Games like Artist Idle
Artist Idle. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Settlemoon
Also pixel art, slow
Build a side-scrolling fantasy town in real time, posting quests for visiting adventurers and decorating as it grows. It keeps working while the game is closed.
87% steam70% idle
Weapon Shop Fantasy
Also tycoon, pixel art
Run a weapon shop that doubles as an RPG: fight monsters for materials, craft and enchant gear, and train staff to adventure for you.
80% steam
Tap Tap Trillionaire : Money!Dormant
Also tycoon, pixel art
Tap for coins in a pixel-art office, hire traders of varying skill, and accept or decline risky investments on the road to trillions.

Tiny Tower: Tap Idle EvolutionUpdated
Also tycoon, pixel art
Stack floors onto a pixel skyscraper, give jobs to its tiny residents and reinvest their earnings to keep building upward.

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
Also slow
Float in a pool as a rubber duck while more ducks drop in one by one, with a day and night cycle and calm music.
98% steam
Cast n Chill
Also pixel art
A relaxed pixel fishing game with a dog companion where you sell catches for better gear across 16 spots, and can switch to a passive mode that fishes for you.
95% steam50% idle
Far Fishing
Also pixel art
Chase fish inside a circle from a small boat, upgrading it as you sail to the edge of the world across nine locations in about two hours.
97% steamhas ending
Luna's Fishing Garden
Also pixel art
Catch fish, trade them to a fox spirit, and spend the proceeds turning an archipelago into a garden. A short pixel-art story you can keep playing after.
95% steamhas ending
Lemonade Apocalypse: First Squeeze
Also tycoon
Set lemonade prices against demand, invest in farms and factories, and eventually steer world politics to heat the planet across three story levels.
95% steam
Cheeky Chooks
Also tycoon
Hatch and keep unique chickens happy for better eggs, and grow a shed into a sprawling ranch through missions and upgrades.
94% steam
PomoFarm
Also pixel art
A focus timer where a duck's farm grows while you work, with 60 crops across four seasons and skills to unlock.
97% steam90% idle
THE LONGING
Also slow
Wait 400 real days in an underground palace for a king to wake. The clock runs while the game is closed, so you can explore or simply leave.
92% steamhas ending70% idle
AdVenture Capitalist
Also tycoon
Lemonade stand to oil empire, hire managers so you never click again, cash in angel investors.
88% steam80% idle
Viridi
Also slow
Care for a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Water them, name them, and keep the window open beside your work.
92% steam90% idle
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen
Also tycoon
Run a bathhouse for animal guests at the bottom of your screen, setting bath temperatures, snacks and staff while you do other things.
94% steam90% idle
Final Profit: A Shop RPGDormant
Also tycoon
A story-driven shop RPG where an exiled fae queen builds a business empire, buying buildings for passive income and automating systems over 35+ hours.
95% steamhas ending
All Hail the Orb
Also pixel art
Click a mysterious orb for power, recruit cultists to take over the work, and explore a dungeon full of ducks in a short game meant to be finished.
93% steam4.2★ galaxyhas ending
Human-powered spacecraft
Also pixel art
A stranded colonist cranks a dynamo by hand to repower a ship, upgrading toward potato farms and antimatter with a sarcastic computer.
93% steam
SimuLadron
Also tycoon
A satirical Argentine politics clicker: print money, add ministries and fake jobs, and ride runaway inflation.
94% steam
Mountain
Also slow
You are a mountain. Time passes, weather and life come and go on your slopes, and you mostly watch.
88% steam
Rock Simulator 2
Also slow
Be a rock and watch the world change around you, unlocking over 100 rocks at a deliberately slow pace, alone or with friends.
93% steam70% idle
Suncraft
Also pixel art
Gather, craft and automate to restore a pixel-art village and rebuild its grand Sunspire, helped by recruited companions.
92% steam
Click MageDormant
Also pixel art
Stranded on a pixel island, click to gather and carry small amounts of resources, build processing buildings and construct a portal home.
90% steamhas ending
FACEMINER
Also tycoon
A 1999 office desktop where you classify faces for a shady biometric firm, scaling hardware and reading the messages that reveal its plans.
92% steam