Games like Buttons Up! 2
If Buttons Up! 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Board is Yours, Bogosort and FLOWORKS — 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 Buttons Up! 2: The Gnomes are back! Buttons Up! is a incremental button collecting game where you hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing intruders. Get those Buttons Up by buying and crafting buildings. Unlock new skills from the tech tree and automate your income!
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Steam players who put hours into Buttons Up! 2 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.
The Board is Yours
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Top pick for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
The Board is Yours is a strategic chess-based incremental game: buy squares, unlock upgrades, and chain synergies through defended pieces. It plays as a demanding idle game where you’ll constantly reposition pieces and optimize your production until the board belongs to you.
Bogosort
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Second-strongest match for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
Bogosort.exe is an incremental idle game about chaos and sorting. Mix elements, earn resources, upgrade the system, and transform chaos into efficient growth. Discover new mechanics and optimize your progress.
FLOWORKS
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Third-strongest match for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
WorldShaper Idle
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Ranked #4 for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
Relax and build your own world! Discover new tiles by experimenting with tile placement. Use their bonuses to optimize your production, or just sit back and become ever more powerful! What will your worlds look like?
Idle Casino Empire
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Ranked #5 for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
An idle casino tycoon where you build the floor, then rig it. Turn casino psychology into upgrades. Play blackjack, roulette, and slots in Owner Mode. Use the Owner's Edge to cheat: nudge reels, peek at hidden cards, read marked cards. Twelve games, eight venues, a prestige loop. The house is you.
Bit Mine Clicker
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Ranked #6 for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Buttons Up! 2.
Bit-Mine Clicker is an incremental mining game where you click to earn BIT, build automatic miners, upgrade your grid, react to changing market prices, and defend your base. Catch helpful bonuses, avoid dangerous traps, unlock talents, and turn a single coin into a powerful BIT empire
Vena
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Ranked #7 for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
Vena is an automation roguelike where you place hexagonal tiles to build resource networks of increasing complexity. Roll dice to shop, pick perks, and combine elements into ingenious structures. Chase unique builds every run and immerse yourself in the flow to satisfy the center’s rising demands.
OUTWORKS
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Ranked #8 for Buttons Up! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.
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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 Buttons Up! 2.
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 with Buttons Up! 2.
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 Casual with Buttons Up! 2.
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 Indie and Casual with Buttons Up! 2.
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 Buttons Up! 2.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Jestercraft, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Seeker: My Shadow
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Another title from Jestercraft, the studio behind Buttons Up! 2. Shares Indie and Casual with Buttons Up! 2.
Seeker: My Shadow is a VR adventure that utilizes the versatility and possibilities of VR, sending players of all ages to an immersive adventure! You control a Giant Spirit while assisting Kippo, a small and adorable Seeker, through various puzzle levels. Go solo or solve the levels in co-op mode!
Seeker Quest: The Creature Collector
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Another title from Jestercraft, the studio behind Buttons Up! 2. Shares Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
Build the ultimate team by catching & hatching cute 'Seeker' creatures. Power up your collection by looting artifacts, hidden abilities and grow your village to obtain new buildings and heroes. Over 30 unique playable Seeker characters awaits! Can you 'Catch & Hatch' them all?
Cats With Standards
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Another title from Jestercraft, the studio behind Buttons Up! 2. Shares Indie and Casual with Buttons Up! 2.
Horror Visual Novel where Cats claw through filth for bones and whisper lies to mirrors. Find the Hidden-Objects, obey, smile, and repeat until the lines between rule and ruin blur, and you’re left meowing into the void.
Mining Grounds
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Another title from Jestercraft, the studio behind Buttons Up! 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
A clicker where every click matters. Build chains, break limits, and automate everything. Place characters to trigger powerful combos, unlock upgrades, and scale your clicks to extreme levels. No rush. Just satisfying progression and smart strategy.
Giant Horse Feeding
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Another title from Jestercraft, the studio behind Buttons Up! 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buttons Up! 2.
Giant Horse Feeding is a silly alien colony simulator where you feed a horse & collect its droppings to build an alien empire. Automate production, unlock bizarre technologies, and create an endless recycling loop where horse droppings become the foundation of your civilization.
Frequently asked about Buttons Up! 2
- What games are most similar to Buttons Up! 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buttons Up! 2 are The Board is Yours, Bogosort, FLOWORKS.
- Who developed Buttons Up! 2?
- Buttons Up! 2 was developed by Jestercraft.
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