- #1 Automation Empire
97% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8%
- #2 Autonauts
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 32.6% ★, Automation 21.5%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 7.2%, Building 6%
- #3 Icaria
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 24.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Robots 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #4 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
95% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Automation 19.5%, Robots 14.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%
- #5 Desynced
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 26.5% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #6 Microtopia
94% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 18.9%, Robots 15%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #7 FOUNDRY
93% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Robots 15.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.5%
- #8 Swarmdustry
92% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #9 Modulus: Factory Automation
91% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 13.1%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #10 Autonauts vs Piratebots
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 526 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Programming 20.5% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Building 9.6%, Robots 8.7%
- #11 Penkura
90% matchVery Positive90% of 202 reviews2018
Dev: LionsArt
Windows
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Programming 22.3% ★, Automation 15.5%, Robots 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%
- #12 Mob Factory
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 8.5%
- #13 Belts of Iron
88% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 12%, Management 7.7%
- #14 JUNKPUNK
89% matchMixed62% of 688 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Robots 14.5%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%
- #15 Outworld Station
86% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #16 AutoForge
86% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11.9%
- #17 Illuminaria
87% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Robots 13.4%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11.6%
- #18 Nova Lands
85% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Robots 15.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #19 Sandustry
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #20 Prospector
84% matchMixed70% 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: Automation 19.1%, Robots 16.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%
- #21 Final Factory
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 10.6%
- #22 The Crust
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.9%
- #23 Faun Town
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Robots 15.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #24 Final Upgrade
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 23%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Robots 9.2%
- #25 Factory Town
80% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 10.9%
- #26 Microtopia: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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%, Base Building 15.5%, Robots 13.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #27 Factorio
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 32.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 6.4%
- #28 Builderment
81% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 11.2%
- #29 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
78% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Building 23%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%
- #30 Satisfactory
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 23.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #31 MegaFactory Titan
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Programming 19.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #32 Golemworks
76% matchVery Positive90% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: evilalbert
Windows · Mac · Linux
Assemble a factory, manufacture golems, and defend yourself from ruin in this strategic automation roguelike.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Robots 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #33 Mechanica
79% matchMixed63% of 640 reviews2020
Dev: Deimos Interactive
Windows
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 37.7% ★, Base Building 17%, Automation 13.1%, Building 12.8%, Robots 12.1%
- #34 Incremental Factory
77% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.2%
- #35 Learning Factory
75% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Artificial Intelligence 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #36 Nightwater
74% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Farming 14.9% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%
- #37 ReFactory
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%
- #38 Widget Inc.
73% matchVery Positive85% of 779 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 36.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, Simulation 6.5%
- #39 Code: Terraform
72% matchVery Positive84% of 310 reviews2026
Dev: AppsMafia
Windows · Linux
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 31.2% ★, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #40 Echoes of the Architects
73% matchVery Positive80% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: GFX47
Windows
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Why similar: Programming 30.9% ★, Automation 18.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.8%
- #41 Captain of Industry
72% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #42 Good Company
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 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 20.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.8%, Robots 11.7%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #43 The Farmer Was Replaced
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,633 reviews2025
Dev: Timon HerzogPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 42.6% ★, Automation 20.1%, Farming 15.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #44 MoteMancer
70% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 12%, Building 9.6%
- #45 Smart Factory Tycoon
73% matchMixed60% of 941 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 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 18.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 13.5%, Automation 12.7%, Robots 12.3%
- #46 Facteroids
71% 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 26.5%, Base Building 19%, Robots 15.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 13.3%
- #47 Rebots
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPonies
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 22.4%, Robots 17.7%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #48 Plan B: Terraform
67% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Management 9.6%
- #49 ALL WILL FALL
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Automation 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.6%
- #50 The Colonists
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Automation 24.8%, Robots 18.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 14%, Management 11.6%
- #51 Techtonica
69% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #52 Atrio: The Dark Wild
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 606 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 15.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
- #53 shapez 2 - Factory
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 13.3%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%
- #54 Chocolate Factory
70% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 11.4%
- #55 Dyson Sphere Program
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 9%
- #56 Outpost: Infinity Siege
68% matchMixed65% of 13,643 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Robots 23.7%, Automation 18%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #57 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
65% matchVery Positive84% of 4,696 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Crafting 22.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Building 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Simulation 8.8%
- #58 Rogue Factory
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 167 reviews2026
Dev: curried_functor
Windows
The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Resource Management 15.9%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 9.5%
- #59 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: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #60 The Signal State
67% matchVery Positive87% of 698 reviews2021
Dev: Reckoner IndustriesPub: iterco
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.
Why similar: Programming 41.5% ★, Automation 27.7%, Robots 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8%, Simulation 7.1%