Games Like Pixel Quest: Guild

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 32.9% ★, Idler 13.4%, Incremental 11.7%, Capitalism 9.3%, Automation 8.9%

Drill deep while you work or game in a zero-stress factory builder for the side of your screen or second monitor. Power your drill, unlock alternate building shapes, and harvest the planet’s core to unlock alternate building shapes for future runs. The. Factory. Must. Grow.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 32.2% ★, Automation 11.5%, Idler 10.7%, Incremental 9.4%, Base Building 7.8%

A tiny forge that lives in the corner of your desktop. Quirky smiths gather materials and hammer out blades on their own. Every sword you hand to a passing adventurer decides how their journey ends — give them a poor one, and they may never come back.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.1% ★, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 9.1%, Management 8%, Automation 8%

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 37.1% ★, Capitalism 12.3%, Idler 11.5%, Automation 10.1%, Incremental 7.3%

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 38.1% ★, Idler 12.6%, Incremental 11.3%, Capitalism 11.1%, Base Building 6.3%

A satisfying retro 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 45.7% ★, Incremental 13.7%, Idler 13.3%, Automation 11%, Capitalism 3.5%

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 40.1% ★, Idler 12.7%, Incremental 9.3%, Capitalism 8.5%, Automation 7.5%

Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.4% ★, Idler 12.1%, Incremental 11.5%, Automation 8.3%, Base Building 8%

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 45.7% ★, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 11.1%, Relaxing 5.3%, RPG 5.2%

Grow and collect over 100 unique Bloomies right on your taskbar! Defeat bosses to unlock new seeds, discover rare Sparkle variants, and complete your collection - all at the bottom of your screen.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 35.8% ★, Idler 13.2%, Incremental 10.3%, Automation 8.9%, Capitalism 8.3%

Build a wild fantasy lumber empire that bombards a forest across the valley with axes, ballistas, cannons, and magic. Harvest flying logs, stack absurd upgrades, and automate your way to unstoppable woodcutting power.

Why similar: Capitalism 15.9%, Incremental 15.6%, Idler 15.3%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 7.4%

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 49.3% ★, Incremental 15.1%, Idler 14.4%, Automation 5%, Management 4%

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 40% ★, Idler 14.3%, Automation 11%, Capitalism 10.3%, Relaxing 5.3%

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 36.1% ★, Idler 12.1%, Automation 11.5%, Incremental 10.7%, Building 5.7%

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 41.7% ★, Automation 15%, Idler 13.8%, Management 6.5%, Relaxing 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 51.5% ★, Idler 15.9%, Incremental 14.4%, Arcade 6.3%, Automation 6%

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 47.5% ★, Idler 18.3%, Incremental 14.5%, RPG 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.9%

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 idle tycoon game.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.3% ★, Automation 15.7%, Idler 13.8%, Incremental 10.8%, Management 6.3%

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 40% ★, Automation 13.8%, Idler 12.8%, Base Building 6.2%, Management 5.3%

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 57.7% ★, Idler 17.5%, Incremental 14.4%, Relaxing 4.6%, Casual 3.6%

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 50.9% ★, Idler 19.7%, Incremental 17.6%, Relaxing 3.9%, Fantasy 3.2%

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 48% ★, Idler 14.3%, Incremental 10.1%, Automation 7.4%, Relaxing 5.4%

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 47.4% ★, Incremental 17.9%, Idler 15.5%, Arcade 6.2%, Automation 5.2%

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 50.6% ★, Idler 19%, Incremental 16.3%, Automation 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%

Marketfield Idle is all about growing crops, selling goods, cooking recipes, automating production, and prestige into stronger runs in a cozy incremental farming game with 1200+ upgrades, strategy paths, and lots of synergies to discover.

Why similar: Incremental 19.8%, Idler 18.2%, Automation 17.7%, Capitalism 10.7%, Strategy 7.9%

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 41.6% ★, Automation 17.6%, Idler 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Dark Fantasy 4.6%

Apiary in Flow is an incremental game with automation elements where you place bees inside a hive to build efficient honey-gathering chains. Unlock new bee types and spend your harvest on permanent skill tree upgrades!

Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Incremental 21.6%, Idler 20.7%, Building 5.6%, Management 5.3%

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 53.6% ★, Idler 22.7%, Relaxing 7.1%, Management 5.1%, 2D 4%

A short, innocent incremental forest-builder. Unlock snail powers to spread life in a barren desert. Feed the mysterious Forest with juice. And remember: Blood is a type of juice.

Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Incremental 17.9%, Idler 17%, Capitalism 11.2%, Base Building 8.3%

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 38.7% ★, Idler 12.8%, Incremental 12%, Automation 8.3%, Capitalism 7.7%

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 67.2% ★, Idler 16.7%, Relaxing 9%, Casual 4.8%, 2D 2.4%

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 35.5% ★, Idler 12.6%, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 5.6%

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 43.1% ★, Idler 14%, Automation 12.6%, Incremental 8.2%, Management 5.9%

Turn your desktop into a living prehistoric world. Dinosaurs roam along the bottom of your screen while you work, study, or browse. Collect, care for them, and grow your ecosystem over time.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.5% ★, Automation 13.6%, Idler 12.5%, Incremental 12.5%, Capitalism 10.2%

