- #1 RIFT DIGGER
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Osama Ahmed
Windows
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 18.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Isometric 9.5%, Robots 8.8%
- #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: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 5.9%
- #3 Mito
96% 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 31.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #4 Ruin and Rebirth
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andrew Teo, Adam TeoPub: AT-AT Games
Windows
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 24.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Isometric 10.1%
- #5 BOREWORKS
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
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 26.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Mining 9% ★, Procedural Generation 7.6%
- #6 plexum
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
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 31.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7.3%
- #7 Factory Magnate
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2026
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 28.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 6.5%
- #8 Galaxy Too Far
92% matchMixed58% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: BonaDies
Windows
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 19.4%, Artificial Intelligence 14%, Base Building 12.2%, Robots 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #9 Good Company
91% 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: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Robots 9.4%
- #10 Astral Enterprises
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, Economy 8.5%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #11 Rafting Factory
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
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 35.1%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 8.8%
- #12 Captain of Industry
89% 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: Automation 33.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 18.1%, Economy 6.9%, Simulation 4.6%
- #13 Facteroids
89% 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: Automation 23%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Robots 10.3%
- #14 Potion Pipeline
88% 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 29.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 10.2%
- #15 TowerLine
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 29.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #16 shapez
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 32.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Procedural Generation 5.6%
- #17 新星下行
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: abys
Windows
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 33.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 15.3%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #18 Flow Factory
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
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 28.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Mining 9% ★
- #19 Factorwave
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
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 34.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 6.5%
- #20 One More Turret
84% 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 26.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #21 Arcaneering: Beyond Automation
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sundrop Games
Windows · Linux
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 28.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Isometric 9.4%
- #22 Final Upgrade
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 457 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 26.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Robots 8.2%
- #23 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 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 23.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Isometric 9.3%
- #24 Clipper
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Sandbox 13%, Robots 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 6.2%
- #25 Flockers™
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 229 reviews2014
Dev: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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.
Why similar: Lemmings 96.8% ★, Strategy 3.2%
- #26 Kardashev
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
Kardashev is an open-world, procedurally generated, factory building game, set amongst a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission is to harness energy and ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 7%
- #27 Outer Factory
79% 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 28.7%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 5.4%
- #28 Clones
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 398 reviews2010
Dev: Tomkorp Computer Solutions Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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% ★
- #29 Manaftory
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
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 41.4%, Resource Management 18.1%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%
- #30 Total Factory
78% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Total Craft Games
Windows
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 20.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13%, Isometric 12.5%, Building 6.9%
- #31 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: Automation 21.4%, Robots 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #32 Infindustry
78% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
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 25.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Mining 8.5% ★
- #33 Block Factory
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
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 25.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Isometric 9.9%
- #34 Little Big Workshop
77% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #35 Smart Factory Tycoon
76% matchMixed61% of 909 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 16.4%, Resource Management 15%, Automation 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Robots 9.6%
- #36 Shape Together
73% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
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 28.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 11.7%
- #37 Industronaut
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
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 25.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Mining 10.2% ★
- #38 FOUNDRY
74% 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: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Robots 13.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #39 Islandustry
74% 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 30.1%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 6.9%
- #40 Factorio
73% 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: Automation 37.4%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 16.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Strategy 3.6%
- #41 Dyson Sphere Program
72% 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: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 6.5%
- #42 Mycelium Conquest
70% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
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 29.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 12.2%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #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 34.3%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 16.9%, Sandbox 14%, Strategy 5.3%
- #44 Automation Station
71% 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 29.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 7.3%
- #45 Cartefact
71% 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 40.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 17.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #46 Toggle Cube
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: NanningsGames
Windows · Linux
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.
Why similar: Lemmings 85.1% ★, Isometric 13.3%, 3D 1.6%
- #47 Bot Crafter
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Dreams
Windows
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 19%, Artificial Intelligence 15.4%, Robots 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #48 Mycelium Conquest: Mitosis
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
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 33.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Procedural Generation 6.5%
- #49 iCorp
69% 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 26.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Robots 13.8%, Mining 9.6% ★, Economy 8%
- #50 Spirits
73% matchMixed68% of 263 reviews2012
Dev: Spaces of Play UG
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 92.7% ★, Strategy 6.1%, Atmospheric 1.2%
- #51 Tinkernest
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: starbi
Windows
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 51.1% ★, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 8%, Simulation 5.3%, Building 5.2%
- #52 One Turret
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Kaplin86
Windows · Linux
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Robots 14%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 9%
- #53 Rebots
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
Windows
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 22.3%, Robots 13.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #54 Final Factory
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #55 Factoriant
68% 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 33.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 15.5%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Sandbox 8%
- #56 Property Pro
67% 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 17.8%, Artificial Intelligence 14.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 11%
- #57 Idlings
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
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: Automation 24.1%, Lemmings 23.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #58 Factories in Factories in Factories
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Abe Wits
Windows · Linux
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Base Building 20.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #59 PlanetForge Protocol
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Railstar GamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.4%
- #60 Biofactory
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Economy 5.3%