Games like Snap Chess
by Big Ice Games
A small transparent chessboard that sits in the corner of your desktop. Solve a puzzle when you have a minute, or play a game against Stockfish. While you work, the board fades and stays out of the way. Difficulty adjusts on its own.
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-20%$7.99The Farmer Was Replaced
Oct 10 · Timon Herzog
Both: Programming · Idler · Puzzle
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
ProgrammingAutomationEducationIdlerLogicPuzzleText-BasedFarming SimMinimalistResource Management👍 9,155
$4.99Shatranj Puzzles
Sep 3 · iradastudio
Both: Chess · Puzzle
Shatranj Puzzles is a tactical chess puzzle game featuring 10,000 unique puzzles, 3 AI difficulty levels, and local 2-player mode. Solve challenging positions, improve your tactical vision, and progress through a massive chess puzzle experience at your own pace.
StrategyChessPuzzle2DSingleplayerIndieCasual
$2.99FourKnightVariant
Oct 20 · WhimSoul Games
Both: Puzzle · Chess · Minimalist
Master the movement of the chess knight in a strategic puzzle built around planning, positioning, and board coverage. Choose your starting square, plan your jumps, conquer the board, and take on increasingly demanding challenges.
PuzzleChessBoard GameLogicStrategyGrid-Based MovementTacticalSingleplayerMinimalist2D
-10%$8.99Unmurk
2 days ago · Michal Barszczewski
Both: Minimalist · Relaxing · Puzzle
A minimalist puzzle game. You only see the outer edges of the puzzle pieces in a voxel object. Put the puzzle pieces into place to reveal the hidden voxel object and watch it come to life.
VoxelMinimalistRelaxingPuzzleSingleplayer3DLogicFamily FriendlyCasual
FreeLast Gambit
Aug 27 · Mads
Both: Chess · Turn-Based Strategy
Chess, but you build the army yourself: pieces that evolve, unicorns, catapults that hurl your own men. Then you take it online, one on one or even two on two. Roguelite.
Early AccessTurn-Based TacticsChessRoguelikeTurn-Based StrategyPvPRogueliteStrategyBoard Game2D
-30%$6.99Augmental Puzzles
Feb 13 · Flammable Penguins Games
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
Hand-set Sudoku, Nonograms and Minesweeper with HUNDREDS of HANDSET puzzles. A fresh puzzle every day, global leaderboards. Smart Hints help teach you how to solve complex puzzles. No guessing andno rush. A soothing logic-puzzle lounge, built for VR from day one.
VRPuzzleEducationLogicTutorialTabletopRelaxingEarly AccessWholesomeCasual
-15%$4.24Relax Puzzle
Jun 20 · Happy Plus
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
Find tranquility in your busy day. This relaxing puzzle game features 100 beautiful scenes. Simply drag and swap to complete each image at your own pace, with no time limits—just pure, stress-free fun.
CasualPuzzleRelaxingSingleplayer2DColorfulCollectathonMouse OnlyTabletopLinear
$11.99Orb of Creation
Jun 23 · MarpleGames
Both: Puzzle · Minimalist
Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
IncrementalMagicCasualStrategyResource ManagementPuzzleIndieMinimalistSingleplayerCrafting👍 2,170
FreeHearthpiece
6 days ago · 3dGecko GmbH
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
A free, cozy jigsaw puzzle: 24 to 1000 pieces, 56 comic-style pictures, trays you name yourself and a table without edges. No timer, no ads. The pictures are AI-generated. Puzzle your own photos with the optional DLC.
PuzzleCasualCozyRelaxingWholesomeFamily FriendlyCartoonyColorfulFree to PlayIndie
$14.99The Conquest of Go
Dec 10 · Wolfey Studios
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
Turn-BasedStrategyBoard GameTabletop2DTop-DownTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyEducationTutorial👍 581
$3.99Cells
Sep 6 · Mousetrick Studio
Both: Relaxing · Minimalist
CELLS is a calm sci-fi trading game about goods, routes and decisions. Explore new worlds, build trade chains, mine resources and uncover the story of a broken network between the worlds.
CasualRelaxingMinimalistProcedural GenerationLogicAtmosphericPhysicsLinearTutorial2D
-10%$4.49A Game About Flipping Cards
5 days ago · Zandbox Games
Both: Minimalist · Relaxing · Idler
Did you read the title? That's the game, I promise. Flip cards to make money to buy upgrades to make more money to buy more upgrades to make more money. There is no other goal than that.
