60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Crafting, Simulation, Resource Management.
Build your atomic empire. Fuse elements, craft real compounds, trigger chain reactions, and break the periodic table wide open in an idle game where chemistry IS the strategy.
Dustdrive: The Lightspeed Project
A minimalist factory puzzle game about reaching the speed of light. Build an experimental engine that runs off galactic dust to accelerate your ship to impossible speeds. Match dust signatures carefully and manage your energy to avoid Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly!
Realindustry
231 real materials. 352 accurate recipes. Build a Hyperdrive Engine using actual chemistry. Your factory grows. Your efficiency improves. Someone notices. Every decision is logged. Welcome, Director.
A minimalist factory puzzle game about reaching the speed of light. Build an experimental engine that runs off galactic dust to accelerate your ship to impossible speeds. Match dust signatures carefully and manage your energy to avoid Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly!
Why similar: Science 37.3% ★, Automation 21%, Crafting 17.5%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 7.2%
231 real materials. 352 accurate recipes. Build a Hyperdrive Engine using actual chemistry. Your factory grows. Your efficiency improves. Someone notices. Every decision is logged. Welcome, Director.
Why similar: Science 41.2% ★, Automation 22%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Strategy 9.1%
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Science 38.4% ★, Automation 24.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 11%, Strategy 9.6%
From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.
Why similar: Science 39% ★, Automation 21.2%, Crafting 15.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 5.9%
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: Science 30% ★, Automation 26.4%, Resource Management 21.1%, Crafting 15%, Strategy 5.1%
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 39.3%, Crafting 24.6%, Resource Management 17.6%, Strategy 13.1%, 2D 3.3%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Science 45.5% ★, Automation 31.3%, Crafting 20.6%, 2D 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!
Why similar: Automation 38.5%, Resource Management 25.1%, Crafting 22%, Strategy 10.6%, 2D 2.3%
Can mine, can fight, and has sisters, collecting more than 30 types of ore such as iron ore, copper ore, manganese ore, chrome ore, vanadium ore, titanium ore, etc. Team up to break through the 100th floor
Why similar: Science 31.9% ★, Automation 23.8%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Strategy 6.6%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Resource Management 24.1%, Crafting 16.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Puzzle 4.7%
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 41.3%, Resource Management 24.1%, Strategy 20.8%, Crafting 10.4%, 2D 2.4%
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Science 39.9% ★, Automation 28.1%, Crafting 18.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 3%
Train rats in a series of mazes and help them improve their stats. Submit rats for grant money and use it to upgrade your lab with new tools and buy new rats with powerful abilities! These new rats have such amazing potential. How smart are these rats becoming?
Why similar: Science 37.3% ★, Strategy 22.5%, Automation 20.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, 2D 3.5%
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 43.5%, Crafting 26.4%, Resource Management 26%, 2D 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Resource Management 23.8%, Crafting 20.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Puzzle 4.5%
Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game where you build and scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what’s stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Science 22.2% ★, Resource Management 19.4%, Crafting 18%, Strategy 9.5%
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 33.8%, Resource Management 23.2%, Crafting 22.4%, Strategy 11%, Puzzle 5.9%
Collects resources, makes products, get money, and repair a time machine.
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Resource Management 23.2%, Crafting 19.4%, Strategy 14.9%, Puzzle 2.7%
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 37.6%, Resource Management 23.6%, Crafting 19.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Puzzle 3.3%
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: Automation 34.8%, Resource Management 18.4%, Strategy 17.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Puzzle 7%
Engineer an efficient production pipeline to keep up with the increasing demand rates of the Boxes. Choose reward bundles and research modules strategically to expand your factory and optimize efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 39.7%, Crafting 22.7%, Resource Management 22.4%, Strategy 14.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Crafting 21.6%, Resource Management 19.7%, Strategy 17%, 2D 3.2%
2D automation game set in a time loop. Only time anchored factories and knowledge can be carried through multiple loops, until a way to escape time is discovered. Manage factories, production, research and bonuses to reach the end. What will you carry an what will you leave to the mercy of time?
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Resource Management 22.3%, Crafting 22.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Casual 2.4%
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 42.2%, Resource Management 23.7%, Crafting 16.9%, Strategy 15.6%, Indie 1%
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Science 47.8% ★, Automation 28.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Strategy 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Master the Ultimate Chain Reaction in this physics-driven incremental game. Optimize atomic flows, manage instability, and master fusion in a seamless single-run journey. Experience tactile energy farming where high-level strategy meets purposeful automation. Rebuilt for total optimization.
Why similar: Science 61% ★, Crafting 23.7%, Strategy 9.3%, 2D 2.3%, Casual 2%
Enjoy 100 mind-bending levels in this light-based puzzler. Use your mouse to point, click and scroll to use mysterious tools to reflect, bend, filter, separate, mix, split, unblock, teleport, and polarize light to reach the goals.
