Games like O.R.B.S.
If O.R.B.S. is your kind of game, the closest matches are Knightfall Idle, Remain At Your Desk and Guild 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 O.R.B.S.: A wizard finds a computer terminal inside his scrying orb. Tend your tower through a fantasy command line — brew, research, scry, ward — then write spells that teach the orb to do it for you. Prepare yourself for incursions by other wizards.
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Knightfall Idle
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Top pick for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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.
Remain At Your Desk
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Second-strongest match for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with O.R.B.S..
Incremental hacker about faking productivity while stealing from your employer. Sell intel for credits or keep it and raise suspicion. One bad audit and you’re back to Intern.
Guild Idle
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Third-strongest match for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An incremental idle RPG focused on hero management, buildcraft, optimization, and long-term progression. Develop powerful heroes, push them through the endless Eternal Strife, and immortalize them in asynchronous PvP where their legacy strengthens future generations.
FORK BOMB: A Programming Game
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Ranked #4 for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with O.R.B.S..
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
SYSCALL: RING ZERO
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Ranked #5 for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with O.R.B.S..
Reverse-engineer a private 1990s BBS. Read disassembly, patch broken checks, optimize a nine-core rack, and write assembly firmware that locks onto live scope traces. With 200+ puzzles, full controller support and offline play, you can refine your assembly skills on all your devices!
Idle Hacking: An Inaction RPG
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Ranked #6 for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A persistent idle MMORPG, with a text-based hacking theme. Enjoy the "Inaction RPG" design philosophy by crafting equpiment using ARPG influenced prefix/suffix systems, build or join player managed syndicates, trade on the marketplace, and compete in community events.
Stick Legion
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Ranked #7 for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with O.R.B.S..
Your income isn't a spreadsheet - it's a battle line. Muster warbands, carve across eight realms, then dock the war in a screen corner and fight on while you work - Order the Last Charge, strengthen your Elders, run it back. Pay once. No ads.
Bug Bounty Hunter --Idle
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Ranked #8 for O.R.B.S. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with O.R.B.S..
An idle hacking sim where you scan for real vulnerabilities, automate your tools, and manage CPU, RAM, and heat before your machine crashes. Climb bounty programs, deploy to the cloud, and build a satirical hacking career from your terminal.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with O.R.B.S..
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 Simulation and Casual with O.R.B.S..
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with O.R.B.S..
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with O.R.B.S..
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with O.R.B.S..
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with O.R.B.S..
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about O.R.B.S.
- What games are most similar to O.R.B.S.?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside O.R.B.S. are Knightfall Idle, Remain At Your Desk, Guild Idle.
- Who developed O.R.B.S.?
- O.R.B.S. was developed by Blackhearth Games.
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 O.R.B.S..
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