Games like The First Million
Below are 8 hand-picked alternatives to The First Million for fans of strategy, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The First Million also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About The First Million: An idle deckbuilder where you constantly unlock new cards and upgrades and discover one game-breaking strategy after another to make THE FIRST MILLION — and then many more!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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SlotsNStocks
Top pick for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Rig the market in this deckbuilding slot machine roguelike. Draft hundreds of bearish and bullish symbols into your trading machine, collect powerful relics, and manipulate the odds to hit grueling weekly margin calls and avoid going bust.
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Factory Time
Second-strongest match for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.
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Planet No More
Third-strongest match for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Planet No More is an arcade-incremental game where you build a fleet to dynamically shatter celestials. With every weapon and fleet upgrade, you'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
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Luck be a Landlord
Ranked #4 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
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Rentlord
Ranked #5 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Rentlord is a combo-making roguelike real estate game where you buy properties, manage your income, and overcome unique weekly challenges. Strategic property upgrades and plugins with high combo potential, each run offers new opportunities to maximize rent, while avoiding taxes!
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Cropdeck
Ranked #6 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Plant, grow, and harvest in this farming roguelite deckbuilder. Craft a powerful deck of plants and combine quirky scarecrows with passive effects for wild synergies. Pay taxes. Strategic, satisfying, and delightfully wholesome.
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Goblin Sushi
Ranked #7 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
A goblin as a sushi chef? Why not! But hurry up rent is due in minutes! Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can find in the cave!
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Dwarf Eats Mountain
Ranked #8 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
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Frequently asked about The First Million
- What games are most similar to The First Million?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The First Million are SlotsNStocks, Factory Time, Planet No More.
- Who developed The First Million?
- The First Million was developed by Sonderland.
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 The First Million.
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