Games like Rusty's Retirement
If you like Rusty's Retirement (idle, farming and relaxing), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Cookie Clicker
- In common: a relaxed pace and short sessions
When you want something ticking along in the background while you do something else, to check on now and then.
Digseum
- In common: short sessions and progression
- Difference: shorter sessions
When you have a free afternoon and want a complete, calm game you can finish in one sitting.
(the) Gnorp Apologue
- In common: progression and short sessions
When you want an incremental with surprises and things to discover, in stints you can leave and pick up again.
Tower Wizard
- In common: progression and short sessions
- Difference: more intense
When you fancy watching something progress through lots of upgrades, in sessions you can leave and pick up again.
All Hail the Orb
- In common: progression and short sessions
When you want an incremental game with an ending: it lasts about six hours and there's no way to lose.
Shelldiver
- In common: short sessions and progression
- Difference: less building
When you want to watch numbers go up without thinking much: each dive is short and you always unlock something.
Scritchy Scratchy
- In common: short sessions and progression
- Difference: less building
When you want an incremental with an ending to fill a few evenings and you feel like watching your balance skyrocket on its own.
Keep on Mining!
- In common: short sessions and progression
- Difference: less building
When you want to unwind with something relaxing and addictive that's over in a single afternoon.
Click the Button
- In common: progression and short sessions
- Difference: less building
When you have a short afternoon and fancy opening chests and watching numbers climb without much thought, right to the end.
TCG Card Shop Simulator
- In common: progression and short sessions
When you want a calm, addictive routine: each shop day is short and there's always something to improve.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Rusty's Retirement
A retired robot tends his farm in a strip at the bottom of your screen while you work or watch videos. You plant, make biofuel and automate the farm with helper robots while barely paying attention.
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