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Games Like Automate It: Factory Puzzle

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Strategy, Simulation, Singleplayer.

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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.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 72% — of 79 reviews
Released: 2025-05-27
Developer: South Blue Moon
Publisher: Forklift Interactive
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
    Dev: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 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 29.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Logic 8.4%

  2. #2 Modulus: Factory Automation
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
    Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 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 26.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%

  3. #3 shapez
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
    Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    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 31%, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.7%

  4. #4 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
    95% 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 32.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%

  5. #5 uFactory
    94% matchMixed70% of 63 reviews2025
    Dev: Lucid Silence Games
    Windows · Linux

    uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.

    Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 10.9%, Logic 10.1%

  6. #6 Factorio
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 41.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7.3%

  7. #7 Block Factory
    93% matchMostly Positive78% of 264 reviews2025
    Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
    Windows

    Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.

    Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%

  8. #8 Alchemy Factory
    91% matchVery Positive90% of 2,515 reviews2025
    Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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 33%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 7.9%

  9. #9 Infinifactory
    92% matchVery Positive95% of 2,483 reviews2015
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

    Why similar: Automation 32%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 16.6%, Puzzle 13.6%, Simulation 8.6%

  10. #10 Incremental Factory
    91% matchMixed68% of 247 reviews2024
    Dev: Significant Steak
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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 31%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.7%

  11. #11 Factory Town
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 31.8%, Sandbox 18.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.4%

  12. #12 Kaizen: A Factory Story
    88% matchVery Positive92% of 716 reviews2025
    Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

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  13. #13 Production Line : Car factory simulation
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 3,483 reviews2019
    Dev: Positech Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

    Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.3%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 11.5%

  14. #14 Word Factori
    89% matchVery Positive84% of 474 reviews2023
    Dev: Star Garden Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

    Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Logic 12.3%, Puzzle 9.3%

  15. #15 Masterplan Tycoon
    87% matchMostly Positive74% of 744 reviews2023
    Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

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  16. #16 Factory 95
    84% matchNo user reviews86% of 59 reviews2026
    Dev: Macrobit Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.

    Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Simulation 18.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 9.8%, Logic 8%

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    86% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
    Dev: Builderment LLC
    Windows · Mac

    Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!

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  18. #18 MoteMancer
    84% matchVery Positive92% of 256 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 29.8%, Sandbox 16.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 9%

  19. #19 Satisfactory
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 37.9%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.1%

  20. #20 ReFactory
    85% 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.

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  21. #21 Factory Engineer
    86% matchMixed46% of 133 reviews2017
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.

    Why similar: Sandbox 19.6%, Automation 19%, Simulation 16.1%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 14.6%

  22. #22 Freshly Frosted
    83% matchVery Positive99% of 375 reviews2022
    Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

    Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Puzzle 12.2%, Building 11.9%, Logic 11.8%, Simulation 10.4%

  23. #23 Sandustry
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
    Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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.

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  24. #24 Factory Planner
    81% matchMostly Positive71% of 389 reviews2026
    Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
    Windows

    Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.

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  25. #25 Automachef
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 921 reviews2019
    Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

    Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Simulation 27.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Puzzle 11.5%, Indie 3.6%

  26. #26 Beltmatic
    78% matchVery Positive94% of 2,224 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 30%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%

  27. #27 Great Permutator
    81% matchVery Positive87% of 150 reviews2014
    Dev: Ripatti Software
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.

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  28. #28 MineMogul
    76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
    Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
    Windows
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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!

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  29. #29 Mob Factory
    79% 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 35.2%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 9.3%

  30. #30 Opus Magnum
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,176 reviews2017
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

    Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Puzzle 18.3%, Logic 12%, Simulation 10.9%, Sandbox 5.7%

  31. #31 Automation Empire
    79% matchMixed66% of 2,643 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!

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  32. #32 Little Big Workshop
    77% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
    Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
    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!

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  33. #33 SpaceChem
    77% matchVery Positive92% of 5,086 reviews2011
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

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  34. #34 Manufactoria 2022
    76% matchVery Positive96% of 73 reviews2022
    Dev: PleasingFungus Games
    Windows · Mac

    Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?

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  35. #35 Factory Planner: First Sparks
    74% matchVery Positive82% of 122 reviews2025
    Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
    Windows

    Factory Planner: First Sparks is a card-based simulation and strategy game. In this Prologue version, build your own factory using strategic card combinations and enjoy a unique sandbox experience.

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  36. #36 Microtopia
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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!

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  37. #37 SOKOBOT
    75% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
    Dev: Alexander Taylor
    Windows

    SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!

    Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 13.6%, Logic 12%, Puzzle 9.8%

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    75% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%

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    Why similar: Automation 35%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 8.2%

  39. #39 Sixty Four
    73% 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.

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    74% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 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!

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    72% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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.

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    71% matchVery Positive99% of 70 reviews2025
    Dev: Foolbox Studio
    Windows

    Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.

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  43. #43 Widget Inc.
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
    Dev: Leaping Turtle
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 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.

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  44. #44 Linkito
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 172 reviews2024
    Dev: KalinarmPub: Playdigious Originals
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.

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  45. #45 Smart Factory Tycoon
    73% matchMixed60% of 927 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!

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  46. #46 Assembly Line 2
    71% matchMixed65% of 67 reviews2024
    Dev: Olympus
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    In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.

    Why similar: Automation 50%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 18.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Top-Down 2.1%

  47. #47 Snacktorio
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 231 reviews2026
    Dev: ellraiserPub: TNgineers
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...

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  48. #48 Tower Factory
    68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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?

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  49. #49 Techtonica
    70% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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.

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  50. #50 World of Contraptions
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
    Dev: JCP Games Studio
    Windows

    World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.

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  51. #51 The Qubit Factory
    68% matchVery Positive98% of 55 reviews2025
    Dev: Logical Basis
    Windows · Mac

    The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!

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  52. #52 SHENZHEN I/O
    69% matchVery Positive95% of 4,504 reviews2016
    Dev: Zachtronics
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

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  53. #53 Turing Complete
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,587 reviews2021
    Dev: LevelHead
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

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  54. #54 Power to the People
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
    Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

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  55. #55 Candy Machine
    72% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2017
    Dev: Colossal Wreck
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 220.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy

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  56. #56 Factory Town 2: Paradise
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 151 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!

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  57. #57 Coin Factory
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 218 reviews2024
    Dev: Lino Rabolini
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!

    Why similar: Building 25.8%, Strategy 25.3%, Resource Management 23.2%, Casual 14.1%, Singleplayer 6.9%

  58. #58 Dyson Sphere Program
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 40.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 8.5%

  59. #59 Beltex
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 233 reviews2022
    Dev: Notional Games
    Windows

    Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.

    Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 8.7%

  60. #60 FOUNDRY
    65% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 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 27.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 11%

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