Incremental Games Like Progress Knight on Steam
What are the best games like Progress Knight?
If I could hand a Progress Knight player one Steam game, it would be Increlution: you live one life, your health fails with age, you die, and skills you trained carry into the next life so it goes faster. Of the five Steam picks in the tables below, Your Chronicle is the nearest match, a text idle RPG with a Reincarnation that pays out an experience multiplier. Wizard And Minion Idle is the only table pick whose store page says you die and reincarnate. For the clearest ending, play Magic Research. Incremental Epic Hero 2 and Minutescape are looser fits, each for a different reason.
Updated October 2026.
What makes a game feel like Progress Knight?
Progress Knight is an incremental game, which means 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. Our explainer on what an incremental game is covers the label in more detail.
Progress Knight is a free browser game by Ihtasham42, and its source code is open on GitHub. That source shows how one life works:
- You start at 14 as a beggar and climb a job ladder in one of three careers: common work, the military, or The Arcane Association of mages, training one skill at a time beside your job.
- You age while you play, toward a base lifespan of 70 years, so a first life runs out in under an hour and a half.
- An amulet decides your rebirth. You find it at 25. At 65, touching the eye restarts your life with no levels and no coins, but every job and skill learns faster by 1 + its highest level / 10. At 200, you can “embrace evil”, a deeper reset that wipes even those max levels and pays out evil instead.
So a Progress Knight player is looking for three things: a career ladder, a life that ends, and a multiplier that makes the next life faster. Only Increlution keeps all three. The five picks below each keep the reset and the multiplier, and the table shows where they differ on the rest.
Which Steam games are most like Progress Knight?
The table says what each game calls its reset, whether your character actually dies, what you keep, and whether there is an ending to reach. Each cell comes from the game’s store page or the developer’s own posts.
| Game | Your reset is called | Does your character die? | What carries over | Does it end? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your Chronicle | Reincarnation | Not stated | An experience multiplier | Yes, several endings |
| Magic Research | Retirement | No, you retire | Retirement bonuses | Yes, one concrete ending |
| Wizard And Minion Idle | Reincarnation | Yes, then you reincarnate | Experience and souls for permanent bonuses | No ending promised |
| Incremental Epic Hero 2 | Rebirth, per hero | No | Boosts for each reborn hero | No ending promised |
| Minutescape | A new attempt | Not stated | Points for permanent upgrades | Yes, survive five minutes |
What about Increlution and Idling to Rule the Gods?
Increlution is the one to play first if aging and dying were the point. Its store page describes the same arc: your health declines faster as time goes on “until you’ll eventually die”, and Instinct levels in skills such as Farming persist through death, so every generation starts stronger. Where Progress Knight has you swap jobs by hand, Increlution has you plan a queue of jobs, constructions and explorations, and it pauses itself when the queue runs out. It also has a story you can complete, though it is still in Early Access and the story is not finished. It costs $3.99 (as of October 2026). Our list of games like Kittens Game covers it in more detail.
Idling to Rule the Gods is the other common recommendation. You are the last survivor of humanity, training shadow clones and fighting gods, with a Rebirth that unlocks bonuses for the next climb, according to its Steam page. It is free, mostly text, and warns that it “might also not be as easy to understand as some other games”. It is in our games like Antimatter Dimensions list too.
How much do they cost, and which run on Mac?
Prices are the regular US Steam price, review counts are Steam’s all-language totals, the positive share is Steam’s own positive count divided by the total, and release years are Steam’s release dates, all as of October 2026.
| Game | Released on Steam | Price (as of October 2026) | Reviews (as of October 2026) | Positive | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your Chronicle | 2021 | Free, in-app purchases | 2,740 | 79.7% | Yes |
| Magic Research | 2023 | $4.99 | 418 | 90.7% | No |
| Wizard And Minion Idle | 2019 | Free, in-app purchases | 820 | 89.9% | No |
| Incremental Epic Hero 2 | 2025 | Free, in-app purchases | 1,711 | 72.6% | Yes |
| Minutescape | 2025 | $5.99 | 576 | 74.8% | Yes |
Either paid game may be on sale when you look. Your Chronicle and Minutescape also list Linux. For more idle picks that run on a Mac, see our guide to idle games for Mac.
Which games keep the reincarnation loop?
Your Chronicle
Your Chronicle is the closest of the five, and if you only try one from the table, I would start here. Its Steam page calls it a text-based idle RPG with “more than 3,000 unique story actions”. Like Progress Knight, you play it from a list of buttons: you pick an action, enhance your abilities with it, and new actions open up as you go.
The reset is Reincarnation, and it pays out the way Progress Knight’s amulet does. The developer’s version 2.2.3 patch notes fix a bug where “the experience multiplier of reincarnation becomes 0”, which tells you what the reset is for. It adds things Progress Knight never had: automated dungeon fights, monsters you summon and equip, and a multi-ending system where your choices change the ending. It has the most reviews here, 2,740, 79.7% positive (as of October 2026).
