Games Like Assembly Planter

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 26.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Farming Sim 12.4%, Agriculture 9.6% ★, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the progression from manual farming to automating tasks using a unique visual programming language for your worker bots.

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 20.4%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines village building with complex logistics and automation, making it a natural step up from the farming-focused loops of Assembly Planter.

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 26.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoyed the optimization and logic aspects of Assembly Planter, this game strips away the fluff to focus purely on building efficient automation lines.

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: Automation 27.1%, Farming Sim 19.2%, Idler 12%, Logic 11.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends farming with Python-based programming, providing a deeper logic-driven challenge for players who want to automate their agricultural output.

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Farming Sim 18.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 10.9%, Idler 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar idle-farming experience that runs in the background, allowing you to focus on optimizing your automated crops.

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 21.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%, Agriculture 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: It provides a broader scope of industrial automation, allowing you to build massive logistical networks to move your resources efficiently.

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 26.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 14.3%, Economy 10.8%, City Builder 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep simulation of industrial supply chains and resource management, perfect for players who want a more complex version of the Assembly Planter experience.

In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.

Why similar: Agriculture 16.4% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, Automation 14.9%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses heavily on the management and automation of a high-tech hydroponic farm, directly echoing the core theme of Assembly Planter.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on managing a miniature factory floor, requiring you to balance production schedules and machine placement to maximize profit.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 35%, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 17.3%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a layer of tower defense to the automation genre, requiring you to build complex supply chains to keep your defenses running.

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 21.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a clean, accessible automation game that emphasizes resource management and base expansion in a way that feels very similar to Assembly Planter.

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: Automation 42.8%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 16.4%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy automation game that challenges you to design assembly lines for alien products, focusing on the same 'optimize everything' mindset.

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 19.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, City Builder 9.9%, Idler 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A browser-style idle game that focuses entirely on the economy and the math behind building a successful production chain.

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 17.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a startup company where you must design production lines and automate the assembly of various electronic goods.

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 30.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game, offering unparalleled depth in building complex, self-sustaining production systems.

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 22.8%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.8%, Idler 11.2%, Economy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pure idle-automation experience that focuses on scaling production numbers to infinity.

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 28.2%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines manual mining and farming with deep automation mechanics, allowing you to build massive machines to do the heavy lifting for you.

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 29.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 10.2%, City Builder 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game scales the automation concept to an interstellar level, requiring massive logistical planning to build a sphere around a star.

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 20.2%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the specific challenge of designing a car assembly line, emphasizing efficiency and bottleneck management.

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 23.5%, Crafting 20.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Agriculture 11% ★, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, it features a satisfying progression from manual gathering to fully automated resource production.

ACRES is a small strategy simulation game about growing crops for evolving market demands. Build a farm, one acre at a time, to create a prosperous enterprise. Upgrade equipment, optimize harvests, and nurture the soil against increasing time pressure. How long can you keep the farm operating?

Why similar: Agriculture 22.1% ★, Automation 19.3%, Farming Sim 15.7%, Economy 10.9%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused agriculture game that emphasizes the strategic side of farming and automated crop production.

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Economy 13.9%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game challenges you to build efficient production lines for medicine, requiring careful spatial planning and resource management.

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 29.7%, Base Building 22.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the automation genre into a beautiful 3D space, focusing on building massive, multi-level factories to process raw resources.

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 29.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It puts a unique spin on automation by using mobs as your primary resource, requiring you to build factories to process them.

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 31.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 16.3%, Time Management 11.7%, Idler 11%

Why You'll Like It: A casual clicker game that introduces light automation mechanics to help you produce widgets more efficiently.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Automation 21.4%, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that incorporates automation and logistics to help your settlers thrive.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Sandbox 41.6%, Management 30.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the charm of farming and resource management while introducing automated collectors and feeders to streamline your ranch.

Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.4%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite take on farming that uses node-based mechanics to automate your crop production.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Farming Sim 16.4%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 8.6%

Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.7%, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It adds strategic, turn-based elements to the farming genre, focusing on optimizing your farm layout for maximum yield.

Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?

Why similar: Automation 22%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the economy of production, requiring you to automate your soda brewing business to become a tycoon.

Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive idle tycoon game.

Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Farming Sim 23.7%, Idler 16%, Economy 11%, Time Management 7.1%

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 30.4%, Economy 18%, Idler 14.2%, Building 10.6%, Management 8.8%

MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.2%, Automation 20.5%, Agriculture 19.4% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 6.6%

Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.9%, Automation 24.9%, Idler 14.5%, Economy 12.1%, Building 9.8%

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 23.8%, Farming Sim 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.2%

Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.

Why similar: Farming Sim 17%, Agriculture 15.5% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Economy 8.8%, Building 7.8%

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 26.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Idler 15.2%, Crafting 14%

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 20.4%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 10.2%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%

Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!

Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Idler 13.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Economy 10.2%, Logic 8.8%

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 30.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%

Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Economy 12.9%, Time Management 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.3%

Manage your own farm in the game Farm Manager 2018! To expand your farm business, produce cheap and sell your products in high prices. Control the process of land cultivation, employ the best staff, buy the most appropriate farm equipment, raise livestock and process the harvested crops.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.3%, Agriculture 21.2% ★, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.2%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Management 19.8%, City Builder 18.4%, Resource Management 17.9%, Economy 17.1%, Sandbox 9.9%

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 14.4%, Idler 11.8%, Management 9.5%

In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.

Why similar: Agriculture 23.8% ★, Automation 21.5%, Farming Sim 20.6%, Idler 11.8%, Building 10.1%

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 24.6%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12.3%, Farming Sim 9.8%

You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.6%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 7.4%

Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons

Why similar: Farming Sim 15.7%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%

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: Economy 17.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Automation 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%

Create a farm at the bottom of the screen and enjoy planting and harvesting with your monster companions! They handle all the work—just plan the layout, decorate, and wait for fun crop mutations. Take a break from busy life and enjoy the calm joy of farming.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.6%, Agriculture 16.5% ★, Automation 12.7%, Idler 10.6%, Economy 8.7%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Automation 15.2%, Farming Sim 15.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Idler 11.4%, City Builder 10.3%

Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Idler 18.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10%

Farm the world in an immersive top-down management game that lets you choose your farm's location anywhere on the real-world map! Want to experience a rich strawberry harvest in the French countryside? Or challenge the hot sun in South America? The choice is yours!

Why similar: Agriculture 21.9% ★, Farming Sim 18.8%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.9%

Plant seeds, pull weeds and sell vegetables - all while doing something else!

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.7%, Agriculture 13.8% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Automation 11.7%, Idler 11.3%

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 33%, Resource Management 13.1%, Time Management 12.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Economy 10.8%

Dive into the agricultural life with Farm Manager World! Manage your own farm across vibrant global locations, cultivate exotic crops, and build your agribusiness empire. Welcome to sustainable farming at its finest.

Why similar: Agriculture 16.8% ★, Farming Sim 14.6%, City Builder 10%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 9%

Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Idler 11.3%, City Builder 11.1%, Time Management 10.1%, Building 10%

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 16.5%, Farming Sim 14.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.1%