Games like Vibe Lab: Idle Dev Sim
by Green Growth Digital
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.
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FreeIdleOn - The Incremental MMO
Nov 6 · Lavaflame2
Both: Idler · Pixel Graphics · Resource Management
The incremental idle MMO where your heroes keep fighting while you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental-Wizard to Cannon-Pirate, and level 20 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and Construction!
IdlerFree to PlayIncrementalMMORPGMultiplayerPixel GraphicsRPGManagementCraftingResource Management
-34%$2.96ScreenSaver Idle
Aug 1 · mana
Both: Idler · Pixel Graphics · Resource Management
A screensaver-inspired idle incremental game. Unlock skills, explode your income, and feel the thrill of the perfect corner hit.
IdlerIncrementalStrategy2DRelaxingCasualPixel GraphicsAutomationResource ManagementSingleplayer
-40%$5.39Desktop Raid
Mar 8 · Lee_Studio
Both: Idler · Pixel Graphics
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
-20%$7.99The Farmer Was Replaced
Oct 10 · Timon Herzog
Both: Idler · Resource Management
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
-40%$4.19Fracture Field
Apr 20 · Type Ten
Both: Idler · Resource Management
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
-15%$5.94Moon Garden
9 days ago · Kairos Games LLC
Both: Idler · Resource Management
A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!
IdlerStrategyIncrementalResource ManagementBuildingManagementRelaxingCuteAtmosphericCasual
$6.99Petunia's Purgatory
Jul 16 · Dead Possum Games
Both: Idler · Resource Management · Pixel Graphics
Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.
IdlerFarming SimDesktop CompanionManagementCasualLovecraftianDark HumorCuteResource ManagementPixel Graphics
FreeThe Perfect Tower II
Nov 30 · Fire Sword Studios
Both: Idler · Resource Management
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
$6.99荒域奇谭
Apr 29 · 清友工作室
Both: Idler
Legends of Wastelands is an idle RPG where you shape your hero’s growth. Choose among six classes, master 100+ skills, and combine talents and gems for unique synergies. Idle for rewards or dive into boss fights and shifting wastelands, with pets and gear adding endless build variety.
IdlerIncrementalLootAutomationCombatStrategy RPGStrategyPoint & ClickRogueliteHand-drawn👍 320
$4.99The Greenening
May 7 · Erkberg Games
Both: Idler
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
$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
-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
-15%$11.89TaskPaw
7 days ago · Singular Sunshine Studios
Both: Idler
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
$4.99Background Hero
3 days ago · steev
Both: Idler
Every hero starts somewhere, usually with a dull axe, an even duller pickaxe. Background Hero puts you in charge of building one from scratch, one skill at a time. Idle progression, tiered upgrades, task lists, resources, dungeon rewards -- perfect for the completionist chasing the elusive 100%
RPGIdlerCasualIncremental2DText-BasedAdventureCozyMinimalistEconomy
$4.99Frog It Up
3 days ago · Starfall Games
Both: Idler
Frog It Up is an incremental clicker game where you lure frogs to a pond and help them build their own cozy little city. As the pond grows, you’ll decide which upgrades to unlock, shaping how the city expands over time and steering progress in the direction you prefer.
IncrementalIdlerCasualCuteColorfulCartoonyScore AttackEconomyManagementStrategy
-10%$13.49Nightwater
2 days ago · Studio Ashty
Both: Resource Management · Idler
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Open WorldAutomationResource ManagementIncrementalIdlerCraftingSandboxRelaxingSimulationStrategy
$6.99Whack-A-Monster
Jul 28 · Brainfog Games
Both: Idler · Arcade · Pixel Graphics
Whack-A-Monster. An incremental game about Whacking, Smashing, Splashing & BONKING monsters. Upgrade through the skill tree and unlock new weapons to vanquish all evil from this world.
RPGIncrementalRogueliteIdlerSimulationMemesArcadeTop-Down2DPixel Graphics👍 124
$11.99Orb of Creation
Jun 23 · MarpleGames
Both: Resource Management
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
$4.99仙途放置:无尽天梯和完美装备
Jul 9 · 小熠
Both: Idler
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
-20%$9.59Memory of Memorie : A Chill Story
Jul 22 · BeXide Inc.
Both: 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
-20%$6.39Ascend Idle: Chronicles
2 days ago · GODev Games
Both: Idler
Ascend from mortal origins to cosmic mastery in Ascend Idle: Chronicles, an immersive idle RPG. Optimize automated resource generation, unlock powerful upgrades, and master deep strategic progression through a seamless, mouse-only interface designed for pure, relaxed enjoyment.
