
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Idler, Incremental, Resource Management, Simulation.

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

Ant
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.

Desktop Forge
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.
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 36.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, Idler 12.6%, Incremental 10.7%, Automation 6.6%
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 44.1% ★, Idler 15.5%, Incremental 8.4%, Management 8.3%, Automation 5.6%
Ignite your base on Tpler and forge your Dyson Sphere industrial wonder. Build automated desktop lines, deploy drone logistics, launch units to orbit. Draw tech perks for your build and boost output. Your custom Dyson Sphere orbit is exclusive live wallpaper, bringing cosmic romance to your desktop.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 31.3% ★, Idler 13.3%, Automation 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Incremental 9.4%
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 41.2% ★, Idler 17.2%, Incremental 13.8%, Mining 6.6% ★, Sci-fi 6%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 33.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Idler 12.3%, Incremental 10.8%, Base Building 7.5%
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 55.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, Automation 8.7%, Idler 8.1%, Management 6.7%
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, Incremental 14.9%, Idler 14.8%, Automation 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%
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 42.3% ★, Idler 18.1%, Incremental 13.5%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Simulation 3.7%
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 42% ★, Idler 14.5%, Incremental 11.5%, Automation 8.1%, Management 6.6%
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 39% ★, Mining 18.7% ★, Idler 15.6%, Incremental 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%
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 38.7% ★, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 14.5%, Automation 11.1%, Resource Management 5.6%
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 34.3% ★, Idler 15.4%, Incremental 12.7%, Automation 7.4%, Resource Management 6.6%
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 36.8% ★, Idler 13.6%, Incremental 11.4%, Automation 7.3%, Base Building 7%
An idle miner at galactic scale. Drop thousands of dwarves onto a planet and watch it disappear. No fail states, no lost progress, no rush - just automated mining, upgrades and numbers that always climb
Why similar: Mining 17.2% ★, Idler 14.6%, Incremental 13.8%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
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 40.6% ★, Idler 14.3%, Automation 11.8%, Incremental 10.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Mining 17% ★, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 15.2%, Automation 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Incremental 20.1%, Idler 17.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.8%
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 43.4% ★, Idler 14.8%, Automation 9.6%, Incremental 9.1%, Management 7.3%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Idler 16%, Incremental 15.8%, Automation 10.6%, Base Building 7.7%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Mining 21.4% ★, Idler 17.4%, Incremental 16%, Automation 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
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 37.8% ★, Mining 14% ★, Idler 13%, Automation 8.2%, Incremental 7.7%
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Mining 17.7% ★, Idler 14.3%, Incremental 13.8%, Automation 9%
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, Idler 14.7%, Incremental 12.7%, Mining 10.8% ★, Base Building 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 master compact layouts as you harvest the galaxy. The. Factory. Must. Grow.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 30.8% ★, Idler 11.5%, Automation 9.1%, Mining 8.9% ★, Base Building 8.3%
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 41.3% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 13.1%, Automation 11.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
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 45.8% ★, Idler 14.8%, Incremental 14.3%, Automation 8.8%, Minimalist 3.7%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Idler 15.1%, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Incremental 7.4%
《Delvegg》 is a desktop idle mining game. The core gameplay revolves around digging eggs, collecting pets, and building your underground mining empire.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43.6% ★, Mining 18.4% ★, Idler 15.8%, Incremental 11%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Idler 12.1%, Building 11%
A little mining crew, right on your desktop. Idle Miner is a relaxing idle game that sits along the bottom of your screen. Upgrade your miners, explore branching fantasy routes, collect rare artifacts, and rebirth to grow your crew while you work, browse, or unwind.
Why similar: Mining 19% ★, Desktop Companion 18.7% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 14.8%, Automation 12.4%
Keep Hell Open is a fast-paced incremental defense game. Harvest energy from Hell to build automated defenses, mutate demons into powerful weapons, and survive relentless demonic hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Incremental 20%, Idler 19.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 10.2%
A chill, exploration-based incremental game about harvesting and cleansing an alien planet of its radiation with a swarm of high-tech toasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Idler 20.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Incremental 10.3%, Automation 9.2%
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 39.4% ★, Idler 14%, Automation 10.9%, Building 6.5%, Management 6.1%
