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Games like Idle Cult

If Idle Cult is your kind of game, the closest matches are Idle Chapel, Miracle Brave: Beast Defense Line and Ball Wizard — 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.

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About Idle Cult: Build your cult In this incremental breakout roguelite where you'll upgrade powerful Orbs and absorb Bricks' souls. Use the souls you earn to summon powerful followers to fight for you, give you unique abilities, and enact the Final RItual at level 666.

2026IndieWindowsby Loboz
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Steam players who put hours into Idle Cult 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.

  1. Idle Chapel

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A dark-fantasy incremental game about confronting a rising cult. Seek out worshipers who turned to darker gods and smite them back to the light. Harness their devotion to grow stronger and purge the land of evil - one click at a time.

    2026CasualSteam ↗
  2. Miracle Brave: Beast Defense Line

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Endless tides of beasts crash against your fortress, yet never breach your line. Fight alongside your brave companions, reap the invaders, and grow stronger with every battle. Rise to meet the next wave with greater might—reap, strengthen, reap again. The cycle never ends.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Ball Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A short incremental pachinko-like where you battle waves of enemies with your Balls! Gather resources to train new magical powers in a unique upgrade tree.

    ActionSteam ↗
  4. Pacremental

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Pacremental is a incremental game about opening packs, unlocking weapon cards, evolve them and automating your progress. Collect rare artifacts, combine them with weapons, and push through increasingly difficult waves. Build tower your own way.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Orb Breaker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    An incremental bullet hell about shooting orbs at enemies, collecting resources, and becoming powerful!

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. CoreBreaker: Desktop Swarm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    A corner screen incremental brick-breaker where bouncing cores destroy endless swarms. Let it run in the corner of your screen while you work or jump into fullscreen and take control yourself. Unlock new Cores, expand your skill tree, survive endless waves.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. Cosmic Crusher

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Incremental game about protecting solar system. Destroy asteroids with a huge arsenal of weapons, upgrade your skills through a massive skill tree, and defend the solar system from hostile alien fleets. How far can you go?

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Mountains From Mole Hills

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Idle Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Burrow deep into the earth in this short incremental digging game. Hunt for treasure, upgrade your powers and experience the low-key story of a mole and his dad on a grand adventure.

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗

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  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Cult.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Idle Cult

What games are most similar to Idle Cult?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idle Cult are Idle Chapel, Miracle Brave: Beast Defense Line, Ball Wizard.
Who developed Idle Cult?
Idle Cult was developed by Loboz.

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 Idle Cult.

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