
Desktropolis is an idle city builder that lives quietly on the bottom of your screen while you work, game, or study.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Idler, Simulation, Casual, Incremental.

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

Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon
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.

SimpliCity: A Desktop Companion
A relaxing city builder on the bottom of your screen. Place homes, create services, maximize your population happiness. Grow your city at your own pace.
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 31.1% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Idler 16.5%, Incremental 11.8%, Building 6.8%
A relaxing city builder on the bottom of your screen. Place homes, create services, maximize your population happiness. Grow your city at your own pace.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Idler 15.3%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 3.4%
Golden City is a desktop idle game blending ice-and-snow survival with simulation. Light the Furnace, build the last shelter, manage resources, extract Gold Coins, and advance technology. Idle on your desktop while you work, and keep strengthening your base to save the last hope.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 35.5% ★, Idler 17.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Incremental 7.3%, Building 6.8%
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 34.3% ★, Idler 15.3%, Incremental 11.9%, Capitalism 10.3%, Economy 6.8%
Build and manage the amusement park of your dreams! Idler Coaster is a Clicker that combines Management Tycoon and Business Simulation in a unique way! Build, upgrade, hire staff and research new attractions to achieve maximum profits!
Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Idler 14.3%, Incremental 12.7%, Capitalism 9.5%, Building 9.3%
Gather, Build and Advance your settlement with every roll in the incremental city builder Roll to Riches. Mine iron, gather wood and cut stone to make your settlement prosper. Trade with merchants every minute and transform your small camp into a wealthy Norse empire.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Idler 16.5%, Incremental 15.9%, Gambling 13.2% ★, Capitalism 10.9%
Live the dream and run your own arcade in this idle management sim. Purchase arcade machines and build your space, your way. Run your arcade, level up and upgrade your machines to attract elite gamers and watch as they empty their pockets to fill yours! Then sit back & enjoy the buzz of the arcade.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 20.6% ★, Idler 16.6%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 10%, Capitalism 9.6%
Claim real locations on a living world map, grow a persistent property empire, and manage upgrades, contracts, transport, companies, prestige cards, and city events alongside a shared online community.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Idler 17.4%, Incremental 14.1%, Capitalism 12.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
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 46.5% ★, Idler 19.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Simulation 5%, Casual 4%
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 51.4% ★, Idler 17.9%, Incremental 9.2%, Management 5.1%, Simulation 5.1%
Ignite your base on Tpler and forge your Dyson Sphere industrial wonder. Build automated desktop lines, deploy drone logistics, launch units to orbit. Draw tech perks for your build and boost output. Your custom Dyson Sphere orbit is exclusive live wallpaper, bringing cosmic romance to your desktop.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.2% ★, Idler 15.3%, Building 11.9%, Incremental 10.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
Relax in Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat, an idle game where you join Bao Bao, a charming panda, in creating the coziest laundromat. Purchase colorful washing machines, add delightful decorations, and hire panda helpers. Watch your cozy laundromat bustle with life, even when you’re not around!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 39.3% ★, Idler 15.5%, Capitalism 10.7%, Building 7%, Economy 6.1%
A desktop idle RPG where you collect creatures that train in your Dojo. Just queue enemies into the Dojo and watch your creatures fight, level up, evolve, and farm loot in idle battles - at the bottom of your screen. Build your team, equip them with items, then battle dungeon bosses for rarer loot.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.4% ★, Idler 15.9%, City Builder 13.9%, Incremental 11.4%, Building 7.6%
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Incremental 17.1%, Idler 14.8%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.5%
Build your own Tax Empire! Collect taxes, expand your city, hire tax officers, control traffic, enact new policies and squeeze out as much revenue as you can on your road to riches.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Capitalism 17%, Incremental 16.2%, Idler 14.8%, Building 7%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Idler 13.8%, Incremental 11.5%, Base Building 6.3%
An idle incremental plinko game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.3% ★, Idler 14.7%, Gambling 13.8% ★, Incremental 11.9%, Simulation 4.9%
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 43.1% ★, Idler 15.5%, Incremental 12.9%, Economy 8.7%, Capitalism 5.5%
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 57% ★, Idler 19%, Incremental 14%, Casual 3.1%, Colorful 2%
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Idler 16.4%, Incremental 15.7%, Capitalism 11.9%, Building 7.9%
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 47.6% ★, Idler 16.3%, Incremental 12.3%, Economy 5.9%, Management 4%
Meet your new little desk buddies! They’ll snooze, scratch, and scamper around while you work or study (don’t worry, they’ve been trained not to invade your workspace). If you’re good at animal management, they will occupy the bottom of your screen with different kinds and colors!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 32.3% ★, Idler 14.7%, Capitalism 12.2%, Incremental 11.5%, Building 7.9%
Leverage Real Estate Simulator is an incremental clicker game. Play as an ambitious, ruthless property developer and expand your capital empire through a cycle of borrowing money, buying land, constructing and selling properties—all while stacking every form of leverage you can find.
