Games like The GOAT Surfer
The GOAT Surfer. These games share the most with it, and each one says why.

Meow Palace: Forbidden City
Also skilling, life sim
Raise a stray cat in the Forbidden City from your desktop, training skills like palace cooking and opera while it gathers materials for outfits and furniture.
91% steam90% idle
Captain Whiskers: Incremental Seas
Also ocean, incremental
Sail with cat captains and sweep the cursor over schools of fish to haul them in, then spend the catch on a talent tree of 170+ nodes while hunting a deep-sea leviathan.
85% steam
The Wee PierUpdated
Also ocean, skilling
Fish from a Scottish island pier, train skills, hire helpers for the creels and fill villagers' requests. Roughly an hour to its ending.
3.7★ galaxyhas ending
Fishing IncrementalDormant
Also ocean, skilling
Catch fish, level up, and unlock new fishing locations.

One LifeDormant
Also life sim, skilling
An idle game written in Rust and WebAssembly with a Vue front end.

Profit Sea Incremental
Also ocean, incremental
Fish for gold, buy upgrades and hit milestones to grow your boat. A brief, relaxed incremental at sea.
79% steam
Melvor Idle
Also skilling
RuneScape's skilling loop distilled into menus. Train twenty skills, fight dungeons, fill the completion log.
90% steam85% idle
Shark Game: New Frontiers
Also ocean
Sharks discover the ocean, then science, then other worlds. A text-forward successor to the old Shark Game.
4.6★ galaxy55% idle
Shark Incremental
Also ocean
Grow a shark, eat fish, go deeper. A shiny, fast, well-paced modern idler.
4.5★ galaxy60% idle
Garbage GrowthUpdated
Also incremental
Pick up trash that people throw at you, add more polluters and hire rats to automate collection. A short, crude incremental with a skill tree.
91% steam3.9★ galaxy
Shelldiver
Also ocean
An elderly turtle pilots a submarine to catch jellyfish and salvage ocean junk, selling the haul to upgrade gear and dive into deeper biomes.
98% steam
Cornerpond
Also ocean
A fisherman in the corner of your screen catches fish on his own; sell them for rod and bait upgrades and fill a journal of 100+ species.
97% steam90% idle
Far Fishing
Also ocean
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
Legends of IdleOn
Also skilling
An idle MMO with a whole account of characters working different skills at once. Massive, sprawling, social.
77% steam80% idle
Leaf it Alone
Also incremental
Clear a yard buried in leaves with a rake, a blower or bare hands, upgrading tools until the slow chore turns fast and the garden comes back to life.
95% steam
Luna's Fishing Garden
Also ocean
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
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi
Also ocean
A fishing boat sits along the edge of your desktop reeling in sea life to serve as sushi, while you upgrade rods and bait and fill an aquarium.
96% steam90% idle
Chillquarium
Also ocean
Buy fish, raise them in real time, and sell them or keep them for ticket income while chasing 156 species and rare color variants.
93% steam70% idle
Farm Together 2
Also life sim
Build a farm from one plot to a huge estate, alone or with friends, where crops keep growing while you are away.
93% steam
Rocky IdleUpdated
Also skilling
Click trees and rocks to train 18 skills, craft gear for automated combat and fill a collection log. Farming and questing run in the background, and progress continues offline.
82% steam75% idle
Lazy KickersUpdated
Also incremental
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% steam3.8★ galaxy50% idle
Tree Game Rewritten
Also incremental
Grow a tree of upgrades and rebirth to push further, a rewrite of an early 2020 game.
4.1★ galaxy
LegendumUpdated
Also skilling
Plan each day of a hero's life, auto-battle hordes and train skills before old age, carrying your soul forward to the next life.
4.6★ galaxy
NG Space Company
Also incremental
A space incremental about mining resources, exploring between stars and conquering systems.
4.2★ galaxy