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Games like My Little Life

A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

IndieSimulationRPGCasualby 9FingerGamesreleased Jan 31, 2025
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Top 12 games similar to My Little Life

  1. 1

    The Giant of Torridge Island

    Help or hinder Torridge Island as you take control of a Giant in this sandbox of villagers, wildlife and natural disasters. Will the villagers praise you and beg for your return in the morning, or pray that you never reappear.

    CasualEarly AccessSimulation
  2. 2

    Poly Skies

    Poly Skies is an introductory city builder designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers, expand to new islands, unlock secrets and defend from sky-high threats.

    CasualIndieSimulation
  3. 3

    Rusty's Retirement

    A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

    CasualIndieSimulation
  4. 4

    Catizens

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    CasualIndieSimulation
  5. 5

    Tiny Pasture

    Meet your new little desk buddies! They’ll snooze, scratch, and scamper around while you work or study (don’t worry, they’ve been trained not to invade your workspace). If you’re good at animal management, they will occupy the bottom of your screen with different kinds and colors!

    CasualIndieSimulation
  6. 6

    Village Tale

    A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

    CasualIndieSimulation
  7. 7

    Timberborn

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    IndieSimulationStrategy
  8. 8

    Littlewood

    The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

    AdventureCasualIndie
  9. 9

    dEskape

    'dEskape' is a base-building game which sits across the bottom of your desktop allowing you to work, browse, or watch something else while you play. It's idle when you like and active when you want.

    CasualIndieRPG
  10. 10

    Havendock

    Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

    CasualIndieSimulation
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    Autonauts

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    CasualIndieSimulation
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    Autonauts vs Piratebots

    Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

    CasualIndieSimulation

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