
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
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A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

FOUNDRY
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Logic 8.8%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
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Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.9%
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Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%
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Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 11%, Management 10.4%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.6%
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Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%
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 20.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
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Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 9.4%
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Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
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Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
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Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 19.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.4%
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Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%
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Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%
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 21.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
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 18.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%
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 25.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.7%
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.3%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.9%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Resource Management 23%, Automation 16.1%, Building 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%
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Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.4%
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 21.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Management 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 11%
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 30.5%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 17.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 9.2%
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 25.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.6%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
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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 22.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 9.5%
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%
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 29.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 28.6%, Base Building 20%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%
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.
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Why similar: Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9%, Resource Management 9%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Strategy 5.4%
The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Resource Management 15%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Magic 9.2%
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 12%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%
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Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 8.8%
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Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
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 35.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 19.5%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Simulation 6.2%
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 22.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.5%
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 23.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%
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Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.9%
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 23.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
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 28.6%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 16.7%, Management 13.3%, Magic 13%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.9%, Sandbox 19.7%, Crafting 17.4%, Building 15.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Management 9.1%
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Crafting 26.6%, Sandbox 25.4%, Character Customization 15.9%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Logic 9.4%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 22.7%, Crafting 18.7%, Sandbox 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%
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Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%
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Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.9%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10%