60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Crafting, Mining, Simulation, Sandbox.
Stranded in the asteroid belt with a broken ship and one working drill. Repair the ship part by part, mine your way back to the stars and grow a lifeboat into an empire. Offline counts exactly like online — no timers, no microtransactions, buy once.
Astario
Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion.
Weird Wormholes
Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.
Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion.
Why similar: Mining 25.8% ★, Space Sim 18.5%, Automation 13.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.4%
Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.8%, Idler 17%, Mining 16.8% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 9.7%
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 32.7% ★, Space Sim 21.5%, Automation 12.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 7.4%
Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Automation 11.8%, Minimalist 8.8%, Crafting 7.7%
Connect nodes to generate, transform, and blend colors in a relaxing factory automation game. Discover new recipes, unlock powerful nodes through research, and design increasingly efficient production networks as your color factory grows.
Why similar: Time Management 19.7%, Idler 19.7%, Mining 19.3% ★, Automation 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Mining 23.3% ★, Space Sim 18.5%, Automation 15.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Mining 23% ★, Space Sim 22.1%, Automation 12.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 22.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Space Sim 16.7%, Automation 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%
The Ignition Protocol is a slow-paced, top-down incremental asteroid-mining game. Fly your ship in zero-g, mine and tow asteroids, transport resources, automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe.
Why similar: Mining 30.7% ★, Space Sim 17.5%, Automation 16.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 7%
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Why similar: Space Sim 25.2%, Mining 23.2% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.2%
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Mining 23.9% ★, Space Sim 22.7%, Automation 19.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
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: Idler 19.4%, Mining 19.2% ★, Automation 18.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 9.9%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 26% ★, Automation 17%, Space Sim 15.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
Uncover a collapsing machine of endless growth, hidden systems, and recursive resets. Generate energy, unlock expansions, recover corrupted records, and descend deeper into the Archive.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.8%, Idler 15.1%, Time Management 13%, Simulation 7.7%, Minimalist 7.2%
Mining Guild Idle is an inventory / resource management based incremental style game featuring 15 to 20 hours of gameplay
Why similar: Mining 25.2% ★, Space Sim 22.1%, Idler 15.9%, Time Management 11.2%, Crafting 8.8%
Command a mining fleet that never clocks out. Train 7 skills, automate them with drones, trade on a player-driven market, and forge the legendary Vanguard hull — all server-side, so your fleet keeps working while you sleep. Log in to progress you actually earned.
Why similar: Mining 21.7% ★, Idler 21.6%, Space Sim 18.7%, Automation 17.2%, Crafting 13.1%
A simulation of rebuilding a planet after it has been almost completely destroyed. Your task is to make the earth fit for human life again. Survive, build and explore!
Why similar: Idler 19.4%, Time Management 16.5%, Automation 15%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10.3%
Build a cozy gold mining business from the ground up. Find as much gold as you can and transform an overgrown plot of land into a thriving mining operation - one gold bar at a time.
Why similar: Mining 34% ★, Cozy 19.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 6.5%
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Time Management 13%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Minimalist 7.9%
Harness the riches of a star system in this incremental game. Unlock new technologies, transform raw materials, build warships and win an interstellar war !
Why similar: Space Sim 29.2%, Mining 28% ★, Automation 16.6%, Idler 12.9%, Cozy 11.4%
Lazy Train Game is a relaxing game about building out your railway, collecting resources, crafting tracks, overcoming obstacles, and unlocking new tracks, scenarios, and engines. Set up your railway in such a way that your trains can do most of the work for you.
Why similar: Idler 20.9%, Automation 18.4%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.1%
Dig deep into diverse biomes, uncover ancient treasures and mine various resources. Craft new tools and build various production structures. Improve your character’s skills and unlock new features as you progress through the game. Manage the resources and create an efficient production chain.
Why similar: Mining 32.1% ★, Idler 19.6%, Automation 15.6%, Crafting 14%, Building 9.4%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 38.5% ★, Automation 18.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.2%
A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.
Why similar: Mining 23.8% ★, Space Sim 22%, Idler 15%, Time Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%
A space-themed incremental game where you manage planets and resources in a quest to dominate the universe with buildings and megastructures.
Why similar: Space Sim 30%, Mining 26.7% ★, Idler 12%, Crafting 8.6%, Futuristic 8.5%
This idle game blends card-based building, resource management, and relaxed gameplay. Expand your village, master sect skills, explore realms, and enjoy offline rewards. Effortless fun awaits—start your journey to immortality!
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Idler 20.6%, Automation 18.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 9%
A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.
Why similar: Space Sim 31.2%, Mining 22.3% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Diplomacy 15% ★, Sandbox 6.9%
Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Mining 23.5% ★, Time Management 17.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Automation 13.6%, Simulation 11.4%
Ever wanted to manage & build your own crypto empire? Trade crypto and invest into new properties to expand your business.
Why similar: Mining 18.2% ★, Idler 15.6%, Time Management 13.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Automation 10.3%
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 34.2% ★, Automation 21.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.3%
After a mysterious accident you are left are stranded, floating through space on a piece of a space station. Craft supplies and Hubs to expand what is now your home. But be warned space is a dangerous places where one mistake can mean certain death. Can you defy the odds and survive in space?
