60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Building, Simulation, Automation, Sandbox.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Automachef
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Factorio
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.
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Why similar: Automation 36%, Programming 27.9% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Resource Management 8.9%, Indie 6.1%
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 42.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Simulation 17.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.2%
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 37.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Programming 54.2% ★, Automation 33.1%, Simulation 5.9%, Indie 2.8%, Building 2%
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 42.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6.7%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Automation 30.6%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 5.9%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 65.4% ★, Automation 26.1%, Simulation 4.1%, Sandbox 1.5%, Building 1.5%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 5.8%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9%, Management 8.1%, Building 7.7%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Simulation 6.1%
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 28.8%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Crafting 19.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Programming 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Farming Sim 8.6%, Crafting 6.3%
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 32.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Farming Sim 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 35.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
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: Programming 29.4% ★, Automation 20%, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 6.4%
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: Programming 29% ★, Automation 19.7%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 5.9%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 35.7% ★, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 6.2%, Building 5.8%
"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 28.1%, Programming 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 7.8%, Crafting 6.2%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Programming 73.5% ★, Automation 14.4%, Simulation 4.8%, Indie 3%, Casual 2.8%
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
Why similar: Programming 64.5% ★, Automation 25.6%, Simulation 5%, Sandbox 2.6%, Indie 2.1%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Resource Management 7.5%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 36.3% ★, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 6.4%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 39.7% ★, Automation 37.2%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 5%, Resource Management 3.5%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Farming Sim 12%, Building 7.4%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Automation 23.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 6.7%, Sandbox 6.6%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Farming Sim 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Agriculture 8.6% ★
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Why similar: Programming 85.7% ★, Automation 7.5%, Simulation 4.7%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 13.5%, Management 13%, Sandbox 12.4%
FREE UPDATE; STATE OF EMERGENCY, OUT NOW! Framed for your father’s murder, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to unveil the real culprit. Tackle thrilling missions for the criminal underworld - just don’t let the cops track you down!
Why similar: Sandbox 72%, Indie 26.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Automation 28.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 7.3%, Resource Management 2.9%
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 39.6%, Base Building 21.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 8%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 6.7%, Simulation 5.6%
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: Programming 28% ★, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 6.5%, Building 6.2%
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: Programming 38.3% ★, Automation 27.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Crafting 6.1%, Sandbox 6.1%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 50.8% ★, Automation 25%, Farming Sim 9.7%, Resource Management 5.1%, Sandbox 3.9%
A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.
Why similar: Programming 51.8% ★, Automation 26.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 6.3%, Resource Management 5%
Banging beats and mad style, Lethal League Blaze is the most intense ball game you can play online with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Indie 100%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 14%, Farming Sim 13.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
You are a blacksmith in the world of the sword, magic and war, in which any blacksmith who knows how to make even the simplest swords is in demand. You start off as a poor unskilled blacksmith, but in time you will gain experience and improve to achieve wealth, fame and power, and change this world!
Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Crafting 23.6%, Resource Management 16.2%, Indie 10.5%, Management 10.3%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 55.2% ★, Automation 28%, Simulation 13.5%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
Why similar: Indie 100%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 47.4% ★, Automation 23.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Resource Management 4.5%, Base Building 4.5%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Crafting 27.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Agriculture 14% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Management 12.9%
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 35.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Why similar: Programming 58.2% ★, Automation 34.6%, Casual 3.4%, Strategy 2.2%, Relaxing 1.3%
As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.
Why similar: Simulation 36.8%, Crafting 30.2%, Relaxing 17.3%, Indie 13.7%, Singleplayer 2%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Why similar: Programming 49.6% ★, Automation 31.2%, Building 7.6%, Simulation 6.9%, Casual 2.6%
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Why similar: Programming 80% ★, Automation 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 40.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 9.1%
A vehicle building game. Put your engineering, design and creativity skills to the test as you combine simple elements into complex contraptions. Jump around your vehicle to keep it moving and overcome challenges in the campaign, or just relax and build your dream machine in the cozy mode!
Why similar: Programming 31.9% ★, Automation 24.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.1%, Building 7.2%
Slice and dice your friends with boomerangs in this frantic physics party game. Join a crew of your favorite foods as you grill, chill and spill your enemies. Discover ridiculous power-ups and stack them together in deadly combinations.
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Automation 24.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 38.9% ★, Automation 27.5%, Building 7.4%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%
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 32%, Base Building 11.9%, Farming Sim 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 55.1% ★, Automation 24.6%, Simulation 7.2%, Building 5.4%, Crafting 4.1%
