Games Like Desktop Detective

Always open at the bottom of your screen, this idle game lets you advance through stages full of monsters. Master different jobs and become the strongest.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.7% ★, Idler 19.2%, Incremental 14.1%, Auto Battler 8.3%, RPG 5.8%

A desktop overlay idle autobattler that plays entirely on its own . Let it fight, collect your loot, buy upgrades, and merge your gear to keep your tower standing.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.7% ★, Idler 15.5%, Auto Battler 15.5%, Incremental 13%, Stylized 2.9%

An idle pixel-art space game. Your ship travels toward the center of the galaxy on its own asteroids get in the way. Break them, upgrade your ship, unlock new ones. Reach the center, and the next universe begins harder than the last.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 61% ★, Idler 17.4%, Incremental 14%, Stylized 4%, Casual 2.5%

A lightweight gladiator auto-battler designed to be played or watched on a second monitor.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.6% ★, Idler 18.5%, Auto Battler 17.2%, Incremental 14.2%, Casual 2.2%

An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.1% ★, Auto Battler 17.1%, Idler 16.3%, Incremental 14%, Casual 1.7%

Relicguard is a desktop toy idler clicker that you can leave running without it taking up the whole screen. Gain resources over time and spend them to upgrade your army. Once powerful enough, fight for powerful relics to augment your army. Build. Fight. Repeat.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.3% ★, Idler 21.8%, Incremental 18%, Casual 2%, Indie 1.5%

A hack-and-slash that fights on in your taskbar. Chibi heroes meet the enemy inside a thin strip parked at the bottom of your screen. All you do is swap the gear they picked up and respec their skills, whenever you feel like it. The rest happens in the corner of your screen without you.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.7% ★, Idler 19.6%, Auto Battler 17.1%, Incremental 9.9%, RPG 4.4%

A dark fantasy desktop-companion incremental that idles while you work, play, or browse. Play as a Knight cursed with immortality locked in endless battle against the undead. Grow stronger with every death, uncover the curses' secrets and the Knight's dark past, then break the cycle of undeath.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.6% ★, Auto Battler 17.2%, Incremental 12.7%, Idler 12.2%, Supernatural 3.5%

Harvest coins with robotic arms, unlock islands and conquer realms. An incremental idle desktop widget game that runs while you work or game.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.7% ★, Idler 16.8%, Incremental 16.4%, 2.5D 7%, Casual 2%

Cat Screen is a game about cats living on your desktop and taskbar! Collect, feed, play mini-games, win boxes, power up your cats, and participate in boss battles!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.2% ★, Idler 15.4%, Auto Battler 14.2%, Incremental 11.5%, 2.5D 9.1%

A tiny astronaut explores the Moon in a little window on your desktop. Collect resources, send out drones, upgrade your gear, and customize your operator. A calm idle companion to keep the workday fun.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 58.4% ★, Idler 22%, Incremental 17.4%, Casual 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

A cozy desktop companion that lives in the corner of your screen. Feed it, earn its trust, and help it evolve into a powerful guardian whenever enemies attack.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 76.3% ★, Idler 18.9%, Casual 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

A stress-relief ball that lives on your desktop. Bounce it, throw it around, let it keep you company while you work. Bored in a video call? Need a distraction from writer's block? Not anymore! Unlock and play with a variety of different balls in single- and multiplayer.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 64.3% ★, Idler 19.4%, Incremental 13.1%, Casual 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Legends of Companion is a strategic auto-battling ARPG roguelite where every choice is yours. Pick from 4 classes, build deep skill trees, forge loot, recruit a battle pet, and chart paths across diverse worlds. Master skills, gear, and team combos to turn one spark into an unstoppable legend.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 59.7% ★, Auto Battler 20.1%, RPG 8.3%, Incremental 8.1%, Casual 2.8%

