Games Like Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator

Relaxing game where you can build your farm on your desktop. Your farm will be your interactive live wallpaper. Perfect to play in the background doing other things.

Why similar: Simulation 80.5%, Casual 7.9%, Resource Management 5.2%, Strategy 4.2%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Desktopia, this game runs as a desktop overlay and provides a relaxing, passive farming simulation experience.

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

Why similar: Clicker 47.7%, Idler 30.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, 2D 4.5%, Casual 3%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes the same desktop-overlay technology as Desktopia but shifts the focus to idle tower defense gameplay.

Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!

Why similar: Clicker 34.3%, City Builder 29%, Idler 7.3%, RPG 6%, Pixel Graphics 6%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential idle game that features deep strategy and city-building progression within a fantasy setting.

Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...

Why similar: Clicker 36.8%, Simulation 27%, RPG 20.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines classic city-building elements with deep idle mechanics that reward long-term planning.

Desktop Tourney World is a simulation construction, immortal cultivation survival game, you need to collect food, construct buildings, build equipment, and fight with all kinds of monsters.

Why similar: Simulation 36.4%, City Builder 32.8%, Strategy 14.9%, RPG 7.8%, 2D 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the unique desktop-overlay format, allowing you to manage a tournament while multitasking.

After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Idler 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Medieval 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that emphasizes idle progression and a cozy, low-stress atmosphere.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 55.3%, Simulation 14.6%, Medieval 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%, Management 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grid-less medieval city-building experience that focuses on organic growth and management.

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Simulation 20.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Medieval 8%, Resource Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the medieval city-building aspect of the seed game, tasking you with managing a growing village.

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Clicker 24.3%, Idler 13.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Resource Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and resource management aspects of city-building in a minimalist, idle-friendly format.

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 54.4%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 11%, Medieval 7.9%, Indie 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming medieval city-builder that captures the management and growth feel of Desktopia.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Simulation 18.1%, RPG 13.3%, Strategy 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines RPG elements with town management, perfect for those who enjoy the fantasy village aspect of Desktopia.

A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Clicker 20.8%, Simulation 11.9%, Idler 11.1%, RPG 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features extensive idle and automation mechanics that allow you to manage a civilization with minimal active input.

Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Simulation 23.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Life Sim 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A Kairosoft simulation game that emphasizes building and managing a thriving fantasy town.

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Simulation 14.4%, RPG 11.6%, Medieval 9.9%, Immersive Sim 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a town that supports adventurers, blending city-building with RPG management.

Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.

Why similar: Clicker 27.9%, Idler 13.7%, City Builder 10.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct match for the fantasy theme and incremental progression found in Desktopia.

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Clicker 14.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Idler 12.8%, RPG 11%

Why You'll Like It: Blends RPG character growth with town-building, offering a satisfying incremental loop.

Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects

Why similar: City Builder 41.2%, Simulation 19%, RPG 10.2%, Strategy 7.7%, Medieval 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a straightforward city-building experience with a focus on medieval architecture and resource management.

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Clicker 22.1%, Simulation 18%, Medieval 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the crafting and life-simulation aspects of managing a medieval village.

Castle Clicker is a more strategy focused clicking game that required you to think about how to manage your resources and build your city. If you're looking for a more in depth but still casual clicking game, this is for you!

Why similar: Clicker 44.8%, City Builder 20%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the clicker genre with city-building, focusing on rapid expansion and resource accumulation.

'dEskape' is a base-building game which sits across the bottom of your desktop allowing you to work, browse, or watch something else while you play. It's idle when you like and active when you want.

Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Clicker 21.4%, Idler 10.5%, Simulation 8.7%, RPG 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A clicker-based city-builder that emphasizes simple, repetitive loops for village expansion.

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

Why similar: Simulation 32.2%, Immersive Sim 19.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Medieval 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated idle city-builder that focuses on long-term growth and resource optimization.

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 47.5%, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Building 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on building a historical city with strategic management elements.

