- #1 Decoherence
97% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2021
Dev: Efecto StudiosPub: Efecto Estudios SAS
Windows
Build robots, devise a battle plan and fight alongside them!
Why similar: Programming 19.4% ★, Auto Battler 16.3%, Robots 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Automation 9.5%
- #2 SIGNOS: AI Robot Builder
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zeoperdise
Windows
It moves the way you built it. It wins the way you built it. Assemble the 18cm-tall autonomous hobby robot “SIGNOS” and program its behavior logic with flowchart-style “Thought Tiles.” No controls during battle — SIGNOS fights on its own, guided solely by the logic you designed.
Why similar: Auto Battler 23.7%, Programming 17.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Robots 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
- #3 Clank-Robotics
96% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Clank Studios
Windows
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Why similar: Programming 25.8% ★, Auto Battler 21.4%, Robots 14%, Automation 13.6%, Building 9.4%
- #4 Screeps: Arena
95% matchVery Positive84% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Screeps, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Screeps: Arena is an online asynchronous PvP strategy game for programming enthusiasts. You write real JavaScript to control your units, and they fight autonomously against other players in a 1v1 match-based arena environment.
Why similar: Programming 18.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 11.6%, Automation 11.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.1%, RTS 9.9%
- #5 Echoes of the Architects
94% matchVery Positive80% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: GFX47
Windows
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Why similar: Programming 22.1% ★, Auto Battler 19.9%, RTS 12%, Automation 11.4%, Space 7.4%
- #6 Brave New Wonders
94% matchVery Positive87% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: City From Naught Inc.
Windows
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Programming 24.6% ★, Robots 14.9%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.5%
- #7 Screeps: World
93% matchVery Positive86% of 2,098 reviews2016
Dev: Screeps, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 52.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Why similar: Programming 23.3% ★, Automation 12.3%, Artificial Intelligence 11.9%, RTS 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%
- #8 Team Hero Coder
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Farming Learn
Windows · Mac
Assemble your team of heroes. Program their strategy with PseudoC or C#. Watch them battle in a classic RPG-inspired arena. Learn from what happens, and improve your code. Are you game to code?
Why similar: Programming 31.3% ★, Auto Battler 23.7%, Automation 15.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Artificial Intelligence 7.9%
- #9 IT MOVES! - Build Your Own Robot
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catchy
Windows · Mac
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
Why similar: Programming 37.8% ★, Robots 19.6%, Automation 16.1%, Artificial Intelligence 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #10 Code Rivals: Robot Programming Battle
91% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Team B
Windows
If your're into logic, problem-solving and building complex systems, then this is a game for you. All the fun of creating systems, using a visual node language, without worring about written syntax of text based programming. Learn real programming skills much faster in a explosions packed battle.
Why similar: Programming 32.3% ★, Automation 18.1%, Robots 16.9%, RTS 8.5%, Logic 5.9%
- #11 Desynced
89% 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: Programming 28.3% ★, Automation 15.9%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.9%
- #12 Whispers of the Architects
90% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: GFX47
Windows
Echoes of the Architects is a fast-paced real-time strategy game where creativity drives victory. Design modular, programmable units to build your perfect army. Adapt and outsmart your opponents in dynamic skirmishes that reward tactical precision, ingenuity, and strategic mastery.
Why similar: Auto Battler 22%, Programming 20.6% ★, RTS 14%, Automation 12.4%, Artificial Intelligence 8.5%
- #13 Circuit Stance
88% matchPositive97% of 33 reviews2026
Dev: Fluffy BrownPub: Anotherindie
Windows · Mac
Circuit Stance is a turn-based strategy roguelike game. Players take on the role of a super AI, programming robot AI chips to craft unique strategies, competing in intense arena battles to secure resources and glory.
Why similar: Auto Battler 25.3%, Programming 20.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Robots 13.1%, Artificial Intelligence 12%
- #14 Mechanica
89% matchMixed63% of 640 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 14.9%, Robots 13.7%, Automation 11.1%
- #15 The Factory Must Fall
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Squared Games
Windows
Build the perfect factory, then let it go to war against other players! Draft buildings from a randomized shop, optimize resource allocation and army composition, then watch your factory crush your friends and foes in this PvP factory-builder.
Why similar: Auto Battler 29.8%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 18.1%, PvP 10.6%, RTS 8.7%
- #16 Programming Factory
86% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: KUOKUO
Windows
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 34.1% ★, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 15.4%, Logic 8.3%
- #17 Fractal Foundry
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Root Studio
Windows
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 32.5% ★, Automation 19.1%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Management 10%
- #18 Blueprint Factory
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Smiling Panda Studios
Windows
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 23.9%, Building 18.1%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 4%
- #19 Spaceship Tactics
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nuvoin Games GmbH
Windows
Spaceship Tactics is a sci-fi strategy autobattler. Build a mighty fleet, improve spaceships with powerful upgrades and find ways to fuse spaceships together. Decide battles by cleverly arranging your fleet!
