- #1 StimDock
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShadowPane
Windows
Tiny games and mini-simulations that live on your desktop. Interact with them whenever you like, tweak how they behave, or let them run in the background while you work or play.
Why similar: Utilities 25.5% ★, Time Management 16.1%, Incremental 14.8%, Idler 14%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #2 QTI - Quantum Tunnel Idle
96% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: ImoyokanPub: Idle System, Inc.
Windows
AN IDLE GAME BASED ON THE "TUNNELING EFFECT"!
Why similar: Education 31.4%, Idler 17.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Incremental 10.4%
- #3 Cubing Forge
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: The Wolf Pack Mind
Windows
Build real 3×3 cubing skill through guided lessons, interactive practice, CFOP algorithm training, solve timing, performance analysis, and support for compatible Bluetooth smart cubes.
Why similar: Strategy 22.5%, Education 21.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Utilities 15.1% ★, Puzzle 10.6%
- #4 Idle Spiral
95% matchVery Positive80% of 1,879 reviews2022
Dev: Idle System, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 116.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!
Why similar: Idler 19.6%, Incremental 19.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Time Management 13%, Automation 11.8%
- #5 Topobeam
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nathaniel Hohnbaum
Windows
Topobeam is a puzzle game about redirecting lasers in different two-dimensional manifolds. The levels operate on a grid system, but pay attention to how the sides of the grid are glued together as players, objects, and lasers can cross over these gluings to different parts of the level.
Why similar: Sokoban 34.2% ★, Education 20.8%, Strategy 16.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Minimalist 8.9%
- #6 Your Weight
94% matchNo user reviews92% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: HaoHao Games
Windows
A light strategy life sim about losing weight. Spend limited time on exercise, diet, and rest, manage willpower and hunger, deal with random events, and watch the scale slowly move—or refuse to.
Why similar: Utilities 35.7% ★, Education 18.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Time Management 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%
- #7 QA Simulator
93% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: MGTD SERVICES inc
Windows
Step into the meticulous world of a Quality Assurance (QA) Tester with "QA Simulator", an immersive simulation game that offers you a slice of the challenging yet crucial tech industry.
Why similar: Utilities 34.6% ★, Education 28.7%, Simulation 21.1%, Time Management 12.8%, 2D 1.9%
- #8 Automat
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marek “𝖒𝖆𝖋” Rogalski
Windows · Linux
Tired of games that waste your time? AUTOMATE THEM 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕥 is a tool that knows how to use your 🖱️ & ⌨️! It's optimized for frame perfect input replay 🎼, can recognize text 🔎, is scriptable with machine code ⚡️. Set it up for hands-free leveling 📈 & 💰 gold grinding in your games.
Why similar: Utilities 24% ★, Hacking 12.8% ★, Idler 12.5%, Incremental 11.9%, Automation 11.4%
- #9 Stone to Silicon - Idle Clicker
91% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: EF Games
Windows
Stone to Silicon: Build History, Click by Click From the spark of the first fire to the glow of the quantum circuit.
Why similar: Utilities 33% ★, Incremental 18.9%, Idler 16.8%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 13.1%
- #10 Node Math
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Education 21.4%, Idler 15.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Automation 13.5%, Simulation 11%
- #11 Penguin IdleCanvas
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KinKang421
Windows
A chill idle pixel-art drawing desktop toy that sits on your screen. Watch mini penguins stack pixel blocks into tiny pixel arts that you design.
Why similar: Utilities 31.9% ★, Idler 16.9%, Education 16.4%, Simulation 14.5%, Incremental 7.8%
- #12 Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES)
90% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Christopher ShovePub: Regional Scientists
Windows
Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) simulates the development of North Korea's Pyongyang economy. It is an economic simulation and not a game, and useful for an economics class.
Why similar: Education 37.5%, Simulation 33.4%, Strategy 29.1%
- #13 MoneyClicker
88% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: ACXHobby
Windows
A minimalist incremental clicker about earning money, upgrading income, and prestiging for endless growth.
Why similar: Incremental 27.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Idler 14.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Time Management 12.2%
- #14 Calculate It!
89% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: OriShake Software
Windows
CALCULATE IT is a casual math puzzle game with various mathsymbols, which is based on the calculator. You need to make a target number with your logic skills and creativity.
Why similar: Education 32.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Incremental 15.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #15 Not Gates
87% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Nopana
Windows · Linux
Large scale computer redstone! Taking computer redstone to the next level with 24bit color screens, keyboard inputs, powerful tools like copy pasting, saving blueprints, modifying simulation speed and more, all ready to be used.
