Games Like Fred's Idle Garden

A cozy idle beekeeping sim that sits right at the bottom of your screen! Help Grandpa build his dream bee haven: unlock new species, upgrade equipment, expand your land, hire cute helpers, and design your perfect garden.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 32.5% ★, Farming 21.3% ★, Farming Sim 12.4%, Automation 12.2%, Idler 10.6%

An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 35.2% ★, Farming 22.8% ★, Automation 13.2%, Farming Sim 13%, Idler 8.6%

Build "A Tiny Garden" at the bottom of your screen. Enjoy your work or studies while you grow and care for your own tiny garden along with all of the adorable pets that call it home

Why similar: Desktop Companion 30.1% ★, Farming 25% ★, Farming Sim 10.8%, Idler 10.3%, Automation 7.1%

An idle-farming game where you use magic to handle the work. Plant, expand and automate with the help of animals. All from the bottom of your screen

Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.6% ★, Farming Sim 15.4%, Idler 14.2%, Automation 12.1%, Farming 10.9% ★

Grow and nourish your own vegetables in a tiny desk pot! Let your leafy companion grow idle in a corner of your desktop while you do your things. Discover new soils, unlock new types of vegetables, and customize your pot with cute stickers. Relaxing music included!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 40% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Idler 12%, Farming 10.9% ★, Automation 10.1%

An idle desktop management game where you grow crops, craft feed, and raise horses at your own pace. Care for your farm, breed and train horses, and join asynchronous races against other players. Customize your stables, place bets on races, and earn gold while you work or relax.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 29.6% ★, Farming 24.1% ★, Farming Sim 12.4%, Automation 11.7%, Idler 10.3%

Raise adorable monsters and process them into profit in this dark-humored idle management sim. Designed as a desktop companion, it runs at the bottom of your screen while you work. Optimize your production line, unlock rare species, and automate your way to a morally questionable empire.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Automation 14.2%, Shop Keeper 13.4% ★, Idler 13%

BuGarden is a cozy flower garden that lives at the bottom of your screen! Plant seeds, water and fertilise them at your own pace, harvest cute fruits and flowers, and swat some pesky bugs. No stress, no mess. A friendly companion moving at a snail’s pace.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 33.8% ★, Farming 21.1% ★, Idler 12.3%, Farming Sim 8.7%, Automation 8.6%

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

Why similar: Desktop Companion 29.7% ★, Farming 26.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.3%, Automation 12.5%, Idler 11.1%

Run a cozy pixel farm with Chestnut in a corner of your desktop. Grow crops, fish at your leisure, and manage a market and restaurant. Enjoy idle progress and rewarding harvests between work or study sessions. Come take a break with Chestnut!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.5% ★, Farming Sim 16.5%, Idler 14.4%, Automation 9.3%, Cozy 7%

A relaxing idle vending simulator that sits in the corner of your screen while you work, browse, or play.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 48.2% ★, Shop Keeper 23.6% ★, Idler 15.1%, Automation 5.1%, Simulation 4.8%

A desktop idle game about raising sheep. Hover over them to shear their wool, then collect the tufts scattered across your screen. Unlock upgrades and grow your little flock to 100 sheep while you work.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 29.3% ★, Idler 20.4%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Farming 15.4% ★, Automation 10.4%

A cozy, lightweight desktop idle farming companion. Watch Barnaby the cat till, plant, water, and harvest golden wheat right at the bottom of your screen while you work, study, or relax. Zero stress, pure wholesome pastoral vibes.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 51.1% ★, Farming Sim 18.3%, Idler 15.9%, Cozy 5.9%, Agriculture 5.4% ★

Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 32.1% ★, Farming 21.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Idler 11.9%, Automation 8.9%

A relaxing farming sim where you manage adorable creatures that grow crops, gather resources, and build your cozy garden right at the bottom of your screen.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 29.1% ★, Farming 23.2% ★, Farming Sim 11.2%, Automation 10.8%, Idler 7.8%

Animal Cozy Corner Shop is a warm desktop idle shop game that moves along with real-world time. Open a tiny animal convenience store in the corner of your screen, stock products, welcome quiet animal visitors, earn income, and unlock more items, furniture, and cute guests.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.7% ★, Shop Keeper 21.8% ★, Idler 13.9%, Automation 11.5%, Simulation 4.4%

A cozy idle creature collector that sits on your desktop as you go about your day. Grow crops, care for and level-up your companions and put them to the test in exciting monster battles!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.9% ★, Farming 37.9% ★, Idler 13.3%, Relaxing 2.5%, Cute 0.9%

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 52.3% ★, Idler 16.4%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Cozy 8%, Simulation 4.7%

