Loading Screen Simulator similar games & best alternatives

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Loading Screen Simulator

Web browser, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition

What works

  • Free to play
  • Humorous and self-aware concept
  • Easy achievements
  • Low system requirements
  • Relaxing and therapeutic for some players

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive gameplay
  • Limited depth and variety
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Can be time-consuming
  • Lack of save progress feature

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Fishing Inc

  • Idle Research

  • Pacifish

  • Fill Up The Hole

  • Idle Cave Miner

  • Open World Game: the Open World Game

More fantastical

Games that feels like Loading Screen Simulator but with more imaginative fiction

  • Scream Collector

  • Digseum

  • Wizard And Minion Idle

  • NGU IDLE

  • Territory Idle

  • 98xx

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Loading Screen Simulator but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Max Manos

  • Super Life (RPG)

  • Skala

  • Famaze

  • Snakecremental

  • Instruction

More expressive

Games that feels like Loading Screen Simulator but with more self-expression and customization

  • Book Bound

  • Cornerpond

  • Progressbar95

  • Tiny Rails

  • Budgie's Bug Shop

  • Idle Dice 2

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Loading Screen Simulator. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Loading Screen Simulator. These titles are not in What to play next.

Loading Screen Simulator: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026