60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Casual, Incremental, Idler, Desktop Companion.
Park Sidebar Starship at the edge of your screen and let it aim, fire, and collect stardust. Death doesn't mean replaying everything from the beginning: every upgrade stays yours. Take over with WASD, the arrow keys, and Space when the shots get rude.
Desktop Tower Survivor
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.
Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege
Swarm Survivors: Endless Siege is a light roguelike bullet-hell idle shooter. You play as the last survivor of the Swarm, fighting to stay alive under the endless siege of alien fleets. Build overwhelming power and face wave after wave of relentless challenges.
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 42.4% ★, Incremental 15.4%, Idler 14.3%, Bullet Hell 6.2%, Automation 5.1%
Swarm Survivors: Endless Siege is a light roguelike bullet-hell idle shooter. You play as the last survivor of the Swarm, fighting to stay alive under the endless siege of alien fleets. Build overwhelming power and face wave after wave of relentless challenges.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.9% ★, Bullet Heaven 18.9% ★, Idler 12.2%, Incremental 10%, Shoot 'Em Up 9%
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 47.4% ★, Idler 18.4%, Incremental 14.7%, Automation 7.5%, Sci-fi 5.3%
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 54.9% ★, Idler 16.1%, Incremental 13.1%, Space 10.6%, Casual 2.5%
An Idle Incremental game where you explore an infinite, procedurally generated skill tree. Defend yourself against ever-growing waves of numbers. Unlock new abilities, complete quests and expand the skill tree to become infinitely powerful.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 33.7% ★, Bullet Heaven 23.8% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 15.3%, Arcade 2.2%
A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.8% ★, Bullet Heaven 20% ★, Idler 12.7%, Incremental 11.7%, Automation 9.3%
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 39.7% ★, Bullet Heaven 22% ★, Idler 14.6%, Incremental 11.9%, Bullet Hell 7.1%
A block breaking idle game at the side of your screen. Break through progressively harder rows of blocks as you buy upgrades and unlock special ball types.
Why similar: Idler 20.3%, Incremental 17.7%, Top-Down Shooter 17.7%, Desktop Companion 14.7% ★, Bullet Heaven 9.4% ★
A chill incremental shooter about destroying aliens and getting stronger. Collect souls, unlock upgrades, and enjoy a satisfying loop of constant growth.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 29.2% ★, Incremental 14.5%, Idler 13.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.4%, Bullet Hell 9.4%
A retro incremental idle desktop companion all about making progress on the side and at your own pace.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 51.3% ★, Idler 15.4%, Incremental 14.8%, Automation 13.5%, Resource Management 1.8%
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 54% ★, Idler 21.6%, Incremental 18%, Casual 2.1%, 2D 1.6%
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 54.5% ★, Idler 16.3%, Incremental 16.1%, Automation 6%, Arcade 2.2%
Pilot an A.C.E combat craft in a incremental retro styled sci-fi shoot 'em up where every run earns data shards, unlocks upgrades via 7 skill trees, fight bosses, conquer 100 prestige levels and push deeper into a war against the Worms invading the colony.
Why similar: Incremental 22%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.1%, Bullet Hell 13.5%, Shooter 5.3%
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 71.9% ★, Idler 18.4%, Casual 4.4%, Relaxing 2.7%, 2D 1.7%
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 50.2% ★, Idler 15.3%, Incremental 14.9%, Automation 12.8%, Resource Management 2.2%
Lightweight desktop idle battler. The ultimate workday distraction.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.2% ★, Idler 16.6%, Automation 13.3%, Incremental 13.1%, Casual 2.4%
Pit Wizard is a short incremental top-down shooter where you jump into magical pits to blast through hordes of dangerous enemies and mine rare resources while upgrading two huge skill trees.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 27.3% ★, Idler 14.3%, Incremental 14.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11.8%, Bullet Hell 11%
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 47.4% ★, Idler 19%, Incremental 15.3%, Space 7%, Resource Management 4.9%
A small idle RPG that sits at the bottom of the screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.2% ★, Automation 14.7%, Idler 14.7%, Incremental 13.8%, Arcade 3.8%
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 54.5% ★, Idler 21.7%, Incremental 16.1%, Casual 2.7%, Resource Management 2.4%
A farm simulator on your taskbar. Bring your taskbar to life by raising adorable farm animals while doing other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.9% ★, Idler 16.3%, Incremental 16.2%, Automation 14%, 2D 1.9%
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 43.5% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 14.9%, Automation 12.9%, Resource Management 4.3%
A space-themed incremental shooter where destruction fuels growth. Annihilate asteroids, harvest wealth, and climb a massive upgrade tree.
