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How To Grow a Black Hole

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2026

Should you play it?

How To Grow a Black Hole is about... well... how to grow a black hole. Manage your black hole, feed it to gain mass, and prevent catastrophic collapses. Compete globally or against your friends to achieve the biggest black hole. Maybe you'll be #1.

What works

  • Engaging and strategic idle gameplay
  • Beautiful and stimulating visuals
  • Active developer support and updates
  • Offline progress and automation
  • Competitive leaderboards

Things to keep in mind

  • Performance issues on some systems
  • Confusing ui and upgrade descriptions
  • Forced collapse mechanic can frustrate
  • Some players accuse ai use (disputed)
  • Limited social or cooperative features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Solar Settlers

  • GLONK

  • Dark Hunting Ground

  • YORG.io

  • Unnamed Space Idle

  • Lyca

Less fantastical

Games that feels like How To Grow a Black Hole but with less imaginative fiction

  • Fracture Field

  • Nodebuster

  • DEFRAG

  • Idle Deepcore

  • Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

  • Rhythia

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like How To Grow a Black Hole but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Duskers

  • NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division

  • Minutescape

  • Hacknet

  • Slipways

  • Horizon Shift

More violent

Games that feels like How To Grow a Black Hole but with more combat and destruction

  • Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition

  • Titan Attacks!

  • Power Fantasy

  • Star Ruler

  • Heretic's Fork

  • Loot Loop

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

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How To Grow a Black Hole: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026