Games Like Egg, Inc. on Steam, for PC and Mac
Is Egg, Inc. on Steam or PC?
No. Egg, Inc. has no Steam release and no Windows version: Auxbrain publishes it for iPhone, iPad and Android, and on a Mac it runs only as the iPad app on Apple Silicon. The closest Steam game is AdVenture Capitalist, and every game in the main table below runs on both Windows and Mac.
Updated October 2026.
Wikipedia describes Egg, Inc. as a 2016 idle clicker game from the American studio Auxbrain, released on Android and iOS, and Auxbrain’s own site links the game to the App Store and Google Play and to nothing else. Searching the Steam store for “egg inc” in October 2026 returns a few unrelated games with “egg” in the name. On the Mac side, the App Store listing says the game “Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later” and labels it “Designed for iPad”. So an M1 or newer Mac can run the phone game in a window, an Intel Mac cannot, and Windows has no official route at all.
If you came here from games like Tiny Tower, that post handles the same problem for another phone-only game: a mobile favorite that never reached Steam, and what to play there instead.
What makes a game feel like Egg, Inc.?
An incremental game is a game built around numbers that grow faster than you can spend them: you buy something that makes more of the resource, which buys more of that thing, until the scale changes and new systems appear. Egg, Inc. is one, and our explainer on what an incremental game is separates idle, clicker and incremental if the labels blur.
Inside that genre, Egg, Inc. is built from four pieces, all described on Wikipedia and the App Store page:
- One product. You hold a red button to release chickens, and the chickens lay eggs. Everything else serves that one number.
- An upgrade column. Common research is bought with cash and raises what each egg is worth, how fast the chickens lay, and how much the delivery fleet can carry. Epic research is bought with golden eggs and never resets.
- A farm that runs without you. Hen houses hold the chickens, vehicles carry the eggs, and grain silos let the farm keep running on its own for longer.
- Prestige. Resetting to the first egg pays out soul eggs, which raise the value of every egg after it. Upgrading to a new egg type is a second kind of restart, with each new egg selling for more, and the later eggs turn futuristic.
I picked games that hand back those pieces, run on both Windows and Mac on Steam, and are released games you can buy or download today. The first four rows keep all four pieces. The last two, Tiny Pasture and Rusty’s Retirement, keep the product and the farm, but their pages list neither a prestige reset nor earnings with the game closed. I kept them for the players who liked watching the farm more than the numbers.
Which Steam games are most like Egg, Inc.?
Play AdVenture Capitalist first: it is free, you run each business by hand until you hire its manager, its businesses keep earning while you are offline, and its Angel Investors work the way soul eggs do. If the upgrade column was your favorite part, Industry Idle goes much deeper. If you mostly liked watching the farm, keep Rusty’s Retirement on screen.
| Game | What you grow | Earns while you are away? | Prestige | The Egg, Inc. piece it keeps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdVenture Capitalist | Businesses, from a lemonade stand up | Yes, once managers are hired | Angel Investors | The start: run it by hand, automate it, reset |
| Industry Idle | 90+ resources from 130+ factories | Yes, based on company valuation | Yes, for permanent upgrades | Production chains and upgrades, much deeper |
| Cell to Singularity | Life, from one cell to a future civilization | Yes, offline earnings | Yes, reboot the simulation | A ladder of ages, like the ladder of eggs |
| Idle Cave Miner | Ore and gems, dug by your miners | Yes, offline rewards | Yes, for souls | Miners that dig for you, as the chickens lay for you |
| Tiny Pasture | Animals that drop coins | Runs while its window is open | None listed | Buying animals and watching them work |
| Rusty’s Retirement | Crops, turned into biofuel | Runs while its window is open | None listed | A farm that runs while you do something else |
“None listed” means the game’s Steam page does not describe a prestige reset. Tiny Pasture and Rusty’s Retirement are built to sit at the bottom of your screen while you work, so their pages talk about running beside other windows, and neither lists earnings with the game closed.
How much do they cost, and do they all run on Mac?
Prices are the regular US Steam price, review counts are Steam’s all-language totals, and the positive share is Steam’s own, all as of October 2026. Four of the prices below were discounted on the check date, both Industry Idle expansions among them, so what you pay may be lower.
| Game | Released on Steam (as of October 2026) | Steam price (as of October 2026) | Steam reviews (as of October 2026) | Positive (as of October 2026) | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdVenture Capitalist | 2015 | Free | 60,441 | 87.6% | Yes |
| Industry Idle | 2024 | Free, 2 expansions at $4.99 | 1,487 | 77.3% | Yes |
| Cell to Singularity | 2021 | Free, with in-app purchases | 28,243 | 89.3% | Yes |
| Idle Cave Miner | 2023 | Free, with in-app purchases | 1,241 | 80.7% | Yes |
| Tiny Pasture | 2025 | $5.99 | 8,639 | 92.5% | Yes |
| Rusty’s Retirement | 2024 | $6.99 | 14,877 | 96.7% | Yes |
Egg, Inc. itself is free with in-app purchases, so the four free games above are the like-for-like swap. The two paid ones, Tiny Pasture and Rusty’s Retirement, carry no In-App Purchases label on their Steam pages, though both sell optional DLC such as a cosmetic supporter pack. If a store inside the game is the thing you want to avoid, our list of idle games on Steam without microtransactions checked that question on its own.