An idle action RPG that lives in the corner of your desktop. Your hero farms monsters and gathers loot while you do other things—you return for the best part: choosing new gear, shaping the build, and deciding where to farm next.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 58.5% ★, Idler 15.3%, Auto Battler 10.9%, Incremental 7.9%, RPG 4.9%

An idle desktop pet game where pixel RPG heroes patrol the bottom of your screen, collect loot, and level up while you work.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.5% ★, Idler 21.2%, Incremental 12.9%, RPG 4.7%, Casual 2.4%

Loop Tower tells the story of adventurers climbing an endless tower. Place it on a corner of your desktop and help them continue their ascent. Experience a fresh blend of desktop idle gameplay + roguelike + RPG right now!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.5% ★, Auto Battler 16.1%, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 15.4%, RPG 3.6%

Your tower lives on your desktop, always on top of whatever you're doing. An incremental-idle survivor of endless waves: it shoots on its own, you drive the progression. Collect, climb the difficulty and beat your record. Free.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.1% ★, Incremental 19.9%, Idler 18.6%, Casual 3.2%, Indie 0.7%

Grind mobs, farm loot and capture enemies to serve you. Deskrawl is an epic idle ARPG that plays at the bottom of your desktop. Farm legendary items and build overpowered heroes while you work or chill.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.5% ★, Idler 22.9%, Incremental 13.6%, RPG 3%, Casual 2.2%

Listening to the gentle sound of the waves, take care of three small quirky nature spirits! With their help and some patience, create your own tiny cozy diorama and bring back life to your overgrown island!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.5% ★, Idler 17.1%, Incremental 16%, 2.5D 10.9%, Stylized 5.5%

In the 1-Bit world of black and white pixels, Explore, fight and survive automatically - enjoy this tabletop Idle RPG featuring monster hunting and minimalist character building with ease.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 70.4% ★, Idler 22.4%, RPG 4.9%, Casual 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Meet Little Friends on the PC with Crusaders Quest : Mini (CQ:Mini)! You can work and study During the game, Crusader Quest's warriors fought hard and saved the Hasla continent You're leaving. You can collect the original warriors and costumes just for this game, too. Let go of your boredom

Why similar: Desktop Companion 48.4% ★, Auto Battler 16%, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 13.6%, RPG 3.9%

《Delvegg》 is a desktop idle mining game. The core gameplay revolves around digging eggs, collecting pets, and building your underground mining empire.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.9% ★, Idler 18.5%, Incremental 12.7%, Auto Battler 8.4%, Casual 2%

Watch 3D chibi characters from Touhou Project battle through an endless corridor in this compact idle RPG. Build a party of up to four, collect gear, create powerful sets, and shape every character with branching skill trees. Keep growing in a slim window while you work, study, or browse.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.6% ★, Idler 24.2%, Auto Battler 15.1%, Incremental 11%, RPG 6.9%

A retro incremental idle desktop companion all about making progress on the side and at your own pace.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 60.5% ★, Idler 17.6%, Incremental 16.8%, Stylized 2.5%, Casual 1.9%

A desktop pet who listens to music with you and plays the drums along to the beat. Most of the time, he quietly keeps you company. But when the music starts, the stage is his.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 68.1% ★, Idler 27.3%, Casual 3.2%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team. Or Sell/Buy from the Steam Community Market.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.5% ★, Idler 18.4%, Incremental 14.2%, Auto Battler 10.2%, RPG 3.6%

Lead adorable warriors to form an adventure team to work and adventure on the computer desktop. Defeat the warriors to save the world. Rich nurturing and collection elements, idle and slack off to earn money and fight monsters!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 59.7% ★, Idler 22.2%, Incremental 9.4%, RPG 5%, Casual 1.8%

An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.2% ★, Idler 17.5%, Auto Battler 17.4%, Incremental 14.1%, Casual 1.4%

An idle poker game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 62.5% ★, Idler 20.5%, Incremental 7.2%, Deckbuilding 6.1%, Casual 2.5%

