Games Like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

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.

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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 372
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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THE LONGING

92% 👍 OF 7.5K
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.

Player reviews say 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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Production Chains
  • …Trade Town Specialties
  • …Assign Workers Automatically
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Instruction

94% 👍 OF 687
About This Game

Generate voltage while uncovering the mysteries of a power plant in this story-based clicker game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Upgrade Five Power Systems
  • …Meet Your Snarky AI
  • …Uncover Hidden Notes
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Pickle Clicker

87% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Click pickle, get pickle, spend pickle, get more pickle, and most importantly... Protect pickle from sneaky Poglins!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Click for Pickles
  • …Automate Pickle Income
  • …Beat Back Poglins
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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.

Player reviews say 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 769
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

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Character Dolls
  • …Recover Scattered Books
  • …Balance Attack And Hauling
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Tower Wizard

97% 👍 OF 9.0K
About This Game

Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Grow a Wizard Tower
  • …Summon Resource-Gathering Spirits
  • …Upgrade Resource Buildings
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Zero Stress King: Idle Defense

88% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Send Waves Into Lava
  • …Upgrade Enemy Waves
  • …Hire Castle Defenders
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Tiny Terraces

93% 👍 OF 987
About This Game

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

Player reviews say 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.
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Boss of this gym

93% 👍 OF 622
About This Game

Enjoy going in the gym how it was intended: phonk, sick racing cars and Emperor Putin guarding you. Get buff and visit the ♂Dungeon Master♂ to get uprades. Drink tonics and avoid obstacles on your path to becoming the ♂Boss of this Gym♂.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Collect Weights
  • …Dodge Gym Hazards
  • …Upgrade Your Ride