Games like Gear Slots
If Gear Slots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roll with Splonk, Background Hero and Path of the Retired Adventurer — 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 Gear Slots: Spin the wheels of weaponry to incrementally upgrade your gear while endless monsters are defeated by your idle attacks. Watch your hoard of coins grow and find new ways to spend them to tip the scales of luck in your favor.
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Roll with Splonk
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gear Slots.
Splonk lives in the corner of your screen, on top of everything else, happily rolling dice and printing money while you watch stuff, browse, or pretend to work. Roll, get rich, buy better stuff, repeat.
Background Hero
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gear Slots.
Every hero starts somewhere, usually with a dull axe, an even duller pickaxe. Background Hero puts you in charge of building one from scratch, one skill at a time. Idle progression, tiered upgrades, task lists, resources, dungeon rewards -- perfect for the completionist chasing the elusive 100%
Path of the Retired Adventurer
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gear Slots.
A semi-idle crafting sim inspired by Path of Exile, for when you still love the loot but not the grind. Forge gear, gamble on affix rolls, and equip the adventurers who quest and delve in your place. Craft their gear, seal their fate.
Max Bid
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Ranked #4 for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gear Slots.
Max Bid is an incremental game where you operate a shady device to bid on black-market containers. Sell the goods for profit. Upgrade your device for bigger payouts, automate the hustle, and chase the big scores hidden behind sealed containers.
Cultivation Legend
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Ranked #5 for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gear Slots.
An ink-wash xianxia idle RPG. Ascend from mortal to immortal through 10 cultivation realms. Master 10 elements, trigger elemental combos, and earn rewards while offline for up to 48 hours. 95 skills, 50 talents, alchemy, pets, and reincarnation await.
Incremental Wars
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Ranked #6 for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gear Slots.
A short incremental game where you battle enemies with a four-person party while collecting loot. Over roughly four hours of gameplay, you’ll unlock a variety of new skills, defeat enemies, and explore different locations in this RPG-style idle game.
Ticker Panic: Stock Market Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Gear Slots.
Trade in a chaotic stock market sim where absurd headlines, hype cycles, crashes, and liquidity traps can make or break your portfolio. Start small, survive the chaos, and take over the market.
Demon Lord: Clicker
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Ranked #8 for Gear Slots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Gear Slots.
A high-fantasy Steam-drop clicker. Click through demon hordes, gear up for idle power, claim real loot, and push the campaign until the Demon Lord falls.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gear Slots at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gear Slots.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gear Slots.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gear Slots.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Gear Slots.
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
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Priced ~50% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Gear Slots.
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
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Priced ~75% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Gear Slots.
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
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Priced ~75% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gear Slots.
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
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Priced ~50% under Gear Slots on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gear Slots.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gear Slots.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Gear Slots.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gear Slots.
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 Gear Slots.
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 Gear Slots.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gear Slots.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gear Slots.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Gear Slots
- How much does Gear Slots cost?
- Gear Slots is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gear Slots?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gear Slots are Roll with Splonk, Background Hero, Path of the Retired Adventurer.
- Who developed Gear Slots?
- Gear Slots was developed by Cornbread Dev.
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