Games like The Idle
If The Idle is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Very Idle Game, Idle Ultimate and Ten Seconds Trillion — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Idle: The ultimate idle clicker game with endless possibilities and infinite fun. Passive and active income, seven currencies, interest, bets, prestige, perks and many more features are available!
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The Very Idle Game
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
The most satisfying idle clicker game in the world
Idle Ultimate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
An idle game with endless features and possibilities. Generators, multipliers, prestige system, bets, investments, converters and many more features are waiting for you!
Ten Seconds Trillion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
Ten Seconds Trillion is a unique clicker game with simple goals but addictive gameplay. Can you reach one trillion value just by clicking and buying upgrades?
Idle Colors
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
Strategize with 8 unique currencies, each with upgradable production chains. Master triple prestige systems, evolve your economy, upgrade generators tiers, optimize through conversion, and dominate leaderboards in this deep idle experience.
Idle Worlds
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Ranked #5 for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
An idle game with unique gameplay features. Travel between 8 different worlds and upgrade local generators to increase your profit. Use unique upgrades system to boost your stats or discover even more interesting prestige system to maximize your profit.
Idle Tick
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Ranked #6 for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
An idle game with unique gameplay. No boring idleness and infinite clicking. Complex prestige system and various upgrades. Different currencies and deep management. Infinite possibilities and fun!
Idle Tiers
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Ranked #7 for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
A real idle game with more than 2000 upgrades and deep management
+1x2
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Ranked #8 for The Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
A super simple clicker game with finite goal and few hours of fun. Will you be able to complete it in time to make a refund?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Idle at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The 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
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Priced ~50% under The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 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 The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The 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
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Priced ~50% under The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idle.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 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
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Priced ~70% under The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The 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 The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 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
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Priced ~50% under The Idle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The 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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The 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?
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
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 Indie with The Idle.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Idle.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Idle.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Idle.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about The Idle
- Does The Idle run on Steam Deck?
- The 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 The Idle cost?
- The Idle is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Idle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Idle are The Very Idle Game, Idle Ultimate, Ten Seconds Trillion.
- Who developed The Idle?
- The Idle was developed by iclick games.
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 The Idle.
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