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Games like Desktop Tower Survivor

Desktop Tower Survivor balanced, never really ends. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

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  1. The Perfect Tower II cover art

    The Perfect Tower II

    Also tower defense, automation · Same active/idle balance (leans idle)

    Tower defence as an idle engine, plus factories, mining and an in-game scripting language.

    87% steam
    60% idle
  2. Constellation Clicker cover art

    Constellation ClickerComing soon

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Click to claim stars, link them with trade routes and grow a galactic economy, with 12 upgradeable Clankers to automate the clicks.

    50% idle
  3. Desktop Defender cover art

    Desktop Defender

    Also desktop companion, tower defense

    A lone tower in the corner of your screen holds off waves while you work, dropping gear to equip and resetting runs for permanent ascension upgrades.

    92% steam
    90% idle
  4. Outpath: First Journey cover art

    Outpath: First Journey

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A free prologue to a first-person clicker where you gather, craft and automate a base, buying new islands, in either an active or idle style.

    96% steam
    50% idle
  5. Bitburner cover art

    BitburnerUpdated

    Also automation

    A cyberpunk incremental where you write real JavaScript to hack servers and automate everything.

    95% steam
    70% idle
  6. Outpath cover art

    Outpath

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A first-person clicker base builder: gather by hand, then automate production and buy more islands to expand.

    94% steam
    50% idle
  7. Clicker Heroes 2 cover art

    Clicker Heroes 2

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Click through endless zones and worlds, chain skills for DPS, and program an automator to play for you. It never ends.

    53% steam
    50% idle
  8. Plantera 2: Golden Acorn cover art

    Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow a garden around a magic oak with round helpers who harvest for you, even while the game is closed, and reach for golden acorns.

    95% steam
    50% idle
  9. Plantera cover art

    Plantera

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow a garden of crops, trees and animals while round helpers harvest for you, and keep earning even with the game shut.

    89% steam
    50% idle
  10. Vanguard Galaxy cover art

    Vanguard Galaxy

    Also desktop companion · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Fight, mine, salvage and trade across a procedural galaxy, played full screen or docked on your desktop with an autopilot that can run things.

    90% steam
    50% idle
  11. Burgie's Cozy Kitchen cover art

    Burgie's Cozy Kitchen

    Also desktop companion · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Run a small burger stand on your desktop, serving picky customers when a bell rings and upgrading the kitchen. Includes a Pomodoro mode and stream chat orders.

    97% steam
    50% idle

  12. TrimpsDormant

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Breed an army of trimps, push through zones, portal back, and optimise your heirlooms for another hundred runs.

    55% idle
  13. Antimatter Dimensions cover art

    Antimatter DimensionsUpdated

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Buy dimensions that buy dimensions, then break infinity, then break reality. The reference point every numbers-go-up game is measured against, and it has a real ending.

    92% steam
    4.6★ galaxy
    200–600h ending
    55% idle
  14. Under the blue horizon cover art

    Under the blue horizon

    Also desktop companion, automation

    A small aquarium sits on your screen beside other windows. Feed fish, turn their droppings into currency, and hire crawfish and jellyfish helpers to expand the sea.

    82% steam
    90% idle
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    refarm

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Raise sunken tiles from the sea one at a time, farming each to fund more land and unlocking basic helpers. A short, click-heavy run of about two hours.

    87% steam
    has ending
    50% idle
  16. Lazy Kickers cover art

    Lazy KickersUpdated

    Also desktop companion · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Grow soccer balls from plants and kick them into goals for coins, hiring and assigning players to climb leagues on a desktop-friendly field.

    90% steam
    3.8★ galaxy
    50% idle
  17. Sixty Four cover art

    Sixty Four

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Build machines that dig up cubes and spend them on stranger machines, moving from clicking toward a fully automated factory.

    75% steam
    50% idle
  18. Incremental Adventures cover art

    Incremental Adventures

    Also automation

    Heroes fight on their own in automated turn-based combat while you tune the automation and push toward double-exponent numbers through stacked prestiges.

    78% steam
    70% idle
  19. Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator cover art

    Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator

    Also desktop companion · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    A pixel medieval village builder that runs along the bottom of your screen. Make the big decisions or step in with your own character to chop wood, join battles and put out fires.

    72% steam
    50% idle
  20. Fish Idle 2: Underwater Mystery cover art

    Fish Idle 2: Underwater Mystery

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Steer a boat through fish schools that catch themselves, sell the haul, upgrade gear, and invest in a fish farm for passive income.

    69% steam
    50% idle
  21. Samawa Idle cover art

    Samawa Idle

    Also tower defense · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Pick and level towers against monster hordes, shaping runs with random gear, passives and a skill tree across two prestige layers.

    68% steam
    50% idle
  22. Idle Monster TD cover art

    Idle Monster TD

    Also tower defense

    Place elemental monsters on the map to hold off endless robot waves, combining their abilities and upgrading stats between fights.

    72% steam
    70% idle
  23. Farmtale cover art

    Farmtale

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Start an island farm with one chicken, then add crops, animals and hired workers, decorate buildings, and explore as upgrades pile up. Part idle, part clicker.

    68% steam
    50% idle
  24. Toilet Paper Idle cover art

    Toilet Paper IdleUpdated

    Also automation · Same active/idle balance (balanced)

    Roll toilet paper with your mouse or let bathroom helpers do it, unlocking special rolls with bonuses and a skill tree of satirical upgrades.

    57% steam
    3.7★ galaxy
    50% idle