Games like Barely Working
If Barely Working is your kind of game, the closest matches are Milker Clicker, Chief of the Valley and Record of Pleasing Male Servants and Female Servants — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Barely Working: Barely Working is a puzzle game where you manage work and sex at the same time. Respond to your colleague's messages and take their sexual requests in order to fulfill your productivity for the day!

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Steam players who put hours into Barely Working also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Milker Clicker
WHY THIS
Top pick for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Barely Working.
Adult-Only Clicker game about milking. Collect milk, earn money, and unlock 9 fully animated, interactive sex scenes. Simple mechanics, addictive rhythm - no story, just raw satisfaction.
Chief of the Valley
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barely Working.
Build a PC company from a one-person operation in the dawn of computing to an industry titan in the modern era. Manage staff, secure contracts, research technology, and ship products all while keeping yourself from financial ruin. The Valley is an unforgiving place.
Record of Pleasing Male Servants and Female Servants
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Barely Working.
"Record of Pleasing Male Servants and Female Servants" is a dynamic jigsaw puzzle game. 35 different girls interact with you in various ways - sexy, cute, and innocent. Come and complete their puzzle together!
Shane's Trains
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Barely Working.
Build and manage your own railway empire. Buy trains, create services, expand the network, and grow from a single branch line. Map your own routes, or play across the real UK rail network and beyond.
My Future Wife (InsanErotica)
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Barely Working.
In My Future Wife, you can have a happy ending (Romance Ending or Harem Ending), a neutral ending (Sharing Ending) or a sad ending (NTR Ending) depending on how you play.
Extended Stay
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barely Working.
Extended Stay is a monster-girl brothel management sim where you must keep your guests satisfied to succeed. By satisfying your guests you'll unlock sex scenes and earn money to keep your brothel in business.
My Summer (InsanErotica)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Barely Working fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Barely Working.
In My Summer, you can have a happy ending (Nice Guy Ending or Bad Guy Ending), a neutral ending (Open Relationship Ending) or a sad ending (NTR Ending) depending on how you play.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Barely Working at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Barely Working.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barely Working.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Barely Working.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barely Working.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Action with Barely Working.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Barely Working.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barely Working.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Barely Working on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barely Working.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Barely Working.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Barely Working.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barely Working.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Barely Working.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Barely Working.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barely Working.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Barely Working.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Milker Clicker
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Barely Working.
Adult-Only Clicker game about milking. Collect milk, earn money, and unlock 9 fully animated, interactive sex scenes. Simple mechanics, addictive rhythm - no story, just raw satisfaction.
My Future Wife (InsanErotica)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Early Access with Barely Working.
In My Future Wife, you can have a happy ending (Romance Ending or Harem Ending), a neutral ending (Sharing Ending) or a sad ending (NTR Ending) depending on how you play.
My Summer (InsanErotica)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Early Access with Barely Working.
In My Summer, you can have a happy ending (Nice Guy Ending or Bad Guy Ending), a neutral ending (Open Relationship Ending) or a sad ending (NTR Ending) depending on how you play.
Frequently asked about Barely Working
- Does Barely Working run on Steam Deck?
- Barely Working is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Barely Working cost?
- Barely Working is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Barely Working?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Barely Working are Milker Clicker, Chief of the Valley, Record of Pleasing Male Servants and Female Servants.
- Who developed Barely Working?
- Barely Working was developed by Deep Games LLC.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Barely Working.
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