- #1 Islandustry
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Management 7%
- #2 Automation Empire
96% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9%, Economy 7%
- #3 Outer Factory
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #4 Builderment
95% matchMixed66% of 119 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 26.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #5 Potion Pipeline
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #6 FACTO
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 10.3%, Capitalism 9.7%
- #7 Factorio
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 31.8%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%
- #8 Astral Enterprises
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
Design, build, and optimize intricate, space-efficient factories in a unique grid-based puzzle system. Master complex supply chains and dominate a living interstellar economy to build your corporate empire. Conquer the cosmos alone or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 11.4%, Economy 10.4%
- #9 Automation Station
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%
- #10 Captain of Industry
91% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 30.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 16%, Economy 8.3%, Management 7.3%
- #11 shapez
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 29%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #12 Modulus: Factory Automation
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 8.6%
- #13 Techtonica
88% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 25.7%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #14 Forge Industry
89% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Management 8.5%
- #15 MegaFactory Tycoon
87% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 8.8%, Management 7.9%
- #16 Complex SKY
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Economy 8%
- #17 Factory Town
85% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 22.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #18 Little Big Workshop
86% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Resource Management 13%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Building 8.7%
- #19 Software CEO
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Management 11.8%, Economy 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #20 Substructure
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #21 Cartefact
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 15.7%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #22 Property Pro
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build or purchase a property and manage it effectively. Make strategic decisions to maintain and improve the property, and address any issues that arise.
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Capitalism 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #23 TowerLine
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
Windows
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #24 Kingdom Workshop
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Economy 9%
- #25 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 21.9%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Economy 9.9%
- #26 Macaronpolis
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lemiraum
Windows
Macaronpolis is a simulation game where you design your own ultimate factory. Start from scratch and become a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Capitalism 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #27 One More Turret
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 10%, Management 8.7%
- #28 Good Company
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,764 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Economy 9%
- #29 Factory Town 2: Paradise
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.7%, City Builder 8.8%, Economy 8.4%
- #30 MoteMancer
77% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
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 26.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #31 Lichworks
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rune Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%
- #32 Doodle Factory
77% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, City Builder 9.7%
- #33 Chip Crafters
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nullable Pandas
Windows
Factory Automation game that takes simulation to new heights! Dive into a world where you have the power to turn your small CPU factory into a world-leading factory, becoming a pillar in the global economy.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13%, Economy 9.7%, Capitalism 8.7%
- #34 ReFactory
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 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 25.1%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 8.2%
- #35 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 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 24.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8.8%
- #36 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
76% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Economy 12.1%, Management 10.8%
- #37 Pistonica
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #38 Chocolate Factory
74% matchMixed54% of 139 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 24.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 8.8%
- #39 Factory Trashcension
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #40 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HatchStudio
Windows
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 10.5%, Crafting 10%
- #41 Mob Factory
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 30.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #42 Factory Magnate
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 8.9%
- #43 Jigsaw Industry
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%
- #44 Proto Garden
72% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #45 Industry Idle
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 21.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 7.1%, City Builder 7%
- #46 Kardashev
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 10%
- #47 shapez 2
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 26.6%, Base Building 13%, Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #48 Constructed
70% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Project
Windows
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #49 Factoriant
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Management 7.3%
- #50 Dyson Sphere Program
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 31.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.1%
- #51 Poop Right Now
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 晓猫
Windows
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #52 Greedy Little Kingdoms
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.5%
- #53 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Base Building 20.6%, City Builder 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.4%
- #54 Assembly Planter
70% matchVery Positive91% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
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 22.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #55 Krasnaya Factory
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #56 Nightlife Tycoon
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: Resource Management 16.6%, Management 14.8%, Economy 12.4%, Building 11.6%, Automation 10.9%
- #57 Alchemy Factory
65% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9.4%
- #58 iCorp
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Capitalism 11.9%, Economy 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #59 Mito
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #60 Truck City
65% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, City Builder 9.1%