A mini idle-farming game the size of one pot. Each keystroke turns into water for your little plant. Put it anywhere on your screen, harvest plants and upgrade your pot. While you're busy with other things, your hard work will bear fruit!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.9% ★, Farming 33.2% ★, Shop Keeper 12.5% ★, Idler 11.4%, Relaxing 2.1%

A cannabis cultivation companion that sits as a sidebar on your desktop whilst you work. Grow strains, complete orders and challenges, test your luck in minigames, and uncover surprises as you progress🪴

Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.7% ★, Farming Sim 16.6%, Idler 14%, Automation 13.8%, Agriculture 7% ★

Your cozy pixel-art desktop companion! Fish, farm, and mine on the corner of your screen while working or relaxing. Join friends in real-time online co-op, catch legendary monster fishes, customize your style, and climb seasonal leaderboards to flex your ultimate paradise!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.9% ★, Farming Sim 18%, Idler 16.3%, Farming 15.8% ★, Cozy 5.6%

Manage a team of adorable Sproutlings in this cozy farming adventure! Assign tasks, automate chores, and turn forgotten land into a lively home. Grow crops, raise animals, and craft goods, then take to the skies in your hot air balloon to trade. Watch your little farm come alive!

Why similar: Farming 32.3% ★, Farming Sim 18.9%, Automation 16.6%, Idler 12.8%, Cozy 7.6%

A cozy incremental farming sim about helping your duck friend clean out their backyard. Dig, mine and farm your way to clearing up the space so that a tea party with friends can be hosted.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.2% ★, Farming Sim 20.1%, Automation 15.5%, Idler 15.2%, Cozy 10.4%

Tend and cultivate your personal little garden while you are actually working on other things. Choose for yourself in which screen areas you want to play and and watch your plants grow.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 48.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.7%, Idler 15.4%, Cozy 9.1%, Relaxing 3.3%

A cozy, nostalgia-fueled idle game that lives in the corner of your screen. Reminisce the good old days and run your own little VHS store while using your PC for work, games or whatever. Play minigames or let your store run by itself, decorate it as you see fit!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.5% ★, Shop Keeper 26% ★, Idler 16.7%, Relaxing 3.6%, Cute 1.9%

Feed a mysterious mole your hard grown vegetables in this fast-paced incremental farming clicker/idle. Use tools, automation and chaotic spells to truly master the vegetable and unravel reality altogether.

Why similar: Farming 39.9% ★, Farming Sim 17%, Idler 15.4%, Automation 15.3%, Agriculture 7.5% ★

A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.5% ★, Automation 18%, Idler 16.3%, Shop Keeper 15.2% ★, Cozy 6.3%

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 45.9% ★, Idler 14.8%, Farming Sim 13.4%, Automation 9.3%, Cozy 7.3%

A desktop idler management simulator, where you are the CEO of a software company. Buy computers, place furniture, hire employees, buy upgrades, fire prompt engineers and much more. Or just focus on something else while your company revenue grows.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 69.6% ★, Automation 15%, Idler 9.4%, Simulation 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%

A relaxing, idle boba-shop simulator that can accompany you as you work on other things. Sell boba tea, unlock new drinks, and customize and care for a boba pet that lives in the corner of your screen!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.9% ★, Automation 18%, Idler 15.6%, Shop Keeper 11% ★, Simulation 3.7%

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 47.6% ★, Automation 18.8%, Idler 15.4%, Farming Sim 13.7%, Simulation 3%

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 48.6% ★, Farming Sim 17.2%, Idler 16%, Cozy 7.2%, Simulation 3.8%

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 57% ★, Idler 17.9%, Automation 7.9%, Cozy 5.8%, Simulation 4.3%

A short, simple and relaxing idle game where you grow crops, build homes for farmers, and earn money to decorate.

Why similar: Farming 33.7% ★, Farming Sim 17.3%, Idler 16.1%, Automation 13.8%, Cozy 6.2%

Your own little farm village, tucked into the corner of your desktop. Raise a chatty pumpkin, tend your crops, and collect critters in this quirky, lighthearted idler. How you raise your Pumpkin decides who they become.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.9% ★, Farming Sim 17.3%, Idler 14.7%, Automation 14.4%, Cozy 6%

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 73.4% ★, Idler 23.7%, Casual 1.6%, 3D 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 64.4% ★, Idler 18.3%, Cozy 11.2%, Relaxing 3.7%, Casual 2%

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 73.3% ★, Idler 18.6%, Relaxing 5%, Casual 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Desk Sushi Idle is a cozy animal sushi shop at the bottom of your screen. Keep working while guests grab plates, check out, and your restaurant grows. Build belts and stations, unlock dishes, and expand at your own pace—an idle desktop companion with real conveyor-sushi charm.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.6% ★, Shop Keeper 24.1% ★, Idler 15.2%, Cozy 5.3%, Simulation 4.7%

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 53.4% ★, Idler 16.9%, Automation 14%, Cozy 9%, Simulation 3.1%