Why similar: Education 34.1%, Simulation 24.8%, Sandbox 18.4%, Automation 9.6%, Logic 5.3%
- #16 StudyHub
86% match3 user reviews50% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Solid Illusion
Windows
StudyHub is a peaceful online workspace where you can focus alongside people from around the world. Manage your tasks and reach your goals in a shared environment that supports up to 60 people per server.
Why similar: Utilities 33.5% ★, Education 24%, Time Management 16.3%, Idler 16.3%, Simulation 9.9%
- #17 Trade the Crash
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews
Dev: PERFECTCIRCLE
Windows
A single-player trading simulator set during the 2000 dot-com crash. Trade 63 fictionalized instruments across 818 historical market days, manage $50,000 in starting capital, pay living expenses, and try to survive the collapse.
Why similar: Education 31.2%, Simulation 24.3%, Strategy 21.4%, Time Management 16.6%, Management 2.9%
- #18 МЕМАСИКИ ПО КЛАССИКЕ 2
85% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
Remember how we connected to the internet via a modem, listening to that epic squeal, and then waiting for ICQ to log in and show statuses with flowers? Or how an incoming "oooh" message would ring out in the silence of the night, making your heart beat faster?
Why similar: Education 26.8%, Idler 20.7%, Incremental 18.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Puzzle 9.1%
- #19 Automation
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 47 reviews2022
Dev: One Tree Hill Studios
Windows
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Education 38.4%, Automation 18.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 14.2%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #20 buttonbox
83% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: KIM DEA HYEON
Windows
Buttonbox is a simple 2D game made with Python where you press buttons to activate machines and trigger drum sounds. Created using Pygame, it's designed for fun, learning, and inspiration.
Why similar: Utilities 46.7% ★, Simulation 26.2%, Education 23.9%, 2D 3.2%
- #21 Nodes
84% matchMixed61% of 46 reviews2022
Dev: Damaged Axons
Windows
Node production simulator. Purchase nodes to produce resources, so you can advance in the technology tree and build yourself a large production line. This game will satisfy your need for incremental simulators with the large amount of content.
Why similar: Simulation 25.3%, Sandbox 19%, Incremental 17%, Idler 14.3%, Automation 10.5%
- #22 MoldLab
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Qsters
Windows · Mac
With just a few sliders you can make beautiful structures from millions of little creatures following each other.
Why similar: Education 35.7%, Simulation 26.2%, Sandbox 19.3%, Automation 15.9%, 2D 3%
- #23 价值投资者:50年生涯
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: yzhen
Windows
Never tried Value Investing? Start here. Learn through gameplay, test strategies risk-free, and master compounding over 50 years. Build your empire, embrace patience, and grow alongside the Oracle of Omaha.
Why similar: Education 29.8%, Strategy 25%, Simulation 22.3%, Sandbox 20.5%, 2D 2.4%
- #24 Minesweeper Inc.
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hazard Lights Games
Windows
A Minesweeper-inspired incremental where every cell you dig pays. Run short shifts, buy upgrades between them, and work your way up a seven-floor company tower — glaciers, volcanoes, deep space, a casino on top. Mines? That's what insurance is for.
Why similar: Idler 22.7%, Incremental 19.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 15%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #25 Logic Foundry
80% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: AJ Kaddoura
Windows
Logic Foundry is a circuit-building puzzle game where every solved design becomes a reusable chip. Start with simple traces and build toward a tiny 4-bit CPU. This is an alpha playtest. The campaign is playable, the game and levels levels are still in progress.
Why similar: Utilities 29.8% ★, Sokoban 21.9% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Education 13.1%, Automation 6.4%
- #26 Idle Trading Simulator
81% matchMixed40% of 40 reviews2021
Dev: DiamosDev
Windows
Idle Trading Simulator - is a simulator of buying / selling currency in the stock market. The game will help you get a first idea of the financial market, without losing your real money.
Why similar: Education 22.9%, Idler 13.6%, Incremental 13%, Time Management 12%, Simulation 11.4%
- #27 Capybara Achievement Clicker
79% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: JosephPub: WeirdCanyon
Windows
Capybara Achievement Clicker is a simple incremental and idle game. It features over a hundred easy-to-acquire achievements and a Capybara to click on.
Why similar: Idler 18.7%, Incremental 17.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Automation 14.1%, Strategy 11.8%
- #28 Pretty Buttons
79% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Valkyrja GamesPub: EINHERJAR ENTERPRISES LLC
Windows
Pretty Buttons makes the buttons on your keyboard do pretty things. Its a visual sensory experience to engage any who need a little engagement.