Why similar: Space Sim 32.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.8%, Futuristic 8.8%
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Mining 23.2% ★, Space Sim 19.3%, Automation 16.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
Mine asteroids, trade minerals and chart an endless, procedurally generated galaxy in a relaxed 2D space sim. Then pin it to your desktop as a live wallpaper: your ship keeps flying, mining and discovering while you work
Why similar: Space Sim 38.2%, Idler 22.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Minimalist 9.5%, Casual 7.6%
Build and run your own space company. Launch reusable rockets, complete missions, and run a satellite internet network. Manage your factories and fleet, supply colonies on the Moon and Mars, and work toward terraforming the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Space Sim 24.5%, Automation 14.4%, Time Management 10.9%, Minimalist 6%
Descend into endless layers of resource-rich caves, mine valuable ore, expand your operation with autonomous drones, and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades to push how deep you can go in this minimalistic pixel-art idle/incremental indie game
Why similar: Mining 38.5% ★, Idler 26.4%, Automation 10.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Minimalist 6.9%
Project SWARM: Drone Space Exploration Program. Real-Time Space Simulation.
Why similar: Space Sim 29.2%, Diplomacy 21.8% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Futuristic 7.4%
Take control of The System. Master multiple interlocking power sources to build a singular, planetary engine in this narrative idle game. Features a fully voiced story, minimalist UI, and cross-platform play. The old world must fall for The System to rise.
Why similar: Space Sim 23%, Idler 22.4%, Automation 18.1%, Time Management 9.8%, Minimalist 7.6%
Dig the earth, collect ores and sell them to upgrade your equipment. Explore a mysterious depths. And the deeper you go… the more you realize something ancient has been waiting for you down there, in the dark, for a very long time.
Why similar: Idler 29.8%, Mining 29.3% ★, Exploration 10.1%, Casual 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Mining 17.5% ★, Idler 17.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
Your computer desktop will no longer be just a static background, but a living, breathing ecosphere. You’ll watch plants and animals thrive as fish swim freely across your screen. In your downtime, you can feed the creatures, clean up their waste.
Why similar: Idler 33.7%, Sandbox 16.2%, Automation 15.2%, Simulation 14%, Building 13.2%
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
Why similar: Mining 20.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.9%
Mine ores on your taskbar, craft equipment, and trade the materials you collect on the Steam Community Market in this idle mining game.
Why similar: Mining 36.9% ★, Idler 24.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Time Management 12.1%, Simulation 6.7%
A story-driven incremental game with idle and auto-battler mechanics, inspired by Factorio logistics, Path of Exile itemization, and Eve Online's economy
Why similar: Mining 23.6% ★, Space Sim 19%, Idler 14.5%, Automation 12.3%, Time Management 11.3%
Build physics-driven ships and automated factories block by block in a 2D space survival sandbox. Mine planets and asteroids, program machines, explore a hostile universe and survive solo or with friends.
Why similar: Mining 23.2% ★, Space Sim 22.7%, Automation 17%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Space Sim 27.9%, Mining 16.7% ★, Automation 14.3%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.6%
A casual idle / active-idle asteroid mining game where you fly around mining and make the numbers go UP! Lasers, Drones, a dash of humor, RPG, science, research, crafting, games and more.
Why similar: Mining 27.8% ★, Space Sim 22.7%, Idler 17.1%, Automation 16.4%, Crafting 12.6%
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Why similar: Space Sim 22.1%, Idler 20.8%, Automation 16.3%, Mining 14.7% ★, Crafting 7.3%
A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.
Why similar: Mining 24.7% ★, Automation 15.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Futuristic 10.6%, Building 8.9%
A real-time multiplayer space trading game in a shared persistent galaxy. Haul cargo across a living player-driven galaxy, mine asteroids, colonize and industrialize planets, become a pirate (or a hunt them), or out-trade every other captain - solo or with your friends. PvP & PvE.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.8%, Mining 22.1% ★, Diplomacy 22% ★, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.4%
A first person building game where every problem is solved with pipes.
Why similar: Space Sim 38.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 8.7%, Futuristic 8.1%
Mine resources, forge weapons, sell them for gold, and unlock powerful skills and upgrades. Mine & Forge! is a satisfying incremental game where every upgrade helps you mine faster, forge better gear, and grow stronger.
Why similar: Mining 35.1% ★, Idler 22%, Automation 18.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Simulation 5.4%
Turn a tiny mining ship into a planet-shredding powerhouse. Dig through colorful layers, build game-changing upgrade combos, and let your drones join the fun. Experience this satisfying adventure full of sparkling treasure, adorable wildlife, and enormous buried wonders.
Why similar: Mining 30.1% ★, Space Sim 23.8%, Idler 15%, Cozy 11.5%, Crafting 10.8%
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Crafting 17.4%, Mining 16.1% ★, Idler 14.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
A relaxed incremental mining game about digging deeper, unlocking upgrades, and uncovering ancient artifacts.
Why similar: Mining 43% ★, Idler 27.3%, Automation 12.3%, Minimalist 9.8%, Casual 3.9%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 36.8% ★, Automation 18.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.5%
A cozy zero-gravity mining sim. Cut layered meteors with three tools, fill your retirement fund, and make it to paradise, one quiet shift at a time. No death, no timers, no pressure.
Why similar: Mining 30.4% ★, Space Sim 26.7%, Cozy 14.6%, Minimalist 8.6%, Exploration 4.8%
Terminal Descent is a terminal-based mining incremental game. Upgrade drills, automate operations, smelt metals, and descend deeper. ASCII graphics with active/idle hybrid gameplay in your terminal.
Why similar: Mining 28.4% ★, Idler 21.4%, Automation 15.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.8%
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Why similar: Space Sim 36.9%, Mining 20.4% ★, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.6%
A space sim where you build the industry that produces your rockets, then fly them. Genuinely integrated orbits, aerodynamics solved part by part, procedural planets you can walk. From first mine to first interstellar flight.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.7%, Automation 21.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.4%
A unique take on factory building — design and optimize flowing 3D systems where routing and space are your most valuable resources. Start with guided challenges, then expand into an endless sandbox focused on efficiency, scale, and layout mastery.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Time Management 14.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Futuristic 11.4%, Building 10.8%