Why similar: Incremental 16.7%, Automation 15.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.7%, Idler 12.8%, Space 9.6%
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 72.7% ★, Automation 15.8%, Idler 9.9%, 2D 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
In the far reaches of space, an odyssey begins. Explore hostile biomes, face powerful enemies, and gather vital resources in a retro shoot ’em up. Reset to evolve and grow stronger. The odyssey of Pegasis is endless, how far will you go?
Why similar: Idler 22%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.1%, Automation 13.6%, Shooter 8.5%, Space 8.5%
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 62.3% ★, Idler 19.4%, Incremental 13.3%, Casual 2.2%, Relaxing 1.5%
An idle shmup: your fighter battles on its own — you command its evolution. Turn gold into power, beat adaptive AI bosses across 5 biomes, hunt treasure and rise in rank to face ever-harsher laps. Always in the corner of your screen.
Why similar: Incremental 18.4%, Idler 17.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Automation 12.3%, Shooter 7.9%
Graboo is the shyest claw machine in the world. Graboo quietly picks up doll friends from the corner of the screen while you're working or enjoying games. Give warm friends to Graboo, a loner!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 54.5% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 11.8%, Automation 7.9%, Casual 2.4%
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 51.5% ★, Idler 19.1%, Incremental 18.5%, Casual 2.3%, Resource Management 2%
A corner screen incremental brick-breaker where bouncing cores destroy endless swarms. Let it run in the corner of your screen while you work or jump into fullscreen and take control yourself. Unlock new Cores, expand your skill tree, survive endless waves.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.9% ★, Bullet Heaven 21.8% ★, Idler 14.7%, Incremental 13%, Top-Down 3.4%
Merge Mutants is a fast-paced top-down survival shooter where hostile scientists try to keep you locked up. Synthesize their remains into healing, abilities, and loyal mutants, then merge matching units into bigger and more powerful ones. Break out of the lab or die trying.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 36.2% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.5%, Bullet Hell 13.5%, Shooter 6%, Incremental 5.9%
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 47.6% ★, Automation 22.1%, Idler 20.3%, Resource Management 4.6%, Casual 2%
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 64.1% ★, Idler 19.4%, Resource Management 5.7%, Sci-fi 3.8%, Casual 3.3%
Battle relentless drone swarms, mine valuable resources, and upgrade your ship into a devastating weapon platform.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 35.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.8%, Space 6.5%, Arcade 6.3%
An expansive incremental game that rewards both active and idle gameplay. Defend your planet from an onslaught of alien insects, block projectiles, purchase upgrades, collect artifacts, and complete missions for rewards. There is always something new to unlock as you progress deeper into the swarm.
Why similar: Incremental 24.4%, Idler 23.7%, Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Space 8.8%, Resource Management 5.7%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.6% ★, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 13.9%, Automation 11.4%, Resource Management 5%
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 57.1% ★, Idler 21.8%, Incremental 13.3%, Casual 2.6%, 2D 2.1%
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 54.3% ★, Idler 16.9%, Automation 16.6%, Sci-fi 3.3%, Resource Management 3.2%
Wirehawk is a retro boomer shmup: a vertical bullet-heaven shooter in pure neon vector wireframe. Blast asteroids and alien waves, dodge bullet storms, slow time with stasis. No scripted waves - pure reaction. One ship, one laser, no mercy. Built for the mouse, gamepad supported. Autofire always on.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 21.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.1%, Bullet Hell 13.7%, Space 8.8%
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 49.1% ★, Idler 16.5%, Automation 15.8%, Incremental 9%, Resource Management 4.2%
Ready for some chill time in space? Astrodle has you covered. Watch the numbers soar as you upgrade your ship and travel the stars. Oh, and you might just become a god.
