60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Desktop Companion, Idler, Simulation, Automation.
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.
Desktop Forge
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.
Galacto
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!
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 46.7% ★, Idler 15.1%, Management 9.2%, Automation 7.2%, Incremental 5.7%
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 42.1% ★, Idler 13.4%, Automation 9.8%, Incremental 7.4%, Management 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 40.2% ★, Automation 14.1%, Idler 13.1%, Economy 7.4%, Management 7.1%
Panda Rails: Desktop Journeys is a cozy desktop idle game where every click and keystroke boosts your high-speed train. Travel through scenic countryside with adorable animal passengers, enjoy local dishes, and receive beautiful postcards along the way!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.8% ★, Transportation 20.6% ★, Idler 11.7%, Automation 8.3%, Economy 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 40.8% ★, Idler 13.6%, Automation 13.4%, Incremental 8.3%, Management 7.8%
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 35.7% ★, Idler 14.8%, Automation 9.4%, Incremental 8.5%, Management 6.4%
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 42% ★, Idler 18.3%, Automation 14.6%, Incremental 10.1%, Management 5.8%
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 45.7% ★, Idler 14.5%, Automation 9.9%, Incremental 8.6%, Management 7.5%
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 41.1% ★, Automation 14.4%, Idler 14%, Management 7.8%, Economy 6.3%
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 42.5% ★, Idler 15.8%, Automation 13.2%, Management 7.5%, Economy 4.9%
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 63.7% ★, Automation 12.2%, Idler 8.6%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 6.4%
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 49.7% ★, Idler 14.9%, Automation 11.6%, Incremental 10%, Simulation 4.9%
A relaxing idle vending simulator that sits in the corner of your screen while you work, browse, or play.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50% ★, Idler 15.8%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 6.2%, Economy 5.2%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 11.8%, Idler 10.3%, Incremental 7.9%, Management 6.2%
A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.2% ★, Idler 16.2%, Automation 15.9%, Economy 6.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
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 41.2% ★, Automation 20.3%, Idler 16.2%, Incremental 8%, Simulation 5.5%
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 54% ★, Idler 20.9%, Incremental 11.6%, Automation 7.6%, Resource Management 2.8%
Become a wizard, and a thumping good one! Abracademia is a cozy mage idle life-sim that lives on your screen and keeps you company while you work or play. Pick a coven, manage your daily routine, learn spells, make friends, embark on adventures, and pass exams on your way to graduation.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.4% ★, Idler 13.8%, Automation 11.1%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 5.4%
A cozy, casual train-themed desktop idle game. Explore the world by rail. Equip a variety of train cars, and grow crops, haul cargo, trade goods, and carry passengers along the way.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.8% ★, Transportation 22.1% ★, Idler 12.7%, Management 7.6%, Cozy 4.9%
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 44.5% ★, Idler 16.4%, Automation 11.9%, Cozy 6%, Economy 5.8%
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 45.3% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 10.2%, Resource Management 6.2%, Management 5.6%
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 46.6% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 9.9%, Management 6.7%, Resource Management 6%
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 46.9% ★, Idler 15.2%, Automation 8.4%, Incremental 7.2%, Management 7%
Tiny creatures grow in glass bottles at the bottom of your screen while you work. Summon and fuse 200+ beings. Befriend a town of animal folk, or snoop on them and steal their secrets. Every choice tilts your compass toward Light or Darkness.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.1% ★, Idler 19.1%, Automation 18.5%, Resource Management 5.7%, Simulation 5.3%
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 58.4% ★, Idler 18.4%, Incremental 10.9%, Automation 6.6%, Cozy 4.4%
Desktop Rave is an audio-reactive desktop companion and idle management game. Use your own music to drive the in-game economy and create your own unique club.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.7% ★, Idler 15.6%, Automation 9.6%, Incremental 9.2%, Management 5%
Desktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against the forces of darkness right on your desktop!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.9% ★, Idler 15.3%, Automation 13.1%, Management 7.6%, Incremental 5.8%
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 53.6% ★, Idler 21.2%, Incremental 11%, Simulation 6.1%, Resource Management 3.1%
