Games like The First Million
If The First Million is your kind of game, the closest matches are SlotsNStocks, Pay your Deeds and Cosmic Cult — 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 The First Million: An incremental 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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SlotsNStocks
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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 roguelite. 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.
Pay your Deeds
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Second-strongest match for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Pay Your Deeds is a roguelike deck-builder played on a 5×4 slot reel. You are in debt, and every few days the Sector expects another payment. Spin the reel, collect Scrap Credits and add new Symbols to your build.
Cosmic Cult
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Third-strongest match for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Cosmic Cult is a roguelike deckbuilder where you're a fledgling god in a dying universe. Assemble the perfect deck of symbols to balance production of metal, faith, and power— or go all in on a single resource. Lead your cult in building a monument to outlast time itself, and make your own luck!
Business 98
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Ranked #4 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
A retro Cashier Simulator set in the year 1998. Complete payments using cool combos, tons of special cards, and fun strategies. Can you last until the end of the year?
The American Dream: Past Due
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Ranked #5 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
The American Dream: Past Due is a realistic choice-driven sim. Play as a suddenly laid-off middle-aged man keeping up appearances. Balance family finances and emotions while facing mounting bills... Can you get your life back on track before your family falls apart?
Game Dev Clicker Simulator
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Ranked #6 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Start as an indie dev in this clicker and improve your resources, skills and tools to create multiple titles at once, manage several studios and become a corporation that dominates the industry.
DEBTMASTER
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Ranked #7 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
You're drowning in debt and the interest never stops. Grind every hustle you can find -- card games, crypto mining, gig deliveries, content farming, and more -- while stacking upgrades from a pool of 1,000+. Automate with bots. Pay off your debt or drown trying. A roguelite capitalism satire.
Space Vampires
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Ranked #8 for The First Million fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Build a vampire space station, trap humans, and farm blood in this incremental idler. Choose your path to the apocalypse and take revenge on humanity.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Crusader Kings II
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The First Million.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
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Frequently asked about The First Million
- Is The First Million verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The First Million is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- 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, Pay your Deeds, Cosmic Cult.
- Who developed The First Million?
- The First Million was developed by Sonderland.
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