Games like GrindFest

Hooked on the relaxing side of GrindFest? These games line up well for what comes next.

Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG
An indie MMORPG where your code does the grinding. Control a party of up to 4 characters, automate them with JavaScript, and hunt rare loot in a shared pixel world. Start with working code, change one line at a time, and build routines your whole party relies on. No subscription, no seasonal wipes: your characters and code stay with you.
Relaxing
80% of 173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$14.99
Code: Terraform
A frozen planet, a silent ship, and one tool: real code. Write scripts in a Python-like language to run rovers, power grids and drone fleets, then watch them work while you plan the next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet answers back. No drag and drop, no hand holding, just engineering.
Relaxing
84% of 388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$14.99
Bitburner
A cyberpunk idle game where the way you play is writing JavaScript. Hack servers for cash, automate everything that bores you, trade stocks with your own bots and grow a character with 100+ augmentations. Some programming background helps, but the guide and the game teach as you go.
Relaxing
94% of 7,472 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Stone Story RPG
An RPG that plays itself, animated entirely in ASCII art. Your character explores, fights and loots on their own; your job is to equip them, mix potions with good timing and, if you like, rewrite their brain with a built-in scripting language. A dark quest for nine Soul Stones, with more depth than the symbols let on.
Relaxing
90% of 898 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of tiny robots to thaw a frozen planet and turn it into a living world. You snap together visual code blocks, automate gathering and crafting, then fix the routine when the cold finds its flaws. Cute, calm, and quietly clever about teaching real programming logic.
Relaxing
83% of 701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.24
The Farmer Was Replaced
Program a little drone to run your farm for you. Write code in a simple, Python-like language, press execute, and watch it plant, harvest and sort while you plan the next upgrade. A calm, clever puzzle box that sneaks real programming thinking in under the cover of crops.
Relaxing
95% of 9,842 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 895$6.99
Autonauts
Teach little workerbots to run your colony by showing them how, one recorded action at a time. Start with sticks and stones, end with a planet of farming, cooking, tailoring robots who never complain. Bright, calm and endlessly tinker-friendly: the puzzle is making everything run without you.
Relaxing
89% of 3,611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 83$19.99
Omega Crafter
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Relaxing
78% of 535 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)
Yet Another Incremental Game (But This Time About Coding) is an idle clicker about... coding (thanks, Captain Obvious). Smash your keyboard, spawn code, and discover the questionable joy of programming. No actual skills required.
Relaxing
73% of 40 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
DumbBots
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
70% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Cycle Idle RPG
An RPG that fights for you, even offline. Log off, come back, and your character has been grinding the whole time. Between visits you craft gear, tune your build, tend a garden of helpful plants, fill a Bestiary and play a card minigame. A dozen systems unlock as you go, each one feeding the others. Slow, steady and surprisingly deep.
Relaxing
71% of 270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59Free
Bots Are Stupid
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
76% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99

Hidden gems like GrindFest

Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft

Program a crew of tiny robots to thaw a frozen planet and turn it into a living world.

$11.24

Code: Terraform

Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.

$14.99

Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons

A first-person idle dungeon crawler with a retro look: assemble teams of heroes, send them into caves, catacombs and labyrinths, and watch the loot…

$9.99

Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG

Run a party of four through a colorful pixel world, teaching your characters to fight, craft and trade while you sit back and tweak.

$14.99

Net.Attack() - Code or Die!

CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms.

$7.99

Berserk B.I.T.S

Train a cute pixel B.I.T, build a deck of battle chips and tidy up the Net from your desktop, one boss at a time.

$6.99

The Farmer Was Replaced

Teach a small drone to plant and harvest for you, then sit back and refine your program at your own pace.

$6.99

Screeps: Arena

You write JavaScript, your units follow it, and the arena decides whose logic was better.

$13.39

Stone Story RPG

Equip your hero, brew potions at the right moment, and watch a dark adventure unfold one symbol at a time.

$29.99

Desktop Raid

A pixel-art idle RPG where a colorful little team battles, levels up and gathers loot on its own, so progress waits for you whenever you glance over.

$5.39

Omega Crafter

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi!

$14.99

JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate…

$17.99

Newest games like GrindFest

FORK BOMB: A Programming Game

Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world.

$9.99

Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft

Program a crew of tiny robots to thaw a frozen planet and turn it into a living world.

$11.24

Code: Terraform

Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.

$14.99

Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG

Run a party of four through a colorful pixel world, teaching your characters to fight, craft and trade while you sit back and tweak.

$14.99

Grim Reach Idle

Set up work and battles in a grim fantasy world, then let your skills, fights and town carry on without you.

$6.99

Lowmoor Idle RPG: An Adventurer's Chronicle

Roll a hero, send them into the Maw and watch a quiet old-school adventure unfold on its own.

Free

Blackdoor

You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them.

$12.99

Monotony Idle

Idle RPG for your desktop. Mine, fish, smith, farm, and build a factory. Runs for 24 hours while you’re gone. One purchase, no energy, no ads.

$2.99

Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)

Yet Another Incremental Game (But This Time About Coding) is an idle clicker about... coding (thanks, Captain Obvious).

$7.99

Guildamation

Set battle priorities for each hero, send parties into dungeons and craft their gear while the game plays at your pace.

$14.99

Visseron Idle

Train skills, fight through dungeon waves and raise an estate on a wild frontier, all while your hero keeps working in the background.

$2.99

Net.Attack() - Code or Die!

CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms.

$7.99