Games Like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab is a semi-idle research game, not a traditional management sim. Keep it in a small window while you work, study, write papers, or take a break. Recruit students, run a pixel lab, publish papers, earn Impact Factor, and watch them work, slack off, and break down.

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Pupple Pop

83% 👍 OF 160
About This Game

Pupple Pop is an incremental game where you pop bubbles to earn money. Buy bigger and better bubbles, unlock upgrades and hire fish helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy popping work for you. Simple. Satisfying.

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Musical Slime

97% 👍 OF 374
About This Game

Ditch the dull, monotonous desktop! Bring home a soft, cuddly slime that grooves in perfect sync with your music, unlock soothing desktop companionship, and enjoy endless player-created music content in the Steam Workshop to swap out whenever you want~

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Digseum

98% 👍 OF 8.0K
About This Game

Digseum is a short incremental journey about digging up ancient relics and building the greatest museum ever!

In this game, you can…

  • …find duplicate relics and use them to rank up the ones you already own for bigger payouts.
  • …prestige and come back with permanent upgrades from a dream skill tree that makes your next run noticeably faster.
  • …snowball so hard that digging turns into a click-anywhere blitz and you can tear through prestige ranks.
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THE LONGING

92% 👍 OF 7.4K
About This Game

An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

In this game, you can…

  • …start a 400-day real-time countdown that keeps running even when you quit for months.
  • …sit down and read full classic books in real time, page by page, while the game quietly keeps going.
  • …set a destination you've visited before and let your character walk there on his own in real time.
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Factory Town Idle

91% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

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Clicker Heroes

90% 👍 OF 62K
About This Game

Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

In this game, you can…

  • …set things up before bed, and the game keeps progressing and earning gold even while you're away or the computer is off.
  • …cash in an entire run by ascending, lose your progress, and come back with hero souls that make you permanently stronger.
  • …start hunting special bosses past zone 100 that can drop hero souls, and every tenth boss can gild a random hero for a big bonus.
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Marisa!ReturnTheBook!

91% 👍 OF 739
About This Game

A 2D top-down idle AFK & battle stage-clearing game set in Gensokyo. In the peaceful and tranquil Gensoukyo, a little girl with yellow hair who likes to borrow books everywhere has aroused Alice's anger. Therefore, she calls on everyone in Gensoukyo to gather in front of Marisa's house for a battle

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Tiny Terraces

93% 👍 OF 842
About This Game

A cozy idle farming game, watch tiny guys do tasks around the terrace, expand, progress, and decorate your Tiny Terrace.

In this game, you can…

  • …place beehives so the exact tile location changes what honey you get, turning layout into an output puzzle.
  • …run the farm in a corner of your screen while you do other stuff, with the terrace constantly animating in your peripheral vision.
  • …overhear two workers have a long conversation, then one disappears and later comes back with a swollen belly, forcing you to hire replacements.