- #1 Astral Enterprises
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 13.2%, Management 10.6%, Building 9.2%
- #2 MegaFactory Titan
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 150 reviews2026
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Mining 12.4% ★, Capitalism 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 9.4%
- #3 BOREWORKS
96% matchNo user reviews2026
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 23.2%, Mining 14.8% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Economy 10.3%, Building 9.7%
- #4 Copacetic
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Automation 13.9%, Management 12.7%, Mining 10.8% ★, Building 8.3%
- #5 Industronaut
94% 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 21.4%, Mining 15.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.9%
- #6 Islandustry
94% 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 25.5%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Capitalism 8.7%
- #7 Gargantua
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Abdullah Furkan DoğanPub: AFD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. Remember, war is money.
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Capitalism 17.4%, Building 12.2%, Economy 12%, Base Building 9.8%
- #8 Automation Empire
93% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 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 25.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Economy 10.2%, Building 10%, Mining 9.1% ★
- #9 Kastle Kraft
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite and Unbound Studios
Windows
Gather, craft, and then automate resources to build fabulous Kastles. Beware the locals don't like you destroying their land. Defend your Kastles through combat and defenses. Explore the land to find additional recipes, resources, and items to help you defend and build your Kingdom!
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Mining 17.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Economy 10.8%
- #10 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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 28.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 11.2%, Space 10.2%, City Builder 8.6%
- #11 Complex SKY
90% 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 20.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11.3%, Building 9.9%
- #12 Captain of Industry
89% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 30.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Economy 12.4%, City Builder 8.9%, Building 8.2%
- #13 iCorp
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Capitalism 15.7%, Mining 15.3% ★, Economy 13.5%, Building 11%
- #14 Flow Factory
88% 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 25.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Mining 15.3% ★, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #15 Biofactory
87% 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 25.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Capitalism 12.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Economy 8.8%
- #16 FACTORY I
86% matchNo user reviews
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 25.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Capitalism 14.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 12.2%
- #17 Resource chill
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Capitalism 13.6%, Incremental 12%, Economy 9.5%
- #18 Truck City
85% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.7%, Mining 12.3% ★, Economy 9.5%
- #19 Bouncekraft
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 22.9% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Automation 17.5%, Space Sim 11.4%, Strategy 8.1%
- #20 Apocalypse Factory
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Mining 12.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Destruction 9.8%, Economy 9.6%
- #21 Factor Y
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Mining 18.7% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.7%
- #22 Starvester
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 734 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Mining 17.6% ★, Incremental 11.6%, Economy 11.5%, Building 10.2%
- #23 Paystreak
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northwright Games
Windows
A gold mining tycoon built on real operations. Clear overburden, Dig, haul, wash, and pan your way from hand tools to a living operation. Manage wages, fuel, repairs, landlord cuts, and loans, time your sales to a living gold market, and survive season after season.
Why similar: Mining 24.7% ★, Automation 21.8%, Economy 14.7%, Capitalism 14.3%, Management 11.1%
- #24 MegaFactory Tycoon
82% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Building 15.8%, Economy 13.3%, Capitalism 11.2%, Management 8.6%
- #25 Infinite Space: Mining
79% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Taner Saydam
Windows
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Mining 16.5% ★, Sci-fi 10.1%, Space Sim 9.9%, Space 9.5%
- #26 Hexfactory
79% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila Industrial
Windows
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, City Builder 15.4%, Space Sim 13%, Mining 10.3% ★, Building 9.4%
- #27 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
81% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
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 28.9%, Economy 17.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.6%
- #28 The Last Starship
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,617 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 17.2% ★, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Space Sim 12.2%, Building 10.8%
- #29 Grid Tweaker
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Payne Robinson
Windows · Mac
This strategic incremental deck-builder lets you construct your Grid, bribe your way up, and tweak the system before it tweaks you.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Capitalism 14.9%, Mining 14.2% ★, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%
- #30 Another Brick in The Mall
80% matchVery Positive83% of 2,437 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Building 12.9%, Capitalism 12.7%, Management 12.6%, City Builder 12%
- #31 InfraSpace
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 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 18.8%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 10.4%, Capitalism 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%
- #32 CapitalCraft
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChronicAnarchy
Windows
A hands on sci-fi industrial management simulation where you pilot a mining drone refine resources, negotiate contracts, and survive economic pressure with action driven challenges.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Capitalism 19%, Mining 17.1% ★, Economy 13.2%, Trading 9.3%
- #33 Idle Pizza Business
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Urban Isotope
Windows · Mac
Idle Pizza Business is a casual idle sim where you automate pizza production, upgrade gear and staff, and grow your empire across multiple locations.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Capitalism 20.4%, Economy 13.7%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.9%
- #34 Industry Giant 4.0
74% matchMostly Negative37% of 556 reviews2025
Dev: Don VS DodoPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Mining 13.7% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Capitalism 11.9%, Economy 11.3%
- #35 Highrise Mogul
76% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: Capitalism 20.8%, City Builder 20.4%, Building 15.2%, Economy 14.3%, Base Building 12.2%
- #36 Moose Miners
73% matchMixed69% of 523 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 146.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Mining 15.9% ★, Capitalism 13.8%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%
- #37 Rise of Industry
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 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: Economy 16.5%, City Builder 16.3%, Management 12.9%, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 11%
- #38 Rionag: Survey Fleet
74% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Reul Games
Windows · Linux
Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Space Sim 15.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.9%, Economy 11.6%
- #39 Incremental Orbits
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bytecatch Software
Windows
A short and relaxing incremental game where you discover planets, launch satellites and make a ton of money.
Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Capitalism 15%, City Builder 13.7%, Economy 10.8%, Building 9.9%
- #40 Malmyr
75% matchPositive81% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: ziegler gamedev GbR
Windows · Linux
Malmyr - Plan and optimize complex production chains. In each of the royal missions, the rules change and you are always challenged anew. What is it about the magical dwarven runes? Can you combine the runes correctly to master even the greatest challenges?
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, City Builder 13%, Mining 12.2% ★, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%
- #41 HAS Galactics
73% 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 24.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Space Sim 10.7%, City Builder 8.4%, Space 8.2%
- #42 Roll to Riches
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eddy
Windows
Gather, Build and Advance your settlement with every roll in the incremental city builder Roll to Riches. Mine iron, gather wood and cut stone to make your settlement prosper. Trade with merchants every minute and transform your small camp into a wealthy Norse empire.
Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Automation 15.6%, Capitalism 14.1%, Incremental 13.8%, Building 9.6%
- #43 Factory Town 2: Paradise
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 12.3%, Building 11.5%
- #44 Industry Idle
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 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 21.4%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.7%, Economy 10%, Capitalism 9.6%
- #45 Planet No More
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WiseMonkeESPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
An arcade-incremental game where you DESTROY planets! Build a fleet, upgrade weapons, max out your skill tree and destroy your target slowly. You'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
Why similar: Destruction 22.2%, Mining 13.2% ★, Incremental 12.6%, Space 10.3%, Economy 9.9%
- #46 Winterreach Emporium
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Large Lads
Windows
Run your own fantasy ski shop in the frosty peaks of Winterreach. Stock magical gear, serve a variety of races, hire and manage staff, research upgrades, and adapt to festivals, shortages, and the shifting demands of a living, lore-rich world.
Why similar: Automation 22%, City Builder 12.4%, Economy 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.5%
- #47 Final Upgrade
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 457 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 25.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12.5%, Space Sim 11%, Space 9.4%
- #48 Space Guild
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Recoil MojoPub: Mojo Games
Windows
Build a profit-hungry orbital industry in this sci-fi incremental economy sim. Recruit specialist crews, automate production, trade meme coins, fill your Fleet Vault, and outplay the living Orbital Exchange to turn scrap into staggering wealth.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Economy 16.8%, City Builder 11.5%, Incremental 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%
- #49 plexum
69% matchNo user reviews
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 32.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%
- #50 Kingdom Workshop
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, City Builder 14.9%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 13.5%
- #51 Blockchain Tycoon
72% matchMixed48% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Wamill
Windows · Mac
Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Economy 16.1%, Capitalism 14.6%, Trading 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%
- #52 Forge Industry
70% 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 23.8%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.7%
- #53 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 13.4%, City Builder 13.4%, Management 10.1%
- #54 Stellar Shipyard
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Mining 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Space Sim 9.8%, Building 9.6%
- #55 星河的约言
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VointStudio
Windows
What is Mechanical Technology? Raw Materials, Logistics, Automation. What is Magical Technology? Magic Power, Attributes, Incantation Arts. As a model youth in the interstellar age, what will you choose? Why ask such an archaic question in this era? Of course, I'll take it all.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Mining 15.7% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Trading 10.5%, Building 9.1%
- #56 Timberworks
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pretoriano_devPub: Coliseum Studio
Windows
Timberworks is an incremental factory automation and management game. Start with a small sawmill, automate production, expand your railway network, and build a vast industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 14%, Incremental 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.6%
- #57 Greedy Little Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 13.1%, Economy 8.9%
- #58 Terminal Descent
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roxicaro
Windows
Terminal Descent is a terminal-based mining incremental game. Upgrade drills, automate operations, smelt metals, and descend deeper. ASCII graphics with active/idle hybrid gameplay in your terminal.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Mining 17.8% ★, Economy 14.3%, Building 13.2%, Incremental 12.6%
- #59 Automation Station
66% 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 28.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.9%, City Builder 8.5%
- #60 Space War Economy Idle
65% match9 user reviews60% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Chasm Studios
Windows
A story-driven incremental game with idle and auto-battler mechanics, inspired by Factorio logistics, Path of Exile itemization, and Eve Online's economy
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Mining 15.3% ★, Economy 14%, Space Sim 9.4%, Incremental 8.4%