- #1 River Town Factory
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,328 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Time Travel 12.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Open World 7.8%, Alternate History 7%
- #2 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 6.3%
- #3 Shuttle World
74% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 18%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.8%
- #4 Automation Station
69% 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 29.3%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #5 Builderment
70% 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 31.1%, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 8%
- #6 Satisfactory
67% 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 32.8%, Base Building 24.5%, Open World 13%, Crafting 12%, Building 8.3%
- #7 Substructure
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.5%
- #8 Factorio
69% 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 37.3%, Base Building 23.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 6.5%, City Builder 5.6%
- #9 Islandustry
68% 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 30.8%, Base Building 19.4%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.4%
- #10 FluxWerks
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.8%
- #11 Far Out
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bekardo
Windows
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover resources drawn from a vast randomly generated pool, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 13.8%, RPG 13.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.3%
- #12 Alien Planet Survival
69% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.5%, Building 8.3%
- #13 PoliPlanet
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, Building 8.3%
- #14 The Maker Way
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 13.3%, Building 9.2%
- #15 Modulus: Factory Automation
65% 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 28.1%, Base Building 17%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9%
- #16 Runeline
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gnostic Games
Windows · Mac
Design, build, and code a factory within the magical world of Runeline! Work on producing increasingly complex products, which will require you to write not just functional but optimized code, all within the simple instructions of the machine core.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.3%
- #17 Sandustry
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 12.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.4%
- #18 TowerLine
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
Windows
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 33%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 14%, Open World 11.5%, Simulation 7.1%
- #19 ReFactory
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 23.3%, Crafting 14%, Simulation 11.6%, City Builder 11.5%
- #20 Cartefact
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 43%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 16.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Sandbox 4.3%
- #21 Krasnaya Factory
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 13.4%, Building 9.4%
- #22 PNG RPG
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sonja Studio
Windows
A pixel-art RPG in a 3D open world where you can build towns, manage people, explore a infinitely generated world, and battle monsters and foes alike.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, RPG 8.7%
- #23 Chocolate Factory
65% matchMixed54% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 12.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Open World 10%
- #24 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 12.3%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 8.3%
- #25 Techtonica
63% matchMixed65% of 3,182 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 14%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #26 Dyson Sphere Program
65% 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 35.8%, Base Building 22.8%, Open World 11.3%, City Builder 9.3%, Building 9%
- #27 Pistonica
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Base Building 22.6%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.6%
- #28 Mob Factory
64% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 7.4%
- #29 Bitpunky
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: trieckaga
Windows
Bitpunky is a sandbox game of creating and developing your own digital civilization in the middle of a huge virtual space. Explore the outside world, use the resources of the virtual space for improving and automating processes within your futuristic city!
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Open World 11%, Building 9.1%
- #30 XenoHaven
62% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Automation 16.7%, Open World 15.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 8.9%
- #31 The Factory Must Grow
63% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Krayno Studios
Windows
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, City Builder 9.7%
- #32 Prospector
62% matchMostly Positive72% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9%
- #33 Proto Garden
63% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.2%, City Builder 10.6%
- #34 Lichworks
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rune Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 13%, City Builder 12.2%, Simulation 6.4%
- #35 Nova Lands
62% 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 30.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 6.7%
- #36 MoteMancer
61% matchVery Positive94% of 235 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Building 7.4%
- #37 Potion Pipeline
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 21.8%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #38 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
60% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Time Management 6.2%
- #39 Factory Trashcension
62% 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 32.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World 12%, Building 9.8%
- #40 shapez
64% 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 36.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 8.7%, Building 7.1%
- #41 Automacake
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio SoulAres
Windows
A City-Building Life-Sim were you restore a former popular Gourmet Island by automating its production pipeline. Could you become a true Chef?
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, City Builder 23.9%, RPG 15.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
- #42 Elfgineer
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DigitalMishaps LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Elfgineer is a cozy factory game where you design the most important factory in the world, Santa's workshop. Automate toy production, craft festive contraptions and unlock new recipes, machines and technologies. Build, optimize and maximize christmas spirit before time runs out on Christmas Eve!
Why similar: Automation 34%, Base Building 17.4%, Time Management 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.3%
- #43 It Takes a Village
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hoftware.io
Windows
It Takes a Village is a city-building RPG taking inspiration from games like Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing. Venture into a procedurally generated world filled with monsters, dungeons, and more as you collect resources to build up your village to push back the evil that infests your world.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.4%
- #44 NodeLord
62% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: HowDeerYou
Windows
Build, automate and create - but most of all - survive!
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Crafting 12.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 7%
- #45 WebCraft
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tofubur
Windows
Webcraft is a claw machine mixed with open world crafting game in space. Catch resources floating by, craft and expand your base from a single square!
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 11.8%, RPG 8.9%, Sandbox 7%
- #46 Alchemy Factory
58% 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 41%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #47 Untitled Automation Game
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Untitled Automation Game is a automation game blended with mech combat, story and a little bit of magic!
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.9%, Open World 9.4%
- #48 One Turret
59% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Kaplin86
Windows · Linux
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Base Building 25.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 4.4%
- #49 Reprocessed
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.1%
- #50 Belts of Iron
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 19.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%
- #51 BricksPhilosophorum
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 芥语工作室
Windows
[点金方块]BricksPhilosophorum is an automated game that uses an assembly line to study alchemy. The game starts with collecting minerals, purchasing land, unlocking technology, and building automated production lines. The ultimate goal is to refine the Sage's Stone and turn it into gold.
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Simulation 7.6%
- #52 Cubetory
58% matchPositive94% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Robogoose Games
Windows
Build a huge factory on a tiny island! Resources are scarce and unique - tweak and optimize everything for peak efficiency. Start with simple painted cubes, unlock tons of upgrades, and scale up to complex production chains. No enemies, just satisfying spaghetti.
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11%
- #53 Kardashev
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Base Building 25.7%, Crafting 11%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 6%
- #54 The Last Seed
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 32.7%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Time Management 9.9%, Building 8.9%
- #55 Evospace
63% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 15%, Open World 13%, Building 9.5%
- #56 Manaftory
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 48.7%, Base Building 22.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #57 Factoriant
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Base Building 23.5%, Crafting 10.3%, City Builder 6.4%, Building 5.2%
- #58 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 9%, Time Management 7.9%