Short answer: Idle Slayer for monsters, gold and an active side, Realm Grinder for clicking coins with more strategy, and Cookie Clicker for the original click-and-buy loop. Below: 6 games, what each shares with Clicker Heroes and what changes.
Updated October 18, 2026 · Steam ratings checked the same day · By the Garbage Growth team
| If you want | Play | On Steam |
|---|---|---|
| Monsters and gold | Idle Slayer | Very Positive · 10,978 Steam reviews |
| More strategy | Realm Grinder | Very Positive · 7,449 Steam reviews |
| The original loop | Cookie Clicker | Overwhelmingly Positive · 94,064 Steam reviews |
| Heroes in formation | Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms | Mostly Positive · 15,078 Steam reviews |
| Collect trash, not monsters | Garbage GrowthOur game | Very Positive · 389 Steam reviews |
Clicker Heroes, in its own words: click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills, and progress even while you are idle. Then you ascend to start over stronger. A game like it needs clicking that turns into automation, something to fight or collect, and a prestige reset.
Our game
Our game: pick up trash, hire rats to collect it, pollute the world to get rich.
Like Clicker Heroes: Collect by hand first (just move the mouse over the trash), then hire helpers who work for you, and watch the numbers explode.
What changes: You collect trash instead of fighting, and the world gets dirtier as you grow.
Start from nothing and grow into a legendary Slayer: souls, gear and epic bosses.
Like Clicker Heroes: Monsters, gold, bosses and progress while you are offline.
What changes: A runner you can play actively when you want. Free on Steam.
See it on Steam ↗Grow your realm, build alliances with factions and reincarnate.
Like Clicker Heroes: Click for coins, buy what earns for you, reset for bonuses.
What changes: Factions make each run play differently. More strategy, less fighting.
See it on Steam ↗Click a cookie, buy buildings that bake for you, catch golden cookies.
Like Clicker Heroes: The same click-then-automate loop and a prestige reset (ascension).
What changes: No monsters: buildings and cookies, with a lot of humor.
See it on Steam ↗Dungeons & Dragons champions fight for you in a formation.
Like Clicker Heroes: Heroes with skills that fight on their own.
What changes: The game is about placing them well, not clicking.
See it on Steam ↗Free, weird and huge: adventure zones, bosses, gear and piles of upgrades.
Like Clicker Heroes: Bosses, gear and numbers that climb into the absurd.
What changes: Many more systems at once, full of odd humor.
See it on Steam ↗This guide is written by the team behind Garbage Growth, an idle / incremental game on Steam. We kept games that:
Garbage Growth is our game. When it appears in a list it is marked Our game, and you can check its Steam reviews yourself. No studio paid to be on this page.
Idle Slayer (Very Positive on Steam, 10,978 reviews), Realm Grinder, Cookie Clicker and Idle Champions share its clicking, heroes or prestige.
Yes, it is free to play on Steam (Very Positive on Steam, 62,180 reviews).
Idle Slayer, Realm Grinder, Idle Champions and NGU Idle are all free to play on Steam.
Garbage Growth: pick up people’s trash, hire rats, pollute everything and become a quintillionaire.
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