Games like Idle Resistance
If Idle Resistance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Farming with lasers, BATTLE: PARTS & POWER and Digitroids — 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 Resistance: The machines never stop attacking. So you must keep firing. Recruit gunners, unlock deadly weapons, and plan your way through a sprawling skill tree to break through the next wave.
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Farming with lasers
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Top pick for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Resistance.
Incinerate various pests with your giant laser, as you grow your farm. Purchase incremental upgrades to expedite the process.
BATTLE: PARTS & POWER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Resistance.
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.
Digitroids
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Resistance.
A short incremental game about harvesting Biomass from strange creatures to raise the Digitroid army. Upgrade the Finger to go full-clicker or focus on Digitroid customization for an idle path. Praise the Finger!
Trainferno
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Ranked #4 for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idle Resistance.
Upgrade and defend your armored train against relentless machines in a side-scrolling survival game designed to run while you work or browse.
Legion Breaker
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Ranked #5 for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Resistance.
A short active incremental game about defending from undead hordes. Wield an arsenal of spells, raise a holy army, and fight across ever-expanding battlefields. Start from nothing and progress through a massive skill tree to become the ultimate battlemage.
Just A Gun
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Ranked #6 for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Resistance.
Just A Gun is an incremental point-and-click shooter where you evolve a single weapon through a massive upgrade tree.
SpaceSeals
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Ranked #7 for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Idle Resistance.
SpaceSeals is an exciting third-person shooter set in a spaceship captured by hostile robots.
Traveloot
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Ranked #8 for Idle Resistance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Resistance.
Traveloot is a run-based incremental adventure where you guide a growing team of adventurers across islands. Gather resources, fight hordes of enemies, unlock branching skill tree, and find new party members to join your team. Play solo or in local co-op.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Idle Resistance.
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 Idle Resistance.
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 Idle Resistance.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Resistance.
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 Resistance.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Resistance.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Idle Resistance
- What games are most similar to Idle Resistance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idle Resistance are Farming with lasers, BATTLE: PARTS & POWER, Digitroids.
- Who developed Idle Resistance?
- Idle Resistance was developed by Beor Games and published by Playsaurus.
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 Idle Resistance.
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