
An incremental desktop defense game that lives on the corner of your screen. Waves get harder, upgrades get stronger, progress never stops. Build your base, unlock permanent bonuses and grow your army while you work or relax.
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An incremental desktop defense game that lives on the corner of your screen. Waves get harder, upgrades get stronger, progress never stops. Build your base, unlock permanent bonuses and grow your army while you work or relax.

Paper Tower: Idle Overlay
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.

Desktop Defender
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
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 42% ★, Auto Battler 12.7%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Idler 10.5%, Incremental 9.7%
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 43% ★, Tower Defense 14.4%, Auto Battler 14.3%, Idler 11.3%, Incremental 10.6%
Emojis vs Zombies is an Idle Desktop Companion Zombie Defense Game! Open packs, Collect Emoji Defenders, Upgrade your squad or base and survive endless waves even while you're AFK or working!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 37.1% ★, Tower Defense 13.9%, Auto Battler 12.8%, Idler 11%, Incremental 10.4%
A lightweight gladiator auto-battler designed to be played or watched on a second monitor.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 45.2% ★, Auto Battler 15.9%, Idler 14.2%, Incremental 11.9%, PvE 4.5%
An idle tower defense game that sits at the bottom of your screen
Why similar: Auto Battler 22.4%, Desktop Companion 21.7% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, Idler 14.1%, Incremental 12.7%
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 56.1% ★, Idler 17.5%, Incremental 15.9%, Minimalist 3.8%, Relaxing 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 63.6% ★, Idler 15.5%, Incremental 13%, Casual 3.6%, Relaxing 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 53.7% ★, Idler 11.3%, Auto Battler 9.7%, Isometric 7.7%, Incremental 6.4%
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 40.4% ★, Auto Battler 15%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Idler 10.8%, Incremental 10.4%
Optimize, automate, and scale your defense to survive increasingly challenging waves in this addictive incremental tower defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.3%, Military 17.9%, War 12.1%, Incremental 11.6%, Idler 10.3%
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 60% ★, Idler 15.5%, Incremental 9.1%, Resource Management 6%, Management 5.6%
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 53.8% ★, Idler 16.7%, Incremental 13.5%, Auto Battler 8.7%, Resource Management 3.8%
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 54.2% ★, Idler 13.9%, Isometric 11.7%, Incremental 11.2%, Relaxing 4.7%
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 57.2% ★, Incremental 14.3%, Idler 13.4%, Isometric 4.7%, Relaxing 2.8%
Literally a game that nobody wants. It is just a rock. Do not buy this game, and do not gift this game to your friends for any occasion whatsoever. It is pointless.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 75.7% ★, Idler 19.3%, Casual 3%, Indie 1.9%
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 73.8% ★, Idler 14.7%, Relaxing 6.8%, Casual 4.7%
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 54% ★, Tower Defense 18%, Idler 13.5%, Incremental 10.9%, Strategy 3.2%
Turn your daily typing into books. Every keystroke and click helps your desktop companion write books while you work or study. Publish their books, earn money, and grow your bookstore.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 63.4% ★, Idler 16.3%, Isometric 12.4%, Relaxing 5.7%, Casual 2.2%
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 58.6% ★, Idler 17.8%, Incremental 15.4%, Resource Management 3.6%, Minimalist 2.4%
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 50.1% ★, Auto Battler 17.9%, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 9.4%, PvE 3.1%
A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Incremental 18.7%, Idler 17.2%, Auto Battler 16%, Resource Management 9.6%
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 52.8% ★, Incremental 16.2%, Idler 15.3%, Relaxing 4.8%, Resource Management 3.3%
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 40.5% ★, Idler 16.9%, Incremental 15.6%, Tower Defense 8.1%, Relaxing 5.5%
An idle detective game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 54.9% ★, Auto Battler 14.9%, Idler 14.3%, Incremental 13.2%, Casual 1.8%
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 67% ★, Idler 15.4%, Incremental 13.6%, Casual 3.3%, Indie 0.8%
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 58.8% ★, Incremental 14.4%, Idler 13.8%, Resource Management 3.3%, Minimalist 2.9%
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 65.5% ★, Idler 15.9%, Incremental 11.8%, Relaxing 3.8%, Casual 2.4%
ShredDead is a quirky relaxing incremental zombie-shredding game focused on progression with no lose conditions. Defeat endless waves, collect loot, grow your skill tree and evolve the zombies.
