Games like Idle Energy
If Idle Energy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Authorisation Engine, OurClicker and Knightfall Idle — 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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Steam players who put hours into Idle Energy 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.
Authorisation Engine
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Top pick 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
Second-strongest match 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!
Knightfall Idle
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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
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Ranked #4 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.
Singularity Echoes
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Ranked #5 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Energy.
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
Pin Money
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Ranked #6 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
Turn a rundown neon bowling alley into a billion-dollar strike empire. Stack absurd multipliers, unlock powerful upgrades, expand to 7 simultaneous lanes, and break the economy in this incremental idle bowling game.
Idle Casino Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
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.
Pull the Lever
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Idle Energy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Energy.
Pull the lever, send a tiny train hauling cargo. Click storms and breakdowns mid-run to protect the take. Chase jackpots, hire staff to automate the dull runs, and grow a living model railroad. You won't know the payout until it arrives.
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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.
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
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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.
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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
- 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 Authorisation Engine, OurClicker, Knightfall Idle.
- Who developed Idle Energy?
- Idle Energy was developed by Shadow Games Software.
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