Games like Idlemancer
If Idlemancer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Card Collector Battle, Northgard Battlegrounds and Legion Draft — 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 Idlemancer: Grow your slime army to LEGEND rank using upgrades from idle gains! Win battles against other idlemancers, perfect your build by selecting unique traits each run, and reach the top of the leaderboard - but lose 3 times and the run is over!
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Steam players who put hours into Idlemancer 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.
Card Collector Battle
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Top pick for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Idlemancer.
A 2D turn-based auto-battler about collecting gods. Summon 432 guardians from Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, Norse and Greek mythology, then fuse duplicates into the copies you own to raise their borders from silver to celestial. Your deck decides the fight.
Northgard Battlegrounds
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Second-strongest match for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idlemancer.
A city-building auto-battler set in the Viking world of Northgard, where every building you place shapes your clan’s fate. Develop your village, claim the Gods’ blessings, and send your warband to battle against rival players! Every move counts, only one clan will stand.
Legion Draft
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Third-strongest match for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Idlemancer.
This is an async PvP card autobattler where each card represents a troop group that keeps growing. Draft cards, recruit soldiers, and build a legion that surpasses every opponent. Explore fantasy races with different synergies, and become a master strategist！
Spellhoard
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Ranked #4 for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idlemancer.
An autobattler where nothing you buy is ever benched. Every spell stays active, your whole spellbook fights as one machine, and your opponents are real players' builds.
Slot Heroes
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Ranked #5 for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idlemancer.
A casual idle defense game with a desktop overlay, designed to bring a little fun to your everyday life as you fend off endless waves of monsters and bosses. Recruit and upgrade your heroes to defend against the endless hordes.
Cybersoul 2
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Ranked #6 for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Idlemancer.
Multiplayer Cyberpunk Card Battler & Incremental Hub. 33+ factions, 1,200+ cards. New Roguelite game modes: Raid Boss, Chaos Brawl, Auto Battle, Draft Arena & Gauntlet. Includes Dark Web, Souls & Star Power Idle Games. Sell your soul in the Glitch Arcade. Fight online or go dark. Play Solo offline.
Deck Beasts
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Ranked #7 for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idlemancer.
Build a squad of pixel-art beasts and battle your way through the warp in this deck-building auto-battler roguelike. Draft beasts, equip abilities and items, collect relics, and destroy other players with broken builds.
Epic Card Battle Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Idlemancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idlemancer.
a PvP card auto-battler simulator, Play cards to summon little dudes who auto-battle each other to the death! There's a full solo world conquest mode or you can play with up-to 6 Friends in a tournament battle to the death!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Idlemancer.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idlemancer.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idlemancer.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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 Idlemancer.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Idlemancer.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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 Idlemancer.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idlemancer.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Idlemancer.
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Fortune Mill
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Another title from Lavaflame2, the studio behind Idlemancer. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idlemancer.
In this incremental game, you must make $1,000,000 in each room to escape. Throw darts, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, and choose upgrades carefully as each room affects all the others!
Idle Skilling
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Another title from Lavaflame2, the studio behind Idlemancer. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idlemancer.
Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!
IdleOn
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Another title from Lavaflame2, the studio behind Idlemancer. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idlemancer.
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!
Frequently asked about Idlemancer
- Does Idlemancer have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Idlemancer supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Idlemancer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idlemancer are Card Collector Battle, Northgard Battlegrounds, Legion Draft.
- Who developed Idlemancer?
- Idlemancer was developed by Lavaflame2.
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