- #1 ArkSeed Terraformery
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MindWroughtGames
Windows
You are the last chance for humanity, Terraform, Build, Save Humanity one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Simulation 23%, Sandbox 21.2%, Automation 15.2%, Exploration 9%, Building 8.1%
- #2 GridCraft
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 15.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.9%
- #3 Potion Pipeline
96% 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 21.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 13%, Base Building 8.6%
- #4 Text Factory: Automation
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Text Factory: Automation is an offline, text-based factory simulation game. Build production lines, set up transportation between maps, upgrade technologies, craft weapons and armor, and defeat enemies to gather more resources and expand your factory.
Why similar: Simulation 27.8%, Sandbox 25.1%, Automation 15.9%, Crafting 11%, Building 10%
- #5 Kindling Wilds: Symbiotic Wasteland
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EasyLovePub: 猫耳游戏
Windows
Ember: Symbiotic Wilderness is a 2D pixel-art co-op survival game set in a living wilderness shaped by temperature, weather, seasons, and ecology. Start with a single fire, divide the work with your team, and build a camp that can endure.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%
- #6 Industrial Garbage
92% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: LMT
Windows
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Simulation 19.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #7 Lexip
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Craffel
Windows
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Simulation 19.8%, Sandbox 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Building 7.7%
- #8 FACTO
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Simulation 18.1%, Sandbox 17.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #9 Automation Station
90% 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 21.7%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #10 The Resonance Initiative
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 7.9%
- #11 GlowCore
86% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: CNDY StudiosPub: Nat Games
Windows · Linux
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Top-Down 8%
- #12 Holon
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 21%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #13 Beltex
88% matchVery Positive86% of 234 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%
- #14 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Automation 23.7%, Simulation 18.6%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.6%
- #15 middenmoon
85% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Dorfl
Windows · Linux
That's no moon. It's a giant ball of garbage. Build a factory to excavate, wash, sort, classify and disassemble the detritus of ages past.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.2%, Simulation 18.4%, Automation 17.2%, Top-Down 13.9%, 2D 7.6%
- #16 Atom By Atom
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inner Core Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a factory around a black hole. Extract elements, route atoms through Matter Tubes, bond them using valence-driven chemistry, and scale precise molecular production lines atom by atom.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%
- #17 Cartefact
84% 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 30.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 10%
- #18 MudBox
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sout
Windows
A 2D sandbox game with pixel physics. Freely place sand, water, lava, creatures, and physical entities. Watch them interact via gravity, fluids, and explosions. Chop trees, build structures, design circuits, trigger massive chain reactions, or simply create your own ecosystem!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.5%, Automation 14.3%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 9.6%
- #19 Crystal: Automaton
82% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Balding Games
Windows
A short automation challenge aimed at everyone from beginner to veteran. Take your time to uncover the lore of an ancient civilization without any dangers. Can you find a clever way to use logistics to overcome the scarce space available?
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Sandbox 19.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Exploration 9.3%, Lore-Rich 9.1%
- #20 Factory Magnate
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%
- #21 Exovia
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Organizing 20.1% ★, Automation 15.5%, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 8.2%
- #22 Rafting Factory
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.6%, Simulation 7.5%
- #23 Amicraft Factory™
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%
- #24 Grimmdustry
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Jotha
Windows
Grimmdustry is an automation game with adventure and RPG elements. After finding yourself stranded in a medieval world full of fantasy tropes, use your knowledge of modern technology to find a way home, or use it to make this new world your own!
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Exploration 7.9%
- #25 Junkman101
79% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: MaryIsHere
Windows · Mac
在一个程序化生成的 2D 像素沙盒世界中探索、挖掘和建造。收集矿物并熔炼,合成物品,升级标签。挑战怪物、发现遗迹,体验自由的冒险与创造之旅。
Why similar: Simulation 29.4%, Sandbox 26.7%, Exploration 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #26 Mob Factory
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 25.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%
- #27 TowerLine
76% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 25.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 10.7%
- #28 Left Stranded
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevBre Games
Windows · Linux
Cast into a medieval kingdom by ancient stones, you must forge, automate, and expand your workshop. Alone or in multiplayer, fulfill royal orders, harness coal, steam, electricity and uncover the secrets that could return you home.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 9.6%
- #29 Islandustry
77% 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 23.5%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%
- #30 Outpath
77% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Sandbox 15.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%
- #31 Infinite Number Factory
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 10%
- #32 Faun Town
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #33 Stella Astrum
73% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 26%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 11.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%
- #34 Pixel Mall
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: 方润强
Windows
Create your favorite pixel mall at will, gradually expanding the scale, trying to make the most money as you can, but also beware of those who want to trouble the mall coming. Enjoy the simplest fun in the well crafted pixel game filled with pixel customers
Why similar: Simulation 26.9%, Sandbox 25.8%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #35 Pistonica
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.7%
- #36 Manaftory
73% 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 33.5%, Simulation 25%, Sandbox 16.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #37 Builderment
74% matchMixed68% of 128 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 24.6%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%
- #38 BOREWORKS
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #39 Veinfall
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doca
Windows
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%
- #40 Sandustry
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 19.9%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 10.7%, Crafting 10%
- #41 Production Zero
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alloi Games
Windows
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Simulation 25%, Automation 24.8%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #42 Factory Engineer
75% matchMixed45% of 134 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Simulation 24%, Sandbox 22.2%, Automation 15.6%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #43 Alchemy Factory
67% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Sandbox 19%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #44 Natura: Reborn
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stargazing Games
Windows
Natura: Reborn is a top-down sandbox adventure where nature and creatures have fused. Explore, survive, and fight through an overgrown fantasy world.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Building 10.6%, Top-Down 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
- #45 Idle interstellar Factory 2
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Sandbox 25.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #46 Fakutori
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Antoine LatourPub: Mythwright
Windows
Fakutori is a laid-back automation game with a lot more going on beneath the surface. Combine elements, build sprawling production lines, and chase down the Legendary Blocks that only the most dedicated builders ever find. All at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Sandbox 20.8%, Simulation 15.3%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 10%
- #47 Beltmatic
68% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #48 Nova Lands
69% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 21.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.8%
- #49 CircuitVeil
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Simulation 21.4%, Sandbox 17.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #50 Laplana
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Building 18.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 10.4%
- #51 Factorization
71% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Anubis Gaming
Windows · Linux
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Simulation 21.2%, Building 17%, Top-Down 10.9%, 2D 5.9%
- #52 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 22.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 9.5%
- #53 Purplis Sandbox
69% matchMixed66% of 211 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGOLITEPub: DRAGOLITE STUDIO
Windows
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.3%, Simulation 31.9%, Building 16%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, 2D 6.7%
- #54 Factory Trashcension
66% 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 23.3%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 9.9%
- #55 LineManager
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LineManager
Windows
Build and operate public transport in a living traffic simulation. Plan tram and bus networks, schedules and depots while cars, traffic lights, passengers and infrastructure interact around you. Keep it simple – or dive deep into signalling and operations.
Why similar: Simulation 24.6%, Sandbox 22.2%, Automation 16.8%, Building 9%, Top-Down 8%
- #56 Scraplings
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Simulation 20.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #57 Evospace
69% matchVery Positive83% of 392 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: Sandbox 19%, Automation 18.9%, Simulation 14.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.3%