Games like Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
If Zero Stress King: Idle Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gamblers Table, Master Healer Kale with useless party and Desktop Defender — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and funny. 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 Zero Stress King: Idle Defense: A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
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Gamblers Table
WHY THIS
Shares prestige system, idle progression, indie and a chill mood with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Top pick for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Master Healer Kale with useless party
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Second-strongest match for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Desktop Defender
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, auto battle, casual and a chill mood with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Third-strongest match for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Crown Siege
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
A short incremental tower defense game centered around growing and strengthening armies, to defend your kingdom and stop endless waves of enemies.
Incredicer
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, skill tree progression, casual and a chill mood with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Ranked #5 for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.
A Game About Feeding A Black Hole
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system, casual and a chill mood with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Ranked #6 for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.
castle idler
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, auto battle, casual and a chill mood with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Ranked #7 for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
castle idler is a short, relaxing incremental tower defense game with no waves. upgrade towers, collect coins, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades to defend your castle.
rymdkapsel
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Shares a chill mood with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Ranked #8 for Zero Stress King: Idle Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zero Stress King: Idle Defense at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Zero Stress King: Idle Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
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 Casual with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
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 Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
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 Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zero Stress King: Idle Defense.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
- Does Zero Stress King: Idle Defense run on Steam Deck?
- Zero Stress King: Idle Defense 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 Zero Stress King: Idle Defense cost?
- Zero Stress King: Idle Defense is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Zero Stress King: Idle Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zero Stress King: Idle Defense are Gamblers Table, Master Healer Kale with useless party, Desktop Defender.
- Who developed Zero Stress King: Idle Defense?
- Zero Stress King: Idle Defense was developed by Pauloondra.
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