Games Like Desktop Plinko

Bowls Above is an always-on-top corporate satire idle sim powered by working programs. Work makes tokens rain; tokens hit workers; workers lose bowls. Grow your workforce and build a wild pin-machine.

Why similar: Pinball 36.2% ★, Desktop Companion 33.1% ★, Idler 13%, Incremental 10.8%, Simulation 3.9%

A cyberpunk idle pinball game that lives on your desktop. Smash blocks, automate your build, upgrade your Reactor and Launcher, and let your neon machine print profit while you work or play.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.3% ★, Pinball 35.6% ★, Idler 13.4%, Arcade 4.8%, Casual 2.9%

Ultimate anime idle game! Click, collect, and merge adorable anime girls to unlock completely new evolutions. From classic anime schoolgirls and maids to pure Tsundere and dangerous Yandere — become their Senpai and unlock every beautiful location!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 58.4% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 13.5%, Casual 4.3%, Relaxing 1.8%

An idle game that sits in the corner of your screen where you open card packs, sells cards and buy upgrades

Why similar: Desktop Companion 44% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 13.7%, Casual 5.8%

An Idler Desktop Companion game set in a 3D space. Where you hire "Fren"s to work alongside you on your screen. Watch as you and your Frens types, clicks, or procrastinate or have a conversation all while earning coins. Buy goofy items, upgrades, and even throw a party!! its Time to Work!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.1% ★, Idler 16.6%, Incremental 13.3%, Simulation 6.6%, Casual 3.1%

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 53.7% ★, Idler 21.4%, Incremental 17.1%, Casual 2.9%, Relaxing 1.6%

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

Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.5% ★, Idler 17.7%, Loot 6.4%, Incremental 6.1%, Gambling 5.7% ★

Desktropolis is an idle city builder that lives quietly on the bottom of your screen while you work, game, or study.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.3% ★, Idler 14.7%, Gambling 13.8% ★, Incremental 11.9%, Simulation 4.9%

Corner Miner is a tiny mine that lives on your desktop while you work, study, watch videos or do anything else. Keep it running in the background, check in whenever you feel like it, or take control and mine everything yourself.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56% ★, Idler 17.7%, Incremental 14.4%, Arcade 5.2%, Casual 2.9%

Literally a game that nobody wants. It is just a rock. Do not buy this game, and do not gift this game to your friends for any occasion whatsoever. It is pointless.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 71% ★, Idler 23.1%, Casual 3.7%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Splonk lives in the corner of your screen, on top of everything else, happily rolling dice and printing money while you watch stuff, browse, or pretend to work. Roll, get rich, buy better stuff, repeat.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.2% ★, Idler 15%, Gambling 13.2% ★, Incremental 11.6%, Loot 4.5%

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 70.5% ★, Idler 18%, Casual 5.9%, Relaxing 3.7%, 2D 1.5%

A tiny forge in the corner of your desktop. Quirky smiths gather materials and hammer out blades on their own. Hand one to a passing adventurer, or deliver it to a nation at war — your blade decides whether they live, calms the monster dens, and can change who rules a town.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 59% ★, Idler 19.1%, Incremental 10%, Simulation 6%, Economy 3.7%

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 52.2% ★, Idler 20.7%, Incremental 14.8%, Simulation 6.4%, Casual 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 50.9% ★, Incremental 17.7%, Idler 17.1%, Arcade 5%, Casual 4.3%

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 61.3% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 14.1%, Casual 3.9%, 2D 1.8%

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 59.8% ★, Idler 18.6%, Incremental 12.2%, Physics 3.6%, Casual 2.9%

A cozy idle game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Run a space gas station, refuel ships, hire bots, chain combo for fat payouts, and rebuild an outpost into the busiest stop in the galaxy!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.9% ★, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 12.9%, Economy 4.4%, Simulation 4.1%

Slimes are invading your desktop, and every keystroke becomes a powerful counterattack. Unlock all kinds of weapons, draw wildly inventive artifacts, and collect strange and wonderful slimes. Fight alone or team up with friends to give the slimes a beating!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 53.2% ★, Idler 17.6%, Incremental 14.7%, Loot 8%, Casual 2.5%

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 49.9% ★, Idler 16.7%, Incremental 14%, Economy 6.8%, Simulation 4.1%

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 52.2% ★, Idler 22.2%, Incremental 12.7%, Loot 8.3%, Casual 3.1%

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 54.4% ★, Idler 20.7%, Incremental 12.2%, Loot 3.7%, Casual 3.4%

Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon is a taskbar idle game where a tiny street sits right on the taskbar while you work, relax, or simply watch the people come and go. Passerbys will randomly shop in your colorful, hand-drawn stores, and slowly help grow your little economy.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 44.1% ★, Idler 21.8%, Incremental 15.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Casual 3.8%

A satisfying incremental idle game that drops the pretense to give you pure unadulterated progress. Boost, earn bonuses and buy upgrades to speed up your progress or take it easy and let it make progress by itself while you make progress elsewhere. No stress, only progress!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 55.4% ★, Idler 16.6%, Incremental 15.3%, Simulation 6%, Casual 2.7%

An incremental game where you must make $1,000,000 to escape! Throw darts, drop pachinko balls, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, and discover powerful synergies as each new game affects all the others!

