
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Idler, Incremental, Simulation, Singleplayer.

Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

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.

Terminal Colony Deep Core
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
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 47.2% ★, Idler 16.5%, Incremental 8.9%, Resource Management 5.7%, Crafting 5.4%
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 33.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Idler 12.3%, Incremental 10.8%, Base Building 7.5%
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 41.9% ★, Idler 18%, Incremental 13.2%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Simulation 4%
Village Incremental is an incremental game where you harvest resources and grow your village and research tools.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 19.6%, Incremental 16.9%, Idler 15.3%, Base Building 8%
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 42.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Idler 14.6%, Incremental 12.3%, Resource Management 6%
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 36.6% ★, Idler 18.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Incremental 7.9%
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 37.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Idler 13.8%, Incremental 11.5%, Base Building 6.3%
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 19.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Idler 17%, Base Building 9.6%
A hero who lives above your taskbar. Keepwatch is an idle auto-battler RPG that quietly runs on your desktop — build your camp, gear up your one and only hero, and let them fight while you get back to work.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 34.2% ★, Idler 17.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Incremental 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%
Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon is a taskbar idle game where a tiny street sits right on the taskbar while you work, relax, or simply watch the people come and go. Passerbys will randomly shop in your colorful, hand-drawn stores, and slowly help grow your little economy.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 36.5% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Idler 19.5%, Incremental 14.6%, Simulation 5.5%
Build and expand a vibrant civilization on a procedurally generated island. Trade and conquer with other island nations to grow your wealth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Incremental 19.3%, Idler 12.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.8%
A fantasy city builder where you build up your army of minions to take on monsters, bandits and even entire armies! Recruit a wide range of minions to help you gather resources, craft weapons and armor, and develop your colony into the stronghold it was always meant to be.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Idler 15%, Incremental 12.7%, Base Building 8.8%
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 17.9%, Idler 15.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%
Shape the destiny of your settlement in Lysoria: The Settlers Path. Build, upgrade, and manage resources as you guide your people through challenges and growth. Unlock new technologies, assign workers, and expand your village into a thriving kingdom in this strategic city-builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 20.6%, Incremental 19%, Idler 18.5%, Strategy 5.4%
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Idler 20.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
Swing your axe, drop the trees, and watch a village rise from the stumps. Assign villagers to nine trades, unlock a 54-node talent tree, and carry your settlement through five ages — from a primitive camp to a medieval kingdom with a crown of its own.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Idler 18.9%, Incremental 12.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
A relaxing city builder on the bottom of your screen. Place homes, create services, maximize your population happiness. Grow your city at your own pace.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Idler 17.7%, Resource Management 7.3%, Simulation 3.1%
Goblincremental is a cozy incremental game about helping goblins build thriving settlements. Gather resources, unlock new industries, and learn magic spells to automate tasks and discover new ways to make deez goblins thrive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Idler 22.3%, Incremental 17.7%, Medieval 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%
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 50.8% ★, Idler 21.8%, Incremental 18.1%, Medieval 5.1%, Fantasy 2.6%
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 36.5% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Idler 13.7%, Incremental 11.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
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 41.1% ★, Idler 15.1%, Incremental 12.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Resource Management 5.3%
Trading Towns is a simple and relaxing economic game in which your goal is to find ways for your town to become wealthy and prosperous.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Idler 16.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 8.3%
Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 20.5%, Idler 16.8%, Base Building 5.2%, Strategy 5.1%
Embark on a cozy journey to settle and thrive on floating islands in the remnants of a ruptured world. Grow your village, manage resources, and become the renowned pioneer of the clouds. A relaxing city-building experience where you build and optimize your serene sanctuary in the skies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 23%, Idler 20.1%, Economy 6.1%, Top-Down 5.8%
Discover islands, build buildings, extract raw resources, unlock new technogies, build more buildings and grow your industry.
