- #1 FOUNDRY
97% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Voxel 18.5% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.6%
- #2 Voxel Tycoon
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,774 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Voxel 20% ★, Automation 15.7%, Moddable 12.5%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 10%
- #3 Factorio
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 30.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Moddable 8.1%
- #4 Evospace
96% matchVery Positive83% of 391 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 18.5%, Voxel 16.1% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #5 Satisfactory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 26.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #6 Orebound
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Voxel 22.4% ★, Automation 20.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.8%
- #7 Eden Crafters
92% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.8%
- #8 Rising World
93% matchVery Positive86% of 5,920 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Voxel 26.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12.9%
- #9 Alchemy Factory
91% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%
- #10 Elsewhere
90% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 13%, Base Building 12.8%
- #11 Voxile
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 29.8% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #12 Necesse
86% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%
- #13 TerraTech Worlds
88% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 13.8%
- #14 Crafting Block World
89% matchMixed46% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 35.6% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%
- #15 Teravit
87% matchMostly Negative32% of 217 reviews2023
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
Welcome to "Teravit", a sandbox game created by players! With its three elements of "Create, Play, and Share", you can travel to the world of adventure and endless creation, alone or with friends!
Why similar: Voxel 25.8% ★, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #16 Solarpunk™
83% matchVery Positive82% of 3,137 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11%
- #17 Revive & Prosper
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Voxel 20.8% ★, Automation 18.4%, Moddable 17.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #18 Common'hood
86% matchMixed51% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Building 15.8%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 12.9%
- #19 Volcanoids
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,298 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 14.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%
- #20 Staxel
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,833 reviews2019
Dev: PlukitPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.
Why similar: Voxel 23.5% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.1%, Character Customization 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #21 Center Station Simulator
82% matchVery Positive88% of 571 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 26%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 9.8%
- #22 Modulus: Factory Automation
81% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 9.9%
- #23 Starground
82% matchVery Positive82% of 190 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%
- #24 MineMogul
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #25 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Building 16.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 16.6%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Co-op 11.8%
- #26 Block Factory
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%
- #27 Creativerse
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Voxel 26% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #28 Icaria
77% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Voxel 20.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.4%
- #29 Keep Digging
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,191 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
Why similar: Voxel 26.3% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Co-op 9.4%
- #30 Blockscape
81% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 16.6%, Voxel 14.2% ★, Open World 10.7%
- #31 Lootfest
79% matchMixed67% of 69 reviews2015
Dev: vikingfabian.com
Windows
Powelful voxel editor, create a world with friends online.
Why similar: Voxel 88% ★, Casual 12%
- #32 Moonshiner Simulator
74% matchVery Positive87% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Goosix Games
Windows
Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.
Why similar: Automation 17%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 10.8%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #33 cyubeVR
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,128 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Why similar: Voxel 32.7% ★, Building 19.1%, Crafting 18.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #34 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
73% matchVery Positive91% of 7,488 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.6%
- #35 Factory Town
74% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 25.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 13%, Moddable 11.1%
- #36 Technicity
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 235 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Sandbox 13%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%
- #37 Stationeers
75% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Moddable 17.5%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 11.1%
- #38 Planet Explorers
76% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Open World 14.6%, Building 14.2%, Voxel 12.6% ★
- #39 ASTRONEER
72% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Automation 14.2%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%
- #40 Vectorio
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 397 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Management 8.7%
- #41 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 9.5%, Open World 9.4%
- #42 Dawn Apart
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 261 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Automation 31%, Voxel 25.6% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #43 Kubifaktorium
72% matchVery Positive81% of 796 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 22.4%, Voxel 17.2% ★, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Moddable 11.2%
- #44 Archean
70% matchVery Positive88% of 243 reviews2024
Dev: batcholi
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Why similar: Moddable 21.1%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 18%, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 10%
- #45 Outerverse
73% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Voxel 37.3% ★, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Management 7.1%
- #46 Brickadia
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,371 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Building 23%, Character Customization 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Co-op 8.6%
- #47 Techtonica
70% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 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 24%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%
- #48 The Planet Crafter
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 18.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11%
- #49 MoteMancer
68% matchVery Positive92% of 249 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10.2%
- #50 Incremental Factory
70% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 31.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.7%
- #51 TerraTech
69% matchVery Positive91% of 24,767 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Building 28.5%, Sandbox 25.4%, Crafting 18.1%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #52 FortressCraft Evolved!
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Voxel 14.9% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.6%
- #53 Dyson Sphere Program
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 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 34.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 7.9%
- #54 OxyRail
66% matchVery Positive81% of 644 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Co-op 10.2%
- #55 Infinite Rails
66% matchVery Positive89% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin Voráč
Windows · Mac
A railway-building adventure in an endless, procedurally generated world. Lay tracks, transport passengers and goods, mine resources, and buy unique locomotives. Play solo or with friends and create your ultimate railway network!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.6%, Building 17.8%, Co-op 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Open World 10.9%
- #56 Hydroneer
66% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 9.2%
- #57 Industrial Petting
68% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Another Yeti
Windows · Mac
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%
- #58 Lost Existence
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Lurid Spectre Games
Windows
Explore vast, forgotten lands, cryptic abandoned ruins, and mysterious caverns, in this open-world voxel action-RPG. Create your own uniquely crafted class. Build multiplayer dungeon, PvP, or siege experiences. Run, vault, and leap effortlessly across endless wilderness, or delve deep underground.
Why similar: Voxel 24.4% ★, Moddable 17%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11.2%