AdVenture Capitalist
AdVenture Capitalist is the closest Egg, Inc. substitute on Steam. Its store page promises that once you hire a manager, “Money keeps accumulating while you’re offline”, which is the Egg, Inc. silo idea with a business suit on. The prestige layer is Angel Investors: the AdVenture Capitalist wiki explains that each angel adds 2% to all profits, but only after you reset, much like soul eggs. It is free to play, and its one DLC is a $9.99 bundle (as of October 2026) of 115 Gold Bars and a suit that boosts all profits. Our games like AdVenture Capitalist list goes further down this branch.
Industry Idle
Industry Idle suits the player who liked Egg, Inc.’s upgrade column more than its chickens. Its store page lists 130+ factories, 90+ resources, 50+ policies that change how your economy runs, offline earnings based on your company’s valuation, and a prestige that unlocks new maps and permanent upgrades. Egg, Inc. has co-op Contracts; Industry Idle’s nearest thing is a real-time market where you trade resources with other players. It has the lowest positive share here, 77.3% (as of October 2026), so read the recent reviews before you settle in.
Cell to Singularity
Cell to Singularity is the best match for the way Egg, Inc. keeps changing what you are producing. You tap to collect Entropy and climb from a single cell through fish, reptiles, mammals and humans to a speculative future, which is the same idea as climbing from the first egg to the futuristic ones. The Cell to Singularity wiki covers the offline earnings and the reboot that pays out Metabits for permanent upgrades. Like Egg, Inc., it is free and carries an In-App Purchases label on its Steam page. Our games like Cell to Singularity list covers more games built on that climb.
Idle Cave Miner
Idle Cave Miner swaps the chickens for miners. Where Egg, Inc. has you buy hen houses and vehicles so the farm runs on its own, this one has you build a team of miners who do the digging, craft items that permanently raise their stats, and prestige for rewards that carry into the next dig, all listed on its store page. The fan wiki names that reward on its prestige page, souls, and its upgrades page lists upgrades for offline time and offline rewards. It has the smallest review count here, 1,241 (as of October 2026).
Tiny Pasture
Tiny Pasture is the gentlest pick and the only one where animals are the economy. You buy baby animals, grow them, and collect the coins they drop to expand the pasture, according to its store page. You can also breed two adults of the same species for newborns. It sits in a strip along the bottom of your screen beside your other windows, so it trades Egg, Inc.’s offline farm for one you keep half an eye on.
Rusty’s Retirement
Rusty’s Retirement suits the player who liked watching the farm more than the numbers. You plant the crops, and Rusty, a robot, waters and harvests them. You turn the harvest into biofuel, sell it, and reinvest the money in the farm and in helper bots that share the chores, as its store page describes. It has the highest positive share here, 96.7% (as of October 2026). It has no prestige reset listed, so it suits the early, building part of Egg, Inc. better than the late game.
Two more, with no Mac build
Both of these are free, both have a prestige layer, and both are built for a long late game, the part Egg, Inc.’s App Store page sells as a “Deep end game”. Their Steam pages list no Mac build: Farmer Against Potatoes Idle is Windows only, and Unnamed Space Idle runs on Windows and Linux. I kept them out of the table because the title promises Mac.
Farmer Against Potatoes Idle is an idle RPG where a farmer fights waves of mutated potatoes. Its store page lists more than 5 worlds of 9 areas, 100 waves to an area, each area at two difficulty settings. Its Reincarnation system is the prestige layer, and each reset lets you switch between 6 classes. It has 8,197 reviews (as of October 2026) and carries an In-App Purchases label.
Unnamed Space Idle fits the player whose favorite part of Egg, Inc. was the futuristic late game. You upgrade a ship, fight waves of alien ships, and unlock more than 10 game systems along the way, prestige among them. It is free, carries an In-App Purchases label, sits in Early Access on Steam, and has 4,494 reviews (as of October 2026).
Quick answers
Can you play Egg, Inc. on a PC or Mac? Yes on an Apple Silicon Mac, no on a Windows PC. As of October 2026 there is no Steam or Windows version, while an M1 or newer Mac on macOS 11 or later can install the iPad version from the App Store. AdVenture Capitalist is the closest Steam game.
Is there a game like Egg, Inc. on Steam without in-app purchases? Yes. Tiny Pasture and Rusty’s Retirement carry no In-App Purchases label on Steam: you pay once, $5.99 and $6.99 at regular price (as of October 2026), and optional DLC sits on top. Neither lists a prestige reset, so they stand in for the early farm, not the late game.
Which game like Egg, Inc. has prestige and offline earnings? Four in the table have both: AdVenture Capitalist, Industry Idle, Cell to Singularity and Idle Cave Miner. All four are free to download on Steam, and AdVenture Capitalist is the simplest of them to start, with a single lemonade stand to run by hand.
Is there a game like Egg, Inc. with a deep late game? Yes. Unnamed Space Idle, if you play on Windows or Linux, keeps adding systems as you prestige, which is the nearest thing here to Egg, Inc.’s run of futuristic eggs. On a Mac, Cell to Singularity’s climb toward a future civilization comes closest.
Where our game fits
Our own game, Sam, We Talked About This, is an idle incremental game, and it sits beside this list rather than on it. Egg, Inc. ends up shipping futuristic eggs; Sam ends at AGI. The loop is the same kind of self-feeding chain: you scrape data, train models on it, let the models win subscribers, and turn the subscribers into cash for more disks, bigger machines and a bigger crew. It is unreleased, due on Steam in Q1 2027, so there is nothing to score or price yet. Its Steam page lists Windows and macOS, if you want to follow it.
