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Games like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab
HCL · 2026 · Windows, macOS
Steam: 87 % positive of 162 reviews, as of Oct 28
Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab is a semi-idle desktop simulation game about academic life. Keep a tiny lab in the corner of your screen while you work, study, or relax. Recruit graduate students, apply for research projects, publish papers, purchase equipment, and build your own research team.
24 games that play like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Two Point Campus, Let's School and Academia : School Simulator.
Player tags
By gameplay
Plays like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Two Point Campus
87 % positive of 5,955
Shared: Management · Casual · Cute
Let's School
91 % positive of 5,936
Shared: Relaxing · Management · Funny
Academia : School Simulator
80 % positive of 2,994
Shared: Management · 2D · Cute
Game Dev Tycoon
95 % positive of 40,410
Shared: Management · Casual · 2D
Office Simulator
83 % positive of 153
Shared: Management · Casual · Cute
PC Building Simulator
93 % positive of 42,188
Shared: Relaxing · Management · Casual
Pocket Academy
82 % positive of 201
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Management · Casual
Let's School Homeroom
93 % positive of 1,002
Shared: Relaxing · Management · Casual
Battle On! Hero Academy
83 % positive of 771
Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Pixel Graphics
I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
94 % positive of 236
Shared: Casual · Cute · Funny
Desk Garden
83 % positive of 479
Shared: Idler · Casual · 2D
AdVenture Capitalist
86 % positive of 60,520
Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Management
More matches
- Chill Pulse95 % positive of 4,648Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Pixel Graphics
- Mad Games Tycoon90 % positive of 3,699Shared: Management · Casual · Singleplayer
- Game Dev Story89 % positive of 1,464Shared: Pixel Graphics · Management · Casual
- Tiny Pasture92 % positive of 7,115Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Pixel Graphics
- Game Dev Studio86 % positive of 537Shared: Management · Casual · 2D
- Mini Painter88 % positive of 196Shared: Idler · Desktop Companion · Relaxing
- Whimel Academy85 % positive of 248Shared: Management · 2D · Cute
- Game Corp DX87 % positive of 2,710Shared: Relaxing · Management · Casual
- Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies91 % positive of 7,827Shared: Casual · Funny · Singleplayer
- Burgie's Cozy Kitchen95 % positive of 1,621Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Management
- Idle Research82 % positive of 1,911Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Management
- PC Building Empire83 % positive of 167Shared: Idler · Relaxing · Management
By look
Looks like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
River Town Factory
87 % positive of 1,280
The Escapists
90 % positive of 14,334
The Escapists 2
90 % positive of 26,575
Prison Architect
89 % positive of 59,895
Honey, I Joined a Cult
72 % positive of 1,392
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
92 % positive of 10,480
SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
75 % positive of 525
Checkout: Cashier Simulator
94 % positive of 190
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
94 % positive of 1,898
Little Rocket Lab
89 % positive of 1,306
Chef RPG
86 % positive of 2,653
Bone's Cafe
95 % positive of 343
More matches
- Thank You For Your Application79 % positive of 999
- Death Coming/死神来了88 % positive of 3,044
- Little-Known Galaxy87 % positive of 681
- Little Sim World78 % positive of 676
- Gamer Career Tycoon79 % positive of 259
- Finding Paradise97 % positive of 18,204
- Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator73 % positive of 261
- To Pixelia74 % positive of 1,209
- Whisper of the House95 % positive of 5,497
- Kindergarten95 % positive of 10,321
- Chinese Parents90 % positive of 23,273
- Discounty82 % positive of 2,368
At a glance
What games like Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab have in common
- The tags they share most often with Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab: Management (17 of 24), Casual (13) and Relaxing (12).
- They came out between 2013 and 2025, none of them after Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: Chill Pulse (95 % positive of 4,648).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.