- #1 Forge Industry
97% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Moddable 13% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Inventory Management 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #2 Complex SKY
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10%, City Builder 9.3%, Inventory Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #3 Final Factory
96% 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 19.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Moddable 11.3% ★, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #4 Outworld Station
94% matchVery Positive85% of 836 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 20.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 10.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Inventory Management 7.3%
- #5 Dyson Sphere Program
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,483 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.7 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Space 12.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 7%
- #6 Substructure
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Moddable 11% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, City Builder 9.3%
- #7 The Resonance Initiative
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%
- #8 Factorio
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,473 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 192.6 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 28.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #9 Modulus: Factory Automation
91% matchVery Positive92% of 839 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.6%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 8.3%
- #10 Automation Station
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #11 shapez
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,794 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 26.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Moddable 9.2% ★
- #12 Builderment
89% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%
- #13 Flow Factory
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #14 ASTERSTEAD
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #15 Factory Magnate
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 16%, Moddable 15% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 8.1%
- #16 Reprocessed
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Space 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%
- #17 Outer Factory
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 8.8%
- #18 Swarmdustry
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Moddable 15.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.8%, Crafting 7.6%
- #19 Kardaviik
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Base Building 18%, Space 13.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #20 Islandustry
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 10.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #21 Microtopia
83% matchVery Positive87% of 964 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Moddable 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #22 Beyond These Stars
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Moddable 11.8% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #23 FACTORY I
81% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, City Builder 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #24 SkyRig
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Astra Logical
Windows
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: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 14%, Space 10.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.5%
- #25 plexum
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%
- #26 TowerLine
78% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #27 Microtopia: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Moddable 15.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, City Builder 9.5%
- #28 Alien Planet Survival
80% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
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 26.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Space 8.2%
- #29 Factory Town
79% matchVery Positive91% of 4,473 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 21.4%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 10.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.2%
- #30 BOREWORKS
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%
- #31 Cartefact
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #32 CosmoFab
76% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 8.6%
- #33 Astral Enterprises
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimise production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 14%, Management 12.3%, Building 7.7%
- #34 Biofactory
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Management 8.3%
- #35 Dark City: Scavenge Craft Power
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GMG
Windows
Scan dumpsters for valuable recyclable materials and restore a city trapped in darkness. Craft solar infrastructure from recovered waste, automate recycling systems, and gradually bring buildings, traffic, and an entire city back to life.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Automation 15.1%, Crafting 10.1%, City Builder 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #36 The Crust
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,711 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Space 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, City Builder 10.5%
- #37 InfraSpace
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,953 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Moddable 10.9% ★, Space 9.5%, Base Building 9%
- #38 The Maker Way
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.5%
- #39 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 14.6%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 8.2%
- #40 Belts of Iron
71% matchPositive92% of 48 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 10.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #41 Final Upgrade
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 458 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Space 12.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 8.5%
- #42 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 206 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! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, City Builder 10%
- #43 Architect of Ruin
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Automation 14.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Moddable 12.8% ★, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #44 Chocolate Factory
72% matchMixed56% of 149 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 22.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 9.5%
- #45 HAS Galactics
71% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Space 11.3%, Management 7.1%
- #46 Core Splitter
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Splitter Studio
Windows
Automate your factory to fuel a planet-splitting laser drill. Mass-produce mechanized combat units, deploy them in tactical auto-battles to conquer enemy outposts, and route their resources back to your expanding mega-factory. Grow your army and destroy the Runaway Artificial Superintelligence (RAS)
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, City Builder 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%
- #47 Industronaut
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Space 9.8%
- #48 MoteMancer
69% matchVery Positive92% of 254 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 25.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #49 Potion Pipeline
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #50 Constructed
70% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Project
Windows
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.8%
- #51 Factorwave
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.8%
- #52 Attrition Line
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 11%, Management 10.6%
- #53 shapez 2 - Factory
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,072 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 24%, Moddable 13.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Management 10.5%, Crafting 9%
- #54 Proto Garden
68% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, City Builder 8.5%
- #55 Object Factory
67% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Kistler Studios
Windows · Linux
A unique take on factory building — design and optimize flowing 3D systems where routing and space are your most valuable resources. Start with guided challenges, then expand into an endless sandbox focused on efficiency, scale, and layout mastery.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Space 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Futuristic 8.2%
- #56 Mob Factory
68% 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 28.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #57 Techtonica
67% matchMixed65% of 3,248 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 24.1%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8.6%
- #58 Krasnaya Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.8%
- #59 The Last Factory
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jitkem TienngamPub: Hello World Labs
Windows · Mac
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #60 PoliPlanet
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8%