Follow GRATS on its journey even while you work or play on your computer. Every click. Every key press. Every action you take fuels GRATS’ power.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 54.1% ★, Auto Battler 14.8%, Idler 13.7%, Incremental 13.6%, Casual 2.1%

A desktop idle RPG where your party of five heroes fights, loots, and grows in a small window while you work.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.3% ★, Idler 20.2%, Auto Battler 14.8%, Incremental 9.3%, RPG 5%

Chill Fishing is the ultimate laid-back desktop fishing experience!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 73.7% ★, Idler 21.5%, Casual 3%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

The first Incremental RPG you can play at any scale. Dig toward the center of the world. Sell the items you find, earn money, or upgrade your character. Fight underground monsters and mine more valuable ores.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.5% ★, Idler 20.3%, Incremental 19.5%, Casual 2.3%, Indie 1%

An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 25.3% ★, Auto Battler 24.1%, Idler 23.8%, Incremental 19.8%, RPG 4.7%

A corner screen incremental brick-breaker where bouncing cores destroy endless swarms. Let it run in the corner of your screen while you work or jump into fullscreen and take control yourself. Unlock new Cores, expand your skill tree, survive endless waves.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.5% ★, Auto Battler 18%, Idler 15.8%, Incremental 13.8%, Stylized 3%

Idle Times is a thoughtful desktop companion where Bob files a growing shelf of original illustrated cartoons. Keep him company in Full, Mini, or Pet Desk mode, with new free editions added every week.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 74.4% ★, Idler 20.6%, Casual 3.6%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

This is a focus-support game built around instant feedback, inspired by the developer’s daily experience as an ADHDer. Randomly dropped puzzle pieces accompany every focus session; whenever a puzzle is completed, the image quietly comes to life and becomes a postcard...

Why similar: Desktop Companion 67.3% ★, Incremental 16.6%, Idler 8.2%, Stylized 3.7%, Casual 2.5%

Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab is a semi-idle desktop simulation game about academic life. Keep a tiny lab in the corner of your screen while you work, study, or relax. Recruit graduate students, apply for research projects, publish papers, purchase equipment, and build your own research team.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 67.6% ★, Idler 28.6%, Casual 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%

An idle tower defense game that sits at the bottom of your screen

Why similar: Auto Battler 28.1%, Desktop Companion 26.6% ★, Idler 21.4%, Incremental 17.6%, Casual 5%

The ultimate tiny idle RPG! Adorable pixel heroes are waiting to join your adventure — from your taskbar. Fight off the boredom of work and daily life with diverse classes, skills, items, and builds!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.5% ★, Idler 25%, Auto Battler 9%, RPG 4.1%, Incremental 2.9%

Hatch, evolve, collect! Tomokin Monsters is a desktop idler that lives on your screen, running in the background while you work. Feed and play with your monsters to evolve them into their ultimate forms! Can you collect them all?

Why similar: Desktop Companion 67.3% ★, 2.5D 13.6%, Idler 13%, Stylized 3.1%, Casual 2.4%

Desktop Gugu is a cozy taskbar companion. Freely place crystals, sacred trees, or nuclear reactors to assign pets to different production jobs. Pet, feed, and fuse them to unlock 12+ quirky companions. Fully supports transparent mouse-passthrough to keep your work uninterrupted.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 62.7% ★, Idler 19.4%, Incremental 15.2%, Casual 2.1%, Indie 0.7%

Emojis vs Zombies is an Idle Desktop Companion Zombie Defense Game! Open packs, Collect Emoji Defenders, Upgrade your squad or base and survive endless waves even while you're AFK or working!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 48% ★, Idler 17.7%, Auto Battler 17%, Incremental 15.2%, Casual 1.9%

Daily Botanica is a relaxing desktop idler about raising mysterious plants. Pet and water each seedling, discover what makes it flourish, and arrange a living collection around your screen - even while you work, study, or step away.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 61.3% ★, Idler 19%, Incremental 15%, Casual 2.4%, Stylized 1.7%

