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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Automation, Sandbox, Crafting.

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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.

Reviews: Very Positive — 87% — of 467 reviews
Released: 2024-03-27
Developer: Siege Games
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 2.2 hrs
Mean playtime: 11.4 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 69%

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    97% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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%

  2. #2 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
    96% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
    Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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%

  3. #3 Sandustry
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
    Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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%

  4. #4 Alchemy Factory
    95% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
    Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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%

  5. #5 Factorio
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 27.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.9%

  6. #6 shapez
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
    Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    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 22.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%

  7. #7 shapez 2 - Factory
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
    Dev: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 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 20.4%, Base Building 11%, Management 10.4%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.6%

  8. #8 Techtonica
    93% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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 18.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%

  9. #9 MoteMancer
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
    Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
    Windows

    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%

  10. #10 Outworld Station
    91% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    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 23.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 9.4%

  11. #11 Mindustry
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
    Dev: AnukenDev
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%

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

    Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%

  12. #12 Satisfactory
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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 24%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

  13. #13 Factory Town
    89% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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 21.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%

  14. #14 MineMogul
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
    Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
    Windows
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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 24%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%

  15. #15 Mob Factory
    89% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
    Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    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 26.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

  16. #16 Modulus: Factory Automation
    86% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
    Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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%

  17. #17 Nova Lands
    86% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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 24.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%

  18. #18 Tower Factory
    85% matchVery Positive90% of 1,259 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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 21.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

  19. #19 Belts of Iron
    84% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
    Dev: Builderment LLC
    Windows

    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%

  20. #20 Forage Wizard
    83% matchVery Positive87% of 1,591 reviews2026
    Dev: Lost Maxim
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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%

  21. #21 Incremental Factory
    84% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
    Dev: Significant Steak
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    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%

  22. #22 Starground
    82% matchVery Positive82% of 191 reviews2024
    Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
    Windows · Linux

    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%

  23. #23 Outpath
    81% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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%

  24. #24 Orebound
    82% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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%

  25. #25 Eden Crafters
    80% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.4%

  26. #26 Final Factory
    81% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    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%

  27. #27 Little Big Workshop
    79% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
    Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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%

  28. #28 Captain of Industry
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 30.5%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 17.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 9.2%

  29. #29 Swarmdustry
    77% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
    Dev: Mitchy Studios
    Windows

    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%

  30. #30 Learning Factory
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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%

  31. #31 Elsewhere
    76% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
    Dev: Four White Cats
    Windows

    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.

    Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10%

  32. #32 ReFactory
    78% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 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 22.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 9.5%

  33. #33 Nightwater
    75% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2026
    Dev: Studio Ashty
    Windows

    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%

  34. #34 Dragon Forge
    79% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
    Dev: Legend Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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%

  35. #35 Autonauts
    76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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%

  36. #36 Dyson Sphere Program
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 28.6%, Base Building 20%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

  37. #37 Astro Colony
    72% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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%

  38. #38 Kubifaktorium
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    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 23.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Management 10.5%

  39. #39 Good Company
    74% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
    Dev: Chasing Carrots
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 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 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 9%, Resource Management 9%

  40. #40 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    71% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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%

  41. #41 Rogue Factory
    73% matchMostly Positive72% of 167 reviews2026
    Dev: curried_functor
    Windows

    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%

  42. #42 Vectorio
    73% matchMostly Positive80% of 398 reviews2023
    Dev: BN Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build. Automate. Defend.

    Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 12%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%

  43. #43 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
    72% 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 31%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 8.8%

  44. #44 Desynced
    70% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
    Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

    Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.5%

  45. #45 Widget Inc.
    71% matchVery Positive85% of 779 reviews2024
    Dev: Leaping Turtle
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.4 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 35.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 19.5%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Simulation 6.2%

  46. #46 Hydroneer
    71% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
    Dev: Foulball Hangover
    Windows
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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%

  47. #47 Automation Empire
    73% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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%

  48. #48 Microtopia
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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: Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%

  49. #49 Sixty Four
    70% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,665 reviews2024
    Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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%

  50. #50 Voxel Eras
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
    Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
    Windows · Linux

    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%

  51. #51 Final Upgrade
    70% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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%

  52. #52 Factory Town Idle
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,262 reviews2024
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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%

  53. #53 Beltmatic
    67% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
    Dev: Notional Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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%

  54. #54 Tinkerlands
    66% matchVery Positive86% of 4,122 reviews2025
    Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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%

  55. #55 Factory Town 2: Paradise
    66% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac

    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%

  56. #56 Atomcraft
    65% matchVery Positive95% of 434 reviews2026
    Dev: Triplejump
    Windows

    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%

  57. #57 Scrap Mechanic
    63% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
    Dev: Axolot Games
    Windows
    Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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%

  58. #58 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
    68% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 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 23.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%

  59. #59 Chocolate Factory
    69% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
    Dev: Tbjbu2
    Windows

    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 21.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.9%

  60. #60 Code: Terraform
    65% matchVery Positive84% of 310 reviews2026
    Dev: AppsMafia
    Windows · Linux

    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%

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