Games like Palimpsest Idle
If Palimpsest Idle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Miseria, Mine & Forge! and Loop Alchemist — 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 Palimpsest Idle: An idle ARPG inked on parchment. Tap to fight, drag loot out of 35 zones, summon weapons that swing on their own, and Ascend for permanent power. Deep builds, six rarities, a real crafting forge. No ads, no microtransactions, no timers — buy it once, play it offline.
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Miseria
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Top pick for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Palimpsest Idle.
Miseria is a dark fantasy idle incremental game in which you lead a party of damned souls through the depths of the world.
Mine & Forge!
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Second-strongest match for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Palimpsest Idle.
A fantasy incremental game where you mine resources, forge and sell weapons, hire skilled workers, unlock abilities, and automate your growing operation.
Loop Alchemist
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Third-strongest match for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Palimpsest Idle.
You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form
Necromancer Idle: The Endless Drain
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Ranked #4 for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Palimpsest Idle.
Defeat The Necromancer and free the world from his evil! An Idle/Incremental inspired by RPGs and Roguelites: choose between Soldier, Ranger or Mage, die and rise again keeping your innate experience, automate your actions and reincarnate until you end the curse that drains your life.
OurClicker
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Ranked #5 for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Palimpsest Idle.
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!
Facetier
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Ranked #6 for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Palimpsest Idle.
Match-3 with an automation twist. Every gem you clear is a resource. Store, sort, and route them into machines that extract more gems or match the board for you.
CasualSteam ↗Taskbar Armory
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Ranked #7 for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Palimpsest Idle.
Your workday. Their adventure. A free cozy idle game that lives on your taskbar. Run a dwarven forge while you work or browse—mine ore, craft weapons, decorate your shop, and send heroes on expeditions for gems, relics and rare loot.
Macchinato
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Palimpsest Idle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Palimpsest Idle.
A relaxing idle clicker about building a coffee empire. Harvest beans, roast them, and serve caffeinated drinks for profit. Automate each stage, work around your bottleneck, and franchise into a global brand. Designed to run alongside your day, and progress keeps brewing while you're away.
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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 Palimpsest Idle.
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 Palimpsest Idle.
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 Palimpsest Idle.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Palimpsest Idle.
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 Palimpsest Idle.
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 Palimpsest Idle.
‘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 and Simulation with Palimpsest Idle.
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 Palimpsest Idle
- What games are most similar to Palimpsest Idle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Palimpsest Idle are Miseria, Mine & Forge!, Loop Alchemist.
- Who developed Palimpsest Idle?
- Palimpsest Idle was developed by Studio J3L.
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 Palimpsest Idle.
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