Why similar: Gambling 21.8% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 17.3%, Pinball 16.8% ★, Economy 7.7%

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

Why similar: Desktop Companion 65.6% ★, Idler 19.7%, Simulation 7%, Casual 4%, 2D 2.2%

A chill clicker-idle stars hunting and constellations creation game that sits in the corner of your screen. Feel free to daydream while you are working or doing something else.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.7% ★, Idler 19%, Incremental 14.8%, Simulation 6.2%, Casual 4.8%

Work harder. Gamble smarter. Undress your Alt Girl. Meet your own filthy Alt Girl - a desktop companion who keeps an eye on you while you work... and makes sure you don't waste your day.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 44.6% ★, Gambling 26.1% ★, Idler 14.5%, Incremental 9.8%, Casual 2.7%

Your own sushi bar. Running on your desktop, not in a window. Sushi drifts across your screen while you work — click one to collect it. From everyday maguro to uni and ankimo, 100+ kinds to find. Hire chefs, feed the regulars. Irasshaimase!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 72.5% ★, Idler 13.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Casual 2.9%, Retro 1.5%

Happy Pawlets is a pet-breeding and desktop companion game. Choose the parents, discover how colors, patterns, body shapes, and features pass through generations, raise your favorite offspring, and bring them onto your desktop.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 58.5% ★, Idler 18.5%, Incremental 8.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Casual 3.5%

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 54.6% ★, Idler 17.4%, Incremental 13.3%, Simulation 5.9%, Casual 3.3%

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 57.6% ★, Idler 22.3%, Incremental 17.1%, Casual 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%

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 55.9% ★, Idler 17.7%, Incremental 13.5%, Simulation 5.5%, Casual 2.8%

Colorful Slots is a short incremental game where you play slot machines to achieve increasingly higher scores.

Why similar: Idler 25.4%, Incremental 25.4%, Gambling 18.9% ★, Simulation 9.9%, Arcade 7.9%

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 60.5% ★, Idler 26.3%, Casual 4.6%, Relaxing 3.2%, 2D 2.8%

Character House: Desktop Companion is an idle collection game. Mix and match parts to create a companion that sits with you as you work, syncing with keystrokes, or watches from a corner. Earn rewards offline: pull and craft accessories,, shape its personality, and visit friends online!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 66.1% ★, Idler 13.3%, Incremental 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%, Casual 3.9%

Ordinary People is a game about building a cozy little town at the bottom of your screen, keeping you company while you work or study. As you build your town, Ordinary People will begin to move in, interacting with one another in some not-so-Ordinary ways.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.8% ★, Idler 22.2%, Casual 6.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Relaxing 3%

Keep a hungry mimic in the corner of your desktop and let the hunt begin. Lure adventurers, collect treasure and items, grow stronger, evolve, and unlock new hunting grounds. MIMIC HUNGER is a cute pixel-art idle incremental desktop companion you can mostly watch and occasionally push along.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.5% ★, Idler 22%, Incremental 16.8%, Loot 4.5%, Casual 3%

Desktop Bouncer is a cozy desktop companion physics game where a lively cartoon ball bounces across your screen, colliding with icons, chasing high scores, and turning your desktop into a playful arcade playground while you work, browse, or relax.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 61.3% ★, Idler 11%, Simulation 8.2%, Casual 5%, Arcade 4.6%

Build a living ant colony that can stay on your desktop while you work. Hatch unusual ants, place nest and food rooms, collect coins, and expand from a glass habitat into drawers, pipes, walls, roots, and the forgotten depths below.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 55% ★, Idler 17.5%, Incremental 14.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Casual 3.2%

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 55.1% ★, Idler 18.3%, Incremental 11.4%, Simulation 5.9%, Casual 3.3%

Loot Nook is an idle loot RPG that hides in the corner of your desktop. Heroes fight, explore, and loot — while you work or study. Mix classes, skills, and gear. Check in, collect, and upgrade. Build your build and watch your power climb!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.2% ★, Idler 20.1%, Incremental 13.1%, Loot 8.8%, Casual 2.5%

