
Task Bar Cube is an idle RPG playable either in full screen or directly from your taskbar. Upgrade your characters and pets, collect rare equipment, and discover dozens of different progression systems.
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Task Bar Cube is an idle RPG playable either in full screen or directly from your taskbar. Upgrade your characters and pets, collect rare equipment, and discover dozens of different progression systems.

Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector
Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team. Or Sell/Buy from the Steam Community Market.

TBH: Task Bar Hero
The ultimate tiny idle RPG! Adorable pixel heroes are waiting to join your adventure — from your taskbar. Fight off the boredom of work and daily life with diverse classes, skills, items, and builds!
Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team. Or Sell/Buy from the Steam Community Market.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 28.8% ★, Trading 20%, Idler 13.6%, Incremental 7.9%, Auto Battler 7.3%
The ultimate tiny idle RPG! Adorable pixel heroes are waiting to join your adventure — from your taskbar. Fight off the boredom of work and daily life with diverse classes, skills, items, and builds!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.4% ★, Trading 25.2%, Idler 17.9%, Action RPG 6.6%, Auto Battler 6.3%
Loop Tower tells the story of adventurers climbing an endless tower. Place it on a corner of your desktop and help them continue their ascent. Experience a fresh blend of desktop idle gameplay + roguelike + RPG right now!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 30.1% ★, Trading 21.7%, Idler 13.1%, Auto Battler 13%, Incremental 9.7%
Meet Little Friends on the PC with Crusaders Quest : Mini (CQ:Mini)! You can work and study During the game, Crusader Quest's warriors fought hard and saved the Hasla continent You're leaving. You can collect the original warriors and costumes just for this game, too. Let go of your boredom
Why similar: Desktop Companion 29.8% ★, Idler 12.5%, Auto Battler 12.4%, Trading 11.3%, Strategy RPG 9.1%
An idle RPG companion for your taskbar. While the game is running, your Monto farms stages, defeats bosses, gathers loot, and battles other players in asynchronous PvP. Hatch new Montos, refine your build, trade valuable drops on the Steam Community Market, and climb PvP and PvE rankings.
Why similar: Trading 29.1%, Desktop Companion 26.5% ★, Idler 13.9%, RPG 8.6%, Auto Battler 8%
Idle Incremental MMORPG Simulator where you start grinding manually, then gradually unlock Bot Modules until the game plays itself. Setup combat behavior and farming routes to find the most optimal configuration.
Why similar: Idler 19.5%, Auto Battler 17.8%, Automation 13%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Incremental 11.7%
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 33.9% ★, Idler 14.5%, Auto Battler 13.2%, Incremental 9.1%, Automation 8.4%
A hack-and-slash that fights on in your taskbar. Chibi heroes meet the enemy inside a thin strip parked at the bottom of your screen. All you do is swap the gear they picked up and respec their skills, whenever you feel like it. The rest happens in the corner of your screen without you.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 35.5% ★, Idler 19.2%, Auto Battler 16.3%, Action RPG 7.6%, Incremental 7.3%
A desktop idle RPG where your party of five heroes fights, loots, and grows in a small window while you work.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.7% ★, Trading 20.3%, Idler 15%, Auto Battler 14.8%, Strategy RPG 6.1%
Cat Screen is a game about cats living on your desktop and taskbar! Collect, feed, play mini-games, win boxes, power up your cats, and participate in boss battles!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.8% ★, Trading 17.3%, Idler 14.7%, Auto Battler 13.2%, Incremental 8.3%
Just leave it running. The rest takes care of itself. In a small corner of your desktop, a 3D character fights and loots all on its own. Snag good gear and trade it on the Steam Community Market. It's idle, yet you can't stop watching. Addictive looting at its finest.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.2% ★, Trading 25.9%, Idler 17.1%, Action RPG 8.3%, RPG 5.6%
A tiny idle RPG that keeps running in a corner of your desktop — even when it's just an icon. Rally washed-up retired monsters, push back the human invaders, and bring back their glory days!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.6% ★, Trading 29.2%, Idler 21.4%, RPG 8.5%, Casual 3.6%
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 41.5% ★, Idler 20.7%, Incremental 11.4%, RPG 8.7%, Auto Battler 8.6%
Loot Nook is an idle loot RPG that hides in the corner of your desktop. Heroes fight, explore, and loot — while you work or study. Mix classes, skills, and gear. Check in, collect, and upgrade. Build your build and watch your power climb!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 38.9% ★, Idler 18.8%, Auto Battler 13.5%, Incremental 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
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 46.4% ★, Idler 18.3%, Auto Battler 17.4%, Incremental 9.8%, Strategy 4.5%
A co-op idle minimalist desktop extraction game you can play with friends! In a city destroyed by a strange force, many factions covet advanced science and magic—and you step into this land of opportunity. Fight, search, extract, grow stronger, build your base, and uncover your origins!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 35.4% ★, Trading 23.7%, Idler 17.6%, Action RPG 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
Desk Hunter is a desktop idle RPG that keeps battling in a compact window while you work or play. Collect loot, refine equipment through Gear Alchemy, shape builds through skills and growth nodes, fight alongside familiars, and push deeper into Erosion.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.4% ★, Idler 18.8%, Auto Battler 17.3%, Automation 10.1%, RPG 7.8%
Manage a team of three hunters, improve their attributes as you progress through different stages and complete missions. All of this happens in the corner of your screen, allowing you to continue your daily tasks on the computer while the game progresses.