Why similar: Capitalism 16.6%, City Builder 16.2%, Incremental 15.9%, Idler 13.4%, Simulation 8.5%
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 43.7% ★, Idler 15.3%, Incremental 10.7%, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 7.1%
A chill idle game that sits in your screen while you do other tasks. Watch your cock train and grow, decorate his island, and buy him some stylish hats. Is your cock the biggest among your friends? Now it can be!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 9.7%, Capitalism 9.6%, Building 7.9%
Build a civilization from the ground up in Primal Clicker! Gather resources, construct buildings, set traps and hunt for prey, explore new lands, and automate your growing settlement. Start with a tiny prehistoric village and turn it into a thriving civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Idler 17.3%, Incremental 12.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Building 8.2%
A chill idle-mining sim that lives on your desktop. Dig rocks, collect gems, buy upgrades, feed your greed, and uncover shiny surprises while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.6% ★, Capitalism 14.3%, Idler 13.9%, Economy 8.6%, Incremental 7.8%
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 64.4% ★, Idler 12.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 7%, Pixel Graphics 2.7%
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 52.3% ★, Idler 22.3%, Incremental 17.7%, Casual 2.1%, 2D 2.1%
Screen Stocks is an online multiplayer trading game featuring a real-time simulated market. Buy, short, and sell stocks to gain unprecedented levels of wealth. Team up with other traders or outsmart them all. It's time to make some money!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.1% ★, Idler 14.9%, Incremental 13.4%, Capitalism 7.6%, Economy 5.9%
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 43.8% ★, Idler 16.8%, Simulation 15.6%, Incremental 14.4%, Casual 4.3%
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 21.1%, Incremental 14.9%, Simulation 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 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 57.9% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%, Casual 2.7%
Welcome to Spice & Grill, a cozy restaurant that lives at the bottom of your screen. Build and decorate your own dining space, set up the best kitchen, and train the best chefs to serve customers all year round.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.9% ★, Incremental 11.3%, Idler 10.8%, Building 6.9%, Economy 6.9%
Every [key]stroke makes your sausage bigger. Let it sit in the corner of your screen and watch it grow while you use your PC. Feed it different meats, upgrade your butcher, and see the magic happen. Have you ever dreamed of growing your sausage? Now it’s finally possible!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40% ★, Idler 17.1%, Incremental 16%, Capitalism 6.7%, Building 4.4%
A desktop idle RPG that lives on the side of your screen. Gather cute pixel heroes, rebuild a tiny town, and watch it grow while you work. Welcome to 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Idler 14.2%, Incremental 11.1%, Building 8.4%
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 43.5% ★, Idler 15.5%, Incremental 11.8%, Gambling 10% ★, Strategy 4.8%
Build your dream cat cafe in this tiny cozy management sim that lives at the bottom of your screen! Unlock exciting new recipes, decorate your space with our wide variety of goodies, and watch cute cat helpers take care of the cafe while you're doing other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.9% ★, Idler 12.7%, City Builder 11%, Building 7.8%, Economy 7.1%
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 54.5% ★, Idler 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%, 2D 3.6%, Management 3.2%
Tiny Vending Machines is an idle pixel art game that runs at the bottom of your screen. Buy and upgrade vending machines, stock them with drinks, snacks, and more, and keep customers happy. Automate your machines at higher levels and grow your vending empire while you work or study!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.5% ★, Idler 15.1%, Capitalism 14.5%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 4.4%
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 50.6% ★, Idler 17.7%, Incremental 12.5%, Building 8.6%, Relaxing 2.7%
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 17.8%, Incremental 14.1%, Simulation 6.4%, Casual 2.3%