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 51.7% ★, Automation 16%, Idler 12.3%, Simulation 5.3%, Management 4.6%
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 53.9% ★, Idler 16.4%, Automation 8.1%, Incremental 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%
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 74% ★, Idler 24.1%, Casual 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 57% ★, Idler 17.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Cozy 6.2%, Incremental 6%
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 45.4% ★, Automation 15.2%, Idler 14.9%, Management 7.4%, Resource Management 4.5%
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 65.3% ★, Idler 20.3%, Incremental 10.9%, Casual 2%, 2D 1.3%
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 45.1% ★, Idler 14.4%, Automation 11.9%, Economy 8%, Management 7.7%
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 71.2% ★, Idler 13.2%, Simulation 7.4%, Cozy 2.7%, Pixel Graphics 1.8%
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 46.5% ★, Idler 15.8%, Automation 11.2%, Incremental 9.3%, Management 6.6%
Scout is a terrible pilot, but he loves corgis. Rescue a crew with six corgi personalities across ten planets in this cozy desktop companion idler. Gather, upgrade, and rebuild the rocket while your new favorite coworkers keep you company.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.6% ★, Idler 15.7%, Automation 13.7%, Incremental 8%, Cozy 5.9%
An oddly satisfying idle game that runs on your desktop. Let your slippers handle the bugs while you handle your work.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.5% ★, Idler 16.6%, Incremental 8.4%, Management 8.2%, Cozy 6.1%
Every keypress fires up your drill! Desktop Drill turns your typing into a mining adventure that lives on your desktop. Blast through blocks, unearth rare resources, and unlock new drill parts as you dig deeper with every key you press.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.3% ★, Idler 12.6%, Automation 9.6%, Incremental 8.2%, Resource Management 4.8%
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 59.9% ★, Idler 26%, Management 7%, Pixel Graphics 2.7%, 2D 2.3%
Become the ultimate energy tycoon in this strategic incremental game. Start with humble coal mines, build complex supply chains, manipulate the stock market, and fund cutting-edge research to build the ultimate power source: a Dyson Sphere.
Why similar: Idler 22.3%, Automation 19.9%, Incremental 16.2%, Management 11%, Resource Management 10.2%
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 64.5% ★, Idler 18.8%, Incremental 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%, Casual 1.7%
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 37.9% ★, Automation 13.3%, Idler 13.2%, Incremental 7.5%, Management 6.7%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.4% ★, Idler 14.8%, Automation 9.6%, Incremental 9.1%, Management 7.3%
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 76.2% ★, Idler 19.4%, Casual 2.6%, 2D 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 62.9% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 10.6%, Simulation 6.7%, Casual 1.4%
A chill idle-fishing desktop toy in the corner of your screen. Buy upgrades, catch rare fish, and customize your avatar at your own pace!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.8% ★, Idler 14.5%, Automation 8.9%, Incremental 8.8%, Management 6.8%
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 60.4% ★, Idler 19.1%, Automation 7.4%, Simulation 5.6%, Cozy 4.4%
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 59.6% ★, Idler 23.7%, Incremental 13.8%, 2D 1.4%, Casual 1.3%
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 42.2% ★, Idler 15.4%, Automation 12.7%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
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 49.7% ★, Idler 17.7%, Simulation 16.9%, Incremental 11.2%, Casual 2.7%
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 57% ★, Idler 17.8%, Automation 10.2%, Cozy 6%, Simulation 5.2%
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 59.3% ★, Idler 19.2%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Strategy 2.2%
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
Why similar: Idler 24.7%, Automation 20.9%, Incremental 13.8%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 9.1%
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.4% ★, Automation 16.9%, Idler 12.4%, Simulation 5.4%, Management 5.1%
Misty's Idle Fishing is a relaxing idle fishing game that sits on your desktop! Help Misty upgrade her equipment, customise her boat, and discover new islands, so she can catch and research all sorts of fish while you are busy with other things!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.7% ★, Idler 17.5%, Automation 15.6%, Management 10.5%, Economy 6.5%
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% ★, Idler 19.4%, Incremental 9.8%, Cozy 4.4%, Strategy 2.4%
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 58.7% ★, Idler 19.2%, Cozy 7.9%, Management 4.9%, Simulation 4.8%
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 36.4% ★, Idler 15.3%, Automation 12.3%, Incremental 9%, Management 8.4%