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Idler 20%, Incremental 19.3%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 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 22.9%, City Builder 19%, Incremental 17%, Idler 16.9%, Base Building 7.6%
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 65.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, Idler 9.6%, Simulation 5.5%, 2D 1.1%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 6%, PvE 5.4%
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Incremental 19.3%, Idler 16%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
A laid-back idle network-building game. Lay connections, build nodes. Tokens flow through your network, constantly meeting and merging, generating revenue at ever-higher values — revenue builds more nodes, nodes pass more tokens, tokens... you get the idea.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Idler 24%, Incremental 18.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.4%
Kingdom Incremental is a satirical city builder and incremental game. To be the wealthiest ruler, you must build a fortified settlement and balanced economy, strategically invest in upgrades, and expand your kingdom across the globe! Then burn everything down to start again with even more power!
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Idler 17.2%, Incremental 17.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Why similar: Incremental 18.6%, Idler 17.8%, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%
Resettle is a deep incremental city builder where you develop settlements on islands. Strategically place buildings to maximize resource production, explore 10 different upgrade systems, and create a thriving island city.
Why similar: Incremental 22.5%, Idler 21.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 6.1%, Top-Down 6%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 24.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 4.1%
A desktop idle RPG where you collect creatures that train in your Dojo. Just queue enemies into the Dojo and watch your creatures fight, level up, evolve, and farm loot in idle battles - at the bottom of your screen. Build your team, equip them with items, then battle dungeon bosses for rarer loot.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 41% ★, Idler 17.5%, City Builder 14.3%, Incremental 13.2%, Strategy 4%
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 24%, Crafting 9.2%, Economy 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 4.9%
Forge Maiden turns your focus sessions into weapon forging. Use the Pomodoro Technique, appraise random traits, fulfill customer orders, and help a contracted blacksmith maiden earn 10,000 gold to regain her freedom.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 49.4% ★, Idler 17.3%, Incremental 7.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Simulation 5.2%
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 39.9% ★, Idler 17.9%, Incremental 14.7%, Resource Management 7.7%, Economy 6%
Clicky Islands is a unique blend of incremental gameplay, clicker mechanics, city-builder elements, and resource management. You play as a governor appointed by the king to discover and develop a new island for his future kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Incremental 19.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Economy 8.4%
A roguelite village builder. Assign every job, keep morale from collapsing, and hold the line when fire, plague and monster waves arrive. Win or lose, your Legacy carries into the next run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 8.3%, Economy 6.4%
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 26.1%, Incremental 21.7%, Idler 21.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Top-Down 5.1%
Dwarfspire is an idle shopkeeper that sits on the edge of your screen. Manage a shop of hand crafted gear while sending expeditions of dwarves up mountains to gather rare materials and forge new items. Mine ore, craft items and become a master shopkeeper!
Why similar: Desktop Companion 33.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Idler 15.3%, Incremental 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%
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 50.3% ★, Idler 17.3%, Incremental 13.7%, Resource Management 5.8%, Economy 4.7%
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Economy 7.1%
Produce, build your city, manage your people, and conquer the islands! Become a legend under your own banner with Tiny Factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Incremental 11.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 6.5%
Ordinary People is a game about building a cozy little town at the bottom of your screen, keeping you company while you work or study. As you build your town, Ordinary People will begin to move in, interacting with one another in some not-so-Ordinary ways.
Why similar: Desktop Companion 52.6% ★, Idler 21.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Simulation 4.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%
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 61.7% ★, Idler 20.7%, Incremental 15.9%, 2D 1.7%
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Incremental 16.3%, Base Building 12%, Economy 5.5%
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 53.6% ★, Idler 22.4%, Incremental 17.8%, Resource Management 4%, Pixel Graphics 2.3%
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 44.7% ★, Idler 19.3%, Incremental 15.5%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 4.5%
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 20.8%, Idler 17.2%, Incremental 14.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.6%
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 5.3%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 7.6%, Crafting 6.5%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 23.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Medieval 6.3%
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 26.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Base Building 6.4%, Economy 6%
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 6.8%