60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Base Building, Sandbox, Building.
Control a swarm of mindless robots to build and automate a factory. Turn these workers into buildings, use them to carry resources, manufacture products and research new technologies. Manage your systems so your machines don't start to think on their own and escape your factory.
RIFT DIGGER
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Automation Empire
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!
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Isometric 9.6%, Robots 8.9%
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 26.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 5.9%
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 31.5%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9%, Strategy 8.4%
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 16.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 5.6%
Ruin and Rebirth is a fantasy open-world factory building game with creature taming and breeding. In this playable creation myth, bring life back to a surreal, shattered, post-divine apocalyptic world where the gods have died.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Comic Book 11%, Sandbox 10.7%
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 6.5%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Building 7.4%
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 28.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 6.6%
Another world is about to become a resource colony for your Creator. Prove your usefulness. Spread your influence across the planet. Take all resources you can reach. Build a base on the surface and in space. Сomplete the construction of an intergalactic beacon to absorb the entire planet.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Robots 10.7%, Resource Management 10%
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 20.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Robots 9.6%
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimise production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
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: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Robots 10.5%
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Strategy 8.9%
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 29.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Mining 6.4% ★, Building 6.1%
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 33.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, Economy 6.8%, Building 4.7%
Automate the arcane! Build spell-powered factories, reclaim ancient territories filled with magical secrets, and discover game-changing technology hidden across procedurally generated worlds. Master both engineering and magic in this cozy fusion of factory automation and RPG progression.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Isometric 9.5%
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 31.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
New from the creators of Worms, Flockers is a modern day take on the classic A to B puzzle genre with a generous helping of dark humour for good measure.
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Isometric 17.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
Stellar Descending is a turn-based factory builder spanning multiple layers. As a scout, design vertical production lines using conveyors, assemblers, and inserters. Use strategy and automation to conquer the planet and uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 13%, Mining 9.1% ★
Clones is a friendly, fun, and engaging evolution to the classic puzzle genre which includes robust internet-multiplayer and a built-in level editor.
Why similar: Lemmings 100% ★
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 6.6%
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 31.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Procedural Generation 5.6%
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 26.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Robots 12.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 6.3%
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Strategy 7.1%
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 23.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Isometric 9.5%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Robots 8.4%
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 5.5%
You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to ensure the automatic production of the necessary resources and their dispatch. It would seem that what could go wrong?
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Isometric 12.7%, Building 7%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 44.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Robots 10%, Simulation 8.3%
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 41%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 17.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 34%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 16.5%, Sandbox 11%, Building 7.3%
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Mining 8.5% ★
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: Automation 21%, Robots 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
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 25.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 12%, Isometric 10%
Toggle Cubes is a game where you have to guide people to the stars by toggling cubes on and off. You have to overcome monsters, fireballs, and spikes by using keys and teleports.
Autumn is quickly approaching, and the spirits of fallen leaves are setting out on their journey home. Guide them by changing how the wind blows or by rebuilding the ground.
Why similar: Lemmings 92.8% ★, Strategy 6%, Atmospheric 1.2%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Strategy 11.8%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Mining 10.2% ★
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 21.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Robots 13.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Automation 12.3%, Robots 9.8%
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 29.7%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 6.9%
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 37%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 15.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 3.7%
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
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 32.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 6.6%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 7.4%
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 33.9%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 16.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 5.3%
A crafting colony sim that feels like coming home. A warm campfire, the cutest animal villagers, the curiosity of putting two items together and seeing what comes out. Craft, build, automate, and explore the ancient tunnels down below.
Why similar: Lemmings 51.9% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 8%, Simulation 5.3%, Building 5.2%
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 39.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 17.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 7%
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
Construct, maintain, manage and upgrade the fleet of your space robots in this sandbox crafter. Build the base, gather resources and automate to succeed in your mission in a unique robotic spacesim.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Artificial Intelligence 15.5%, Robots 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.3%
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 25.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Robots 14%, Mining 9.6% ★, Economy 7.9%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Base Building 21%, Robots 14.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 9%
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Robots 13.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Robots 12.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Lemmings 23.8% ★, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