Wizard And Minion Idle
Wizard And Minion Idle is the only one of the five where the store page says your character dies. Its store page lists “Die, reincarnate, and do it all again” as a feature, with experience and souls spent in shops for permanent bonuses, so each cycle starts stronger. Around that sits a lot more: training, spells, a minion you feed, demons you assign to jobs, fishing, gem crafting and dungeons.
It has been updated since 2019, and the store page calls it an “Idle/active hybrid” with flexible pacing. It is a busier screen than Progress Knight’s two lists of jobs and skills, and it does not promise an ending; the page talks of “ever-expanding new content” instead. It has the second-best positive share here, 89.9% of 820 reviews (as of October 2026). Windows only.
Which game like Progress Knight has the clearest ending?
Magic Research
Magic Research is for the Progress Knight player who wanted the game to finish. Your Chronicle’s endings depend on your choices and Minutescape stops at its five-minute goal, but Magic Research is the one whose developer promises a concrete ending in a stated number of hours. You are the headmaster of a new school of magic trying to win the Tournament of Magic, and you research spells, build the campus and manage a team of researchers and apprentices, per its Steam page. The reset is Retirement: you restart the game and progress faster each time with retirement bonuses.
The developer’s launch FAQ describes “an incremental, text-based game about magic with a concrete ending”, reachable without “months- or years-long playtimes”, and counts around 40 hours or more of active play. A later patch added a hint on the Retirement screen for when it is better to retire and when to keep going, which is the same call as deciding when to touch Progress Knight’s eye. The FAQ also calls it “more of an active game than many other games in the genre”, so expect to click more. It has the best positive share here, 90.7% of 418 reviews (as of October 2026). Our list of idle games that actually end has more with a finish line.
Which picks are the loosest fit?
Incremental Epic Hero 2
Incremental Epic Hero 2 is a looser fit, and I would pick it only if what you liked was the reset itself. You run six heroes who fight automatically across a world map, and its store page says you can “Rebirth your heroes to gain powerful progression boosts, starting fresh but stronger each time”, then prestige the whole world through Ascension. The same page says Rebirth is how you eventually run all six heroes at once in the background.
There is no aging, and the rest is a fantasy battler with a town to build, monsters to capture and gear to enchant. The page says “With over 1,000 hours of gameplay content, the journey never truly ends”, which is a claim about size; no ending is promised. It reached full release after 2.5 years of Early Access, per the same page. It has the lowest positive share here, 72.6% of 1,711 reviews (as of October 2026).
Minutescape
Minutescape is the odd one out, because it needs your hands. Its Steam page describes a bullet hell where you dodge, spend points between attempts to upgrade yourself, and try to survive five minutes in a row. “Every attempt makes you stronger” is the Progress Knight promise, compressed: each run is a short life, and the upgrades are the multiplier.
There is no idle play at all, so it suits a break, not a background tab. It does have a finish: the store sets the five-minute goal, and the developer’s version 1.2 notes mention its credits. It has 576 reviews, 74.8% positive (as of October 2026).
Is there a Progress Knight on Steam, mobile or other browsers?
Yes to all three, with a caveat for Steam. Progress Knight: Multiplayer has been on Steam since 2024, from Gawaak, but it is a different game: a free-to-play PvP version where you steal gold from lower-ranked players, with a reset that keeps some of your power. It has 28 reviews, 42.9% positive (as of October 2026), which Steam rates Mixed. Progress Knight: Mobile is free on the App Store and on Google Play.
For a longer browser game, Progress Knight Quest is a fan continuation. Its GitHub page calls it “A continuation of Progress Knight 2.0” with 5 prestige layers, and it is free to play in a browser. The original is still free on GitHub Pages.
If you liked Progress Knight’s text-first screen, our list of games like A Dark Room has more of those, Your Chronicle among them. If you want something to leave running beside a spreadsheet, see games to play while working.
Quick answers
Is Progress Knight free? Yes. The original runs free in a browser on GitHub Pages, and its code is public under the Unlicense. The mobile and Steam versions are free to download; the Steam version lists in-app purchases, and the Google Play listing shows ads and in-app purchases.
How long is one life in Progress Knight? About 85 minutes of real time for an unboosted first life. The clock runs 4 in-game days per second, and age 14 to 70 is 20,440 days. The Immortality skill stretches later lives, and Time warping speeds up the clock.
Is there a free game like Progress Knight on Steam? Yes, four on this page. Your Chronicle, Wizard And Minion Idle, Incremental Epic Hero 2 and Idling to Rule the Gods are free to play, and each lists in-app purchases on Steam. Magic Research, Minutescape and Increlution are paid.
Are there games like Progress Knight on Mac? Yes. Your Chronicle, Incremental Epic Hero 2, Minutescape, Increlution and Idling to Rule the Gods all list macOS on Steam. Magic Research and Wizard And Minion Idle are Windows only there.
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. You scrape sites for data, train text, image and video models on it, rack the models to win subscribers, and spend the cash on more disks, bigger machines and a bigger crew. Where the games above restart you, its store page describes one loop that feeds itself and speeds up, with AGI waiting at the end. It is unreleased, due on Steam in Q1 2027, so there is nothing to play or score yet. Its Steam page lists Windows and macOS, if you want to follow it.
