Games like Pending Approval

Hooked on the funny and relaxing side of Pending Approval? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Red Tape Rampage
Manage staff, trigger mass layoffs and combine unique items with ever-changing policies as you advance through promotion stages in a satirical incremental game full of absurd synergies.
Funny, Relaxing, Replayable
78% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Idle Startup
Grow a one-person garage operation into a global tech company, one completed task at a time. Pick a skill, watch the money stack up, unlock departments, then automate the whole thing and check in on your empire now and then. A clean, endlessly-scaling idle game that keeps earning while you are away.
Relaxing
60% of 371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66Free
Scratch Inc.
Scratch Inc. is an idle game dressed as a scratch card stand. Scratch cards, stack multipliers, buy automation, then reset and climb again across prestige layers.
Relaxing
90% of 2,302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 156Free
Office God
Climb from intern to administrator of reality in Office God, a satirical incremental game set inside a retro desktop. Automate busywork, hire employees, buy companies, and turn corporate drudgery into cosmic power. Your next promotion is everyone else's problem.
Funny, Relaxing, Replayable
80% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Piñata Go Boom
Your new job is simple: take a bat into the company facilities and smash every piñata in sight. You grab the toys, sell the haul, and feed it into a big skill tree until rooms fall faster and promotions follow. Short, colorful, and easy to keep running for one more day.
Funny, Relaxing, Replayable
91% of 671 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99
Your Suffering Is Important to Us
Run a corporate office in Hell. Hire, customize, and assign imployees, reject petty sinners, automate absurd punishments, and climb the infernal corporate ladder in this comedic incremental management game.
Funny, Relaxing
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$3.77
Meeple Incremental
Roll dice, send cheerful meeples around a board, and watch a quiet little economy grow. Buy more meeples, automate the dice, unlock a skill tree, collectibles and minigames, then automate those too. A colorful, relaxing incremental that plays nicely in the background while you do something else.
Relaxing, Replayable
88% of 113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$4.79
Approved! A Quiet Day of Paperwork
Settle into a quiet afternoon of delightfully unnecessary paperwork. Stamp every form APPROVED, gather satisfying piles, and upgrade your trusty stamp. Meet peculiar colleagues through their letters and make a cozy little desk your own. Take your time.
Funny, Relaxing
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Office Simulator
Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks. Gain experience, earn promotions, and when the time comes, launch your own company to begin a new business adventure.
Relaxing, Replayable
83% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Buerokratie Idler: Germany
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
Funny, Relaxing
50% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Smashing Simulator Idle
An idle game about smashing things: bottles, plates, boxes, whatever turns up. Numbers go up, upgrades stack, and when progress slows you smash the game itself and start again, harder. Colorful pixel art, missions, skill trees and secrets, all at a calm, click-at-your-own-pace rhythm.
Relaxing
73% of 487 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28Free
Revolution Idle
An idle incremental where a circle fills, points multiply, and the numbers never stop climbing. Automate everything, trigger prestiges, reach infinity, then reset to go further.
Relaxing, Replayable
86% of 12,888 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10,387Free

Cheaper than Pending Approval

Buerokratie Idler: Germany

Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine.

$0.49

Just One More Sheet

An office incremental game where you grab paperwork and toss it into the shredder.

$2.79

STAMP DUTY: PAPERWORK ROGUELITE

Vantrell Mutual, 1994. Forms land on your desk faster than you can read them, and every forgery has one detail that's off. Left click approves.

$1.99

Progress98

A retro idle game that lives quietly on your desktop and grows while you get on with your day.

$2.39

Toilet Paper Idle

Toilet Paper Idle is an incremental game about consuming as much toilet papers as possible with the help of helpers, skills, and upgrades.

$1.99

Particul

Tap out particles, automate the work and trade your way toward the rarest one.

$1.99

Smooth Operators

Smooth Operators is an advanced simulation where you take control of a call center company and lead it to financial success!

$0.99

Corporate Slave：Quiet Quitting

Are You Man Enough? Markets are hitting all-time highs, and you’re probably already set for early retirement. Good for you!

$1.99

Factory Town Idle

Grow a small fantasy town by putting workers to work, crafting goods and trading them for steady, satisfying growth.

$1.24

Buttons Up!

Buttons Up! is a incremental button collecting game where you hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing intruders.

$1.99

Progress Bar Deluxe

Loading, loading, loading… when will it ever be ready? Will you finally see the bar reach 100%?

$1.99

Widget Inc.

Turn a handful of Widgets into an automated, country-spanning production line, one calm tier at a time.

$2.49

Hidden gems like Pending Approval

It's Fine

An idle game where you code against the clock while Joe, your dog and project manager, watches over the project.

$9.99

Bloobs Adventure Idle

Set your Bloob to work on 24 connected skills, craft its gear and let the climb happen in the background.

$7.99

Bookstore Incremental

Print, bind and sell books, hire staff and grow a tiny shop into a worldwide business, one upgrade at a time.

$7.99

Piñata Go Boom

Your new job is simple: take a bat into the company facilities and smash every piñata in sight.

$3.99

Meeple Incremental

Roll dice, send cheerful meeples around a board, and watch a quiet little economy grow.

$4.79

Click the Button

Click the Button is an incremental game about clicking a button to receive chests that deliver incredible rewards.

$2.99

Scratch Inc.

Scratch your way to bigger multipliers, automate the stand, and reset to climb higher.

Free

Office Simulator

Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks.

$9.99

Idle Colony

Raise a cheerful little colony that waters, harvests and automates its way from a single sapling to absurd sums of money, then reset and do it better.

$5.99