60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Casual, Desktop Companion, Idler, Singleplayer.
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.
Idle Times
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.
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.
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 52.2% ★, Idler 18.1%, Cozy 12.5%, Casual 7.3%, Relaxing 6.4%
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 35.1% ★, Idler 21%, City Builder 15.7%, Cozy 6.7%, Simulation 6.5%
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 45.8% ★, Idler 18.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Relaxing 5.6%, Casual 4.1%
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 46.4% ★, Idler 18.4%, Cozy 12.2%, Casual 6.2%, Simulation 3.9%
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 60.8% ★, Idler 18.8%, Casual 9.7%, Relaxing 8.6%, 2D 1.3%
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 49.7% ★, Idler 26.2%, Casual 7.2%, Relaxing 7%, Cute 4%
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 63.5% ★, Idler 25.1%, Casual 6.4%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 49.7% ★, Idler 19%, Cozy 10.5%, Relaxing 6.8%, Simulation 5.7%
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 51.1% ★, Idler 19.6%, Cozy 7.2%, Relaxing 6.4%, Casual 5.5%
Turn your daily typing into books. Every keystroke and click helps your desktop companion write books while you work or study. Publish their books, earn money, and grow your bookstore.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 54.2% ★, Idler 21.2%, Relaxing 7.4%, Cozy 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%
SubQuest is a productivity game that grows with you, right on your desktop. Cute characters, endless adventures, and a diorama where your heroes rest between quests — decorate it however you like! Notes, to-dos, Time-Quests — get your work done side by side with your hero party!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.4% ★, Idler 23.2%, Cozy 9.5%, Casual 5.7%, Relaxing 5.5%
From a corner of your screen, TEKUTEKU wanders Tokyo, finding small sparkling things for its notebook. Pack its lunchbox and the journey shifts. It scribbles along as you type, and may leave a letter if you stay a while. A hand-drawn, cozy desktop game of discovery and collection.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.9% ★, Idler 19.2%, Cozy 11.7%, Relaxing 6.1%, Casual 5.8%
A tiny food alley that sits quietly at the bottom of your screen. Customers wander in, take a seat, eat, pay up, and head back out. Get the ingredients in place and the alley runs itself — while you work, while you watch something.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.5% ★, Idler 23.1%, Casual 11.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Cozy 8%
Chill Fishing is the ultimate laid-back desktop fishing experience!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 57.7% ★, Idler 21%, Casual 6.8%, Simulation 5.8%, Cute 3.4%
Cozy Cottontail Desktop is a low-stress desktop companion game that will boost your productivity. Solve puzzles with every keystroke you make, get rewarded, unlock cosmetics and decorate your house room by room! All without getting in your way while you work.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.3% ★, Idler 19.8%, Cozy 11.6%, Relaxing 5.2%, Simulation 5.1%
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 58.6% ★, Idler 22.1%, Casual 8.2%, Relaxing 5%, Cute 2.4%
In an age where AI is getting better at pretending to understand you, let a little digital plant that never lies say what you truly want to hear. Watch it gently sway in the breeze, customize its speech bubbles, or import vocabulary lists, lyrics, and more.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.9% ★, Idler 17.5%, Cozy 8%, Relaxing 7.7%, Casual 6%
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 55.6% ★, Idler 27.8%, Casual 7.6%, Cute 4.1%, Indie 2.3%
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 56.5% ★, Idler 21.5%, Casual 8.3%, Simulation 7.3%, Cute 4%
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 64.9% ★, Idler 14.6%, Simulation 7%, Casual 5%, Cozy 4.8%
Dusky's Nook is a cozy idle desktop game about a little mushroom guy living his life on a floating island, anywhere on your screen. He gathers mushrooms and head pats, levels up, and unlocks new looks for the island — and a friend or two along the way.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.4% ★, Idler 24.6%, Cozy 9.5%, Casual 6.5%, Relaxing 5.3%
