- #1 Captain of Industry
97% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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: Base Building 25.6%, Resource Management 22%, City Builder 13.9%, Mining 12.7% ★, Management 9.4%
- #2 Automation Empire
96% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 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: Base Building 23.9%, Mining 17.8% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Simulation 10.4%
- #3 Hydroneer
96% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Mining 33.3% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 12%, Co-op 11.9%, Building 8.2%
- #4 Stationeers
95% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 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: Mining 29.2% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Co-op 10.4%, Management 9.8%
- #5 Good Company
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,782 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Co-op 10.6%
- #6 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 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: Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Building 9.3%
- #7 FOUNDRY
93% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 15.9%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Co-op 12.9%, Building 10.1%
- #8 Out of Ore
92% matchVery Positive86% of 4,000 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
Why similar: Mining 27.6% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.6%
- #9 Planetbase
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,370 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Base Building 30.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 6.9%, Building 6.2%
- #10 Star Ores Inc.
90% matchVery Positive82% of 321 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 35.4% ★, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 8.3%
- #11 Builderment
91% matchMixed67% of 124 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: Base Building 27.7%, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 19.8%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 6.4%
- #12 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 828 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 24.6%, Resource Management 18.2%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 7.8%
- #13 Outworld Station
87% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 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: Base Building 27%, Co-op 15.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
- #14 InfraSpace
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 17.6%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.6%
- #15 Desynced
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,999 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.1 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: City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.2%
- #16 JUNKPUNK
89% matchMixed63% of 681 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: Base Building 22.7%, Building 16.6%, Management 15.9%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Simulation 13.6%
- #17 Dyson Sphere Program
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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: Base Building 29.9%, Resource Management 17.3%, City Builder 16%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.4%
- #18 Factorio
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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: Base Building 34.4%, Resource Management 22.8%, City Builder 10.7%, Management 8.1%, Co-op 7.5%
- #19 Occupy Mars: The Game
84% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Resource Management 19.3%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Co-op 13.1%, Building 11%
- #20 ASTRONEER
84% matchVery Positive92% of 138,510 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 35.3%, Co-op 20.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Building 13.4%, Simulation 5.5%
- #21 The Planet Crafter
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 71,525 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Co-op 16.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Building 13%
- #22 Eco
83% matchVery Positive81% of 13,962 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 89.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Base Building 41.7%, Resource Management 31.8%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Simulation 12.4%
- #23 Facteroids
82% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 24.7% ★, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 8.4%
- #24 MineMogul
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 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: Mining 36.6% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 14%, Building 11.3%, Management 11%
- #25 Per Aspera
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,722 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 9.9%
- #26 Factory Town
80% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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: Base Building 25.7%, City Builder 24.9%, Resource Management 19.1%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 8.3%
- #27 Astro Colony
78% matchVery Positive81% of 2,654 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Base Building 40.3%, Resource Management 24.7%, Building 13%, Simulation 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #28 Common'hood
81% matchMixed51% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Building 14.6%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #29 The Colonists
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,231 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Base Building 18.8%, Management 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #30 Fuel Harvest Together
77% matchMixed70% of 973 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Mining 30.1% ★, Resource Management 14.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 9.8%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
- #31 The Crust
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,637 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 18.8%, Management 10.8%, Building 9.7%
- #32 Microtopia
76% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 16.9%, Management 11.2%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #33 GeoDepths
75% matchVery Positive87% of 302 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Mining 42.9% ★, Base Building 25.3%, Resource Management 21.2%, Building 7.1%, Sci-fi 2.6%
- #34 Pioneers of Pagonia
73% matchVery Positive82% of 5,400 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Co-op 9%
- #35 Starship Theory
75% matchMixed50% of 1,119 reviews2026
Dev: Reconnect Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Starship Theory is a ship building survival game. Mine and trade to gather resources. Plan and construct new upgrades. Train and manage crew. Fight to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 51.6%, Management 17.5%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 8.5%, Sci-fi 4.1%
- #36 Base One
78% matchMostly Negative38% of 478 reviews2021
Dev: PixFrozePub: Blowfish Studios
Windows · Mac
Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!
Why similar: Building 26.2%, Management 25.8%, Simulation 22.8%, Realistic 11%, 3D 8.7%
- #37 Avorion
74% matchVery Positive90% of 14,488 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 99.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Building 28.6%, Management 23.2%, Simulation 18.2%, Third Person 14.9%, 3D 8.2%
- #38 Geo
76% matchVery Positive85% of 183 reviews2017
Dev: Windybeard
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Geo is a game about building and expanding an intergalactic mining corporation. Explore uncharted space and discover comets, moons, Planets and gas giants before heading in and drilling the cash out of them! Expand your HQ, build new rooms and facilities to increase your drilling stats.
Why similar: Mining 43.1% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Management 11.6%, Sci-fi 3.8%
- #39 Software Inc.
74% matchVery Positive94% of 7,733 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 45.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Management 20.9%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Co-op 17.1%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 12.4%
- #40 Space Haven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 10,886 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, City Builder 24.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 12.8%, Building 10.7%
- #41 Mineral Mining Simulator
72% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into fragments, refine it, and scale your operation with better machines and smarter workflow. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Simulation 20.7%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.2%
- #42 Keep Digging
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,191 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
Why similar: Mining 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Co-op 12%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 7.4%
- #43 Starground
71% matchVery Positive82% of 190 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11%, Co-op 9.1%
- #44 Oxygen
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 16.5%, Building 9.2%, Simulation 8.2%
- #45 Alchemy Factory
69% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 26.8%, Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Multiplayer 10%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #46 Prospector
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Base Building 41.1%, Resource Management 32.4%, Building 19%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #47 orbit.industries
73% matchMixed61% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
Why similar: Resource Management 27.3%, Management 19.5%, Building 16.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
- #48 Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
68% matchVery Positive88% of 1,153 reviews2026
Dev: SpaceOpsPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Why similar: Mining 27.7% ★, Resource Management 18.2%, Management 15.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Building 8.6%
- #49 Orebound
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 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: Mining 32.1% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 16%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 7.5%
- #50 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
73% matchMixed50% of 381 reviews2017
Dev: Jim Offerman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 14.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.3%
- #51 Modulus: Factory Automation
67% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Base Building 22.5%, City Builder 22.1%, Resource Management 15.2%, Management 12.9%, Building 12%
- #52 Scrapnaut
71% matchMixed70% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Online Co-Op 22%, Co-op 21%, Building 19%, Multiplayer 12.6%
- #53 Mini Settlers
67% matchVery Positive81% of 720 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 25.1%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.5%
- #54 Urbek City Builder
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,880 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Resource Management 17.9%, Management 14.8%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 9.3%
- #55 Surviving Ceres
67% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Base Building 36.9%, Building 20.1%, Management 19.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Sci-fi 3.6%
- #56 Power to the People
69% matchVery Positive81% of 553 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 13.4%, Building 10.7%
- #57 Space Drilling Station
66% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Resource Management 17%, Management 12.7%, Building 10%
- #58 Survival Vacancy
70% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 8.9%
- #59 Exogate Initiative
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 714 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 16%, Management 12.1%, Building 10%
- #60 Astrometica
64% matchVery Positive83% of 3,131 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Base Building 47.9%, Resource Management 29.6%, Simulation 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Inventory Management 6%