- #1 Satisfactory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 25.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 11%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #2 Factory Town
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 19.8%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #3 Sandustry
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 20.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #4 Orebound
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.4%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.9%
- #5 Modulus: Factory Automation
94% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.2%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #6 FOUNDRY
93% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 21.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.9%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #7 Automation Empire
94% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 23.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Trains 9% ★, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #8 Incremental Factory
92% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 25.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Trains 12.9% ★, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 10.6%
- #9 AutoForge
91% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 21.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #10 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #11 Factorio
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 25.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #12 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
89% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Trains 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 8.5%
- #13 Chocolate Factory
89% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.3%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #14 Captain of Industry
87% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 29.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, City Builder 9.9%, Management 5.9%
- #15 Kubifaktorium
88% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 19.5%, Trains 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%
- #16 MineMogul
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #17 Swarmdustry
86% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Immersive Sim 7.1%
- #18 Voxel Tycoon
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Trains 18.2% ★, City Builder 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #19 FluxWerks
84% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 6.4%
- #20 Eden Crafters
84% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #21 Tower Factory
83% matchVery Positive90% of 1,259 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 23.6%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #22 Outworld Station
82% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, City Builder 9%
- #23 shapez
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 26.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #24 Nova Lands
81% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #25 Factory Town 2: Paradise
79% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Trains 14.1% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.5%
- #26 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.4%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #27 ReFactory
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
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 21.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 14.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Strategy 8.2%
- #28 MoteMancer
78% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
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 23.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #29 TerraTech Worlds
79% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Automation 16.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #30 Outpath
77% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Open World 9.5%
- #31 Deep Crafter
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 13%, Open World 12%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #32 Dyson Sphere Program
75% 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 26.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 9.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, City Builder 8.8%
- #33 Dragon Forge
78% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%, Crafting 8%
- #34 OxyRail
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,086 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-16 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 21.5% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 8.9%
- #35 StarRupture
73% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #36 Mob Factory
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 26.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #37 Builderment
76% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
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 22.7%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 13.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #38 Alchemy Factory
72% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 33%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 8.1%
- #39 Nightwater
73% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows
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 22.3%, Open World 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #40 Final Factory
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 24.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9%
- #41 Beltex
74% matchVery Positive86% of 234 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
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 25.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #42 shapez 2 - Factory
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #43 Beltmatic
71% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #44 Astro Colony
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 24.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8%
- #45 Evospace
73% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #46 Volcanoids
72% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 9.4%
- #47 Center Station Simulator
70% matchVery Positive88% of 577 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Management 8.9%, Building 8.8%
- #48 Stationeers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #49 Vectorio
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 398 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 9%
- #50 Omega Crafter
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 579 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, City Builder 19.2%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #51 JUNKPUNK
71% matchMixed62% of 688 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.4%, Immersive Sim 8.3%
- #52 Voidtrain
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Trains 28% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #53 Desynced
67% 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: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #54 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,909 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Automation 28.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 7.2%
- #55 Elsewhere
67% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.6%
- #56 MegaFactory Titan
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 8.9%
- #57 Food Factory
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mosqi Games
Windows
Food Factory is a game in which players can produce food using various machines, starting by collecting basic products.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Open World 9.1%
- #58 Technicity: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, City Builder 17.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.1%
- #59 Star Birds
64% matchVery Positive92% of 3,164 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 22.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 10.3%
- #60 Railroads Online
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,042 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Why similar: Trains 34.5% ★, Open World 15.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Building 9.4%