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 49.3% ★, Idler 22.7%, Relaxing 6.1%, Casual 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
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 48.5% ★, Idler 18.7%, Cozy 12.5%, Relaxing 6.9%, Casual 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 50.3% ★, Idler 18.6%, Casual 7.1%, Relaxing 6.1%, Cozy 6%
A mini companion that lives right on your desktop! Unpack and decorate a cozy desktop dollhouse, dress up your mini, and watch them paint while you work or play. Sell their art for gold, unlock new painting styles, collect charming decorations, and create the perfect space that grows with you.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.8% ★, Idler 19.2%, Cozy 9.6%, Simulation 4.8%, Casual 4.7%
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 44.6% ★, Idler 19.3%, Simulation 15.7%, Casual 11.3%, Indie 7.2%
A tiny relaxing idle experience that lives on your desktop. Watch Milly tend to her meadow with cozy naps, leaf raking, and quiet activities. Interaction and customization is minimal, with no tasks and no pressure. Enjoy calming ambience while you work or unwind.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 51.5% ★, Idler 17.5%, Cozy 12.2%, Simulation 5.4%, Casual 5.4%
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 50.1% ★, Idler 19.4%, Cozy 11.6%, Relaxing 4.9%, Casual 4.4%
Idle Dig is an idle mining desktop toy where you collect and sell rare gems, items and relics, buy upgrades, complete quests, and dig deeper into the planet to uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.2% ★, Idler 19%, Cozy 10.2%, Relaxing 6.7%, Casual 5.8%
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 51.7% ★, Idler 19.6%, Cozy 10.7%, Simulation 4.9%, Relaxing 4.8%
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 54.4% ★, Idler 20.7%, Cozy 8.6%, Casual 6.5%, Cute 3.3%
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 55.9% ★, Idler 21.5%, Cozy 8.2%, Casual 5.6%, Relaxing 4.2%
Your very own kitty — right on your desktop! A cozy idle game where you pet, feed, and play with a fluffy friend to earn purr points. Spend them on hats, toys, and cozy spots to sit. With hundreds of customization items, you can create a kitty that's truly yours — always by your side.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 51.2% ★, Idler 20.3%, Cozy 11.9%, Relaxing 5.5%, Casual 5.1%
A cozy desktop companion where BilBil explores the world while you work or stream. Talk, click, and help your tiny traveler visit real countries, unlock charming outfits, and take every step of the journey.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.9% ★, Idler 18.9%, Cozy 11.6%, Relaxing 6.7%, Casual 4.9%
A tiny, cozy idle fishing desktop companion about quiet progress, handcrafted islands, and stories hidden beneath the waves. Discover new species, upgrade your gear, customize your gears and let your fisher work peacefully in the background.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 51.7% ★, Idler 20.4%, Cozy 9.7%, Relaxing 6.9%, Casual 5.5%
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 47.9% ★, Idler 19.3%, Cozy 9.8%, Relaxing 7.1%, Simulation 4.8%
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 43.5% ★, Idler 19.4%, Cozy 11.4%, Relaxing 6.1%, Simulation 4.1%
A cozy idle desktop companion about a little bear and his tiny island home. Watch him tend bees, collect honey, and take well-earned naps while you work or relax. Unlock outfits, decorate his island, and enjoy changing weather, seasons, and little moments of everyday life.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.5% ★, Idler 18.3%, Cozy 12.4%, Relaxing 6.6%, Casual 4.7%
Watch the clock and your idle pet passively gain money to unlock clothes, toys, and fun accessories. Either customize your pet yourself, or schedule them to change looks on their own.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.3% ★, Idler 23.7%, Cozy 8.4%, Relaxing 6.5%, Casual 4.7%
A Helldivers-inspired desktop overlay RPG where your actions shape the universe. Gear up in your bunker and join the galactic struggle from the corner of your screen. Impact the global economy, faction wars, and story. Adapt to World Events in a living, community-driven world.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 59.2% ★, Idler 21.6%, Casual 8%, Indie 4.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%
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 61.7% ★, Idler 15.1%, Casual 7%, Simulation 5.8%, Cozy 4.6%
