Games Like Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

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

Why similar: Farming 20.8% ★, Desktop Companion 15.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.8%, Automation 11.6%, Idler 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same idle farming and automation loop while sitting comfortably at the bottom of your desktop screen.

In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.

Why similar: Farming Sim 16.8%, Automation 14.6%, Collectathon 13.1%, Idler 13%, Incremental 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct prequel, it features the exact same charming blue Mellows, idle gardening, and animal-tending gameplay mechanics.

Chillquarium is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Buy fish and raise them in real time, then sell them to turn a profit! Customize your aquarium as you progress from a simple starter tank to your dream setup by filling your collection with rare exotic fish and ultra-rare color variants!

Why similar: Animals 23.5% ★, Collectathon 16.1%, Idler 14.8%, Incremental 13.9%, Nature 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This idle game captures the same satisfying collectathon and passive economic growth loop as you buy and breed virtual marine life.

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.6%, Idler 18.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Family Friendly 11.9%, Relaxing 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a similar relaxing agricultural management experience with cute visuals and steady progression.

Chill in the peaceful world of Garden In!, a charming sandbox game. Grow unique plants, discover new seeds, and design your dream garden. With its serene atmosphere, you'll find yourself saying 'just one more plant!' Dive in for quick relaxation or lose yourself for hours in the cozy journey.

Why similar: Farming 22.7% ★, Wholesome 15.3%, Farming Sim 13.4%, Idler 10.4%, Nature 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the same cozy, low-stress plant-growing and decorating satisfaction without aggressive time pressures.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Farming Sim 38.8%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines the addictive resource-management, expanding territory, and passive gathering loops found in the Plantera series.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Cute 35.1%, Sandbox 25.2%, Colorful 16.1%, Family Friendly 15.5%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more active, it captures the same vibrant, wholesome creature-farming and resource collection vibe.

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 20.1% ★, Farming Sim 18.5%, Idler 13.9%, Incremental 12%, Nature 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the cute aesthetic and idle animal-tending mechanics of managing a small pocket-sized farm.

Idle Fields is an Idle Skilling Game. Grow crops, cut trees, fish, cook, purchase animals, mine, smith, and decorate your homes! Automate tasks with workers. Unlock all the achievements, level up to become richer, and complete it all!

Why similar: Collectathon 17.5%, Idler 17%, Incremental 16.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Nature 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar passive simulation and incremental farming loop designed for low-stress progression.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Collectathon 19.7%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.8%, Relaxing 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This wholesome village-building RPG shares the same peaceful, relaxing atmosphere and satisfying daily routine loops.

Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.

Why similar: Farming Sim 38.3%, Incremental 24%, Building 8.6%, Relaxing 8.1%, Cute 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the top-down casual farming and incremental harvesting gameplay that defines early idle garden titles.

Luna's Fishing Garden is a short, cozy fishing and building game. Catch fish, trade it in and create the garden of your dreams by planting new trees, placing water objects and bringing animals to the archipelago.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.1%, Collectathon 15.4%, Idler 13.6%, Wholesome 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, relaxing title focused on building up a vibrant, nature-filled coastal sanctuary at your own pace.

APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

Why similar: Nature 19.4%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 17.6%, Relaxing 11%, Cute 9%

Why You'll Like It: This whimsical simulation game focuses on breeding and collecting items in a relaxing, nature-themed environment.

Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.

Why similar: Idler 62.6%, Automation 32.3%, Colorful 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply satisfying incremental game that captures the core progression loops of resource gathering and management.

The ocean took it all… now take it back! In this short semi-idle island builder you’ll resurface fertile farmland - tile by tile. As you plant, harvest and expand you’ll obtain helping hands and discover what else lies below the surface.

Why similar: Decorating 23.3% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, Automation 11.8%, Incremental 10.8%, Idler 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist incremental farming experience that lets you watch your greenery grow with satisfying automation.

Dive into the agricultural life with Farm Manager World! Manage your own farm across vibrant global locations, cultivate exotic crops, and build your agribusiness empire. Welcome to sustainable farming at its finest.

Why similar: Farming Sim 38.4%, Resource Management 22%, Building 17.4%, Relaxing 10.6%, Colorful 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more structured approach to agricultural empire-building for players who enjoy managing crops and livestock.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 40.7%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Relaxing 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative stone-age farming sim that emphasizes community building, gathering, and peaceful animal taming.

Create a farm at the bottom of the screen and enjoy planting and harvesting with your monster companions! They handle all the work—just plan the layout, decorate, and wait for fun crop mutations. Take a break from busy life and enjoy the calm joy of farming.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.3%, Idler 18.3%, Automation 13.5%, Desktop Companion 12.6% ★, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines whimsical monster-raising with casual farming loops for a charming idle experience.

Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.2%, Automation 21.1%, Idler 19.8%, Building 9.4%, Relaxing 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates automation and incremental farming mechanics on a cheerful floating island.

The Islander is a fast building/farming game set somewhere in an exotic Polynesia. Plant crops, bushes and trees, build livestock pens, but don’t forget to make it look classy by adding various decorations.