Why similar: Auto Battler 38.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.3%, PvP 11.9%, Building 11%, Space 8.9%
- #20 Assignment 42
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 37 reviews2021
Dev: ArriblePub: Mindfire
Windows · Mac
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 31.8% ★, Robots 20.1%, Automation 16.8%, Artificial Intelligence 16%, Logic 7.1%
- #21 ALGO ARMS
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
You don't pilot the mech — you design its pilot. Wire sensors, logic and actions into a battle brain, assemble your machine, and watch your algorithm fight. You can grab the controls anytime — but the real victory is the one your design wins on its own.
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Auto Battler 24.8%, Robots 17.2%, Automation 16.8%, Sci-fi 3.3%
- #22 Final Upgrade
83% 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 20.1%, Base Building 15%, Space 14.7%, Building 14.2%, Robots 10.8%
- #23 Pixel Starships 2
82% matchMostly Negative28% of 392 reviews2025
Dev: SavySoda
Windows · Mac
First Glimpse on Steam Next: Build, Configure, and Manage every aspect of your own Starship. An FTL-esque game in a MMO setting. Pre bundled with deep strategy, exploration, PVP, market economy, trading, mining. Basically everything a star captain wants to do after a day at the office :)
Why similar: Auto Battler 20.3%, Automation 15.8%, Space 12.8%, RTS 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%
- #24 SuperWEIRD: Automation Roguelite
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
An automation roguelite for 1–4 players. Set worker bots to craft and deliver supplies while fighting bots battle the Goofy Goo. Piece a broken planet back together, strengthen your production network and try new strategies on each run.
Why similar: Programming 29.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 12.6%, Building 11.7%
- #25 Terranny
81% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Terranos EngineeringPub: [undisclosed]
Windows
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
Why similar: Programming 30.8% ★, Auto Battler 21.9%, Robots 18.1%, Automation 13.1%, PvP 6.2%
- #26 Galaxy Too Far
80% matchMixed58% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: BonaDies
Windows
Another world is about to become a resource colony for your Creator. Prove your usefulness. Spread your influence across the planet. Take all resources you can reach. Build a base on the surface and in space. Сomplete the construction of an intergalactic beacon to absorb the entire planet.
Why similar: Automation 15.2%, Robots 14.3%, Artificial Intelligence 13.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.5%
- #27 Frogrammer
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Snobfox
Windows · Mac
Hire the right Frogrammers and fight off the bugs in this tug-of-war auto-battler. Manage your resources, leverage synergies, exploit enemy weaknesses and fight your way to the source of the horde. Keep your boss happy, the budget low and go squash some bugs.
Why similar: Auto Battler 23.4%, Programming 22.6% ★, RTS 14.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.8%
- #28 I'm a Human
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PMF Top Joy Games
Windows
Forget defense. This is Reverse Tower Defense where you are the threat. Lead the AI, build robots and destroy human bases.Your goal is invasion. Your weapon is the swarm.
Why similar: Auto Battler 36.8%, Tower Defense 14%, Building 11.7%, Robots 10.3%, Artificial Intelligence 9.9%
- #29 Omnibullet
78% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2024
Dev: Arbitrary Combination
Windows
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
Why similar: Programming 23.1% ★, Automation 18.5%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 9.9%
- #30 Gridlords
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sphere StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Gridlords is a strategic async-PvP autobattler set in a fantasy pixel-art world. Build your ultimate castle, command legendary heroes, and outsmart rivals to prove your strategy reigns supreme.
Why similar: Auto Battler 36%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.5%, Building 13.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%
- #31 God is a Cube: Programming Robot Cubes
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: Marc KruzikPub: Dimensional Studio
Windows · Linux
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 42.1% ★, Robots 15.1%, Artificial Intelligence 12.2%, Building 10.5%, Space 10.1%
- #32 Creator-initial
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: icon123
Windows
A real -time strategy game that can create items to operate logic.No resource collection
Why similar: Programming 27.4% ★, Automation 15.2%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.9%
- #33 NebulArena
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TwoKats SNCPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Build, customize, and unleash your ultimate space platform in NebulArena, a fast-paced, fully automated PvP arena where strategy, design, and destruction collide!
Why similar: Auto Battler 31.8%, Building 14.3%, Automation 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Space 13.5%
- #34 Annihilate The Spance
75% matchVery Positive90% of 366 reviews2025
Dev: Skyglow Softworks
Windows
An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships. The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses.
Why similar: RTS 18.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Space 16.7%, Robots 15.3%, Building 14.8%
- #35 Instructions for Gary
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slade
Windows · Mac
Gary will do exactly what you tell him. Write code to grow unusual plants, solve increasingly complex problems, and build a garden that runs itself. Unlock new tools, expand your operation, and put a team of robots to work.
