Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Idle Space Tycoon
The most relaxing idle game!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Idle Space Tycoon launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I was on the eternal quest of searching for a properly gamified productivity app that keeps me motivated throughout the day and in the long term. After a few months of a fruitless search, I made up my mind and decided to build it myself! I've since launched FocuMon a little over a month ago. Quite a few early users told me it has helped them stay focused, so I'm excited to share it on HN for ya'll to try it out and let me know how I can make it better! FocuMon is like an idle Pokémon game where you can collect, level up, and evolve cute monsters by being productive! It puts a reward layer on…
2024 · focumon.com · its alternatives →
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Mobile game that rewards you with real crypto – Hora Tokens!
2019 · its alternatives →
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I built this with Claude cause I always wanted to tinker with a simulation economoy and I love space themes. A space-economy sim where nothing is scripted. A few hundred autonomous ships each run their own planner. Some chase the best trade route, take a delivery contract, refuel, retrofit at a shipyard, or dock so the crew can rest before morale tanks. Markets price everything off supply with shortage-urgency multipliers, factions tax and subsidize, populations migrate when they're unhappy, and stations that go broke get abandoned and rot. It started as an Elixir/Phoenix prototype, but…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Supermarket Idle Clicker game is a great time-passing game
2021 · its alternatives →
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Incremental game built around growing a trading desk.
Jul 2026 · trading-desk-idl.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…
2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →
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A cozy pixel-art office sim powered by your real Pomodoros.
Jun 2026 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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