CasualRPGAuto BattlerIdlerIncremental2DCozyEconomyFantasySci-fi
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Resource Management
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
$19.99Rhythm Doctor
Dec 6 · 7th Beat Games
Both: Pixel Graphics
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
RhythmMusicPixel GraphicsStory RichLevel EditorIndieSingleplayerLocal Co-OpAction2D👍 25,025
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FreeDaily Botanica
Sep 2 · Cyvana
Both: Idler
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
$19.99Astro Colony
Jun 2 · Terad Games
Both: Resource Management
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Base BuildingAutomationSpaceResource ManagementColony SimSimulationMultiplayerStrategyBuildingIndie👍 2,397
-10%$3.59Little Ghosties
13 days ago · Acrylic Pixel Games
Both: Idler
Little Ghosties is a cozy 2D idle desktop companion game where adorable ghosts live inside a terrarium on your desktop. Hatch, raise, and collect unique ghosts as they grow from eggs into fully grown adult ghosts.
Early AccessDesktop CompanionIdlerRelaxingCozyCasualUtilitiesIncrementalNatureCollectathon
$17.99Microcivilization
Jan 22 · Ondrej Homola
Both: Resource Management
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
IncrementalBase BuildingResource Management4XHistoricalStrategyAutomationInventory ManagementCity BuilderGod Game👍 1,437
$3.99Alchemist's Garden
Apr 21 · Lumis Entertainment
Both: Idler
Alchemist's Garden is a cozy and relaxing incremental crafting game. Forage to uncover hidden ingredients across mystical lands. Experiment with them at your crucible to discover potions and items, stock your shop's shelves, and watch your potion shop grow!
IncrementalIdlerCollectathonShop KeeperBuildingCapitalismCraftingEconomyManagementPoint & Click👍 182
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Arcade
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
$6.99I AM THE DAO
May 14 · 云镜
Both: Idler
<I Am The Dao> is a cultivation idle game that blends xianxia web novel lore with real-time auto-combat. Starting from the Mortal Realm, you will ascend through the Spirit Realm and Immortal Realm, eventually dominating the boundless cosmos. Each new world you enter unlocks unique gameplay!
IdlerCasual2DSimulationSingleplayerRPGMythologyIndieLootAdventure
$3.99Last Hope: Zombie Autobattler
Jul 27 · Hands-Off Games
Both: Idler · Resource Management
Build your towers and let them do the killing! Connect 12 unique towers through the Reactor to discover 144 devastating synergies. Kill endless zombie hordes, mutate them for bigger rewards, and push your build to the limit in a chaotic bullet hell.
Tower DefenseIdlerZombiesBullet HeavenRogueliteRoguelikeResource ManagementSurvivalPost-apocalypticStrategy
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Resource Management
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
$19.99XeGrader plus
Jul 6 · Tokihiro NAITO
Both: Pixel Graphics · Retro · Arcade
A fantasy shooter where exploration and gimmicks are keys to victory. In a world of meticulous pixel art, uncover secrets hidden in every stage. Collect powerful upgrades, defeat fantasy monsters with precise shooting, and forge the world's fate!
ShooterTop-Down ShooterPixel GraphicsRetroActionScore AttackCollectathonArcadeExplorationFantasy
-20%$10.39ODDCORE
Jan 7 · ODDCORP
Both: Retro · Arcade
You have only 5 minutes to stylishly explode your way through the hordes of corrupted entities in a retro FPS, roguelike liminal-nightmare... and Timmee is here to help!
Early AccessRoguelikeArena ShooterBoomer ShooterRetroFPSShoot 'Em UpBullet HellShooterArcade👍 1,083
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
6 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Robots
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
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Pixel Graphics · Resource Management
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$9.99Scale the Depths
May 28 · Glass Gecko Games
Both: Pixel Graphics · Arcade
Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.
FishingCasualPixel GraphicsFunnyUnderwaterEconomyRelaxingArcadeSimulationExploration👍 1,891
$7.99Sodaman
Jun 1 · Tape Corps
Both: Pixel Graphics
Sodaman is a bullet-heaven roguelike where you play as a supersoldier fighting alien hordes with soda powers. Find game-breaking sodas and concoct custom cocktails. Discover planets, unlock weapons, sodas, cybernetics, power-up cards, and more. But first, crack open a cold one.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteCyberpunk2DPixel GraphicsRoguelikeRPGAction👍 738
$1.99Mars 2099
2 days ago · Oldschool Tobias
Both: Arcade · Pixel Graphics · Retro
Defend humanity's first Mars colony in this fast-paced modern arcade space shooter. Battle asteroid storms, hostile UFOs, complete challenging missions, and master skill-based gameplay inspired by the golden age of arcade classics.
