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 30.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 10%

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 27.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%

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 34.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%

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 48.1%, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 17%, Simulation 7.4%, Logic 3.2%

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 35.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 30.3%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 67.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Logic 7.2%, Sandbox 6.3%, Building 5.1%

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

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 35.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.8%

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

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

Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 18.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 7.2%

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: Education 33.5%, Automation 29.4%, Logic 11.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 8.1%

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.

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 24%, Idler 13.6%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.6%

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 29.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.5%

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 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 20.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Education 12.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%

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

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 24%, Base Building 14.1%, Idler 13.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 7.8%

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

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: Automation 36.1%, Education 32.3%, Simulation 9.8%, 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.

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 20.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Idler 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 32.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Idler 14.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 8.7%

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

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 27.4%, Education 16%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%

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

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%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

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

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 31.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%

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

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 35%, Automation 32.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Logic 9.6%, Indie 4.3%

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.

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 36%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 17.4%, Idler 14.3%, Simulation 5%

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

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Automation 57.7%, Education 14.9%, Logic 7.8%, Simulation 7.2%, Sandbox 5.9%

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.

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 37.9%, Education 24.4%, Simulation 19.3%, Logic 12.6%, 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 32.6%, Education 20.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 5.2%

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.

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%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%

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

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 25.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%

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

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.1%

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 25.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Idler 9.4%

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

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 26.5%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.1%

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

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 19.9%, Idler 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Education 9.1%

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 27.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 8.1%

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

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 27.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.6%

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 23.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%

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 29.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 28.6%, Idler 23.1%, Abstract 10%, Sandbox 7.7%, Simulation 6.9%

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 35.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 8.1%

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 28%, Idler 20.9%, Resource Management 15%, Crafting 10.2%, Minimalist 7.7%

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Idler 19.5%, Resource Management 16.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Minimalist 10.9%

An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.3%

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: Idler 34.8%, Abstract 34.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Casual 10.1%, 2D 3.7%

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

Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Idler 17.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Abstract 11.1%, Building 6.6%

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 21.9%, Idler 21.1%, Abstract 13.9%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 11.2%

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 26.9%, Resource Management 16%, Abstract 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Minimalist 9.4%

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 26.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 8.8%, Minimalist 8.6%

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Idler 20.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8.7%

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Abstract 16.8%, Education 11.4%, Minimalist 10.6%, Building 7.8%

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 31.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 7.7%

A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Idler 19.5%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 6.5%

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 30.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.9%

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 27.9%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 9.5%

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%, Idler 15.9%, Education 15.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

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

Why similar: Idler 24.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Minimalist 10.8%, Abstract 10.1%, Strategy 9.3%

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 32.9%, Resource Management 20.4%, Building 12.1%, Relaxing 10.6%, Strategy 10.2%

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11%

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 34.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Education 11.1%, Building 8.4%

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 28.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Resource Management 16%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Building 10.8%

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Minimalist 7.8%