Card GameIncrementalMinimalistCasualResource ManagementRelaxingPokerIdlerPixel GraphicsStrategy
-25%$5.99Cloudscrapers
6 days ago · Nementic Games
Both: Relaxing · Puzzle · Minimalist
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere. Build your tower, manage resources, unlock new tools, and uncover the secrets hidden in the sky.
CasualCity BuilderRelaxingPuzzleStrategyMinimalistSimulationAtmosphericResource ManagementCozy
-40%$4.19Fracture Field
Apr 20 · Type Ten
Both: Idler · Relaxing
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.
IncrementalIdlerMiningAutomationResource ManagementCasualRelaxingBuildingSingleplayerManagement👍 1,199
-20%$4.79Neural Maze
2 days ago · unCurieux Studio
Both: Puzzle · Minimalist
2 neurons. 2 sticks. One brain has to drive both at once: yours. Guide your stray neurons through ever-more-twisted mazes — inverted controls, power cuts, memory mode — under the eye of a doctor who's in over his head.
ActionPuzzleDifficultArcade2DSingleplayerControllerScienceFunnyMinimalist
-20%$11.99Hozy
Mar 30 · Come On Studio
Both: Relaxing · Puzzle
Restore a forgotten neighbourhood through your favourite hobby, one cozy room at a time. In Hozy, clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying mechanics and intuitive controls. Enjoy the little details as you interact with tools, items and furniture to bring each space back to life.
RelaxingCozyCasualSandboxPuzzleCutePhysicsSimulationColorfulBuilding👍 4,146
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$4.99Mall: Tidy Up Together
Aug 21 · Games Together
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
Shelve the products, unlock new skills, and use your unique methods to tidy up the mall. Enjoy the online co-op and online PvP with your friends, or go solo! Fill up the shelves and experience a sense of relief and satisfaction.
CasualSimulationCollectathonOrganizingOnline Co-OpPuzzleRelaxingPvPSandboxRealistic👍 258
$3.99CoreBreaker: Desktop Swarm
Jul 15 · Furistic
Both: Idler
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.
Desktop CompanionAuto BattlerIdlerIncrementalCasualStrategyRoguelikeBullet HeavenTower DefenseRoguelite
-30%$20.99Desynced
Mar 5 · Stage Games Inc.
Both: Programming
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
StrategyAutomationProgrammingBase BuildingSandboxCity BuilderRTSSci-fiMultiplayerSimulation👍 1,880
NewFreeChessTan
Yesterday · Darren Huai
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Settle a kingdom, roll for resources, and build an army with real chess movesets on a hex battlefield. ChessTan fuses Catan-style economy with chess-style combat for 2-4 players — outbuild your rivals, then checkmate the last Nexus standing. Play locally, online with friends, or through Steam.
StrategyBoard GameTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based Tactics2DMultiplayerSingleplayerFree to PlayPvP
$5.99Forest Time
Dec 19 · Wandering Peak
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
Forest Time is a tactical game with a cozy experience. Enjoy various puzzles in a charming world with peaceful yet challenging tasks. There are 50+ levels with 8 playable characters to explore.
Time ManagementTurn-Based TacticsPuzzle2DCuteIsometricCasualTop-DownRelaxingColorful
-50%$3.99Unbox the Room
Oct 17 · Weird Penguin Games
Both: Relaxing
Unbox the Room is a relaxing simulator where you play as an interior designer helping clients move into their new homes. Unbox and arrange their belongings to create a cozy space, placing everything just right — from the smallest cup to the largest sofa.
RelaxingDecoratingOrganizingCozyCuteCasualIsometricPixel GraphicsFamily FriendlySimulation👍 243
-30%$11.89Woodo
4 days ago · Tiny Monks Tales
Both: Relaxing · Puzzle
Woodo feels like a 3D coloring book you can touch, a relaxing puzzle-tale told through handcrafted wooden dioramas. A toy for those who never forgot how to be a child.
CozyWholesomeCuteSingleplayer3DRelaxingFamily FriendlyPuzzleCasualEmotional👍 317
-15%$5.94Moon Garden
9 days ago · Kairos Games LLC
Both: Idler · Relaxing
A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!
IdlerStrategyIncrementalResource ManagementBuildingManagementRelaxingCuteAtmosphericCasual
-20%$9.59Memory of Memorie : A Chill Story
Jul 22 · BeXide Inc.
