Games like World's Greatest Author
If World's Greatest Author is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project: C.E.L.L., Facetier and Alchemy Master — 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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Project: C.E.L.L.
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Top pick for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An arcade incremental where you run cellular simulations for a megacorp obsessed with immortality. Break glucose, build combos, and spend ATP across a massive skill tree. Experiment with different glucose types, proteins, and lipids from your retro terminal.
Facetier
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Second-strongest match for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Match-3 with an automation twist. Every gem you clear is a resource. Store, sort, and route them into machines that extract more gems or match the board for you.
CasualSteam ↗Alchemy Master
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Third-strongest match for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Run a Chinese xianxia alchemy chamber. Consume pills to gain Cultivation and ascend thirteen realms from Qi Refining to Dao Ancestor. Spend Spirit Stones on better alchemy rooms and furnaces, Cultivation on five talent paths, and saved pills on artifacts; reincarnate for permanent Fortune.
Singularity Echoes
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Ranked #4 for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
Incremental Donuts
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Ranked #5 for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Start with one donut. End with a multidimensional bakery empire. Click, automate, expand, unlock the Research Lab, run a Storefront, and break through to the Donut Hole. A layered idle game that keeps unfolding new systems until your mouse screams for mercy.
Sludgineers
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Ranked #6 for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.
A stupid game about pouring drinks for the P.T.A.
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Ranked #7 for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
The P.T.A. (Parent Teacher's Association) is planning the Summer Fete but they need money to hire everything. Selflessly serve drinks and upsell the heck out of them to gain funds. Dig deep! It's for a good cause, after all.
Miseria
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Ranked #8 for World's Greatest Author fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Miseria is a dark fantasy idle incremental game in which you lead a party of damned souls through the depths of the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below World's Greatest Author at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
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 ~75% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
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.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~63% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~88% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
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 ~88% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
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!
Superflight
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Priced ~63% under World's Greatest Author on Steam right now. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
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.
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 Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about World's Greatest Author
- How much does World's Greatest Author cost?
- World's Greatest Author is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to World's Greatest Author?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside World's Greatest Author are Project: C.E.L.L., Facetier, Alchemy Master.
- Who developed World's Greatest Author?
- World's Greatest Author was developed by Petter Malmehed.
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