Why similar: Auto Battler 23.1%, Idler 19.1%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Incremental 13.3%, Automation 10.7%
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 48.8% ★, Idler 19.9%, Management 8.8%, Incremental 8%, Automation 7.8%
Summon, place, and merge slimes to stop the larvae pouring from the pen. Collect 111 slimes across 12 grades from F to XXX, grow through runes and rebirths, trade eligible Steam Inventory items, and climb the stage leaderboard in this casual pixel-art horde defense game.
Why similar: Trading 28.5%, Idler 20.5%, Desktop Companion 20.2% ★, Auto Battler 18.6%, Incremental 4.5%
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 39.1% ★, Idler 21.4%, Automation 14%, Incremental 12.7%, Management 5%
Command an undead army and lay siege to a continent in this incremental strategy game. Build war machines, sacrifice minions and automate hellish magic in your quest to unite the lands of Incrementalia by force.
Why similar: Idler 22.5%, Auto Battler 20.7%, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Incremental 13.5%, RPG 8.9%
A tiny idle RPG that lives on your desktop. Park it on your taskbar or anywhere on screen, and four heroes march through 7 acts while you work, study or play. Gear them up, shape their skills, and come back to loot and levels. Fully offline: no account, no servers, no microtransactions.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.1% ★, Idler 20.2%, Auto Battler 17.4%, Incremental 9.9%, RPG 8.8%
Turn your desktop into a living battleground! In this free-to-play idle RPG, your stickman fighter battles while you work. Collect loot and chests, merge items into stronger gear, improve your build, and hunt for rare tradable items.
Why similar: Auto Battler 17.7%, Desktop Companion 17.6% ★, Idler 17.5%, 2D Fighter 16.1%, Trading 15.2%
A lightweight gladiator auto-battler designed to be played or watched on a second monitor.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40% ★, Idler 20.2%, Auto Battler 18.1%, Incremental 11.6%, Management 6.1%
A challenging dark fantasy idle RPG that lives in the corner of your screen. Fight and loot while you work, refine your build, trigger item synergies, and grow stronger. An autobattler with asynchronous PvP, for glory and loot!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.3% ★, Trading 18.9%, Auto Battler 15.2%, Idler 14.5%, Action RPG 6.6%
This is a relaxing idle auto-battler game.Starting as a lone hero, gradually recruit powerful subordinates to form a mighty legion, upgrade powerful abilities, and then conquer the entire world.
