- #1 Satisfactory
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 264,678 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.7 hrsMean: 108.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #2 Factorio
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 226,810 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.5%
- #3 Alchemy Factory
77% matchVery Positive90% of 2,046 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #4 Dyson Sphere Program
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 89,959 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, City Builder 8.6%
- #5 Desynced
74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,799 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #6 Good Company
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,759 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.5%, City Builder 8.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #7 Captain of Industry
73% matchVery Positive91% of 10,318 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 79.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 14.3%, City Builder 8.2%, Building 8%
- #8 shapez
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,182 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #9 Automation Empire
74% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #10 FOUNDRY
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,500 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9%, Crafting 8.5%
- #11 Factory Town
72% matchVery Positive91% of 4,418 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%
- #12 The Crust
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,376 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.5%
- #13 Little Big Workshop
71% matchVery Positive84% of 3,346 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Building 13.4%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 10.9%
- #14 Final Factory
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #15 The Planet Crafter
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,071 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #16 Microtopia
68% matchVery Positive88% of 901 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 8%
- #17 Mindustry
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,533 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #18 Havendock
68% matchVery Positive80% of 1,858 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #19 shapez 2
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,176 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%
- #20 Star Birds
66% matchVery Positive93% of 2,615 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 11.7%, City Builder 9.9%
- #21 Outworld Station
67% matchVery Positive90% of 505 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 7.5%
- #22 Hydroneer
68% matchVery Positive86% of 27,061 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #23 Astro Colony
67% matchVery Positive82% of 2,507 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.2%
- #24 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
65% matchVery Positive91% of 7,147 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #25 Production Line : Car factory simulation
66% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #26 MineMogul
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,353 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #27 Eden Crafters
63% matchVery Positive87% of 2,201 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #28 Final Upgrade
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #29 StarRupture
60% matchVery Positive81% of 10,595 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.9%, Co-op 7.2%
- #30 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
60% matchVery Positive84% of 2,173 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Building 17.7%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #31 The Colonists
63% matchVery Positive86% of 1,203 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 8%
- #32 Industry Idle
61% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,444 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10%
- #33 InfraSpace
61% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,866 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #34 Kubifaktorium
62% matchVery Positive81% of 785 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #35 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
60% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 7.4%
- #36 Nova Lands
59% matchVery Positive89% of 3,350 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #37 Incremental Factory
59% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.6%
- #38 Outpath
59% matchVery Positive94% of 2,900 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #39 Rail Route
58% matchVery Positive89% of 2,453 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 112.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Automation 20%, City Builder 14.1%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #40 Tribe: Primitive Builder
58% matchVery Positive81% of 760 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #41 Per Aspera
59% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10%, Building 9.4%
- #42 Parcel Simulator
55% matchVery Positive94% of 2,376 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11%, Management 9.8%, Immersive Sim 9.2%
- #43 Sengoku Dynasty
56% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,339 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #44 Schedule I
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 286,517 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 13%, Management 12.2%, Co-op 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #45 Factory Trashcension
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #46 Orebound
56% matchMostly Positive78% of 841 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%
- #47 RAILGRADE
55% matchVery Positive85% of 1,193 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.1%
- #48 Recycling Center Simulator
54% matchVery Positive87% of 2,764 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #49 Timberborn
53% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 37,637 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #50 Rise of Industry
56% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,153 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Automation 14.2%, Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #51 Plan B: Terraform
53% matchVery Positive91% of 3,457 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.9%
- #52 Automation Station
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #53 Foundation
53% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%
- #54 Builderment
54% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #55 Modulus: Factory Automation
54% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #56 Enshrouded
52% matchVery Positive86% of 97,939 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 43.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 28.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 15.3%, Online Co-Op 14%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #57 The Last Caretaker
52% matchVery Positive85% of 9,555 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.0 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 9.2%
- #58 Medieval Dynasty
54% matchVery Positive91% of 49,891 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 20.1%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Co-op 8.2%
- #59 Forever Skies
52% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,270 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Co-op 10.7%
- #60 Islandustry
53% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%