Why similar: Education 34.3%, Simulation 27.7%, Sandbox 21.9%, Idler 15.1%, Indie 1.1%
- #29 Sigformation
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: AnotherKnife Games Studio
Windows · Mac
A hardcore puzzle game about digital circuits
Why similar: Education 45.9%, Simulation 35.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, 2D 3.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #30 Recycle Quest
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Adamm Game DevPub: Gigantig G
Windows
Recycle Quest is a Sokoban puzzle game where you control Jake to help cleaning the city
Why similar: Sokoban 37.4% ★, Education 28.9%, Strategy 17.2%, Puzzle 6.6%, Stylized 3.6%
- #31 Jiahao
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 豪意有限公司Pub: 豪格集团
Windows · Mac
Sit tight: a coronation for the annals of the Hao realm. I’m Jiahao, your desktop pet—its absolute strongest, stock investing’s uncrowned king and fashion’s highest peak. What has this loneliness taught you to love? “You misunderstand. Let me enlighten you.” “You are the challenger.”
Why similar: Utilities 32.5% ★, Time Management 18.5%, Incremental 17.2%, Idler 16.3%, Simulation 10.8%
- #32 Corporate Fat Cat
78% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: C. Uriah
Windows
Play the [fish] stock market as a cat trying to get out of the daily rat race. This game is now [as of 7.11.2023] only available on Steam.
Why similar: Simulation 23.6%, Incremental 22.9%, Strategy 21.6%, Idler 11.1%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #33 Rocket Automashapes
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Education 16.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Automation 11.9%, Idler 10.5%, Time Management 10.1%
- #34 Mission To Fission
74% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Higgsino
Windows · Linux
Nuclear fission simulator. Control A nuclear reactor, balancing Uranium fissile material. The game features a oversimplified reactor and the R.B.M.K Reactor in Chernobyl.
Why similar: Education 42.6%, Simulation 31.2%, Sandbox 22.3%, 2D 3.9%
- #35 Simple Multipliers
75% matchMostly Negative31% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: PELMENI GAMES
Windows
Unique idle game with endless gameplay mechanics. Hardcore goals but fair possibilities to reach them. Use the power of multipliers, create the most powerful income generators and be the best among all players!
Why similar: Idler 18.5%, Incremental 17.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 11.6%
- #36 Sleeping: Counting Sheep
76% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Callial
Windows
A relaxing, Twitch-integrated sheep simulation where viewers can spawn and chat as sheep. Perfect for streamers looking to entertain their audience while resting or away from their keyboard.
Why similar: Utilities 39.7% ★, Simulation 23.1%, Sandbox 19.2%, Idler 17.1%, Indie 0.8%
- #37 Flippant
71% matchVery Positive96% of 199 reviews2026
Dev: vomithog
Windows
An abstract incremental game about flipping a coin and maybe some other things too
Why similar: Incremental 22%, Idler 19.5%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 17.5%, Automation 10.4%
- #38 Drink Water!
72% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: hourglass seven
Windows
A simple and clean desktop bottle-companion that reminds you to drink water and stay hydrated throughout the day. Track your daily water intake, monitor your streak, and keep a little (or big) pixel-art bottle always on your desktop.
Why similar: Utilities 39.7% ★, Education 27.4%, Incremental 20.6%, Simulation 9.8%, 2D 2.5%
- #39 Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
73% matchVery Positive98% of 96 reviews2020
Dev: Northway Games
Windows
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Why similar: Education 21.2%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 17.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Puzzle 10.5%
- #40 Lofi Ocean
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Igniting Spark Games
Windows
A relaxed and cozy game with an underwater ocean setting. Collect bubbles and pearls to unlock more and more marine creatures and watch them swim, listen to chill Lo-Fi music and create playlists, and if you want, use a built-in timer and a task organizer for your study sessions.
Why similar: Utilities 39.5% ★, Simulation 20.8%, Incremental 17%, Idler 16%, Stylized 3.8%
- #41 Colours and Symbols
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Yong Chuan TanPub: Breadfast Tea
Windows
Colours and symbols is a single-player puzzle-solving game. Slide the coloured symbols around and match the sequence provided.
Why similar: Education 32.5%, Incremental 20.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Puzzle 9.9%, Minimalist 6.9%
- #42 Click and Slash
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zebra3devPub: Sukuratchi
Windows
The Gény are cute, but no matter how BG they are, they'll need a well-placed kick! Because yes, you have to eliminate them... while doing your job! Do your activities and boost your productivity and your number of clicks for the week, slacker.