A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Simulation 14.9%, Idler 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, idle-focused farming and village simulation game with a charming pixel-art style.

Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

Why similar: Clicker 31%, Idler 15.1%, Simulation 8.6%, RPG 7.9%, Strategy 7.4%

A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Clicker 23.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Idler 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, idle-focused god game that lets you watch your village grow with minimal intervention.

Welcome to 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》! A little town inside your PC! Gather heroes and rebuild the town in 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》, a desktop idle RPG that can be enjoyed even during work hours.

Why similar: Clicker 20.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Idler 13.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Idler 25%, Simulation 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Management 9.2%, Strategy 7.6%

Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.

Why similar: City Builder 48.9%, Simulation 30.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Indie 3.6%, Casual 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and management aspects of a medieval village, requiring careful resource allocation.

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 57.5%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 7.5%, RPG 6.9%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox city-builder that allows for deep management of a fantasy village, similar to the scope of Desktopia.

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Simulation 30.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Immersive Sim 13%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Fantasy 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the base-building and management of a fantasy settlement with roguelite elements.

A cozy idle game that sits anywhere on your desktop. Watch the frog cut grass, upgrade his tools, and decorate the island while you work or relax.

Why similar: Clicker 33.1%, Idler 22.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 7.2%, Building 7.1%

Desktop Heroes is a unique idle RPG designed to be your faithful companion while you work. Set just above your taskbar, this game runs in the background, letting you build a team of courageous heroes, battle monstrous foes, and collect loot; all without disrupting your productivity.

Why similar: Simulation 22.4%, Idler 20.1%, RPG 16.4%, Medieval 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%

Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.

Why similar: Clicker 37.9%, Simulation 24.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Fantasy 5.8%

A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: City Builder 43.4%, Simulation 19%, Idler 16.3%, Life Sim 8.7%, Management 5.9%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Simulation 23.7%, RPG 20.8%, Strategy 10%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: City Builder 53.9%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 5.4%, Indie 2.3%

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Clicker 29.9%, Idler 10.2%, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 6.5%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: City Builder 58.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Resource Management 3.2%

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Simulation 15%, RPG 11%, Idler 9.1%, Medieval 8.3%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 50.9%, Simulation 18.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Management 7.3%, Building 6.7%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: City Builder 48%, Simulation 12.6%, Medieval 10.7%, Management 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Simulation 14.8%, Medieval 10.1%, RPG 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.

Why similar: Clicker 35.8%, Idler 19.2%, Simulation 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Management 7.8%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Simulation 21.1%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 7.4%, Life Sim 6.5%

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Simulation 17.7%, RPG 7.6%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 7.1%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Simulation 21.4%, RPG 9.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Clicker 26.4%, Idler 15%, Strategy 6.1%, Resource Management 6%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: City Builder 46.6%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Building 8%, Management 7.4%

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: City Builder 44.9%, Simulation 16.5%, RPG 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Life Sim 8.5%

Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.

Why similar: City Builder 31%, Clicker 24.2%, Idler 12.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 4.4%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 56.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 5.7%, Resource Management 5.7%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Simulation 15%, Medieval 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Strategy 7.1%

Become a Tower Lord! Build and upgrade your tower in this incremental idle game. Fight off the forces of the Dark Lord, conquer new lands, and challenge his dominion with the power of your dragon.

Why similar: Clicker 27.5%, Idler 13.8%, Simulation 11%, RPG 9%, Strategy 7%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 52.8%, Medieval 12.5%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Idler 15.6%, Simulation 11.9%, Medieval 10.3%, Management 6.2%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: City Builder 53.2%, Simulation 10%, Medieval 8.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Fantasy 6.9%

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: City Builder 48.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Fantasy 7%, Life Sim 6.5%

Welcome to Battle On! Hero Academy! In this desktop idle game, you are the dean. Recruit heroes and plan their careers from swordsmen to paladins. Your heroes battle and grow. Reap the rewards, then lead your upgraded team against epic bosses. Enjoy deep strategy and satisfying idle progression!

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Idler 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 7.3%