
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
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Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other

FACTO
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !

Hue Factory
A colorful, minimalist automation game. Place machines, mix colors, and manage the flow of an evolving factory. Listen to the hum of the machines and watch the colors blend while keeping your lines efficient.
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Resource Management 19%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 7.4%
A colorful, minimalist automation game. Place machines, mix colors, and manage the flow of an evolving factory. Listen to the hum of the machines and watch the colors blend while keeping your lines efficient.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Minimalist 7.8%, Logic 5.8%
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 36.2%, Resource Management 16%, Management 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Abstract 8%
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Resource Management 18.3%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Logic 6.5%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Resource Management 18.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Logic 6.9%
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity, all without any fighting.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Resource Management 16.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 8%, Management 7.1%
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 45.2%, Resource Management 18.8%, Management 15.7%, Logic 7.2%, Strategy 6.1%
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Management 18.9%, Resource Management 16.9%, Simulation 12.1%, Crafting 6.6%
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Abstract 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 46.1%, Resource Management 19.7%, Management 16.1%, Simulation 7.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Resource Management 15.9%, Management 14.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
Build your own scrap empire in this incremental idle game. Collect, process, and automate your production chain while optimizing resources and scaling your industrial system.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Resource Management 20.2%, Management 18.2%, Simulation 10%, Crafting 6.5%
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Abstract 9%, Logic 6.9%
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 13.2%, Abstract 11.8%, Crafting 8.3%
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Management 15.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 8%
Prodix is a 2D isometric factory automation game, where the goal is to import, export, and automate your production of many different materials and items; while also managing company relationships through contracts.
Why similar: Automation 46.8%, Management 19.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Logic 3.1%
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 42.4%, Resource Management 18.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 9%, Strategy 5.6%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Resource Management 17.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 6.5%
Collects resources, makes products, get money, and repair a time machine.
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Management 18.4%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 6%
Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Resource Management 19.9%, Management 17.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Minimalist 7.5%
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Management 11.3%, Minimalist 7.5%, Crafting 7.3%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 46.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 6.7%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 48.1%, Resource Management 20.4%, Crafting 13%, Simulation 8.5%, Sandbox 6.3%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 37%, Resource Management 19.3%, Management 15.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Crafting 6.6%
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Resource Management 16%, Management 14.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 54.9%, Resource Management 17.2%, Management 14.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 1.4%
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Resource Management 18.5%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Crafting 7.7%
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Resource Management 18.7%, Management 16.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Simulation 5.3%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 12.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
Welcome to CoreMine Corp. Your job here is to set up production chains, manage your electricity, juggle contracts and stock-up while upgrading your factory. Time to prove your worth.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Resource Management 21.5%, Inventory Management 8.8%, Management 8%, Crafting 7.5%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Resource Management 16.8%, Abstract 10.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Management 16.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 9.2%
Build and manage your industrial sawmill in Timberline Factory. Experience a tycoon game where logistics meet physics: logs aren't just icons, they are physical objects that roll, collide, and react to your machines. Design efficient lines, manage equipment, and turn wood waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 42.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 10.6%, Crafting 6.9%
Design laptops from the PCB up and build a global tech empire! Balance complex heat and power mechanics, manage your corporate budget, and conquer international markets. Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate Laptop Architect?
Why similar: Automation 28%, Management 15%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Logic 8.2%
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Simulation 15.5%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Resource Management 19.9%, Management 16.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 7.1%
Lay out your machines, route your resources, and chase the perfect flow. Then a single new module reshapes everything and hands you a fresh puzzle. An automation game where you never solve the same factory twice.
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Management 18.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 7.9%
Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Resource Management 17.6%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Crafting 8%
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 32.6%, Management 16.3%, Resource Management 14.9%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8%
Node production simulator. Purchase nodes to produce resources, so you can advance in the technology tree and build yourself a large production line. This game will satisfy your need for incremental simulators with the large amount of content.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Management 23.2%, Simulation 15.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Management 21%, Resource Management 17.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 6.7%
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 14.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Simulation 14.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 12.1%, Abstract 11.8%
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Management 21.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 51.1%, Management 21%, Simulation 13.1%, Crafting 6.2%, Strategy 6%
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 39.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Crafting 7.8%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 46%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 7.6%
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 44.7%, Resource Management 20.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 7.1%, Abstract 6.7%
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 34.6%, Management 16%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.5%
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 35.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Abstract 14.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 8%
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 54.4%, Resource Management 22.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 43.8%, Resource Management 20.8%, Management 9.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Simulation 7.5%
A deeply mathematical 3D idle game leveraging exponential scaling. Unlock the Void Dimension, assemble powerful Artifacts, unlock massive Constellation technology trees, and fully automate your resource production to achieve endless numerical growth.
Why similar: Automation 41.1%, Management 27.8%, Resource Management 26.3%, Casual 3.2%, Singleplayer 1%
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Management 14.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 7.4%
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 46.6%, Resource Management 18.7%, Management 13.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 7.2%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Resource Management 19.7%, Management 15.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Simulation 7.5%
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!
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Resource Management 18.3%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 7.8%, Management 6.2%