Why similar: Science 52.6% ★, Strategy 25%, Puzzle 11.3%, Casual 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 52.1%, Strategy 28.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Casual 3.7%, Indie 2.5%
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 35.5%, Resource Management 24.1%, Crafting 18.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Puzzle 5.3%
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 42.4%, Resource Management 25.8%, Crafting 20.8%, Strategy 8.4%, 2D 2.1%
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 38%, Resource Management 23.7%, Crafting 23.2%, Strategy 10%, 2D 3%
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 45%, Resource Management 26.1%, Crafting 18%, Strategy 8.4%, 2D 1.4%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Science 36.1% ★, Automation 23.1%, Resource Management 16.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Strategy 8.7%
Automate. Assemble. Deliver cats. Build an adorable factory, create cats piece by piece, and optimize your production to meet an ever-growing demand. Unlock machines, paint your cats, and make your feline assembly line run like clockwork!
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Crafting 26.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Resource Management 10%, Indie 1.5%
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 38.8%, Resource Management 22.2%, Crafting 19.5%, Strategy 16.5%, Singleplayer 2%
In this Explosive Ballon Based Puzzler, all you have to do is get the balloons safely to the end zone. Simple, right? Use a variety of fans and other tools to avoid obstacles and finish the experiment.
Why similar: Science 65.5% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Casual 5%, Indie 1.4%
A zany single-player, open-world survival-crafting adventure game, set in space across a colorful planetary system. Explore the system at your own pace, leverage the unique properties and lifeforms of the planets, build bases and factories, and reveal the mystery of a vanished science colony.
Why similar: Science 32.4% ★, Automation 27.1%, Resource Management 19.1%, Crafting 18.4%, Casual 2.2%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Science 39.4% ★, Automation 28.2%, Crafting 16%, Strategy 7.9%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 40.8%, Resource Management 24%, Crafting 18.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Casual 2.9%
Create explosions, acids, bases and more in this chemistry inspired tower defense game! Purchase atoms to fight through waves of antimatter enemies and learn about chemistry along the way.
Why similar: Science 61.8% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Crafting 9.1%, 2D 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
EcoGenesis is a 2D black-box ecosystem simulator where you need to craft an ecosystem that can withstand the test of time. You must unlock creatures and balance your environment while driving towards one of the three victory conditions in this turn-based simulation.
Why similar: Science 34.3% ★, Crafting 25.5%, Resource Management 24%, Strategy 12%, 2D 1.6%
A clicker / idle incremental game with simple gameplay, deep progression, and endless strategy. Level heroes, unlock powerful upgrades, and watch the numbers go up. Easy to start, hard to stop.
Why similar: Automation 47.8%, Resource Management 22.5%, Strategy 18.9%, 2D 6.9%, Indie 2.7%
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 38%, Strategy 24.8%, Resource Management 18.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Casual 1.8%
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Resource Management 23.9%, Crafting 19.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Puzzle 4.5%
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Resource Management 23.7%, Crafting 23.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 2.9%
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 36.8%, Crafting 22.2%, Resource Management 21.5%, Strategy 15.9%, 2D 2.9%
A day-and-night survival and base-building game featuring stack-based crafting, resource management, and night-time wave defense. Build your settlement by day, defend the firelight by night, and grow your tribe through an ever-shifting cycle of threat and discovery.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.8%, Crafting 28.8%, Strategy 26.7%, Casual 6.2%, 2D 2.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Resource Management 21.9%, Crafting 21.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Puzzle 3.4%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 37%, Resource Management 24.4%, Crafting 19.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Casual 3.5%
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Resource Management 25.6%, Strategy 19.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Indie 1%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Resource Management 23.5%, Crafting 19.4%, Strategy 14.2%, Puzzle 4.1%
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Automation 41.7%, Resource Management 24.5%, Strategy 17.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Indie 1.3%
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 38.9%, Resource Management 24.9%, Crafting 24.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Casual 2.3%
Survive a hostile world with your droid. Build your base, automate with robots, and manage the energy that keeps you alive. Beware. The tech you rely on may save your life – or destroy it.
Why similar: Automation 34%, Resource Management 23%, Crafting 20.4%, Strategy 12.6%, Puzzle 6.8%
Given a 5-liter cup and a 3-liter cup, how measure 4 liters of water?
Why similar: Science 66.8% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Casual 7.6%, Puzzle 5.9%, 2D 2.7%
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 42.5%, Crafting 24.4%, Strategy 20.3%, Puzzle 7.5%, 2D 3%
Outpost engineer is a first person factory automation game set on a volcanic island. Build your base, dig into the terrain, use assembly lines to automate production. Explore, study and catalogue.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Science 27.8% ★, Crafting 19.1%, Resource Management 18.2%, Strategy 6.1%
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 44.4%, Crafting 22%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 13.6%, Casual 3.2%
A biology puzzle with real microscopy data
Why similar: Science 86.5% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Casual 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
This is an interesting physics puzzle game. You can create objects arbitrarily to interact with light. Your gole is to make the light cast on all of the stars in the scene. So let's unleash our imagination and enjoy this game.
Why similar: Science 51.8% ★, Strategy 23%, Puzzle 10.9%, Casual 6.6%, 2D 4.8%
