 1,226 Steam reviews, and is free. A deep pick for idle-game veterans.
About Trimps: 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.
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SpacePorts
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Top pick for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trimps.
Build your fleet, master the market, and carve your own path among the stars. Start with a modest ship, earn credits by transporting valuable cargo between stations, and expand your operations into a powerful interstellar empire.
Swarm Idle
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Second-strongest match for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trimps.
Swarm Idle is a prestige idle/incremental game where you command an alien queen and her swarm: devour 100 cities, develop eight lineages, optimize your Mutations, and progress even while offline until the whole Earth is ravaged.
Magic Research 2
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Shares idle progression, resource management and a whimsical mood with Trimps.
Ranked #4 for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trimps.
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.
Infinite Idle: Online Clicker RPG
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Ranked #5 for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trimps.
Hold down the spacebar or left-click and join the action! Upgrade, grow stronger, and progress endlessly. Enjoy infinite fun with your simple yet powerful strategy to reach the top!
Knightfall Idle
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Ranked #6 for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trimps.
Knightfall Idle is a medieval idle RPG made by Gibber. Gather, process, trade, and fight across 10 skills while your kingdom runs in the background. Join a Fief, raid bandit camps, compete in seasonal leagues, or stay in the permanent realm. 450+ passive tree nodes. Free to play.
Incremental Adventures
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Shares a challenging mood with Trimps.
Ranked #7 for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Trimps.
Lead your heroes in their neverending adventures! A minimalistic Idle game where combat is fully automated. It's up to you to make the most of that automation to reach extremely high numbers!
Magic Research
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Shares idle progression, resource management and a whimsical mood with Trimps.
Ranked #8 for Trimps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Trimps.
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?
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Cookie Clicker
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Shares a whimsical mood with Trimps.
Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trimps.
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.
Cave Heroes
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Shares idle progression, resource management and a whimsical mood with Trimps.
Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trimps.
Lead a party of Cave Heroes to explore dungeons, battle monsters and defeat tough archdemons. Build your village, collect loot, rescue pets and much more in this idle RPG.
Sandcastle
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Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Trimps.
On a sun-warmed tropical shore, quietly craft a mighty sandcastle. Carve moats, raise towers and walls, then embellish with driftwood, pebbles, shells and seaweed. Gentle tides, soft surf and a calming color palette turn every build into a peaceful, relaxing moment.
Realm Grinder
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Shares a challenging mood with Trimps.
Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Free To Play with Trimps.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
SPACEPLAN
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Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Trimps.
SPACEPLAN is an experimental piece of interaction based partly on a total misunderstanding of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
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Shares a challenging mood with Trimps.
Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Trimps.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year that has become a worldwide hit.
Kerbal Space Program
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Shares a challenging mood with Trimps.
Reviewers of Trimps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Trimps.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Frequently asked about Trimps
- Does Trimps work on Steam Deck?
- Trimps is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Is Trimps free to play?
- Yes — Trimps is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Trimps?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trimps are SpacePorts, Swarm Idle, Squimo.
- Who developed Trimps?
- Trimps was developed by Greensatellite.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Trimps.
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