60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Simulation, Crafting, Base Building.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Autonauts
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.
Nova Lands
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!
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 20.1%, Programming 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Farming Sim 8.6%, Crafting 6.4%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Farming Sim 13.4%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Robots 8.4%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11%, Robots 7.8%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Programming 22.8% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Robots 8.5%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.8%
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 39.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 8.3%, City Builder 6.5%
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 27.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.7%, City Builder 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%
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 28.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.3%
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 23.2%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Programming 17% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 14%, Farming Sim 12.3%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, City Builder 9.5%
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 25%, Crafting 15.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%
Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Farming Sim 20%, City Builder 11.9%, Crafting 11%, Management 6.6%
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Farming Sim 19.9%, Agriculture 16.9% ★, Crafting 9.5%, Building 7.1%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Management 10.3%
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 22.2%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.9%
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 20.1%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Farming Sim 17.6%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Agriculture 12.2% ★, Crafting 7.8%
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 23.7% ★, Automation 21.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Robots 11%, Sandbox 10.4%
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Automation 15.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Crafting 7.6%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 20%, Farming Sim 19.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 8.2%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Crafting 14.5%, Building 10.1%, Management 7.6%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 27.7%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Agriculture 15.1% ★, Farming Sim 14%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 34.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 8.5%, Base Building 7%
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 36.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 8.1%
Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Farming Sim 28%, Building 11.3%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 7.4%
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 27.3%, Farming Sim 13.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 36.8%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.9%
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11.9%, Robots 9.3%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Programming 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
Why similar: Strategy 38.6%, Programming 34.9% ★, Robots 10.7%, Automation 9.5%, Simulation 6.3%
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Farming Sim 19.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.1%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 21%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Farming Sim 16.4%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, City Builder 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Programming 38.5% ★, Strategy 8.3%, Cute 6%, Simulation 5.5%
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 32.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 7.3%
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
Why similar: Automation 40%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 7.6%
Defend your base with placeable towers that can be upgraded endlessly. Automate your production and make sure there's enough power to keep everything running.
Why similar: Automation 49.5%, Strategy 14%, Crafting 11.1%, Casual 9.3%, Relaxing 6.5%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Crafting 13.6%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.2%
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.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 13.9%, Simulation 7.7%
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Crafting 7.8%
Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!
Why similar: Crafting 28.3%, Sandbox 27%, Cute 20.5%, Relaxing 17.5%, Casual 6.7%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 6.6%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 9%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, City Builder 9.1%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%
In this tactical rogue-like auto battler, you'll build your unique team of robots and keep them alive as they fight. Battle through waves of enemies as you travel from planet to planet on a mission to fix the sun. Strategize, protect, survive. A Mechanibot's wrench never rests.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Farming Sim 15.8%, Agriculture 13.1% ★, Crafting 10.5%, City Builder 9%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.6%
A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!
Why similar: Programming 34.1% ★, Sandbox 20.3%, Robots 15.7%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 9.9%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 7.9%
Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Agriculture 18.6% ★, Strategy 7.4%, Building 6.9%
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 29%, City Builder 15.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.5%
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 31.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.3%
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Farming Sim 20.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13%, Management 8.7%
Rigonauts is the fantastical building battle game from Engient. Snap together the ultimate vessel and send your crew of Hobs into battle. With a well designed ship and a clever plan, your crew will smash and blast past an assortment of strange and dangerous foes.
Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Simulation 38.5%, Casual 20.4%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.5%, City Builder 14.3%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.7%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Automation 28.2%, Farming Sim 19.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Simulation 4.4%
