
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.

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!

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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 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: Procedural Generation 20%, Automation 18.8%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 17.6%, Procedural Generation 17.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
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 32%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 13%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%
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 23.7%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.2%
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 27.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%
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 29.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 27.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%
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 33.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11.1%
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 27.1%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.6%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Procedural Generation 19%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
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%, Base Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Magic 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10%
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 29.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12.1%
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 29.4%, Resource Management 16%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%
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 25.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.4%
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 24.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
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 31.2%, Magic 17.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%
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 20%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Base Building 15%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%
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 30.4%, Base Building 19.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%
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 28.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 8.4%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11%
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 21.4%, Procedural Generation 18.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Procedural Generation 20.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 13.2%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Procedural Generation 14.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 11.4%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 9.5%
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 35.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 30.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.5%
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 27.7%, Magic 22.2%, Resource Management 17.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Fantasy 8.2%
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 32.3%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
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 33.4%, Procedural Generation 18.8%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Base Building 25%, Resource Management 19.5%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Resource Management 17.6%, Building 17%, Simulation 14.7%, Sandbox 11.7%
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 37.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 8.9%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 33%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 5.9%
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 37.4%, Base Building 22.9%, Resource Management 21%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 5.6%
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Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 25.4%, Crafting 19.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 11.8%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
Destroy massive swarms of monsters and build automated systems that fight for you in Yuma Nest. An open-world sandbox action RPG where you grow stronger in the overworld before exploring an interconnected underworld.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 10.1%
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Why similar: Building 26.4%, Crafting 22.4%, Sandbox 21.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Simulation 5.1%
Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Magic 22.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Colorful 8.8%
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 14%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.9%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Crafting 24.9%, Building 16.1%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Platformer 8.8%
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 28.6%, Base Building 18%, Building 14.2%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 11.5%
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 25.9%, Sandbox 17.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 8%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 11.3%
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 16.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Exploration 6.9%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Crafting 19%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Colorful 4.8%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 15%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 12.4%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 17.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 14.5%
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: Crafting 27.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 14.7%, Building 12.2%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.9%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.4%
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 19%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Base Building 27.3%, Resource Management 22.6%, Building 21.2%, Sandbox 19.8%, Simulation 9%
Crafting, cloning, and comedy await in this survival-infused metroidvania adventure. Wake up as the last human alive on a wondrous and weird future Earth. Seek out supplies, build machines, platform through mysterious biomes, unceremoniously die, and reclone on your mission to rebuild civilization.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.9%
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 24%, Procedural Generation 23.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 13.4%
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 29.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.2%