- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 32.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the top-down, grid-based building style and focuses on logistics and supply chains in a charming, non-industrial setting.
- #2 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
96% matchVery Positive84% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 28%, Building 20.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the cozy, fantasy-themed automation vibe while focusing on building efficient production lines in a whimsical world.
- #3 FOUNDRY
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A robust first-person automation game that provides the deep technical satisfaction of building complex, interconnected factory systems.
- #4 Autonauts
95% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique programming-based automation system that feels like teaching your workers arcane rituals to handle medieval-style production tasks.
- #5 Satisfactory
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 30.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for first-person factory building, offering unparalleled depth in logistics and production optimization.
- #6 Little Big Workshop
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Building 16.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and layout of a small-scale workshop, mirroring the satisfaction of optimizing your own alchemical production floor.
- #7 Good Company
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the management and design of production lines for consumer goods, capturing the business-growth aspect of the seed game.
- #8 Timberborn
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 33.5%, Base Building 16%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder emphasizes engineering and water-powered automation within a rustic, beaver-led medieval society.
- #9 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
92% matchVery Positive93% of 44,514 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Why similar: Crafting 31.1%, Medieval 26.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on factory automation, it is the definitive experience for managing an alchemist shop and mastering the art of potion brewing.
- #10 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 27.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory game set in a mysterious subterranean world that emphasizes exploration alongside complex automation.
- #11 Factorio
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 37.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that challenges players to build and defend massive, self-sustaining industrial complexes.
- #12 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 40%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive scale of automation that rewards players for designing efficient, planet-spanning logistics networks.
- #13 Sandustry
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.2%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-focused automation game that provides plenty of room for experimentation with complex production lines.
- #14 Hydroneer
89% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 27.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game focuses on mining and building automated machinery to process resources, sharing the tactile feel of physical factory building.
- #15 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 29%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends automation with space exploration, requiring you to build and optimize your base to survive in a harsh environment.
- #16 Craftopia
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Crafting 26.2%, Sandbox 17%, Automation 16.2%, Building 16%, Multiplayer 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game blends crafting, automation, and fantasy elements, allowing for creative production setups in a vibrant environment.
- #17 Eden Crafters
84% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 29.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival with heavy automation, tasking players with terraforming a planet through industrial production.
- #18 Final Factory
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based automation game that focuses on building massive, interconnected factory stations with a high degree of complexity.
- #19 Medieval Dynasty
84% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 19.8%, Crafting 17.3%, Medieval 15.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on survival, it offers a deep medieval base-building experience that captures the atmosphere of living and working in a pre-industrial setting.
- #20 Automation Empire
86% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a complex, multi-layered approach to building massive industrial networks that test your strategic planning skills.
- #21 Big Ambitions
83% matchVery Positive93% of 13,452 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Sandbox 42.3%, Resource Management 22.4%, Simulation 22.1%, 3D 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep dive into the economic side of running a business, perfect for players who enjoy the 'magnate' aspect of the seed game.
- #22 PlateUp!
82% matchVery Positive95% of 27,033 reviews2022
Dev: It's happeningPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
Why similar: Building 31%, Co-op 22.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Strategy 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines restaurant management with automation, requiring players to build efficient kitchen layouts to fulfill customer orders.
- #23 Moonshiner Simulator
82% matchVery Positive86% of 140 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 24.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Co-op 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a thematic take on production management, focusing on the illicit crafting and distribution of goods.
- #24 Clanfolk
81% matchVery Positive92% of 4,027 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Medieval 24.6%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 20.4%, Crafting 19.8%, Simulation 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes medieval survival and resource management, requiring careful planning to keep your workshop and family thriving.
- #25 Block Factory
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 264 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 28.4%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, management-focused game that allows you to build and optimize your own production facility at your own pace.
- #26 MineMogul
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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 32.8%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #27 Beer Factory
81% matchMixed42% of 1,475 reviews2024
Dev: MyceliumGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Resource Management 10%, First-Person 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the simulation of a production facility, requiring you to manage resources and automate the brewing process.
- #28 Modulus: Factory Automation
77% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 30%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9%
- #29 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
78% 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 41.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique puzzle-based approach to automation, focusing on the flow and mixing of resources to achieve specific goals.
- #30 Winkeltje: The Little Shop
79% matchVery Positive88% of 1,827 reviews2022
Dev: Sassybot
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.
Why similar: Building 27.3%, Crafting 26.3%, Sandbox 25.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the storefront and management side of a medieval shop, allowing you to craft and sell goods to local patrons.
- #31 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,534 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #32 shapez 2 - Factory
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 34.4%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11%
- #33 Outworld Station
76% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 6%
- #34 MoteMancer
75% matchVery Positive92% of 256 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 33.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.2%
- #35 Incremental Factory
77% matchMixed68% of 247 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 34.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #36 Factory Engineer
79% matchMixed46% of 133 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: Automation 22.6%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 10%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy simulation that focuses on the technical aspects of designing efficient factory layouts.
- #37 Scrap Mechanic
71% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 23%, Sandbox 18.2%, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #38 Blacksmith Master
73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,724 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Medieval 19.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #39 shapez
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 34.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.1%
- #40 Mob Factory
74% 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 37.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.2%
- #41 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 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: Automation 33%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #42 Captain of Industry
72% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 44.3%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 5.3%
- #43 Beer Factory - Prologue
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,021 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #44 Forage Wizard
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,486 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 11.6%
- #45 Center Station Simulator
71% matchVery Positive88% of 575 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 31.4%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 15.9%, Crafting 14%, First-Person 7.5%
- #46 Chocolate Factory
73% matchMixed57% of 150 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 31.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #47 The Planet Crafter
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 23.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #48 Starground
70% matchVery Positive82% of 191 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 25.9%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #49 Orebound
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 976 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Automation 26.3%, Resource Management 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%
- #50 Mindustry
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #51 Stationeers
70% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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 28%, Base Building 14%, Building 13%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%
- #52 AutoForge
69% matchVery Positive87% of 463 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 13%
- #53 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #54 Alchemist Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 423 reviews2020
Dev: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes, upgrade your lab and become the most powerful alchemist of all times.
Why similar: Crafting 42%, First-Person 16.6%, Simulation 14.7%, 3D 10.1%, Casual 10%
- #55 Potion Shop Simulator
68% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Pebbles Games
Windows
Master the art of alchemy in Potion Shop Simulator, a unique blend of simulation and strategy. Brew potions, manage your shop, and cater to a magical clientele in a single-player or co-op experience of the medieval fantasy world.
Why similar: Medieval 25.6%, Crafting 20%, Resource Management 12.4%, Co-op 11%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #56 Voxel Eras
68% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%
- #57 Tower Factory
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #58 ShapeHero Factory
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,010 reviews2025
Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
Why similar: Automation 39.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 9%
- #59 Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 800 reviews2026
Dev: Compact Core GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Forge your destiny and craft legends. Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith is your journey into the heart of craftsmanship. Dive into the enchanting world of a blacksmith, mine ores, create legendary weapons, arm heroes and send them on quests for loot and profit. The forge awaits!
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Medieval 17.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #60 Food Processing Simulator
65% matchVery Positive88% of 335 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
Why similar: Automation 50.1%, Sandbox 19.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Simulation 6.8%, First-Person 5.4%