Games like Lord of Idle
If Lord of Idle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mushi, BATTLE: PARTS & POWER and Dungeon Overtime — 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 Lord of Idle: An Idle ARPG inspired by hack and slash classics. Level up your Combat, Mining, and Crafting skills. Compete in monthly Seasons with secure leaderboards, or play on Legacy servers. Hunt unique loot, socialize in multiplayer boss rooms, and fuel your crafting with an isometric factory.
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Steam players who put hours into Lord of Idle 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.
Mushi
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Top pick for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Idle.
Mushi is a single-player idle/incremental RPG. Level up, gather loot and explore a rich fantasy world.
BATTLE: PARTS & POWER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Idle.
Design robot blueprints, equip new parts, and run automated factories in a 2D idle auto battler. Build and upgrade production lines during battle, defend your headquarters, and refine each loadout to overcome escalating enemy waves.
Dungeon Overtime
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Third-strongest match for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Idle.
Run the cleanup shift after fantasy heroes trash your dungeon. Assign slimes, skeletons, and mimics, turn manual cleanup into automation, and keep the next raid ready—all from a compact desktop window.
Ultimate Auto-RPG: Tower Walker
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Ranked #4 for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Lord of Idle.
Ultimate Auto-RPG is an idle game, meaning that it mostly plays on its own. Your hero will automatically defeat enemies and level up on your screen while you do other things. Allowing you to work on other tasks while gaining experience and loot!
Max Bid
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Ranked #5 for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Idle.
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.
Claimfall
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Ranked #6 for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Idle.
Inspired by Path of Exile, Claimfall distills the addictive depth of modern ARPGs into a loot-focused semi-idle management game. Customize skills, craft powerful items and make specialized builds for your characters. Explore the campaign and refine your strategy to conquer the endgame.
HUNTKEEPER: Idle Trails
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Ranked #7 for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Lord of Idle.
HUNTKEEPER: Idle Trails is a compact idle hunting game that lives along the bottom of your screen. Let your hunter track beasts while you work, watch videos, or do something else. Collect loot, improve your gear, unlock useful skills, and conquer new biomes.
Desktop Legends
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Ranked #8 for Lord of Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Idle.
Desktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against the forces of darkness right on your desktop!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lord of Idle.
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 Lord of Idle.
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 Lord of Idle.
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 Indie with Lord of Idle.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lord of Idle.
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 Indie and Casual with Lord of Idle.
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.
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- What games are most similar to Lord of Idle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lord of Idle are Mushi, BATTLE: PARTS & POWER, Dungeon Overtime.
- Who developed Lord of Idle?
- Lord of Idle was developed by GrapeDutch.
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 Lord of Idle.
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