Games Like Beltmatic

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 32.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a refined, minimalist approach to factory automation that mirrors the clean, logic-focused gameplay of Beltmatic.

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 26.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the quintessential minimalist automation game, focusing on geometric processing rather than numbers.

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 32.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of automation games, providing a deep, complex sandbox for building massive, efficient production networks.

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 46.1%, Sandbox 21.1%, Building 17.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Logic 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A Zachtronics classic that challenges you to build complex assembly lines to solve spatial and logic-based puzzles.

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 34.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique visual programming language to automate worker bots, bridging the gap between factory building and coding.

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 29.3%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory builder that rewards careful planning and complex logistical chains in a beautiful 3D environment.

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 65.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Logic 8%, Sandbox 6.4%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game requires you to design intricate mechanical arms to perform chemical transformations, emphasizing logic and efficiency.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 16.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines factory automation with tower defense, forcing you to integrate your production lines with combat logistics.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Education 13%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to build a computer from the ground up using logic gates, perfect for those who enjoy the math-heavy logic of Beltmatic.

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 33.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It scales the automation experience to a galactic level, requiring advanced resource management and logistical planning.

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 23.2%, Idler 13%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends the satisfying progression of idle games with the structural complexity of factory-building games.

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 28.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming automation game that adds a layer of town management and logistical pathfinding to the factory-building genre.

Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.

Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Education 12.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines factory automation with data analysis and machine learning concepts, offering a unique educational twist.

Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Education 17.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on teaching basic programming concepts through the automation of small robots in a survival setting.

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Why similar: Education 34.3%, Automation 33.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Casual 8%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that uses assembly-like programming to manipulate data, directly appealing to the mathematical logic found in Beltmatic.

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Idler 13%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A resource management game that focuses heavily on the economy and market-driven automation.

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 27.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and relaxing automation game that focuses on resource extraction and crafting chains.

Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Why similar: Education 36.7%, Automation 29.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Logic 10.6%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to Human Resource Machine, it expands on logic-based puzzles by introducing parallel processing and more complex commands.

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 19.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Abstract 9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual peer to Beltmatic that focuses on the core mechanics of belt-based resource transport and processing.

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Idler 14.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, minimalist clicker-automation hybrid that focuses on scaling production through simple, repetitive interactions.

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 30%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: An innovative take on the genre where you automate the harvesting of mobs to fuel your factory production.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Automation 55.2%, Education 16.2%, Logic 8.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Requires you to build circuits and write assembly code to solve engineering challenges, appealing to the technical side of automation.

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.

Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 17.2%, Idler 13.6%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual clicker-automation game that focuses on scaling production through simple, incremental upgrades.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Education 25.7%, Simulation 18.9%, Logic 13.5%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore programming puzzle game that focuses entirely on assembly code and mathematical optimization.

Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!

Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Education 20.1%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 12.4%, Family Friendly 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for the construction of complex digital logic circuits, providing a sandbox for those who enjoy the underlying math of automation.

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.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, clicker-inspired resource gathering game that features light automation and base-building elements.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based mining and automation game that emphasizes the physical placement of machines and belts.

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 24.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation of agricultural production, requiring careful planning of logistical belts and planters.

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 24.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9%

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 24.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory builder that offers infinite procedural worlds and complex automation systems.

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 25.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep dive into the management and optimization of a specific, complex manufacturing process.

Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.

Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.4%

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 18.9%, Idler 10.5%, Education 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 29.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 10.3%

Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.9%

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 22.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%

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 33.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 8.3%

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%

This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Idler 22.4%, Abstract 10.8%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 7.1%

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 24.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%

Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.8%

Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.

Why similar: Abstract 35.9%, Idler 33.2%, Strategy 14.1%, Casual 10.3%, 2D 3.8%

A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!

Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Idler 18.7%, Resource Management 16%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 6.3%

Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Idler 20.3%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Minimalist 8.1%

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 26.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%

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 30.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Resource Management 11%, Building 8.1%

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Abstract 17.3%, Education 12.1%, Minimalist 10.7%, Building 8%

Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!

Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Idler 16.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Abstract 11.6%, Building 6.8%

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

Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 12%, Simulation 10.5%, Abstract 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 26.5%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 9.7%

Gridkeeper is an incremental game about managing "Grids" and using their power to run MineBots, research tech, and grow your mining empire by getting better Grids.

Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Idler 20.2%, Abstract 14.6%, Building 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%

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 29.6%, Sandbox 17.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%

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 23.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Idler 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%

A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.

Why similar: Idler 23.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Minimalist 11.2%, Abstract 10.7%, Relaxing 9.4%

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: Automation 30.6%, Education 17%, Idler 14.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.1%

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: Idler 31.5%, Resource Management 19.6%, Building 12.7%, Relaxing 11%, Strategy 10.6%

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...

Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Education 14.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.2%

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.

Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Resource Management 15.2%, Abstract 12.4%, Building 10.5%, Minimalist 9.6%

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 33.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 10.3%, Abstract 9.5%, Logic 6.2%