A cozy idle taxi sim with Lofi beats. Grow your taxi business quietly in the corner of your screen while you work.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 67.9% ★, Idler 20.9%, Stylized 4.6%, Casual 2.5%, Incremental 2.4%

S4NCTU4RY — a bar set in the heart of a cyberpunk city. Outside, the world is loud, exhausting, and never stops. Your job is to offer shelter from the chaos, and craft the one drink that makes people forget it all.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 54% ★, Auto Battler 20.7%, Idler 17.1%, Deckbuilding 5.6%, Indie 1.4%

A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.4% ★, Auto Battler 16.4%, Idler 16.1%, Incremental 14.7%, Casual 1.8%

Your little companion is an ambitious writer with very little discipline. Type, and they'll write too. Every keystroke moves their work forward. In this idle productivity game, help them become a renowned author while you get things done.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.1% ★, Idler 22.4%, Incremental 16.6%, Casual 3.1%, Indie 0.7%

A tiny monster-taming auto-battler that lives in the corner of your screen, and they never stops grinding. Catch 90 Minimon, build busted team comps, and rake in loot while you work, browse, or play something else entirely. They battle. You profit.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.2% ★, Auto Battler 17.9%, Idler 16.2%, Incremental 14.7%, RPG 3.9%

A cosy idler starring an Onion who makes soup anywhere on your desktop! Watch him grow and harvest cabbages to make delicious soup for a cast of colourful customers. Decorate your island and customise your Onion with your hard-earned gold to level him up, and build your very own soup making empire!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 58.4% ★, Idler 18.8%, Incremental 13.3%, Stylized 5.6%, Casual 2.2%

A chibi AI VTuber who lives on your desktop, on top of everything you do. Pet her and feed her, and she opens up one thing at a time: monster battles, desktop soccer, a 24-fish dex, tarot readings, 11 outfits and 26 achievements.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 72.8% ★, Idler 22.2%, Casual 3.7%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Graboo is the shyest claw machine in the world. Graboo quietly picks up doll friends from the corner of the screen while you're working or enjoying games. Give warm friends to Graboo, a loner!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 62.8% ★, Idler 20.3%, Incremental 13%, Casual 2.5%, Indie 1.1%

A Helldivers-inspired desktop overlay RPG where your actions shape the universe. Gear up in your bunker and join the galactic struggle from the corner of your screen. Impact the global economy, faction wars, and story. Adapt to World Events in a living, community-driven world.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 72.9% ★, Idler 21.4%, Casual 3.4%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Leave the Taskbar Mode window open and your birthstone envoys keep exploring and leveling up while you work or play something else. Open the main game and two opposing stories await: party battles on the God Side, tower defense and castle-town building on the Demon King Side.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 61.8% ★, Idler 19.2%, Incremental 14.1%, RPG 4.3%, Indie 0.7%

Lightweight desktop idle battler. The ultimate workday distraction.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 62.8% ★, Idler 19.4%, Incremental 15.1%, Casual 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Grow your own vegetables in your tiny desk pot in this idle game. Leave your tiny pot in a corner of your desktop and vegetables will grow little by little. Upgrade, customize and change your pot. You’ll discover new soils, types of vegetables, stickers and much more!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 61% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 17.4%, Casual 2.3%, Indie 1.1%

Slack off right on your desktop with your ultimate otter buds! Combing the beach for 200+ unique oddities, play the market like a pro, and rip open ticket packs to explore everything from the deep blue sea to the starry cosmos. Come leave your footprints with the otters!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 65.8% ★, Idler 20.2%, Incremental 11.4%, Casual 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Awooo—! Follow Sirius into the starry lands! Sirius the Stargazer is a cozy desktop idle game. Start with a simple branch, defeat monsters, collect gear with random abilities, and help Sirius grow stronger. When he’s tired, let him rest by the campfire and keep you company.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 70.4% ★, Idler 20.6%, RPG 4.9%, Casual 2.5%, Indie 1%