Why similar: Auto Battler 22.2%, Incremental 17.8%, Idler 15.5%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Isometric 8.5%
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 50.9% ★, Idler 15.9%, Incremental 14%, Resource Management 8.4%, Casual 3.9%
An oddly satisfying idle game that runs on your desktop. Let your slippers handle the bugs while you handle your work.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 53.7% ★, Idler 13.9%, Incremental 10.9%, Resource Management 6.6%, Relaxing 5.1%
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 63.4% ★, Idler 15.7%, Incremental 14.5%, Relaxing 3.1%, Casual 2.5%
Cell Defense is an incremental tower defense set inside the body. One antibody holds the center as endless waves of viruses and bacteria close in. Survive, earn, and spend it on weapons, build-defining cards, and upgrades that keep paying out while you idle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, Incremental 17.7%, Idler 17.1%, Auto Battler 11.6%, Resource Management 9.7%
A tiny monster-taming auto-battler that lives in the corner of your screen, and they never stops grinding. Catch 90 Minimon, build busted team comps, and rake in loot while you work, browse, or play something else entirely. They battle. You profit.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 41.4% ★, Auto Battler 16.1%, Incremental 11.9%, Idler 11.9%, PvE 6.2%
A dark fantasy desktop-companion incremental that idles while you work, play, or browse. Play as a Knight cursed with immortality locked in endless battle against the undead. Grow stronger with every death, uncover the curses' secrets and the Knight's dark past, then break the cycle of undeath.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 53.8% ★, Auto Battler 18.2%, Incremental 12.2%, Idler 10.6%, Resource Management 2.7%
An incremental war game where technology and magic clash. Gather resources, unlock units and upgrades, and grow from small battles to massive wars.
Why similar: Auto Battler 19.8%, Incremental 16.9%, Idler 15.4%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Military 13.3%
A pixel idle tower defense where your kingdom fights on its own. Workers gather, your army auto-battles endless waves, spells self-cast — you aim the bow, chain combos and choose what to upgrade. Bosses, titans, prestige, 100+ achievements. The night is endless. The bow is yours.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, Auto Battler 18.2%, Idler 16.5%, Incremental 14.1%, Resource Management 10.2%
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 47.1% ★, Idler 15.4%, Incremental 13.7%, Resource Management 7.5%, Management 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 64.7% ★, Idler 22.1%, Relaxing 5.9%, Casual 3.8%, Management 3.5%
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 51% ★, Idler 13.4%, Auto Battler 10.3%, Incremental 7.9%, Resource Management 7%
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 58.2% ★, Incremental 18%, Idler 15.3%, Casual 3.8%, Relaxing 2.3%
《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 57.8% ★, Idler 15.1%, Incremental 11.4%, Auto Battler 8.3%, Relaxing 4%
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 24.6% ★, Auto Battler 22.8%, Idler 18.6%, Incremental 17%, PvE 8.8%
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 59.5% ★, Idler 17.7%, Incremental 11.8%, Relaxing 4.8%, Casual 2.9%
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 52.6% ★, Idler 13.8%, Incremental 12.7%, Resource Management 5.8%, Isometric 5.7%
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 68.5% ★, Idler 16.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Casual 3.7%, Indie 1.9%
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 55.5% ★, Idler 14.2%, Incremental 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 4.6%
Idle Times is a thoughtful desktop companion where Bob files a growing shelf of original illustrated cartoons. Keep him company in Full, Mini, or Pet Desk mode, with new free editions added every week.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 72.9% ★, Idler 16.3%, Relaxing 5.7%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 1%
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.7%, Military 18.7%, War 17.8%, Incremental 15.2%, PvE 7.1%
Idle Protocol is a minimalist sci-fi tower defense and incremental game. Manage a central CPU core, equip exactly 2 Nodes, and defend against geometric anomalies. Perform a System Reboot to earn Cycles and unlock permanent modules in the BIOS!
Why similar: Auto Battler 23.6%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Incremental 20.8%, Idler 18.6%, Strategy 6.7%
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 23.5% ★, Tower Defense 17.7%, Auto Battler 17.5%, Idler 11.5%, Incremental 11%
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 52.3% ★, Auto Battler 15.4%, Idler 13.8%, Incremental 11.3%, Relaxing 3%
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 72.7% ★, Idler 18.6%, Minimalist 6.1%, Casual 2.5%
Follow GRATS on its journey even while you work or play on your computer. Every click. Every key press. Every action you take fuels GRATS’ power.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 54.6% ★, Auto Battler 14.6%, Incremental 12.1%, Idler 11.1%, Relaxing 3.7%
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 61.6% ★, Idler 15.3%, Incremental 13.2%, Relaxing 3.8%, Resource Management 3.1%
Welcome to the world of monsters — an idle collection game where you can recruit every boss, flexibly switch formations, and discover new solutions on every map.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.7% ★, Auto Battler 16.6%, Idler 15.2%, Resource Management 7.2%, Relaxing 5%
Incremental Mazing Tower Defense. No lives, just make more gold. No fixed mob path, create the best maze ever.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.5%, Incremental 21%, Idler 13.1%, PvE 10.1%, Casual 5.4%
The football management game that plays itself. It runs at the bottom of your screen while you live your life. Enjoy real team progression, make a few smart choices, and let the rest unfold without demanding your attention.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 65% ★, Idler 16.5%, Management 6%, Strategy 4.1%, Relaxing 2.7%
Watch 3D chibi characters from Touhou Project battle through an endless corridor in this compact idle RPG. Build a party of up to four, collect gear, create powerful sets, and shape every character with branching skill trees. Keep growing in a slim window while you work, study, or browse.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 44.4% ★, Idler 20.3%, Auto Battler 15.4%, Incremental 10.1%, PvE 5%
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 50.4% ★, Auto Battler 17.4%, Idler 14.5%, Incremental 12.8%, Strategy 3.2%