ActionArcadeShoot 'Em UpPixel GraphicsSpaceRetroDifficultControllerSingleplayerMars
$14.99Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Aug 20 · Awesome Games Studio
Both: Arcade
The Horde is coming, but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your squad, choose their upgrades, and build powerful synergies against thousands of undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break every limit in this deceptively simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeZombiesTop-Down ShooterRogueliteIndieArcadeSingleplayerAction RPGRoguelike👍 14,162
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Resource Management
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$8.99Lander
2 days ago · DextericGames
Both: Arcade · Retro · Pixel Graphics
Fly the Lander, collect the fuel, avoid obstacles and perfect your skills to attempt a soft landing in this difficult precision platformer.
Precision PlatformerRacing2D PlatformerDifficultArcadeRetroScore AttackPhysicsPixel GraphicsSingleplayer
-50%$3.99Unbox the Room
Oct 17 · Weird Penguin Games
Both: Pixel Graphics
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
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
FreeZone Sweeper
Aug 26 · Missroot
Both: Idler
Zone Sweeper is a fast RPG of short runs, hand-picked stats, and levels that explode in a single fight. Sweep a risk-colored zone grid, auto-battle with crits and combos, gear up across 11 slots, and research in the Lab between runs.
IdlerIncrementalRoguelitePvEAction RPGCharacter CustomizationRPGStrategy2DTop-Down
-25%$5.99Bones and Coins
13 days ago · Troyd Games
Both: Idler
An incremental auto battler dungeon crawler where you build a synergized hero party to slay enemies and loot items. Unlock weapons with unique attack styles. Gear up your hero team and explore new dungeon rooms filled with enemies and legendary drops.
IncrementalAuto BattlerDungeon CrawlerParty-Based RPGLootIdlerStrategyRPGDeckbuildingStrategy RPG👍 668
$2.99Neophyte
May 15 · Regal Pigeon
Both: Arcade · Pixel Graphics
A mini topdown action roguelike with chaotic spell-slinging hack-n-slash combat. Collect spells, choose perks and discover powerful synergies to become an unstoppable monster-slaying wizard.
Action RoguelikeActionArcadeRogueliteMagicRoguelikeSingleplayer2DIndiePixel Graphics👍 660
$17.99Sephiria
Jul 31 · TEAM HORAY
Both: Pixel Graphics
Save Bunnyville from a doomed fate: a top-down action/RPG roguelite from the makers of Dungreed. Explore the depths of the tower, collect and upgrade artifacts, and defeat hordes of demons to keep your village safe.
Action RoguelikeRogueliteRoguelikeCo-opPixel GraphicsInventory ManagementActionRPGCombatCute👍 11,674
$12.99Clothing Store Simulator
Nov 28 · Kiki Games
Both: Resource Management
Are you ready to shape fashion world? Make a brand deal, order products, fill the aisles, dress the mannequins and start selling. Dresses, shirts, coats, pants, nightwear, underwear, shoes and more are waiting for you.
SimulationManagementEconomyLife SimSingleplayerTradingImmersive SimCapitalismResource ManagementInventory Management👍 1,120
$1.99Arcade Hall 1980
4 days ago · geertvd
Both: Arcade · Pixel Graphics
ARCADE HALL 1980 — step into a neon-lit arcade at the turn of the eighties. Walk the aisle, watch the attract screens flicker, pick a cabinet and play. Six original arcade games under one glowing marquee: racing, shooting, bombing, breaking and digging — with more machines coming soon.
CasualArcadeSimulation1980s1990'sFamily FriendlyRacingPixel GraphicsSingleplayer2D Platformer
$3.99Dubstep: Solar System
Aug 28 · Ian Rosner
Both: Arcade
An endless neon rhythm-runner with a 46-track licensed dubstep soundtrack. Fly a fixed ship through a winding tunnel from Mercury to Pluto, tapping beat-gates on the beat. Nail the sweet spot for PERFECT combos, bank Vibe Coins, ignite Star Power invincibility, and clear five rounds to win.
RhythmMusicRunnerArcadeSide ScrollerCasualElectronic MusicDifficultFast-PacedIndie