Both: Relaxing · Idler
A story-driven productivity adventure where you work alongside Memorie, an apprentice witch from another world. As you focus using the Pomodoro timer, the story progresses and her world gradually transforms. Turn solitary work into time shared with someone.
CozyRelaxingCasualTime ManagementImmersive SimUtilitiesIdlerVisual NovelInteractive FictionPoint & Click👍 248
-10%$5.39Alchemess: Tidy Up Your Potion Shop!
3 days ago · Dan Fury, Sunny;)
Both: Relaxing · Puzzle
A cozy first-person sorting game. 2080 hand-named, physically reacting bottles scattered across the floor. A real mess. No, wait.. A real Alchemess! Join the mesmerizing flow of clicking each potion into its individual correct position. Tidy alone, or bring a friend. Or race one. Made with love.
CasualRelaxingSimulationOrganizingCollectathonPuzzle3DMagicFantasyImmersive Sim
$17.99Lost and Found Co.
Mar 5 · Bit Egg Inc.
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
Lost and Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in a cozy and immersive world. Join a cast of lively characters on their epic journey across countless magical locations. Find lost items, solve puzzles, and help a tiny dragon regain her power!
Hidden ObjectPuzzlePoint & Click2DCuteIsometricFunnyRelaxingStory RichCasual👍 2,745
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
6 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Programming · Puzzle
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
EducationProgrammingAutomationSandboxPuzzleCraftingRobotsBase BuildingStrategy2D👍 643
$1.99Word Sylla
2 days ago · Pixel Panda Games
Both: Puzzle
Hexa Word Sylla Word Submit Puzzle offers a dynamic gameplay experience that will keep you hooked for hours. Delve into the depths of your vocabulary and logic skills as you unravel syllabic mysteries and unlock the full potential of the English language.
CasualPuzzleTriviaWord GameSpelling3DIsometricSnowSingleplayer
-20%$3.99Vibe Lab: Idle Dev Sim
2 days ago · Green Growth Digital
Both: Idler
A cozy idle game about vibe-coding with AI. Hire a crew of agents, climb a five-branch upgrade tree, and dress the whole lab from 80 cosmetics across five tiers. Progress lands in minutes, not days — no subscriptions, no daily check-in. Numbers go up, vibes stay immaculate.
IdlerCasualSimulationResource ManagementPixel GraphicsRetroRobotsSingleplayerArcade2D
$4.99BRINKSTACK
Sep 2 · Palm Tree Studio
Both: Puzzle
Stack blocks on an unstable semicircular base in a turn-based physics game where every material, angle, and tap matters. Build alone, pass the controls in local matches for 2–4 players, or face a rival online through Steam.
CasualPuzzleBoard GameFalling Blocks3DPhysicsMultiplayerSimulationIndieSingleplayer
FreeThe Perfect Tower II
Nov 30 · Fire Sword Studios
Both: Idler
The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!
Tower DefenseIdlerStrategyAutomationResource ManagementActionMinigamesVoxelBase BuildingIncremental
$14.99A Little Age
Aug 28 · Benerot
Both: Relaxing · Minimalist
A cozy minimalist settlement builder about growing a network of settlements, each with its own little economy. Manage the flow of resources between them at your own pace, pause at any time, and watch a civilization emerge as your settlements work together to raise a great temple and claim the land.
RelaxingCozyCasualBuildingMinimalistCuteReal-Time with PauseProcedural GenerationCity BuilderSimulation
$4.99The Greenening
May 7 · Erkberg Games
Both: Idler · Relaxing
A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.
IncrementalCasualIdlerExplorationNatureRelaxingCleaningCuteCozyWholesome👍 484
$4.99仙途放置:无尽天梯和完美装备
Jul 9 · 小熠
Both: Idler · Minimalist
一款修仙题材的放置RPG。你将扮演一名初入仙途的修士,通过挑战无尽天梯、收集神兵利器、修炼功法秘籍,逐步突破境界,最终九转成仙! 【核心玩法】 无尽天梯 ,一亿层关卡,挂机自动战斗。九转成仙 - 9次转生系统,越转越强 🏭 生产技能 - 冥想修炼、采药炼丹、离线自动生产 【特色系统】 · 怪物梗技能 - 55种怪物各有专属热梗技能,20种Boss各有独特大招 · 异宝系统 - 不灭金身、天赐暴击、玄武真身等传说级装备 · 道树天赋 - 修罗道/玄武道/太虚道三大路线,自由搭配 · 装备评分 - 智能评分一键换装,轻松管理装备 · 多存档 - 最多8个存档槽位
CasualStrategyWord GameIdlerAbstractMinimalistLootIndieSimulationAutomation
$7.99Play and Learn English
Jun 15 · Recep Cinet
First we get you speaking, then we make you better. A story RPG where the microphone is the controller: a full A1 and A2 course, 15 role-play rooms, 6,100 spoken sentences, every meaning in your own language. Fully offline, one-time purchase.
