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Games like Tick & Tired

If Tick & Tired is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gacha The Frog, Popcorn Idle and HarvestCo. — 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.

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About Tick & Tired: Tick & Tired is an incremental game about overcoming your to-do list. Complete short desktop tasks like sorting emails and organizing files, hire interns to automate the work and get massive combos at the end of the day to upgrade your workflow in a skill tree.

2026IndieCasualWindows · Linuxby Cr4zy
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Steam players who put hours into Tick & Tired 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.

  1. Gacha The Frog

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Collect and play with cute frogs in a cozy physics simulation. Use the machine to get new frogs, play mini-games to improve the odds of getting legendary frogs and manage your space so you can keep playing. Can you complete the album?

    2027IndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Popcorn Idle

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Popcorn Idle is a cozy idle automation game about the simple joy of popping corn. Earn money, buy upgrades, automate and turn up the heat to boost production. Grow bigger numbers, unlock flavors and combine effects. Fill the whole machine with colorful, tasty popcorn, one crunchy pop at a time.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. HarvestCo.

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    HarvestCo is a farming incremental idle game where a small field turns into an increasingly efficient money-making machine. Harvest crops, buy upgrades, grow passive income, automate production, and discover rare golden crops and strange field events.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Charmcraft Idle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Charmcraft Idle is a cozy, witchy idle shop simulator where you gather magical resources, craft enchanted goods, and slowly automate every part of your spellbound business. Click, craft, study, and hire staff as your humble witch shop grows into a magical enterprise.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Fast Food Fortune

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Fast Food Fortune is a casual restaurant sim where you take a restaurant from the brink of financial ruin to a fast food fortune. Buy upgrades, update your restaurant, hire staff, and manage your way to the top of the fast food chain.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Farm to Fortune

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Turn a tiny plot into a fortune, one seed at a time. Grow crops, sell them in your shop, and reinvest everything you earn. Better tools, more land, richer harvests. Relaxing from the first seed to the last field.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. The Grand Book Archive: Tidy Up

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Restore the Grand Book Archive by sorting 2,990 archaic books onto their rightful shelves. Use your observation and magical spells to organize the collection as quickly as possible. Completing each run will unlock more powerful upgrades that will help you become the ultimate archivist.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  8. Idle Coma Cracker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Tick & Tired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Decrypt the memories of our comatose clients, sorry, we meant patients! Earn credibility, tokens and cash. Buy hardware and scale from local machines to cloud computing, datacenters, and power generation. Automate your operation and keep cracking.

    SimulationCasualEarly AccessSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tick & Tired.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Tick & Tired.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tick & Tired.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tick & Tired.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tick & Tired.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tick & Tired

What games are most similar to Tick & Tired?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tick & Tired are Gacha The Frog, Popcorn Idle, HarvestCo..
Who developed Tick & Tired?
Tick & Tired was developed by Cr4zy.

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 Tick & Tired.

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