Games like Idling Gears
If Idling Gears is your kind of game, the closest matches are Idle Biceps, Incremental Dice and Gamblers Table — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ascension points enable replayability, creative contraption building matters and atmospheric. 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.
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Players who liked Idling Gears also play
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Idle Biceps
WHY THIS
Shares auto battle, idle progression, casual and a relaxing mood with Idling Gears.
Top pick for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Get ready to pump some iron and grow your biceps like never before in Idle Biceps, the ultimate idle clicker game for fitness enthusiasts! Start off as a novice gym-goer and work your way up to becoming a ripped bodybuilder by clicking your way to bigger and better gains.
Incremental Dice
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, automation, casual and a stressful mood with Idling Gears.
Second-strongest match for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Chill incremental game about dice making money. 🎲 Upgrade your dice to make more money, to upgrade your dice to make even more money! 😲🤯
Gamblers Table
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, simulation and a cozy mood with Idling Gears.
Third-strongest match for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Military Incremental Complex
WHY THIS
Shares automation, grind based progression, simulation and a relaxing mood with Idling Gears.
Ranked #4 for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Scritchy Scratchy
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, casual and a relaxing mood with Idling Gears.
Ranked #5 for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Scritchy Scratchy is a super-satisfying scratch card incremental game. Buy stacks of scratch-offs, unlock auto-scratching, and chase massive jackpots. Will you play it safe or go all-in?
Black Hole Fishing
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, meta progression, casual and a cozy mood with Idling Gears.
Ranked #6 for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Black Hole Fishing is an absurd incremental game about catching, breeding, and perfecting SO MANY fish. Catch a fish, optimize its traits, then stock your pond with it as you pour fish and science into an endless singularity!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Idling Gears.
Ranked #7 for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
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.
Cult Nation
WHY THIS
Shares automation, grind based progression, casual and an atmospheric mood with Idling Gears.
Ranked #8 for Idling Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
A short incremental game about sacrificing all your cult followers and collecting blood to awaken the devil.
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Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Shares auto battle, idle progression, casual and a cozy mood with Idling Gears.
Reviewers of Idling Gears cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation and a contemplative mood with Idling Gears.
Reviewers of Idling Gears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Idling Gears.
Reviewers of Idling Gears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Idling Gears at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Idling Gears on Steam right now.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Idling Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Idling Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Idling Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Idling Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Idling Gears on Steam right now.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Idling Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Shares auto battle, idle progression, casual and a cozy mood with Idling Gears.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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More from guilemus
Other recommendable Steam games by guilemus, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Idle Biceps
WHY THIS
Shares auto battle, idle progression, casual and a relaxing mood with Idling Gears.
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Get ready to pump some iron and grow your biceps like never before in Idle Biceps, the ultimate idle clicker game for fitness enthusiasts! Start off as a novice gym-goer and work your way up to becoming a ripped bodybuilder by clicking your way to bigger and better gains.
Ducks' Wrath
WHY THIS
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Play as a fearless Duck, burp and push your "friends" while hot dogs fall from the skies. Compete for the leaderboard highest score in the single player challenges. Oh, and don't fall from the slippery ice!
Cards from the West
WHY THIS
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Make your way through the dangers of the Wild West with your revolver and your deck of cards
Excalibur's Swordstone Idle Forge
WHY THIS
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Pull legendary swords from stones, upgrade your forge, trade with factions, and craft artifacts in this idle clicker game of medieval mastery.
CasualSteam ↗Incremental Dice
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, automation, casual and a stressful mood with Idling Gears.
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Chill incremental game about dice making money. 🎲 Upgrade your dice to make more money, to upgrade your dice to make even more money! 😲🤯
Brainrot Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears.
Create unique battles and find out who is the best Italian Brainrot character! 🐊🦈🐸 Choose your fighters and dive into chaotic fights-1v1, 5v3 or total chaos!
DOMISNAKE
WHY THIS
Another title from guilemus, the studio behind Idling Gears. Shares Casual with Idling Gears.
Snake meets Dominoes in a turn-based roguelike. Each piece you place must match your head's pip chain carefully, eat apples, and outmaneuver rival snakes that hunt or flee across a grid that fills up fast
Frequently asked about Idling Gears
- Does Idling Gears run on Steam Deck?
- Idling Gears 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 Idling Gears cost?
- Idling Gears is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Idling Gears?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idling Gears are Idle Biceps, Incremental Dice, Gamblers Table.
- Who developed Idling Gears?
- Idling Gears was developed by guilemus.
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