- #1 Production Line : Car factory simulation
97% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 41.8%, Management 27.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 11.8%, 2D 3.5%
- #2 shapez 2
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 48.1%, Management 21.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #3 Incremental Factory
96% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 43.1%, Idler 18.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #4 Industry Idle
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Idler 16.2%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #5 Factory Engineer
95% matchMixed46% of 132 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 33.3%, Simulation 25%, Strategy 21.3%, Management 15.9%, Crafting 4.3%
- #6 Crafting Idle Clicker
94% matchMixed49% of 899 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Idler 15.8%, Management 14%, Strategy 10%, Capitalism 9.1%
- #7 shapez
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 55.5%, Management 14%, Strategy 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 6.2%
- #8 ReFactory
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 18.1%, Management 12.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #9 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
91% 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 51%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 16.2%, Crafting 9.9%, 2D 3.4%
- #10 Upload Labs
89% matchVery Positive92% of 6,472 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Automation 49.4%, Idler 19.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Management 12.6%, 2D 1.9%
- #11 Mob Factory
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 51.3%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Crafting 7.7%
- #12 Automation Empire
90% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 50.4%, Simulation 16%, Management 13.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Crafting 6%
- #13 Sixty Four
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,629 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Management 15.1%, Idler 13.5%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 11.5%
- #14 Widget Inc.
88% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 53.5%, Idler 15.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
- #15 Factorio
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 63.2%, Management 10.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 4.8%
- #16 PC Tycoon 2
86% matchVery Positive80% of 315 reviews2024
Dev: Insignis Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!
Why similar: Idler 26.8%, Management 22.6%, Capitalism 22.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 11.2%
- #17 Beer Factory
87% matchMixed42% of 1,459 reviews2024
Dev: MyceliumGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 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 45.8%, Management 18.4%, Simulation 16.8%, Idler 9.9%, Crafting 8%
- #18 Little Big Workshop
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 31%, Simulation 24.5%, Management 20.1%, Strategy 19.9%, Crafting 4%
- #19 uFactory
84% matchMixed70% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Simulation 23.3%, Strategy 22.6%, Management 14%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #20 Blueprint Tycoon
85% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Management 48.5%, Simulation 30.2%, Strategy 16.1%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #21 Rise of Industry 2
83% matchMixed67% of 198 reviews2025
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Why similar: Management 33.2%, Capitalism 26.9%, Simulation 19.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Singleplayer 2%
- #22 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 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 50.7%, Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 17.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Top-Down 2.1%
- #23 Factory Town
82% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 50.3%, Management 18.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #24 Captain of Industry
80% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 59.6%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Crafting 2.2%
- #25 Food Processing Simulator
79% matchVery Positive92% of 248 reviews2025
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 62.8%, Management 19.8%, Simulation 17%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #26 Assembly Planter
81% matchVery Positive91% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 43.6%, Management 12.5%, Idler 12.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Simulation 9.5%
- #27 Alchemy Factory
78% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 63.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #28 Masterplan Tycoon
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 42.7%, Management 20.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #29 Coin Factory
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 210 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!
Why similar: Capitalism 35.8%, Idler 33.7%, Strategy 20.1%, Top-Down 5.3%, 2D 3.3%
- #30 Factory Town Idle
77% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Idler 18.8%, Management 14.6%, Capitalism 10%, Crafting 8.2%
- #31 Factory Planner
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 48%, Management 18.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 8.3%
- #32 Good Company
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,764 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 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 45.5%, Management 20.4%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #33 Space industrial empire
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,031 reviews2024
Dev: 游戏养家工作室
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 36.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
Why similar: Automation 51.7%, Management 18.3%, Idler 17.4%, Strategy 10%, 2D 1.9%
- #34 Outworld Station
75% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 47.3%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #35 March of Industry: Very Capitalist Factory Simulator Entertainments
81% matchMostly Negative31% of 89 reviews2015
Dev: Archive Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Comrade, craft our glorious country's natural resources into advanced materials. Discover crafting recipes to create powerful weapons and then sell them. Automate your weapons factory and create many capitalist profits!
