Games like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

If Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab scratched a relaxing and funny itch for you, keep reading. Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Yet Another Research Dog
The research dog is a newly graduated Ph.D.. His life-long dream is to become a great scientist, but the fortune is not on his side. After years of hard working, he is finally offered an intern position in a random lab. However, the job is not that easy and happy as he expected.
Funny
84% of 330 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
星礼研究所 | Sighchology Research Lab
In this game, you play as a student in the Sighchology Research Lab. In this dark place, you do research every night and day without sleep, because you have been given a great mission: to publish a piece of paper...
Relaxing, Retro
82% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Two Point Campus
Run the university of your dreams, where Knight School and Gastronomy sit on the same timetable. Build the campus, hire eccentric staff, and look after students with names, needs and questionable taste in clubs. A funny, colorful management sim that plays at your own pace, with a summer break before every year to get things right.
Relaxing, Funny, Cute
88% of 5,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 269$29.99
Pocket Academy
Make your dream school in this management simulation game! School got you down?
Relaxing, Funny, Cute
82% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Academia : School Simulator
Design, build and run your own high school: hire teachers, balance the budget, and decide whether to give struggling students counseling or park them in detention. A cheerful management sim with a sense of humor, where skimping on toilets has consequences. Your school, your rules.
Relaxing, Funny, Cute
81% of 2,996 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$19.99
A PhD Simulator - Publish & Perish
A satirical life-sim about surviving a biology PhD — run experiments, dodge scooping, manage your advisor, and try to graduate with your sanity (mostly) intact.
Funny
$7.99
Wizdom Academy
Run your own wizarding school in this 3D management sim. Stack floors, design every room, recruit students from around the world and guide them from first lesson to final exam, all while mana droughts, staff drama and the tax-collecting Directorium test your nerve. Your school, your rules.
Relaxing, Funny, Cute
69% of 294 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
My Little Life
A tiny life sim that lives along the bottom of your screen while you work or play something else. Guide a little person from a messy room and no job to a decorated dream home, pick their career, recruit more little people, and check in now and then to see how they are doing.
Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
89% of 1,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$3.89
Let's School
You are the new headmaster of your old school, and it needs saving. Design every classroom, hire and train teachers, and steer a hall of very different students toward graduation. A colorful, funny school management sim where a fire drill, an exam season and a canteen overeating incident can all land on the same day.
Relaxing, Funny, Cute
92% of 5,941 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 81$19.99
Idle Research
Research colorful flasks and tubes, craft them into an energy empire, and watch the numbers get absurd. Idle Research is a relaxed incremental that works while you are away, rewards you when you are not, and even lets you rob rival tubes for their energy.
Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
83% of 1,917 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 81Free
Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish is a game that simulates working in academia. In order to keep your job, you must publish scientific work. Reviewers are here to get you and all you can do is try to survive. Can you publish enough papers to enjoy tenure? (Contains practical advice for academics)
Funny, Retro
92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
模拟经营我的大学 Be president of a university
Simulate to be the president of a university, run a start-up university, and strive to make it a world famous university.
Relaxing, Colorful
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Cheaper than Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

Yet Another Research Dog

The research dog is a newly graduated Ph.D.. His life-long dream is to become a great scientist, but the fortune is not on his side.

$0.99

星礼研究所 | Sighchology Research Lab

In this game, you play as a student in the Sighchology Research Lab.

$2.99

My Little Life

Guide a little person from an empty room to a cozy home and a career, checking in now and then while the rest plays out on its own.

$3.89

Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish is a game that simulates working in academia. In order to keep your job, you must publish scientific work.

$1.99

Legend of Homebody

The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality.

$5.99

Simultree

Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.

$6.99

模拟经营我的大学 Be president of a university

Simulate to be the president of a university, run a start-up university, and strive to make it a world famous university.

$5.99

PhDing in the UK

A pixel-art life sim about surviving a PhD in the UK. Manage your time, write your thesis, go fishing, fall in love, and push your luck at the casino.

$5.99

Magic Research

Grow a magic academy from scratch, automate its spells and studies, and uncover the storylines that quietly reshape each new run.

$4.99

Battle On! Hero Academy

A pixel academy where little heroes grow from swordsman to paladin at their own pace, and yours.

$4.99

Life Simulator

Life Simulator is a simulation game with relaxed atmosphere.

$1.34

晴蓝岛恋活笔记 LoveLife of QingLan Island

After failing your first attempt at the college entrance exam, you chose to embark on a one-year re-study journey on a beautiful island, accompanied…

$3.99

Hidden gems like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

The Dream Globe

Watch a little pixel family farm, fish and brew inside an antique globe while you work, then drop in to sell their goods and unlock new worlds.

$2.99

My Little Life

Guide a little person from an empty room to a cozy home and a career, checking in now and then while the rest plays out on its own.

$3.89

Simultree

Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.

$6.99

Whimel Academy

Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game.

$14.99

Battle On! Hero Academy

A pixel academy where little heroes grow from swordsman to paladin at their own pace, and yours.

$4.99

Office Simulator

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

$9.99

Upload Labs

Route files through a growing network of nodes, then tune every bottleneck until the whole machine hums.

Free

Mind Over Magic

Build a school for young mages, teach them your way, and send them down to break the curse before the fog gets in.

$24.99

Pocket Academy 3

Run your dream school in cute pixel form: place classrooms, a cafeteria and a counseling room, line up matching buildings for popular spots, coach…

$10.99

Magic Research

Grow a magic academy from scratch, automate its spells and studies, and uncover the storylines that quietly reshape each new run.

$4.99

IT Specialist Simulator

Take IT support tickets and actually solve them: read logs, check configs, type real terminal commands, and fix networks, servers, printers and…

$13.99

Idle Guy: Life Simulator games

Study, work, date and bowl your way up a funny, relaxed life where every choice about your climb is yours.

Free

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