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-15%$11.89TaskPaw
7 days ago · Singular Sunshine Studios
Both: Idler · Relaxing
Let a cute little cat keep you company while you work. Watch them walk or run across your desktop, dress them up, and enjoy different places from day to night.
CasualIdler3DCuteRelaxingDesktop CompanionWalking SimulatorSide ScrollerTypingCats
-50%$7.49Dungeon Clawler
Apr 30 · Stray Fawn Studio
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Roguelike DeckbuilderReplay ValueArcadeStrategyRogueliteGamblingTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerPhysicsRoguelike👍 3,722
$4.99Kingdom Contracts Tower Defense Incremental
Aug 14 · Day 1 to 100
Both: Minimalist · Relaxing
You are the Kingdom’s Commander. Choose new contracts strategically. Use towers but save your gold. Use 12 powerful God/saint spells. Finish Contracts quickly. Stack gold and reputation rapidly. Choose and upgrade 36 perks blessed by 12 Gods/saints. Become the Legend of the Kingdoms.
Tower DefenseMinimalistStrategyRogueliteRelaxingSingleplayerAtmosphericCasualIndie3D
-15%$6.79Between Adventures IDLE
12 days ago · Loop Forge
Both: Idler
A visual Idle RPG where you hunt creatures for rare loot, enchant your equipment, and build your hero. Master 11 skills, trade with merchants, and progress even offline. No Microtransactions, No P2W, just pure idle fun.
Early AccessStrategyIdlerRPGLootInventory ManagementStrategy RPGMedievalMagicFantasy👍 331
$4.99Fatal Logic
3 days ago · ItWorkedOnMyMachine
Both: Puzzle · Relaxing
Fatal Logic is a deductive logic puzzle game where you investigate crime scenes, cross-reference clues, and use the process of elimination to identify the killer across hours of challenging mysteries and community-created workshop levels.
StrategyPuzzleLogicDetectiveInvestigationMysterySingleplayer2DRelaxingIndie
FreeDaily Botanica
Sep 2 · Cyvana
Both: Idler · Relaxing
Daily Botanica is a relaxing desktop idler about raising mysterious plants. Pet and water each seedling, discover what makes it flourish, and arrange a living collection around your screen - even while you work, study, or step away.
Desktop CompanionCasualIdlerSimulationRelaxingIncrementalCollectathonNatureLife SimFree to Play
$39.99Xenonauts 2
Apr 2 · Goldhawk Interactive
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategySci-fiTurn-Based CombatTacticalTurn-BasedPvECharacter Customization👍 4,857
-40%$5.39Desktop Raid
Mar 8 · Lee_Studio
Both: Idler
Assemble your adventure squad on the desktop! Classic RPG meets idle play—no grind, no stress, just nonstop progress. Your heroes fight, level up, and loot while you work or study. Explore rich classes, powerful skills, and thrilling gear drops. RPG excitement, anytime, anywhere!
IdlerRPGIncrementalDesktop CompanionCreature CollectorLootCasualPixel GraphicsAdventureExploration👍 679
$24.99Quasimorph
Jul 31 · Magnum Scriptum
Both: Turn-Based Strategy
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
RPGTurn-Based CombatStrategyTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerChoices MatterRoguelikeExtraction ShooterTranshumanismTurn-Based👍 7,207
$1.50Pixmox
Jun 15 · RiseMinnow
Both: Puzzle · Turn-Based Strategy
Match gems. Train monsters. Defeat bosses. Dive into a purely tactical Match-3 puzzle where every move matters. Capture unique beasts, evolve their abilities, and adapt your team to an ever-evolving gameplay loop that constantly tests your strategy.
PuzzleCreature CollectorTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatStrategyTacticalPvEPixel GraphicsCuteCasual