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: Idler 21.6%, Incremental 21.2%, Automation 16.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 7.1%
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 45.4% ★, Mining 19.5% ★, Idler 15.7%, Sci-fi 5.7%, Automation 4.9%
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 50.1% ★, Idler 21.6%, Incremental 18%, Minimalist 5.6%, 2D 2.2%
Build an automated industrial empire from stone tools to singularity tech. Click, automate, and research through 10 eras, then breach reality to conquer parallel dimensions with unique rules, resources, and threats. Idle factory builder with deep prestige and cross-dimensional logistics.
Why similar: Incremental 21.4%, Idler 20.7%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 10%
In Mine Empire, start with basic mining and expand by gathering resources, upgrading equipment, and deploying machines for full automation. Blast through deep mineral veins with explosives, unlock rebirth upgrades and advanced technology, and build your own powerful mine empire.
Why similar: Mining 23.7% ★, Idler 20.3%, Incremental 17.2%, Automation 14%, Resource Management 11.2%
Drill Deep is a coalpunk idle clicker about digging the world's deepest hole. You start with a cozy incremental loop, descend into madness of haunted mine and end somewhere you shouldn't have gone
Why similar: Mining 22.3% ★, Idler 20.1%, Incremental 16.3%, Automation 8.6%, Management 8.5%
Deep Core Protocol is a mining incremental game where you mine ores, upgrade powerful pickaxes and skills, automate your operation with Mining AI, defeat bosses, and push deeper underground through Rebirth and New Game+.
Why similar: Mining 22.6% ★, Incremental 19.4%, Idler 18.3%, Automation 12.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
Facrobry is a strategy-simulator in which you will manage an automated robot production station. Research upgrades, assemble robots, and send them into battle!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 15.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.1%
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 41.7% ★, Idler 14.5%, Incremental 13.8%, Resource Management 7.8%, Minimalist 6.5%
Idle Cosmos Clicker is a space-themed idle simulation where you grow the universe from asteroids to black holes. Produce, automate, and evolve resources while unlocking planets, stars, and galaxies. A relaxing yet deep incremental experience with endless progression.
Why similar: Incremental 21%, Idler 20.9%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Management 8.5%, Automation 7.2%
A tiny space colony lives in a strip above your taskbar. Colonists build, scavenge, and catch supply pods while you work. Grow nine building types, hit milestones, evacuate to prestige, and fly your own Workshop flag. Click-through, fullscreen-shy, and easy on your CPU.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Idler 18.2%, Incremental 15.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Base Building 6.4%
Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Mining 14.4% ★, Idler 12.9%, Automation 11%, Base Building 9.8%
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 42.1% ★, Idler 15.5%, Automation 12.2%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 7.6%
A short incremental game about gathering resources on different planets. Upgrade the harvesters, unlock new buildings, and unlock new ways to gather resources! It's all about watching lil people do their thing.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Mining 20% ★, Incremental 15.5%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.8%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, Mining 15.3% ★, Idler 12.4%, Incremental 11.9%, Automation 8.7%
Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Incremental 14.9%, Idler 12.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Automation 7.8%
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 40.8% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 12.6%, Building 8%, Base Building 6.3%
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 42.6% ★, Idler 15%, Incremental 10.2%, Building 7.5%, Automation 6.3%
A relaxed incremental mining game about digging deeper, unlocking upgrades, and uncovering ancient artifacts.
Why similar: Mining 26.4% ★, Incremental 23%, Idler 22.1%, Automation 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Mining 18.6% ★, Idler 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Incremental 9.7%
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Incremental 17%, Idler 16.8%, Automation 11.1%, Building 7.8%
Golden City is a desktop idle game blending ice-and-snow survival with simulation. Light the Furnace, build the last shelter, manage resources, extract Gold Coins, and advance technology. Idle on your desktop while you work, and keep strengthening your base to save the last hope.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 40% ★, Idler 20.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Incremental 8.7%, Building 7.4%
Descend into endless layers of resource-rich caves, mine valuable ore, expand your operation with autonomous drones, and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades to push how deep you can go in this minimalistic pixel-art idle/incremental indie game
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Incremental 23%, Idler 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Automation 7.2%
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 45% ★, Idler 16.1%, Building 7.2%, Management 6.7%, Resource Management 6.4%
Help goblins take down a giant floating egg
Why similar: Incremental 23.7%, Idler 16.5%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Building 9%, Management 7.4%
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 37% ★, Idler 13.9%, Incremental 11.4%, Automation 9.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Mining 16.7% ★, Building 10.6%, Automation 9.1%, Management 8.5%