Why similar: Farming Sim 40.8%, Incremental 17.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a quick, relaxing strategy and resource management puzzle wrapped in a colorful island theme.

Time Is Honey is a relaxing idle game where you manage bee hives. Collect unique bees by opening bee packs, take care of them in real-time and then turn it all into profit. Unlock, upgrade and customize your hives, and enjoy completing your collection of bees.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.7%, Automation 16.5%, Collectathon 15.2%, Idler 15%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends idle resource gathering and cute creature collection into a relaxing, low-pressure management game.

Relax and grow! A laid-back idle game where you nurture mysterious plants (some even human-like!), watch them flourish, then sell them to expand your magical garden. Design your own unique oasis at your own pace.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.2%, Idler 20.4%, Incremental 17.9%, Collectathon 14.4%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: A bite-sized idle farming game that runs quietly in the background while you handle other tasks.

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 17.1% ★, Farming 15.6% ★, Wholesome 13%, Idler 10.3%, Collectathon 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, nature-focused idler that lets you cultivate a quiet garden atmosphere right on your desktop.

Cats Are Money is a cozy idle game where you rebuild your grandmother's rundown cat farm. Collect over 150 unique cats, feed and pamper them, dress them up in outfits, and unlock new lands around the world. Happy cats make fur. Fur makes money.

Why similar: Wholesome 17.6%, Farming Sim 17.4%, Automation 13%, Collectathon 12.8%, Idler 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cozy feline collection with idle money-making mechanics for a lighthearted experience.

Make your farmer’s dream come true in Orange Season. With your parent’s help, you’ve finally saved enough money to buy a plot of land in the charming farmer’s village of Orange Town. Build a thriving farm as you grow crops, raise animals, fish, and mine materials to establish your farm in town.

Why similar: Farming Sim 43.7%, Building 18.6%, Relaxing 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Cute 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming farming simulation that leans heavily into the relaxing, wholesome pacing of rural life.

Another sun-filled day begins in this cozy pixel-art adventure. Gather, craft, upgrade, and help the villagers revive the land. Can you rebuild the grand Sunspire and bring the village back to its golden days?

Why similar: Incremental 16.2%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Automation 13.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Idler 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing crafting and incremental progression loop focused on simple, satisfying growth.

Tiny Biomes is a relaxing idle game where animals peacefully produce resources and you gather wood in a calm harvesting zone. Build small biomes, earn gold, and enjoy steady progression without pressure, timers, or stress. Play at your own pace and unwind.

Why similar: Idler 23.7%, Incremental 20.7%, Automation 15%, Relaxing 9%, Nature 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers small-scale pixel art incremental relaxation for fans of hands-off ecosystem management.

Build your own capybara spa in this relaxing point and click simulation game! Grow fruits, craft soaps and clean towels to pamper the capybaras during their visit. Furnish the mountain with gardens, baths and decorations to design the best capybara spa!

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.2%, Incremental 16.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Family Friendly 9.5%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, wholesome management game featuring adorable animals and soothing, stress-free gameplay.

A cozy idle game that sits anywhere on your desktop. Watch the frog cut grass, upgrade his tools, and decorate the island while you work or relax.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 24.4% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Idler 13.4%, Incremental 10.8%, Nature 7.9%

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: Farming 17.3% ★, Desktop Companion 15.6% ★, Decorating 15.1% ★, Wholesome 12%, Farming Sim 11.9%

Relax in your shady garden and watch the flowers grow. Seeds have a chance of mutating into a new species of flower -- follow the chart to complete the collection of over 100 flower types!

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.8%, Desktop Companion 17% ★, Collectathon 16.3%, Idler 11.3%, Incremental 8.4%

A cozy idle farming game, watch tiny guys do tasks around the terrace, expand, progress, and decorate your Tiny Terrace.

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.8%, Farming 21.4% ★, Idler 16.8%, Resource Management 6.9%, Nature 6.7%

Plantabi is a chill sandbox game where you take care of adorable plants and design the cozy little garden of your dreams!

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.1%, Idler 15.1%, Incremental 14.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Automation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sweet, point-and-click simulation focused on cultivating tiny, charming plots of greenery.

A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 19.8% ★, Decorating 18.4% ★, Farming Sim 13.6%, Automation 11.3%, Idler 9.5%

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: Decorating 15.1% ★, Desktop Companion 14.9% ★, Farming 14.7% ★, Farming Sim 12.9%, Animals 11.6% ★

My Tiny Garden is a cozy idle game that runs at the bottom of your screen. Plant cute plants, water, fertilize, and prune them. Earn coins to unlock new pots, plants, and stands. Decorate your desktop and relax while working, studying, or browsing.

Why similar: Desktop Companion 23.6% ★, Wholesome 19.1%, Idler 14%, Farming Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 10.3%

Click. Water. Grow. Harvest. Explore. Upgrade. Profit. An incremental-minimalist clicker farming game about growing your own farm full of money trees! 🌳 Ever wondered what it'd be like if money grew on trees? 💸Online co-op supported!