BLOOBY Idle is a desktop idle game where BLOOBY fights endless waves of the Tumor to save the one she loves. Collect loot, upgrade your weapons, prestige and grow stronger while BLOOBY battles on your desktop as you work, browse or play.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 62.2% ★, Idler 19.5%, Incremental 13.5%, Casual 1.7%, 2D 1.5%

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 64.8% ★, Idler 20.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Casual 5%, Indie 0.8%

Eldon Desktop Buddy is a wizard for your desktop. Click him for a random action, drag him around and choose his size, volume and intensity. Take a break with Eldon Pinball or the platforming game PeeBitties Mania.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 64.2% ★, Pinball 13.8% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Arcade 5.4%, Casual 5.1%

Abduct creatures and run crazy experiments! In this stress-relieving, incremental plink extravaganza, drop humans and mythical beasts into a giant cauldron. Watch them ricochet through peg boards to rain down mountains of gold! Spend your bloody fortune on a massive tech tree and unleash chaos!

Why similar: Gambling 23.7% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 16.1%, Pinball 13.3% ★, Economy 8.2%

HoloCozy is a cozy idle desktop companion where you can spend relaxing time with hololive talents in their rooms. Enjoy music and ambient sounds, keep your favorite characters close, and watch them grow at your own pace while you work, study, or unwind.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.9% ★, Idler 17.4%, Incremental 11.1%, Simulation 6.4%, Casual 4.2%

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 64.8% ★, Idler 26.7%, Casual 4.6%, 2D 2.6%, Indie 1%

Forge Maiden turns your focus sessions into weapon forging. Use the Pomodoro Technique, appraise random traits, fulfill customer orders, and help a contracted blacksmith maiden earn 10,000 gold to regain her freedom.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 55.9% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 7.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Loot 5.3%

Idle Times is a thoughtful desktop companion made by one developer. Keep Bob company in Full, Mini, or Pet Desk mode as he files illustrated cartoons to an original lo-fi OST, with new free editions added every week.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 69.3% ★, Idler 19.8%, Casual 5.1%, Relaxing 3.1%, 2D 1.5%

Plinko-style INCREMENTAL game. Shoot gumballs at gears and buy upgrades to make bigger and bigger numbers until you break the game! Short, sweet, relaxing, and addictive!

Why similar: Pinball 42.4% ★, Idler 15.9%, Incremental 14.6%, Economy 7.6%, Arcade 4.4%

Break the Bank is an incremental clicker game where you watch balls bounce through boards and break buildings for money. Upgrade, automate, unlock new zones, and defeat strange bosses.

Why similar: Pinball 41.4% ★, Idler 19.7%, Incremental 15.9%, Economy 8.6%, Simulation 4.5%

A cozy idle shop-sim that can sit in the corner of your screen while you work or play. Stock products, upgrade your tools, and expand your business comfortably from your desktop!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.5% ★, Idler 19%, Incremental 15%, Simulation 6.3%, Economy 6.1%

Slackball is a minimalist Pachinko-style pinball game specifically designed for those "slacking off" moments in the office. Built around the core concepts of being lightweight, transparent, and stress-relieving, it fits perfectly into your desktop environment.

Why similar: Pinball 49.8% ★, Idler 16.1%, Incremental 13%, Gambling 8.4% ★, Simulation 5%

A desktop companion idle auto-battler in isometric 3D that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things. Collect your loot, upgrade your tower and defeat endless waves of enemies.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.6% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 15%, Loot 4.7%, Casual 3.5%

Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive semi idle tycoon game.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.9% ★, Idler 17.3%, Incremental 12.2%, Economy 7.9%, Simulation 4.5%

A tiny idle RPG that lives on your desktop. Park it on your taskbar or anywhere on screen, and four heroes march through 7 acts while you work, study or play. Gear them up, shape their skills, and come back to loot and levels. Fully offline: no account, no servers, no microtransactions.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.1% ★, Idler 20.9%, Incremental 13.3%, Loot 5.7%, Casual 3.6%

Brighten your day with a super cute desktop kitty who lives in a backpack! Turn tasks into rewards and earn kitty costumes, accessories or adorable backpack decorations. Collect, trade, and care for your sweet Backpack Cat. Purrfect for at home, work, or school.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 60.7% ★, Idler 15.9%, Incremental 10.4%, Simulation 5.5%, Casual 2.1%

In this desktop idle game, watch your goats graze on wayward shrubs as you build and personalise your own desktop topiary. Your trusty goats collect leaves for you to spend on upgrades, decorations and new ways to customise your goats and topiary.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 58.2% ★, Idler 19.1%, Incremental 13.5%, Relaxing 2.9%, Casual 2.7%

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 53.1% ★, Idler 19.7%, Incremental 18.3%, Casual 3.2%, Relaxing 2.8%