Why similar: Programming 39.5% ★, Robots 20.8%, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Logic 6.5%
- #36 Roboden
75% matchVery Positive86% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: quasilytePub: quasilyte tech
Windows · Mac · Linux
Roboden is a fresh take on the RTS genre: less micro-control tedium with more units!
Why similar: Auto Battler 23.8%, Robots 19.3%, RTS 15.6%, Automation 15.2%, Building 11.1%
- #37 Bottanics
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vyrant Studio
Windows
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 34% ★, Automation 22.8%, Robots 19.8%, Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Strategy 4.1%
- #38 ChipWits Worlds
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChipWits, Inc.
Windows
A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Robots 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Artificial Intelligence 12.8%
- #39 Xenopurge
72% matchVery Positive86% of 467 reviews2025
Dev: TrapticsPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Why similar: Programming 30.5% ★, Auto Battler 20.1%, RTS 13.9%, Space 12.7%, Management 9.4%
- #40 import robots
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SP96 Interactive
Windows
Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 37.9% ★, Automation 19.8%, Robots 17.6%, Artificial Intelligence 13.9%, Logic 7.1%
- #41 Main Assembly
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,355 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 26% ★, Robots 16.3%, Artificial Intelligence 13.8%, Automation 12.6%, Building 11.9%
- #42 programming-factory-2
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: KUOKUO
Windows
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 15%, Logic 8.6%
- #43 Recursion
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cidots
Windows
Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Building 16.2%, Tower Defense 13.5%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%
- #44 Lairchitect
73% matchMixed63% of 64 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Lairchitect is a reverse dungeon crawler! Build your own lair and protect your precious soul core from heroes that try to raid your dungeon. Distracting heroes and using the right minions to defeat them is key in winning the game.
Why similar: Auto Battler 32.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 16%, Artificial Intelligence 9.7%, Tower Defense 8.4%
- #45 Autonauts
71% 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: Programming 41.6% ★, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 8.9%, Robots 6.2%
- #46 Algo Bot
72% matchVery Positive82% of 190 reviews2018
Dev: Fishing CactusPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Robots 16.9%, Space 15.6%, Logic 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #47 Tower.defense(): Program The Fight
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SofiaStudio
Windows
Program three distinct towers with readable visual logic, then solve handcrafted tower-defense puzzles where placement, line of sight and every code block matter. No programming experience required.
Why similar: Programming 41.3% ★, Automation 21.3%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Robots 10.4%, Logic 8.1%
- #48 骑士派对
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: ChangGe
Windows
As a lord on the continent of Oren, lead your knights on various adventures!!
Why similar: Auto Battler 26.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12.2%, RTS 10.7%
- #49 Plasma
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,160 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Robots 17.2%, Automation 16.5%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 6.9%
- #50 Auto Arena
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BATTLE LAB
Windows
Auto-battler where you build a mech and have it fight robots in the arena. Buy new weapons, upgrade your mech, and find the best combinations and strategies in order to become the tournament champion!
Why similar: Auto Battler 33.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.1%, RTS 14.1%, Robots 10.5%, Management 10.2%
- #51 Droning On
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ReadOnly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Automation 18%, Artificial Intelligence 15.5%, Robots 13.9%, Logic 7.1%
- #52 Mate in Eleven
69% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: bbsifyPub: HighFrequencyGaming
Windows · Mac
Auto-chess. Position your units, and the engine plays for you. Last player standing wins.
Why similar: Auto Battler 35%, Artificial Intelligence 13.5%, PvP 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%, Management 9%
- #53 Merge Command
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dudindie
Windows
Real-time 1v1 strategy: merge and launch rockets, steal resources, fund research, upgrade silos, automate stuff
Why similar: Auto Battler 43.7%, PvP 14.8%, Automation 14.1%, Artificial Intelligence 12.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #54 Dyson Sphere Program
67% 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 26.7%, Base Building 20%, Space 19%, Building 15.2%, Management 8.5%
- #55 Starbase Tactics
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rough Sector Games
Windows
RTS in a nutshell. Build. Plan. Adapt. Engage. Get the strategic depth of an RTS in short, intense matches.
Why similar: Auto Battler 36.9%, RTS 21.3%, Base Building 12.6%, PvP 12.2%, Strategy 8.6%
- #56 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,173 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 28.2% ★, Robots 19.1%, Automation 13%, Space 12.5%, Building 10.4%
- #57 PlanetForge Protocol
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Railstar GamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 20.3%, RTS 13.2%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Space 10.5%
- #58 Code: Terraform
64% 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: Programming 34.8% ★, Automation 19.3%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Space 12.5%
- #59 Robbie the Robot: Space Puzzles
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Stepanoff Games
Windows
Help Robbie the Robot reach the finish by planning his route in clever space puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 23.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Robots 13.4%, Space 12.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%
- #60 Mindustry
66% 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 25.3%, Base Building 20%, RTS 18.1%, Tower Defense 11.5%, Building 11.4%