Why similar: Incremental 22.2%, Idler 21.3%, Automation 19.5%, Space 9.2%, Shooter 7.3%
EpicSelectry is a bullet hell shooter where you choose between the dense Red World and the fast Blue World. Repeated choices raise each world's rank and intensify its patterns. Dodge aimed and random bullets, customize Extra Mode's difficulty, and compete on Steam leaderboards.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 26.3% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 18.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14.7%, Bullet Hell 14%, Shooter 8.8%
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 65.4% ★, Idler 27%, Casual 3.4%, 2D 2.9%, Indie 0.7%
A short, active incremental game about fighting insomnia. Go to bed, bust hordes of demons in your dreams and get powerful upgrades to become a master at sleeping.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 31.7% ★, Incremental 21.2%, Idler 12.9%, Bullet Hell 10.2%, Shooter 5.8%
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 51.5% ★, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 11.5%, Automation 10.5%, Resource Management 3.6%
A unique combination of a classical incremental game with a more action based bullet-heaven game. Featuring a huge upgrade tree with around 200 permanent upgrades, plus relics, boons and more. Wishlist now and see how strong you can get.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 40.6% ★, Idler 22%, Incremental 18.5%, Shooter 5.3%, Arcade 4.8%
INCREDECK is a small incremental game where you collect cards, earn money, buy upgrades, and unlock new stages of the game.
Why similar: Idler 30.6%, Incremental 22.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.4%, Bullet Hell 10.5%, Arcade 6.2%
On a sweltering summer day, have you ever been annoyed by the buzzing near your ears? When you see skeeters swarming chaotically in the air by the roadside, don't you just want to wipe them all out at once? Here, skeeters will be continuously drawn in—zap them into crisps with your electric gun!
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Top-Down Shooter 27.3%, Idler 25.2%, Shooter 8.3%, Top-Down 7.3%
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 62.9% ★, Idler 27.5%, Casual 3.5%, 2D 3.2%, Relaxing 2.3%
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 51.2% ★, Automation 20.2%, Idler 17.5%, Resource Management 4.9%, 2D 1.9%
Turn your desktop into an audio-reactive neon club. Desktop Rave: Idle Audio Club is an idle management game that lives on your desktop. Use your music to power the party, grow your crowd, and keep the club alive.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 48.4% ★, Idler 16.1%, Incremental 13.6%, Automation 13.1%, Resource Management 4%
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 62.9% ★, Idler 20%, Automation 8.7%, Casual 2.6%, Incremental 2.3%
Planet Harvester is a sci-fi automation and resource management sim where you deploy autonomous drones, harvest planets, transfer resources to your mothership, buy upgrades, solve bottlenecks, and expand across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Idler 22.6%, Incremental 18.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Space 8.5%
Battle across the galaxy, defeat powerful bosses, and uncover the mystery of Kuma's missing sister in this fast-paced top-down space shooter.
Why similar: Bullet Heaven 34.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 15%, Bullet Hell 13.6%, Shooter 4.4%
A cosy idler starring an Onion who makes soup anywhere on your desktop! Watch him grow and harvest cabbages to make delicious soup for a cast of colourful customers. Decorate your island and customise your Onion with your hard-earned gold to level him up, and build your very own soup making empire!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 53.1% ★, Idler 17.6%, Incremental 12.6%, Automation 11.1%, Casual 2.2%
Grind mobs, farm loot and capture enemies to serve you. Deskrawl is an epic idle ARPG that plays at the bottom of your desktop. Farm legendary items and build overpowered heroes while you work or chill.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 56.4% ★, Idler 23.6%, Incremental 14.2%, Casual 2.5%, Action 1.6%
Desktop Gugu is a cozy taskbar companion. Freely place crystals, sacred trees, or nuclear reactors to assign pets to different production jobs. Pet, feed, and fuse them to unlock 12+ quirky companions. Fully supports transparent mouse-passthrough to keep your work uninterrupted.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 59% ★, Idler 18.8%, Incremental 14.8%, Casual 2.2%, Resource Management 1.9%
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 45.7% ★, Automation 16%, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 13.1%, Resource Management 5.2%
Arcade Forever is a 3D vertical space shooter. This is an action game in which many enemies, obstacles and different weapons guarantee great fun. If you like fast space action, this is the game for you.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.2%, Bullet Hell 17%, Space 11%, Shooter 8.8%
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 56.3% ★, Automation 21.1%, Idler 15.6%, Casual 2.1%, 2D 2%