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 48% ★, Idler 22.1%, Cozy 11.6%, Casual 5.9%, Relaxing 5.3%
A magical library you can place on your desktop. Help the black cat study ancient tomes and learn spells in this cozy idle game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.9% ★, Idler 19%, Cozy 12.9%, Relaxing 7.2%, Casual 4.4%
Let a cute little cat keep you company while you work. Watch them walk or run across your desktop, dress them up, and enjoy different places from day to night.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.5% ★, Idler 25.7%, Casual 10.4%, Relaxing 8.2%, Cozy 6.8%
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 48.2% ★, Idler 19.3%, Cozy 11.4%, Relaxing 7.1%, Casual 5%
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 52.3% ★, Idler 25.8%, Casual 9.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Relaxing 3.6%
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 46.5% ★, Idler 21%, Cozy 5.5%, Relaxing 5.3%, Simulation 5.2%
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 47.8% ★, Idler 23.1%, Cozy 7.9%, Relaxing 5.6%, Casual 5.5%
This is a cozy, relaxing idle game that can float anywhere on your screen. A group of adorable stray cats live on this island. Care for them and give them forever homes, so you can enjoy heart‑warming cat‑petting moments amid your busy daily life.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.5% ★, Idler 19.4%, Cozy 9.4%, Casual 6%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
Raise a tiny cultivator on your desktop. Watch them train, nap, fail, reincarnate, and build a unique cultivation story while you work, study, or play. Every life is different. Every reincarnation leaves a legacy.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.4% ★, Idler 18.3%, Cozy 9.2%, Simulation 8%, Casual 7.5%
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 56.2% ★, Idler 27.2%, Casual 5.9%, Relaxing 4.6%, Indie 4.1%
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 50.5% ★, Idler 14.6%, Cozy 7.7%, Simulation 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%
A cozy idle fishing game that lives on your desktop. Cast your line, catch fish of every rarity and grade, and track your collection in the journal. Fish with up to three others on a shared pier. No clicking, no pressure, just chill vibes while you work or play.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 44.9% ★, Idler 20.7%, Cozy 11.6%, Relaxing 5.4%, Casual 4.6%
A resident idle game where a yokai parade ambles along the bottom of your screen. Fill your codex while you work; the koban they gather unlock rarer, stranger spirits... maybe. Now and then, a festival lights up the night market. Care to let a habit-forming yokai world walk across your PC?
Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.8% ★, Idler 19.2%, Cozy 11.6%, Relaxing 6.6%, Simulation 4.1%
In the 1-Bit world of black and white pixels, Explore, fight and survive automatically - enjoy this tabletop Idle RPG featuring monster hunting and minimalist character building with ease.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 63.3% ★, Idler 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Casual 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
An idle poker game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 54.1% ★, Idler 22.2%, Casual 6.3%, Relaxing 5.8%, Simulation 5.4%
A desktop idle hiking game that keeps you company while you work or study. A girl and her little dog set off on a journey across your screen—with outfit changes, camping, treasure hunting, multiple display modes, and the option to set it as a live wallpaper.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 54% ★, Idler 12.1%, Cozy 11.7%, Casual 8.5%, Relaxing 5.3%
Daily Botanica is a relaxing desktop idler about raising mysterious plants. Pet and water each seedling, discover what makes it flourish, and arrange a living collection around your screen - even while you work, study, or step away.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.5% ★, Idler 20.3%, Relaxing 7.3%, Casual 6.1%, Simulation 5.4%
Start with a few companions, then import your own models or sprites to blend-breed endless new ones. They'll bounce around your desktop and perch on your windows~~ just remember to feed them and show some love, or they'll go RIP (don't worry, that's adjustable in settings)
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.4% ★, Idler 19.8%, Cozy 12.2%, Relaxing 6.7%, Casual 4.5%
