Paint Drying Simulator similar games & best alternatives

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Paint Drying Simulator

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

Should you play it?

This is literally a game about watch paint drying for 6 hours, so.. ..do you feel like wasting money and time? XD

What works

  • Unique and novel concept
  • Relaxing and meditative experience
  • Highly immersive visuals and sound
  • Long play sessions and replayability
  • Affordable price

Things to keep in mind

  • Excessive gpu usage and hardware stress
  • Lack of gameplay challenge or objectives
  • Some reports of crypto mining suspicion
  • Minimal social or multiplayer features
  • Repetitive and limited content

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Shrimp

  • Pleasure Puzzle:Portrait 趣拼拼：肖像画

  • Coloring Voxels

  • Cat

  • Chill Corner

  • TaskPals

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Paint Drying Simulator but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Electrician Simulator - First Shock

  • Moral Dilemma: The Interview

  • Bus Flipper: Renovator Simulator

  • Toilet Simulator

  • Toilet 8

  • Electrician Simulator

More fantastical

Games that feels like Paint Drying Simulator but with more imaginative fiction

  • LAVALAMP

  • Ero Manager

  • Dishwashing Simulator

  • Sinless + OST

  • 0°N 0°W

  • DREAM LOGIC

Less continuation-driven

Games that feels like Paint Drying Simulator but with less of a pull toward endless continuation

  • Gravity Bone

  • Loot Grind Simulator

  • ШХД: ЗИМА / IT'S WINTER

  • Golgotha

  • NALOGI

  • SLUDGE LIFE: The BIG MUD Sessions

More growth-focused

Games that feels like Paint Drying Simulator but with more focus on learning and growth

  • Plant Nursery Simulator

  • Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

  • Factory Outlet Simulator: Prologue

  • SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator

  • Exotica: Petshop Simulator

  • Ship Graveyard Simulator: Prologue

Choose your own criteria ->

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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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).

Paint Drying Simulator: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Competence, Experimenting, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Continuation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026