Why similar: Farming 28.9% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Incremental 12.3%, Automation 10.3%, Collectathon 10.3%

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Farming Sim 16%, Automation 15.1%, Incremental 14.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Idler 11%

Little Aviary is a relaxing idle bird collector that sits at the bottom of your screen! Hatch unique birds, sell them, decorate, then watch them fly around your screen and perch on top of your other windows!

Why similar: Desktop Companion 21.3% ★, Animals 18.9% ★, Idler 13.2%, Collectathon 11.2%, Incremental 10.9%

《Fluffy Kitchen Saga》A restaurant simulation game located at the bottom of your computer screen, where both staff and customers are fluffy little animals! They’ll keep you company while you work/study. Let’s run a restaurant full of fluffiness!

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.6%, Automation 16.4%, Idler 14.7%, Wholesome 14.1%, Incremental 9.8%

Game of Grass is a short and sweet, active (and idle) incremental game where you cut grass and feel good! Upgrade tools to cut grass more quickly. Grow crops for passive income. Attract thousands of visitors and animals! Collect the rare Golden Crops! Get all the things and be happy!

Why similar: Farming 21.2% ★, Farming Sim 17.2%, Collectathon 15.7%, Incremental 15.5%, Idler 13.8%

MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.

Why similar: Farming 23.7% ★, Farming Sim 19.8%, Automation 16%, Incremental 11.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

PomoFarm is half focus timer and half idle farming game! As Tomato the Duck, grow your farm as you focus on tasks in the real world!

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.4%, Idler 18.1%, Farming 10.9% ★, Nature 7.5%, Family Friendly 6.7%

Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!

Why similar: Idler 19.3%, Collectathon 13%, Nature 12.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.5%

Plant crops and shoot them down with your trusty gun. Earn money, purchase upgrades, and cultivate your farm. Watch your crops physically evolve to gigantic proportions. GROW them. Never stop growing them until their shadows block out the sun forever.

Why similar: Farming 30.4% ★, Incremental 15.3%, Idler 14.4%, Automation 12.9%, Relaxing 6.2%

Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.

Why similar: Incremental 14.7%, Idler 13.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Farming Sim 11.4%

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 27% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 13.8%, Automation 10.9%, Nature 8.5%

Petal by Petal is a relaxing incremental gardening game where mindful movements are rewarded. Automate your garden, unlock powerful flower abilities, and watch your screen explode into vibrant colour as your garden grows.

Why similar: Incremental 23.3%, Wholesome 21.6%, Idler 19.1%, Relaxing 9.8%, Collectathon 7.3%

A tile-based farming game where success means maximizing yields to survive the rent, expanding your farm through random tile choices.

Why similar: Farming 40.1% ★, Farming Sim 18.3%, Collectathon 13.2%, Building 6.2%, Sandbox 5.4%

300+ lifelike bugs to collect and grow—breed them to unlock rare species! Customize your terrarium with 300+ landscaping items and 70+ backgrounds. A tiny, soothing nature escape on your screen!🦋🐌🦗🐝🐞🐛🦐

Why similar: Collectathon 24.1%, Idler 23.9%, Incremental 21.7%, Nature 15.3%, Relaxing 6.4%

Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!

Why similar: Incremental 34.8%, Idler 19.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Relaxing 8.2%, Collectathon 6.9%

A cozy management sim where the jazz is smooth, the cocktails are cooler than the evening breeze, and the lake reflects your perfect escape.

Why similar: Decorating 19.1% ★, Desktop Companion 16.4% ★, Wholesome 12.6%, Farming Sim 11.8%, Idler 9.5%

A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.

Why similar: Wholesome 21.2%, Incremental 17.5%, Idler 17.3%, Nature 12%, Resource Management 8.8%

Idler game inside an antique dream globe, build the small home and help the mini dream world grow

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.8%, Collectathon 22.5%, Idler 20.3%, Resource Management 10%, Relaxing 6.4%

A cozy idle island sim that lives on your desktop, just above the taskbar. Five islanders — a Farmer, Woodcutter, Fisherman, Miner, and Chef — farm, fish, mine, cook, and craft on their own. You just make the calls. Glance down between emails and a meal is ready. It never steals your screen.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18%, Wholesome 16.6%, Automation 13.2%, Idler 12.2%, Incremental 10.3%

Plant seeds, pull weeds and sell vegetables - all while doing something else!

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.2%, Idler 16.4%, Incremental 13.8%, Automation 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat. Hop right to it!

Why similar: Farming 19.6% ★, Animals 16.8% ★, Wholesome 14.4%, Farming Sim 13.9%, Collectathon 10.6%

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 25.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Farming Sim 14.4%, Idler 13.8%, Incremental 10.7%

Catio Simulator is a casual incremental game in which you decorate a catio to attract cats. Pet your cats to get them ready for adoption, collect adoption fees, and upgrade your catio and petting ability!

Why similar: Decorating 32.1% ★, Incremental 16.6%, Idler 12.3%, Automation 11.2%, Relaxing 5.8%

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Farming Sim 41.1%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Relaxing 13.1%, Cute 7.4%