Games like Idle Miner
If Idle Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quackyard, Petunia's Purgatory and Tiny Farmie — 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 Idle Miner: A little mining crew, right on your desktop. Idle Miner is a relaxing idle game that sits along the bottom of your screen. Upgrade your miners, explore branching fantasy routes, collect rare artifacts, and rebirth to grow your crew while you work, browse, or unwind.
Players who liked Idle Miner also play
Steam players who put hours into Idle Miner 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.
Quackyard
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Top pick for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Idle Miner.
A cozy incremental farming sim about helping your duck friend clean out their backyard. Dig, mine and farm your way to clearing up the space so that a tea party with friends can be hosted.
Petunia's Purgatory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Miner.
Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.
Tiny Farmie
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Miner.
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
LUNAR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Idle Miner.
A tiny astronaut explores the Moon in a little window on your desktop. Collect resources, send out drones, upgrade your gear, and customize your operator. A calm idle companion to keep the workday fun.
Mana Roots
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Ranked #6 for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Idle Miner.
An idle-farming game where you use magic to handle the work. Plant, expand and automate with the help of animals. All from the bottom of your screen
Fred's Idle Garden
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Idle Miner.
A cozy idle farming simulator that hangs out on your desktop while you work, study or just chill 🌻
Happy Pawlets
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Idle Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Idle Miner.
Happy Pawlets is a pet-breeding and desktop companion game. Choose the parents, discover how colors, patterns, body shapes, and features pass through generations, raise your favorite offspring, and bring them onto your desktop.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Miner.
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 Idle Miner.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Idle Miner.
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.
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 Idle Miner.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Miner.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Miner.
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!
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 Idle Miner.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Idle Miner.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Idle Miner
- What games are most similar to Idle Miner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Idle Miner are Quackyard, Petunia's Purgatory, Tiny Farmie.
- Who developed Idle Miner?
- Idle Miner was developed by SneakFox.
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 Idle Miner.
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