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 43.7% ★, Idler 18.7%, Incremental 14.4%, Economy 5.7%, Simulation 5.5%
Click to get money. Build buildings, develop the city infrastructure to increase passive income. Keep the infrastructure of the city in working condition by completing quests on time and get bonuses.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Idler 20.1%, Incremental 15.5%, Capitalism 13.3%, Building 8.7%
Desktop Fireworks Festival is a management sim that lives at the bottom of your screen and stays out of your way while you work, launching the fireworks you designed into the sky above your desktop. Grow your festival into a grand venue and light up the sky with a show of your own!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 41.7% ★, Idler 15.4%, City Builder 8.8%, Economy 7.6%, Building 7.5%
Run a cozy capsule shop at the bottom of your screen while you work or study. Attract adorable animal customers, collect charming capsule toys, create & decorate a relaxing, ambient world. This idle sim brings you small moments of joy with cute companions making your desktop a place you’d rather be.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 32.5% ★, Idler 14.7%, Incremental 11.8%, Capitalism 9.7%, Building 7.7%
Bad Wizard covered the land with a Magical Dome and the only way to destroy it is with fireworks! Hire units, unlock buildings, buy upgrades, discover powerful synergies, turn a few tiny explosions into a ridiculous spectacle and ultimately defeat The Bad Wizard himself!
Why similar: Idler 18%, Capitalism 16.1%, Incremental 16%, Building 11.6%, Economy 11.1%
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 69.6% ★, Idler 19%, Casual 4.3%, Relaxing 3.9%, 2D 2.1%
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 51.6% ★, Idler 16.6%, Incremental 15.2%, Simulation 5.4%, Capitalism 4.2%
A relaxing idle desktop companion game about a little cozy miner living at the bottom of your screen. Watch Monty mine, upgrade his skills and minerals to yield more coins, find or purchase his 142 little treasures, and decorate his tiny world. All while you work, study, or just relax!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.3% ★, Idler 16.8%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 4.8%, Base Building 4.3%
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 70.3% ★, Idler 24.5%, Casual 2.8%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Capitalism 14.7%, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.4%
Landloop is a short incremental city builder about zoning tiny districts and building the greatest city ever! Spend resources, unlock perks and entire new zones, and grow your city block by block. Then prestige, and start the loop again.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Idler 20.2%, Incremental 18.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Building 5.8%
An incremental management game about manipulating the market to get filthy rich. Buy low, sell high, chain absurd combos and earn divine blessings from stock market gods. Will you play it safe or risk everything?
Why similar: Capitalism 21.5%, Idler 20.8%, Incremental 19.3%, Economy 12.8%, Gambling 6.3% ★
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.8% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 12.6%, Building 8%, Base Building 6.3%
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 51.3% ★, Idler 20.9%, Incremental 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Relaxing 2.5%
Bonanza Burger: Build, manage, and compete! Design your restaurant, hire a top-notch team, and battle rival managers. Conquer challenges, expand, and prove you're the ultimate fast-food mogul!
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Capitalism 14.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Building 9.8%
Idle Transport is a fun incremental game to have running while you work on something else. Build your own little company and watch the cars zoom around the screen while you are in a zoom call.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.9% ★, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 9.9%, Economy 6.8%, Simulation 5.1%
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 51.7% ★, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 10.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Building 4.1%
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Idler 22%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Incremental 7.1%