60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Idler, Casual, Singleplayer, Simulation.
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.
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 32.4% ★, Idler 23.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Incremental 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%
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 43.1% ★, Idler 21%, City Builder 17.4%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 4.1%
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 35.5% ★, Idler 17.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Incremental 7.3%, Building 6.8%
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 35.5% ★, Idler 20.7%, Building 11%, Base Building 8.8%, Incremental 7.1%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.6% ★, Idler 18.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Incremental 7.9%
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 37.2% ★, Idler 21.7%, City Builder 13.4%, Incremental 8%, Building 7.1%
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 47% ★, Idler 26.7%, City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 6%, Casual 5%
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 42.6% ★, Idler 25%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 8.8%, Simulation 4.5%
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 65.4% ★, Idler 31.4%, Casual 3.2%
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 54.2% ★, Idler 25.9%, Incremental 6.9%, Simulation 6.4%, Resource Management 3.4%
A laid-back idle network-building game. Lay connections, build nodes. Tokens flow through your network, constantly meeting and merging, generating revenue at ever-higher values — revenue builds more nodes, nodes pass more tokens, tokens... you get the idea.
Why similar: Idler 32.1%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Incremental 12.1%, Strategy 8.6%
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 23.9%, Idler 21.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Incremental 12.7%, Building 8.5%
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 58.8% ★, Idler 27.1%, Incremental 10.2%, Casual 4%
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 48.9% ★, Idler 28.6%, Incremental 10.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Casual 3.1%
Hamster City is a relaxing idle-building simulator where roads and buildings fuel your food-gathering empire! Build, unlock, and let your city grow in the background as you climb the leaderboard to become the top Chief!
Why similar: Idler 32.4%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 7.1%
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 43.4% ★, Idler 22.9%, Simulation 18.4%, Incremental 10.1%, Casual 5.3%
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: Idler 24.3%, City Builder 23%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Incremental 9%
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 56.1% ★, Idler 24%, Incremental 9.8%, Simulation 7.4%, Casual 2.8%
Farewells Clicker is an addictive blend of clicker and city builder! Expand your island, develop your city, and produce resources endlessly. Upgrade your buildings and skills through a vast skill tree to progress further and further!
Why similar: Idler 31.3%, City Builder 25.1%, Incremental 13.3%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 5.9%
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 37.9% ★, Idler 19.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 7.9%, Incremental 7.8%
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 53.3% ★, Idler 31.3%, Incremental 12.7%, Casual 2.7%
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: Idler 29.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.9%
Grow one small village into a large settlement, manage resources, find riches, overpower enemies and get holy upgrades in this incremental idler game!
Why similar: Idler 29.2%, Base Building 17%, Incremental 14.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 10.5%
A hero who lives above your taskbar. Keepwatch is an idle auto-battler RPG that quietly runs on your desktop — build your camp, gear up your one and only hero, and let them fight while you get back to work.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.4% ★, Idler 27.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Incremental 7.7%, Building 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 68.8% ★, Idler 25.9%, Casual 5.3%
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 46.8% ★, Idler 22.9%, Building 7.4%, Base Building 6.9%, Simulation 5.7%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40% ★, Idler 20.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Incremental 8.7%, Building 7.4%
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 57.7% ★, Idler 26.4%, Incremental 8.8%, Multiplayer 4.5%, Casual 2.6%
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 56.1% ★, Idler 26%, Incremental 9.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Casual 1.4%
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 53.3% ★, Idler 30.4%, Incremental 11.8%, Casual 2.4%, Resource Management 2.1%
Chill Fishing is the ultimate laid-back desktop fishing experience!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 61.7% ★, Idler 27.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Casual 3.5%
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 60.2% ★, Idler 26%, Incremental 10.3%, Casual 3.5%
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 59.2% ★, Idler 27.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Casual 4.2%
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: Idler 32.7%, City Builder 21.9%, Incremental 13.1%, Building 8.8%, Strategy 7.5%
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 54.8% ★, Idler 25.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Incremental 6%, Resource Management 3.1%
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 51% ★, Idler 24.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 5.3%, Incremental 5.3%
Your guild fights at the bottom of your screen. Hire heroes, merge them, take on bosses, collect Arcanas, call in your Steam friends, and see how deep you get before you ascend and start over.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 44.2% ★, Idler 22.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Incremental 9.1%, Building 5.1%
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 59.8% ★, Idler 36.3%, Casual 3.9%
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: Idler 27.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Incremental 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10%
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 69.4% ★, Idler 19.1%, Simulation 9%, Casual 2.6%
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 52.7% ★, Idler 24.8%, Incremental 9.6%, Simulation 4.6%, Resource Management 3.1%
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 46.1% ★, Idler 27.2%, Incremental 10.7%, Simulation 6.9%, Resource Management 4.8%
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 51.9% ★, Idler 24.4%, Incremental 10.1%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 3.7%
There's a die on your taskbar. It charges while you type, so the more work you get done the more you get to roll. Collect an unreasonable number of dies, trade your spares up into rarer ones, and watch it tumble across your desktop instead of finishing that email.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.9% ★, Idler 31.8%, Simulation 8%, Casual 4.5%, Multiplayer 2.8%
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 54% ★, Idler 23.9%, Incremental 11.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Casual 2.4%
Idle Animal Plaza is district management simulator.
Why similar: Idler 28.6%, City Builder 22.2%, Incremental 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.2%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 8.8%
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 53.8% ★, Idler 26%, Incremental 9.4%, Building 8.6%, Casual 2.3%
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 53.5% ★, Idler 24.1%, Incremental 7.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Building 4%
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 47% ★, Idler 22.4%, Incremental 10.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 4.9%
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 48.3% ★, Idler 31%, Incremental 12%, Resource Management 3.6%, Casual 2.6%
Build an automated industrial empire from stone tools to singularity tech. Click, automate, and research through 10 eras, then breach reality to conquer parallel dimensions with unique rules, resources, and threats. Idle factory builder with deep prestige and cross-dimensional logistics.
Why similar: Idler 32.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Incremental 16.2%, Building 13.9%, Simulation 9.2%
Slimeward is an idle game where players build and upgrade a village, recruit heroes, and defeat Monster 'Slime' that fell in front of the house one day,
Why similar: Idler 27.1%, City Builder 22.1%, Incremental 13.9%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%
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 58.4% ★, Idler 37.5%, Casual 4.1%
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 58.5% ★, Idler 27.4%, Incremental 11.3%, Casual 2.8%
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 42.8% ★, Idler 26.3%, Incremental 10.5%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 6.1%
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 51.7% ★, Idler 24.3%, Base Building 9.2%, Incremental 8.8%, Strategy 6%
The football management game that plays itself. It runs at the bottom of your screen while you live your life. Enjoy real team progression, make a few smart choices, and let the rest unfold without demanding your attention.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.7% ★, Idler 27.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Casual 2.4%
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 52.5% ★, Idler 26%, Incremental 13.7%, Casual 4.1%, Survival 3.8%
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 64.1% ★, Idler 19%, Simulation 7.3%, Incremental 6.1%, Casual 3.5%