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Capitalism 14%, Management 13.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Strategy 7%
- #36 Rise of Industry
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Management 29.2%, Automation 25.9%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Capitalism 10.3%
- #37 Learning Factory
72% matchVery Positive86% of 511 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Automation 45.6%, Management 20.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Crafting 10.1%
- #38 Beer Factory - Prologue
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,013 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 51.1%, Management 18.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Crafting 7%, Idler 4.5%
- #39 Beer Manufacture Simulator
71% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Brew your own beer from scratch! Take on the role of a brewmaster, learn brewing techniques, create unique recipes, and grow your craft brewery into a full-scale factory. Expand your brewery from mashing and fermenting to bottling and selling - every decision shapes your beer empire
Why similar: Simulation 36.1%, Automation 34.6%, Management 22.9%, Crafting 5.4%, Singleplayer 1%
- #40 Beltex
73% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 45.7%, Idler 15.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Crafting 7.9%
- #41 Capital Simulator
74% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: chenjd
Windows · Mac
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Why similar: Simulation 30%, Management 26.1%, Strategy 25.5%, Capitalism 13.4%, 2D 4.3%
- #42 Parcel Simulator
69% matchVery Positive94% of 2,396 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 60.4%, Management 20.3%, Simulation 19.3%
- #43 ShapeHero Factory
69% matchVery Positive89% of 972 reviews2025
Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 61.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 12.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Top-Down 5.1%
- #44 Block Factory
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 255 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 45.6%, Management 19.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #45 Mindustry
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 67.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Management 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.4%, 2D 2.7%
- #46 Scrap Collector
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Wibert
Windows
Collect, combine, and automate card production. Discover new areas, resources, and enemies all while growing your mechanized army. Plan ahead before taking on the challenges of the ruptured earth.
Why similar: Management 37.1%, Strategy 21.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Top-Down 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%
- #47 Smooth Operators
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 289 reviews2014
Dev: Heydeck Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Smooth Operators is an advanced simulation where you take control of a call center company and lead it to financial success! Watch your company become alive and grow while your building reach the highest skyline. What type of CEO will you be?
Why similar: Management 39.1%, Simulation 32.2%, Strategy 27.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #48 Kaizen: A Factory Story
67% matchVery Positive93% of 646 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Why similar: Automation 59.2%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 17.7%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #49 Candy Machine
74% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Colossal Wreck
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 206.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy
Why similar: Idler 34.5%, Management 31.1%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #50 Smart Factory Tycoon
71% matchMixed61% of 822 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Management 28.6%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 18.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #51 Pixel Shopkeeper
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Prototype
Windows · Mac · Linux
Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!
Why similar: Management 28.5%, Capitalism 19.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%
- #52 InfraSpace
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 45.1%, Management 16.6%, Capitalism 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Crafting 7.6%
- #53 Idle Colony
67% matchVery Positive83% of 544 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Automation 44.2%, Idler 17.6%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 8.7%
- #54 Dyson Sphere Program
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 63.8%, Management 16.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #55 Scratch Inc.
66% matchVery Positive91% of 1,373 reviews2025
Dev: Makopaz
Windows · Mac
Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 42%, Idler 21.5%, Capitalism 12.1%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 9.7%
- #56 Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
68% matchVery Positive94% of 16,959 reviews2015
Dev: Camshaft Software Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 53.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Why similar: Management 30.3%, Automation 29.6%, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #57 Supply Chain Idle
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 379 reviews2018
Dev: Upturn Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, link and upgrade factories to produce and sell products.
Why similar: Idler 100%
- #58 Epic Car Factory
71% matchMixed65% of 274 reviews2018
Dev: Zwetan LetschewPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Epic Car Factory puts you in the drivers seat of your very own car company. Build, market, hire, fire, and more in this fast paced business simulation. The failure and success of the company depends entirely on your decisions and how you react to the ever changing market place.
Why similar: Simulation 36.3%, Management 32.2%, Strategy 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
- #59 Gun Factory Simulator
67% matchMixed67% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Clock
Windows
Take control of your very own firearms factory. Start with a workshop and a gun shop, and evolve it into a factory of mass destruction. Craft bullets to rockets, handguns to shotguns, hire workers & managers, and become a merchant of death. Get use to the smell of gunpowder and cash.
Why similar: Automation 48.9%, Management 31.7%, Simulation 18%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #60 Mad Games Tycoon 2
64% matchVery Positive94% of 7,570 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Management 36.7%, Capitalism 20%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Crafting 8.2%