Games like Idle Energy
If Idle Energy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Game Dev Clicker Simulator, Incremental Donuts and Raccoon Inc. — 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 Idle Energy: A small game about pushing the world forward, one crank at a time. Sell energy at the Market, build power plants, and climb from a manual workshop through eight eras to star-spanning cosmic civilization. Offline. No microtransactions or ads.
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Game Dev Clicker Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
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.
Incremental Donuts
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
Start with one donut. End with a multidimensional bakery empire. Click, automate, expand, unlock the Research Lab, run a Storefront, and break through to the Donut Hole. A layered idle game that keeps unfolding new systems until your mouse screams for mercy.
Raccoon Inc.
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
Bin Dive is tired of eating from the trash! Help this enterprising raccoon build a business up from flipping junk to a sprawling mega corporation unlike the world has ever seen. Start businesses, upgrade them, hire animals to help you, sit back and watch the money flow in this idler tycoon.
Authorisation Engine
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idle Energy.
Turn a payment desk into a global authorisation network in this offline incremental strategy game about capacity, compute, mandates, quantum audits, and synthetic jurisdictions.
OurClicker
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
From the creators of OurLife and OurCoven, OurClicker is a brand new clicker game that puts you in charge of an up-and-coming Game Development Studio where all you do is... CLICK!
Padel Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
Build a padel empire from a single bucket of used balls to the Lunar Major in the world's first padel business game. Buy courts, hire managers to run them and watch the numbers climb across three locations. An idle clicker with 20 businesses, 46 upgrades and an empire that earns while you're away.
Knightfall Idle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
Knightfall Idle is a medieval idle RPG made by Gibber. Gather, process, trade, and fight across 10 skills while your kingdom runs in the background. Join a Fief, raid bandit camps, compete in seasonal leagues, or stay in the permanent realm. 450+ passive tree nodes. Free to play.
Node Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Idle Energy at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idle Energy.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idle Energy.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Idle Energy.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Idle Energy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
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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Frequently asked about Idle Energy
- How much does Idle Energy cost?
- Idle Energy is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Idle Energy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idle Energy are Game Dev Clicker Simulator, Incremental Donuts, Raccoon Inc..
- Who developed Idle Energy?
- Idle Energy was developed by Shadow Games Software.
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