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Games like Upgradia

If Upgradia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dominus Automa, Desk Top Racer and Scapewatch: Idle MMO — 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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About Upgradia: A cozy Semi-Idle MMORPG where every parsnip, sword, spell, fish, and enemy is part of your rise to legend. Farm, forage, fish, mine, cook, craft, smith & more! Trade with players, join a guild, explore dangerous regions, and build your character from humble village life into a legendary adventurer.

2026AdventureSimulationMassively MultiplayerRPGEarly Access9.99 USDWindowsby Mytharia
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Players who liked Upgradia also play

Steam players who put hours into Upgradia 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.

  1. Dominus Automa

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Upgradia.

    Dominus Automa is an Idle Multiplayer RPG meant for busy adults who still love online gaming but don't have endless hours to play anymore. Shape your hero's decision-making process, define their strategy with the Combat Matrix system, and let them progress 24/7 - even when you're offline.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Desk Top Racer

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Upgradia.

    Turn your desktop into a living racetrack with this idle racing management game. Acquire cars, equip parts, and compete online against other players. Win championships and expand your garage through Mastery, Collections, and new rewards.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  3. Scapewatch: Idle MMO

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Upgradia.

    30 skills. Three combat styles. Clans, raids, hiscores, pets, capes. Set up your queue, close the tab, come back richer. Scapewatch is the idle MMO for people who actually like the grind.

    2026IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGSteam ↗
  4. Immortal Zenith: Idle to Ascension

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Upgradia.

    An MMO idle cultivation RPG grounded in unique systems and intentional randomness. Your characters meditate, break through cultivation realms, explore, master powerful techniques, collect legendary treasures, and ascend from mortal to immortal.

    2026IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  5. Stellar Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Upgradia.

    An Idle Space MMORPG where you progress at your own pace, but the universe is built together. Explore a procedural galaxy of nearly 50 million star systems alone — or join a Squadron to pool resources, raise space stations, upgrade shared buildings, and expand across the stars as one.

    2026IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeSteam ↗
  6. Abyss Floors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Upgradia.

    A dark-fantasy semi-idle MMORPG where you don't fight the fight — you engineer it. Pick your build, gear and hunting ground, then watch tick-by-tick combat carve you down through 19 zones of a descending abyss. A real player-run economy, clans, opt-in PvP. Farm. Upgrade. Conquer.

    2026IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeSteam ↗
  7. idle.am - lofi idle mmo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Upgradia.

    a cozy text-based idle mmo with lofi vibes. gather, craft, battle, and trade in a world shared with other players. train 15 skills, grow your cottage garden, and find your guild. a little adventure, every day.

    2026IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeSteam ↗
  8. Milky Way Idle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Upgradia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Upgradia.

    Milky Way Idle: A multiplayer idle RPG where automation replaces grinding. Level up skills, gather resources, craft powerful items, and battle monsters—all while AFK. Trade in the marketplace, join a guild, team up for party combat, and socialize in chat as you progress effortlessly.

    2025IndieAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Upgradia at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Upgradia.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Upgradia.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Upgradia.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Upgradia.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares Massively Multiplayer with Upgradia.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Upgradia.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Upgradia.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Upgradia on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Upgradia.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Upgradia.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Upgradia.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Upgradia.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Upgradia.

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Upgradia.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Upgradia.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Upgradia.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Dota 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

    2013ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Upgradia

How much does Upgradia cost?
Upgradia is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Upgradia have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Upgradia supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Upgradia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Upgradia are Dominus Automa, Desk Top Racer, Scapewatch: Idle MMO.
Who developed Upgradia?
Upgradia was developed by Mytharia.

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 Upgradia.

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