Why similar: Idler 22.3%, Auto Battler 21.7%, Incremental 12.5%, Automation 10.9%, Strategy RPG 10.1%
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 44.4% ★, Idler 17.8%, Automation 10.7%, Incremental 10.5%, Management 6.8%
Stress Relief is an idler game, which comes with a reliable companion, the Slime! Are you bored? Are you stressed because of work? Come and destroy your desktop with the tools included! Play, earn Pixel Points and get drops every 25 minutes!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.9% ★, Trading 26.5%, Idler 17.8%, Incremental 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
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 44.8% ★, Trading 26.7%, Idler 22.9%, Casual 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Slow Orbit puts a tiny, self-running space war in the bottom corner of your screen. Leave your fleet to conquer planets while you do other things, then drop in to buy upgrades, pick promotions and take on tougher defenses.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.3% ★, Auto Battler 21.5%, Incremental 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Strategy 3.5%
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.8% ★, Idler 16.8%, Auto Battler 16.2%, Incremental 10.2%, Action RPG 6.3%
A desktop companion idle auto-battler in isometric 3D that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things. Collect your loot, upgrade your tower and defeat endless waves of enemies.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45% ★, Auto Battler 18.1%, Idler 18%, Incremental 11.6%, Management 3.5%
An idle action RPG that lives in the corner of your desktop. Your hero farms monsters and gathers loot while you do other things—you return for the best part: choosing new gear, shaping the build, and deciding where to farm next.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 46.1% ★, Idler 15.6%, Action RPG 11.7%, Auto Battler 10.7%, RPG 7%
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 44.6% ★, Idler 23.9%, Action RPG 12.9%, Incremental 10.5%, RPG 4.2%
The smallest monster idle RPG, right on your taskbar. Collect and manage monsters, each with unique skills and personality. Exploration runs on its own, so don't stop until you've assembled the ultimate party!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40% ★, Trading 21.6%, Idler 17.1%, Incremental 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
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 36.6% ★, Idler 19.2%, Incremental 11.7%, Automation 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 42.8% ★, Auto Battler 18.3%, Idler 18%, Incremental 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
An idle collection RPG that keeps adventuring on your desktop. Build a team of three Dreamspirits, combine roles, skills, equipment, and innate affixes, then push farther through auto-battles, hatching, fusion, and talent progression.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 35.8% ★, Idler 20.6%, Auto Battler 20.1%, RPG 9%, Automation 8.3%
Lead adorable warriors to form an adventure team to work and adventure on the computer desktop. Defeat the warriors to save the world. Rich nurturing and collection elements, idle and slack off to earn money and fight monsters!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 44.9% ★, Idler 21.6%, Action RPG 12.5%, Incremental 6.9%, RPG 6.8%
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 48.3% ★, Idler 23.5%, Incremental 14%, Automation 7%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Idler 23.2%, Auto Battler 22.7%, Desktop Companion 19.1% ★, Incremental 14.5%, RPG 6.3%
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 40.2% ★, Idler 16.9%, Automation 11.8%, Auto Battler 10.4%, Incremental 6.9%
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 semi idle tycoon game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43% ★, Idler 17.7%, Automation 15.6%, Incremental 9.7%, Management 7%
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.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.5% ★, Idler 18.1%, Automation 12.6%, Incremental 8.3%, Management 7.3%
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 45.6% ★, Idler 21.8%, Incremental 9.9%, RPG 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
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 57.1% ★, Idler 22.4%, Incremental 12.8%, Casual 4.8%, 2D 2.1%
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 55.2% ★, Idler 20.3%, Incremental 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Casual 4.1%
An idle detective game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.7% ★, Idler 18.9%, Auto Battler 15.8%, Incremental 11.9%, RPG 5.1%
A pixel-art idle zombie RPG that lives in a slim strip above your taskbar. Your survivors fight the horde while you work: loot scrap, forge gear, unlock skills, prestige and push through 4 difficulties. Minimize the apocalypse - or go fullscreen when the boss arrives.
Why similar: Auto Battler 20.9%, Idler 17.1%, Trading 13.8%, Desktop Companion 13.2% ★, Incremental 12.4%
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 51.7% ★, Idler 28.4%, Management 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, Casual 4.5%
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 42% ★, Idler 17%, Trading 14.5%, Incremental 12%, Management 5.5%
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 46.9% ★, Idler 18.8%, Incremental 11.8%, Automation 10.5%, Management 7.1%
Legends of Companion is a strategic auto-battling ARPG roguelite where every choice is yours. Pick from 4 classes, build deep skill trees, forge loot, recruit a battle pet, and chart paths across diverse worlds. Master skills, gear, and team combos to turn one spark into an unstoppable legend.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.9% ★, Auto Battler 21%, RPG 12.6%, Incremental 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
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 57.2% ★, Idler 23.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, RPG 7.1%, Casual 3%
Build the ultimate hero formation on a tactical grid, then watch your team crush endless waves. Level heroes, collect mounts, farm pets, dig into mines, and prestige across 17+ worlds, all while you're away. A deeply layered idle RPG with real strategic depth.
Why similar: Auto Battler 22.5%, Idler 21.9%, Strategy RPG 14.7%, Incremental 12.8%, RPG 8.7%
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 48.8% ★, Idler 18.4%, Incremental 13.2%, Automation 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%
Raise, Collect, Trade! Discover rare fish, grow your collection, and build a living aquarium right on your desktop.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40.6% ★, Trading 28.1%, Idler 22.7%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%, Management 2.9%
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 44.1% ★, Idler 18.6%, Automation 14.9%, Incremental 12.1%, Management 7.7%