Why similar: Utilities 23.8% ★, Idler 18.5%, Simulation 16.3%, Incremental 16.1%, Education 13.7%
- #43 Upload Labs
67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,354 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Idler 18.2%, Automation 16.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Incremental 13.8%, Time Management 9.7%
- #44 GAMEBORO
69% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Monolith
Windows
Works anywhere, knows everything. Get the info you need mid-game - no alt-tabbing, no distractions.
Why similar: Utilities 54.3% ★, Education 26.4%, Strategy 17.4%, Indie 2%
- #45 Rule1A Incremental: Idle Forum
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zachary ChampeauPub: Considera Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
An idle game about growing a forum while desperately trying to keep it under control.
Why similar: Idler 20%, Incremental 17.5%, Time Management 15.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Automation 13.3%
- #46 Forklift Manager
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bandsoft
Windows
Build and manage your own logistics company. Operate forklifts, handle deliveries, hire employees, and grow your business in this immersive warehouse and logistics simulator.
Why similar: Utilities 43% ★, Simulation 26.9%, Strategy 23.5%, Management 5.7%, Indie 0.9%
- #47 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Automation 16.3%, Time Management 11.6%
- #48 Laser_Inc
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aiden Forsyth
Windows · Mac
A laser-powered factory game where every machine, mirror, and beam can break everything—usually because of you. Build, optimize, and embrace the chaos. If you want to build mega structures with complex networks of unique machines... with flippin lasers then Laser_Inc is for you.
Why similar: Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 18.3%, Idler 15.5%, Time Management 12.6%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #49 Project Manager (Initiation)
69% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: PM Consulting & Services Jerzy Bielonko
Windows · Mac · Linux
A strategic game that simulates the work of a Project Manager within a large corporation. From a first-person perspective, you gain the skills and tools essential for PM work during the first stage of a project: Initiation.
Why similar: Education 34.4%, Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 20.2%, Time Management 15.8%, Management 6.1%
- #50 Conveyance
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: John Hnidec
Windows · Mac
A conveyor-based production and logistics sandbox including smart machines, node based conveyor belts, logic and recipe based item generation and powerful design time construction. Create and connect Miners, Splitters, Factories, Containers, Vaults and more...
Why similar: Strategy 21.5%, Automation 21.1%, Simulation 19%, Sandbox 17.5%, Logic 7.8%
- #51 HR.SOS
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
The company is falling apart, and you're both the HR cleaning up the mess and the CEO profiting from it. Optimize people, rebuild workflows, automate production, and watch the numbers go up.
Why similar: Idler 18.3%, Time Management 17.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Puzzle 11.2%, Strategy 10.1%
- #52 Legacy Looper
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tomlan Game Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
An incremental, text-based strategy looper game where you defeat monsters, level up your attributes and use gold to purchase helpful items - a huge game with 88 achievements, multiple layers of content and countless accolades to acquire!
Why similar: Idler 19.1%, Time Management 17.1%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Automation 13%
- #53 Gebinden
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Bunnybear Games
Windows
Minimalist Grid-Movement Puzzle Game
Why similar: Sokoban 33.3% ★, Education 27.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Puzzle 8.5%, Simulation 7.1%
- #54 Fractal.OS
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Laprida Studios
Windows
Fractal.OS insists you play tic-tac-toe. Again. And again. Build an automated board factory, earn resources, unlock rules, and bend thousands of random matches toward a single impossible task: lose 10,000 times in a row. The system appreciates your compliance.
Why similar: Incremental 18.6%, Idler 16.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 15.3%, Automation 15.3%
- #55 Compass & Straightedge
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: ShaoJH
Windows
A refreshing little game with blue-green as the main color. A game with the core gameplay of drawing with a ruler, involving conventional drawing, single ruler drawing, and single ruler drawing. The difficulty increases (slightly difficult), with tests of foundation, thinking, and even endurance.
Why similar: Education 35.7%, Minimalist 13.7%, Incremental 11.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Puzzle 9.3%
- #56 Shear line
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheNakedCat
Windows
A lockpicking simulator that does not roll dice. Pin tumbler locks, simulated rather than scored: no hidden success chance, no progress bar. A pin sets because you held the pick still inside a window a fraction of a millimetre wide, long enough to catch.
Why similar: Education 43.4%, Simulation 36.4%, Puzzle 15.2%, 2D 3.8%, Indie 1.2%
- #57 ABI-DOS
65% matchVery Positive92% of 434 reviews2024
Dev: ABI.DOS.SOFTWARE
Windows
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Education 20.2%, Hacking 13.2% ★, Automation 13.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%