Games Like BOXES
About BOXES: This April Fools joke game leans into idle game tropes with arbitrary box names and a reset-heavy progression system. Players grind through prestige cycles while managing saves in a deliberately tongue-in-cheek experience.
Played BOXES dry? These 25 idle games are the closest to it on Steam, iOS, Android and browser. We match on what each game is about, its tags and its gameplay, so a smaller game can rank above a bigger one.
Top picks if you liked BOXES
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Dodeca: The Gold Reckoner
Browser · In common: googology, humor, idle
Dodeca: The Gold Reckoner is a tongue-in-cheek incremental where your sole task is tallying gold, stripped down to its most absurd essentials.
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The Meta Tree
Browser · In common: googology, text based, automation
The Meta Tree pushes the modding tree framework to extreme heights, scaling mechanics toward e92,000 points through successive prestige layers and automation systems.
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Check Back: The Infinite Descent
Browser · In common: humor, idle
Check Back: The Infinite Descent drops you into an endless cycle of returning to a game that's barely there, a spiritual successor that leans fully into the waiting-game premise.
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Tuba's Tree
Browser · In common: text based, automation, prestige
Tuba's Tree defies typical idle game conventions with its linear, puzzle-like progression across four prestige layers.
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The Prestreestuck
Browser · In common: googology, idle, text based
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All 25 similar games
| # | Game | Platform | In common | Rating | Popularity | Price | |
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| 1 | Browser | googology, humor +1 | ★ 79% | 187 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 2 | Browser | googology, text based +1 | ★ 79% | 68 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 3 | Browser | humor, idle | ★ 78% | 142 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 4 | Browser | text based, automation +1 | ★ 84% | 110 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 5 | Browser | googology, idle +1 | ★ 85% | 304 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 6 | Browser | googology, text based +1 | ★ 65% | 25 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 7 | Browser | humor, idle +1 | ★ 81% | 149 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 8 | Browser | idle, automation +1 | ★ 83% | 265 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 9 | Browser | automation, prestige | ★ 71% | 48 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 10 | Browser | idle, text based +1 | ★ 61% | 40 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 11 | Browser | googology, idle +1 | ★ 83% | 275 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 12 | Browser | googology, humor +1 | ★ 75% | 25 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 13 | Steam | humor, text based | ★ 94% | 12 players | Free | Store | |
| 14 | Browser | idle, text based +1 | ★ 82% | 70 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 15 | Browser | googology, idle +1 | ★ 86% | 88 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 16 | Browser | googology, idle +1 | ★ 90% | 485 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 17 | Browser | text based | ★ 54% | 63 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 18 | Steam | ★ 91% | 224 players | $4.99 | Store | ||
| 19 | Browser | googology, idle +1 | ★ 69% | 101 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 20 | Browser | text based, prestige | ★ 83% | 54 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 21 | Browser | idle, prestige | ★ 77% | 37 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 22 | Browser | prestige, text based +1 | ★ 84% | 367 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 23 | Browser | text based, automation +1 | ★ 90% | 282 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 24 | Browser | googology, prestige +1 | ★ 87% | 350 favorites | Free | Store | |
| 25 | Browser | googology, idle +1 | ★ 92% | 930 favorites | Free | Store |