歡迎來到充滿魔幻色彩的Q版世界！《放置王國：魔與獸的遠征》是一款融合策略、冒險與養成的奇幻放置類遊戲，帶你踏上守護王國、挑戰未知的史詩旅程。

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.3% ★, Idler 16.7%, Management 7.1%, Relaxing 6.8%, RPG 5.9%

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 46.7% ★, Idler 15.1%, Relaxing 6.5%, Base Building 6.1%, Management 6%

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 23.9% ★, Idler 17.6%, Automation 10.8%, Capitalism 10.5%, Management 9%

CLAIM YOUR LEGIT PHONE!!!!! I got the ZOOMIES is a visually chaotic incremental game where your only goal is to zoom in... indefinitely!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 26.7% ★, Incremental 17.6%, Idler 16.4%, Capitalism 11.8%, Automation 7.5%

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 58.9% ★, Idler 16.8%, Incremental 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%, Casual 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 38.9% ★, Capitalism 13.9%, Idler 13.9%, Automation 12.1%, Resource Management 4.5%

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 34.3% ★, Idler 14.2%, Incremental 12.6%, Capitalism 12.4%, Management 6.5%

A small game about pushing the world forward, one crank at a time. Sell energy at the Market, build power plants, and climb from a manual workshop through eight eras to star-spanning cosmic civilization. Offline. No microtransactions or ads.

Why similar: Idler 22.4%, Incremental 19.3%, Automation 13.3%, Capitalism 12.6%, Relaxing 7.3%

Build and personalise your own tiny topiary in this relaxing desktop idle game. Rely on your trusty goat companions to keep the shrubs under control, then use the leaves they collect to buy new goodies.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 51% ★, Idler 16.3%, Incremental 12.8%, Relaxing 6.4%, Building 6.2%

Dronerush is an idle, incremental strategy game about discovering drone synergies and mining ore.

Why similar: Incremental 23.4%, Idler 21.2%, Automation 14.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 9%

Popcorn Idle is a cozy idle automation game about the simple joy of popping corn. Earn money, buy upgrades, automate and turn up the heat to boost production. Grow bigger numbers, unlock flavors and combine effects. Fill the whole machine with colorful, tasty popcorn, one crunchy pop at a time.

Why similar: Idler 21%, Incremental 18.8%, Automation 10.2%, Capitalism 9.5%, Relaxing 8.4%

Lead a growing orc horde in this pixel art incremental strategy game. Build your settlement, recruit powerful warriors, research new technologies, cast devastating spells, and destroy human castles to rescue your captured Warchief

Why similar: Incremental 18.7%, Automation 18.7%, Idler 17.7%, Management 7.7%, Building 6.9%

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 45.2% ★, Idler 13.2%, Automation 11.3%, Incremental 7.5%, Management 6.6%

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 45.4% ★, Idler 16.5%, Automation 14.6%, Management 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

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

Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.6% ★, Automation 16.6%, Idler 16%, Building 7.5%, Relaxing 5.7%

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 68.6% ★, Automation 13.6%, Idler 9%, Management 7.1%, 2D 1.7%

The first Incremental RPG you can play at any scale. Dig toward the center of the world. Sell the items you find, earn money, or upgrade your character. Fight underground monsters and mine more valuable ores.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 47.5% ★, Incremental 17.7%, Idler 17.1%, Relaxing 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%

Only Driving is a idle car driving game that promises incremental increases. As your vehicle moves automatically, you’ll be able to collect coins along the way and increase your kilometers to get new cars and new upgrades. Every kilometer of this journey will enhance your vehicle and make you rest.

Why similar: Incremental 21%, Idler 20.4%, Capitalism 19.2%, Relaxing 8.5%, Strategy 7.7%

A cozy online incremental idle game you can play with your friends at the bottom of your screen. Customise, play mini games, earn & spend!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 48.9% ★, Idler 14.8%, Automation 13.6%, Relaxing 6.4%, Building 5.8%

Lightweight desktop idle battler. The ultimate workday distraction.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.3% ★, Idler 15.5%, Incremental 13%, Automation 11.7%, Relaxing 3.5%

A Plinko-like incremental where your coins strum harps, hit drums, and eventually create their own master orchestra. Go Plunk it up!

Why similar: Incremental 23.9%, Idler 21.8%, Automation 12%, Arcade 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%

A screensaver-inspired idle incremental game. Unlock skills, explode your income, and feel the thrill of the perfect corner hit.

Why similar: Idler 26.7%, Incremental 24.5%, Automation 12.9%, Relaxing 10.2%, Strategy 8.7%

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

Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.9% ★, Automation 14.8%, Idler 13.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 6.3%

Grow your own vegetables in your tiny desk pot in this idle game. Leave your tiny pot in a corner of your desktop and vegetables will grow little by little. Upgrade, customize and change your pot. You’ll discover new soils, types of vegetables, stickers and much more!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.1% ★, Incremental 15.1%, Idler 14.5%, Automation 11.4%, Relaxing 5.3%

A farm simulator on your taskbar. Bring your taskbar to life by raising adorable farm animals while doing other things.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.8% ★, Incremental 15.6%, Idler 14.7%, Automation 12%, Relaxing 5.4%

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 50.3% ★, Idler 15.6%, Incremental 12.4%, Base Building 7.9%, RPG 4.8%