Games like GENERAL IDLER
If GENERAL IDLER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cannon Clicker, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game and Steel Division 2 — 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 GENERAL IDLER: Conquer 195 nations on a parallel Earth. Build industries, raise armies, snowball your empire across continents. Three rival generals race you for the same map. Deploy Nuclear to cash it all in for permanent upgrades. Idle strategy on a CRT war console.
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Steam players who put hours into GENERAL IDLER 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.
Cannon Clicker
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Top pick for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GENERAL IDLER.
Build your army from nothing to military supremacy! Cannon Clicker blends addictive idle clicker action with real strategy in a WWII setting. Expand your skill tree, juggle three currencies, and command infantry, tanks and aircraft. Crush the enemy base and dominate every battlefield!
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with GENERAL IDLER.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Steel Division 2
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Third-strongest match for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GENERAL IDLER.
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
Steel Division: Normandy 44
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Ranked #4 for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
Panzer Corps 2
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Ranked #5 for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with GENERAL IDLER.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
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Ranked #6 for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GENERAL IDLER.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Age of History 3
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Ranked #7 for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
Grand strategy wargame where the destiny of Civilizations rests in your hands - will they stand united under your leadership or fall divided in conflict? Journey through the entire saga of human civilization, from its earliest days to the futuristic era, crafting your legacy age by age.
Holdfast: Nations At War
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Ranked #8 for GENERAL IDLER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GENERAL IDLER.
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GENERAL IDLER.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GENERAL IDLER.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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 GENERAL IDLER.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GENERAL IDLER.
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.
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Frequently asked about GENERAL IDLER
- What games are most similar to GENERAL IDLER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GENERAL IDLER are Cannon Clicker, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game, Steel Division 2.
- Who developed GENERAL IDLER?
- GENERAL IDLER was developed by Istikan Studio.
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