Games like RECROSS IDLE
If RECROSS IDLE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Apotheosis Engine, A Dark Cave and Idle Dyson Swarm — 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 RECROSS IDLE: An idle space 4X drawn entirely in Minitel-era text. Your empire builds, scans and colonizes while the game is closed — but the Hegemony raids on ninety seconds' warning, and something at the centre of the galaxy has started listening.
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Apotheosis Engine
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Top pick for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RECROSS IDLE.
An accident causes a lost space probe to become self aware. "Apotheosis engine" is a lore-rich incremental game. Grow from a piece of engineering into a galactic superdeity by navigating an alien OS.
A Dark Cave
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Second-strongest match for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RECROSS IDLE.
Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.
Idle Dyson Swarm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RECROSS IDLE.
Ever wanted a Dyson swarm of your own? Now you can have one with just a few clicks! Manage a solar empire, produce bots which will make solar panels for you. Send your panels to the sun to generate energy and sell that energy to make money which you can spend on even more bots!
Taskbar Colony
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Ranked #4 for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with RECROSS IDLE.
A tiny space colony lives in a strip above your taskbar. Colonists build, scavenge, and catch supply pods while you work. Grow nine building types, hit milestones, evacuate to prestige, and fly your own Workshop flag. Click-through, fullscreen-shy, and easy on your CPU.
Aetherdrifter
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Ranked #5 for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with RECROSS IDLE.
A deep sci-fi idle RPG. Mine and salvage dead fleets, refine matter into alloy, fabricate parts, and rebuild your ship from a scout to a world-sized Ark. Fight ship-vs-sector battles, chart a starfield, automate the grind, and keep earning while you're away.
Remain At Your Desk
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Ranked #6 for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RECROSS IDLE.
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.
Catnip Craze
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Ranked #7 for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RECROSS IDLE.
A bite-sized incremental idle game about cats, catnip, and numbers going up. Harvest catnip, hire cats, unlock production tiers, and prestige to witness the inevitable conclusion of the craze.
MEGACITY
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Ranked #8 for RECROSS IDLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RECROSS IDLE.
Govern a post-collapse megacity of 1,000,000+ citizens. 300+ districts. 10+ factions. 520+ technologies. 836+ commodities. 2000+ events. Everything is on fire, the budget is imaginary, and a vending machine just filed for union representation. Idle/strategy/sandbox/city builder.
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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 RECROSS 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 RECROSS 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 RECROSS 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 RECROSS 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 RECROSS 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 RECROSS IDLE.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with RECROSS 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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- What games are most similar to RECROSS IDLE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RECROSS IDLE are Apotheosis Engine, A Dark Cave, Idle Dyson Swarm.
- Who developed RECROSS IDLE?
- RECROSS IDLE was developed by Antiope and published by Ouest Audit.
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 RECROSS IDLE.
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