Meet your new desk-side garden! Crops will sprout, ripen, and sway at the bottom of your screen while you work or study. Tend them well and your little farm will bloom with new varieties, colors, and harvests.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.8% ★, Shop Keeper 19.2% ★, Farming Sim 15.7%, Idler 12.6%, Agriculture 7.5% ★

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 41.3% ★, Shop Keeper 21.1% ★, Idler 15.1%, Automation 14%, Simulation 3.6%

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 61% ★, Idler 19.7%, Automation 10.6%, Simulation 4.6%, Cozy 2.9%

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

Why similar: Desktop Companion 26% ★, Farming 23.8% ★, Farming Sim 17.4%, Idler 15.8%, Cozy 6.5%

Focus Grove is a work companion that grows with your progress. Build your farm, use productivity tools and unlock new content by completing your real-life tasks. Improve your focus, well-being and work-life balance.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 34% ★, Farming 26% ★, Farming Sim 13.5%, Idler 11.9%, Cozy 6.4%

Build your own cozy countryside village, grow crops, raise animals, produce goods, sell and trade what you make, expand your land, and grow your farm at your own pace.

Why similar: Farming 38.9% ★, Farming Sim 19.1%, Shop Keeper 17.1% ★, Agriculture 8.2% ★, Cozy 7.5%

A cozy idle ASMR cat café that lives on your screen. Cook and serve customers dishes and decorate your café while you work or relax.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.5% ★, Shop Keeper 17.2% ★, Automation 16.8%, Idler 13.9%, Simulation 3.7%

Run a cozy flower shop alongside Alice, right on your desktop. Grow plants, watch them bloom, and slowly turn an empty corner into a warm, living space. A gentle companion game designed to keep you company while you work or relax.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.7% ★, Idler 18.5%, Cozy 10.8%, Agriculture 3.9% ★, Simulation 3.7%

A cozy 3D printer simulator. Pick your colors, start your prints, and watch voxel models grow. Snap off the supports, ship orders, and buy upgrades for your workshop. Engage actively to grow faster or leave it as a relaxing idle companion on your desktop that you check in on.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.7% ★, Shop Keeper 23.4% ★, Automation 15.6%, Idler 11.8%, Cozy 8.6%

Run a bathhouse visited by animals! Maltese's Fluffy Onsen is a relaxing simulation game that you can enjoy while doing other tasks, as it sits at the bottom of your screen. Place baths with different temperatures and rest areas to help a variety of animal friends unwind.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Idler 12.6%, Cozy 5.9%, Simulation 4.4%

A cozy desktop idle game where cute slimes bounce around your tiny farm while you work or study.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.8% ★, Farming Sim 16.4%, Idler 14.8%, Cozy 8.1%, Agriculture 7.2% ★

A relaxing idle-farming game you can play on the edge of your desktop screen. Grow and harvest dozens of different crops while working, browsing, or resting.

Why similar: Farming 51% ★, Idler 20.1%, Automation 19.4%, Relaxing 4%, Simulation 3.7%

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 45.4% ★, Shop Keeper 21.6% ★, Idler 15.5%, Cozy 7.6%, Relaxing 3.1%

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 50.1% ★, Idler 16.4%, Automation 10.4%, Farming Sim 9%, Cozy 6.8%

Build and manage a cozy idle supermarket run by cute animals at the bottom of your screen. Produce goods, stock shelves, automate your store, hire employees and expand your tiny market.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.2% ★, Idler 18.3%, Automation 17.2%, Simulation 4.3%, Cozy 4.3%

Dwarfspire is an idle shopkeeper that sits on the edge of your screen. Manage a shop of hand crafted gear while sending expeditions of dwarves up mountains to gather rare materials and forge new items. Mine ore, craft items and become a master shopkeeper!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.4% ★, Shop Keeper 24.2% ★, Idler 15.3%, Farming Sim 13.7%, Cozy 6%

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 59.8% ★, Idler 18.8%, Automation 7.6%, Cozy 6.3%, Relaxing 2.1%

Nothing beats a company-paid holiday! Perfect attendance earned you an unlimited vacation—100% savings on hotels and restaurants, because there are none. Give up and crawl back to work, or survive the wild. A cozy desktop idle survival game. Endure your way to the top.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.1% ★, Idler 19.8%, Automation 14.1%, Cozy 6%, Simulation 3.4%

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 57.7% ★, Idler 22.1%, Cozy 6.8%, Simulation 4.7%, Relaxing 3.9%

Grow, water, and harvest your way to riches in this farming incremental game. Create your goblin and walk around a living garden, chase rare mutations, hire goblin companions, and build your farm business from a humble plot into a goblin empire.

Why similar: Farming 48.5% ★, Farming Sim 17.5%, Idler 8.6%, Simulation 7%, Cozy 6.7%