- #1 Bottanics
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vyrant Studio
Windows
An automation farming game where you teach a robot through demonstrations instead of writing code. Train its neural network, then watch it adapt to similar situations. Teach. Train. Deploy. Fix. Expand. Repeat.
Why similar: Programming 24.9% ★, Automation 21.5%, Farming Sim 16.9%, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Robots 13%
- #2 Autonauts vs Piratebots
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 517 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 18.5%, Programming 15.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #3 Autonauts
96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 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 31% ★, Automation 22%, Base Building 10.4%, Farming Sim 9.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #4 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
95% matchVery Positive85% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 27.5% ★, Automation 19.3%, Robots 13.5%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.2%
- #5 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 618 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, City Builder 18.1%, Steampunk 17.8% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
- #6 Poop Right Now
94% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: 晓猫
Windows
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Programming 22.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 10%
- #7 programming-factory-2
93% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: KUOKUO
Windows
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #8 ReFactory
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 15.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #9 Faun Town
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 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 19.7%, Farming Sim 17.3%, Robots 14.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.6%
- #10 Runeline
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gnostic Games
Windows · Mac
Design, build, and code a factory within the magical world of Runeline! Work on producing increasingly complex products, which will require you to write not just functional but optimized code, all within the simple instructions of the machine core.
Why similar: Programming 36.2% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #11 One Turret
90% 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 31.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Robots 14.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #12 AGRONOM
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CyberMages
Windows
Farm, build, and automate with robots in AGRONOM, inspired by the best in the automation genre, games like Satisfactory, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, StarRupture and Planet Crafter. Сreate a cozy Martian homestead in Eastern European setting
Why similar: Automation 20%, Farming Sim 14.4%, Robots 14.1%, Artificial Intelligence 13.6%, Base Building 12.5%
- #13 Icaria
89% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
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 26.7% ★, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Robots 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%
- #14 Mycelium Conquest
87% match2 user reviews100% of 2 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 25.8%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 7.1%
- #15 Desynced
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,936 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 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 28.1% ★, Automation 20.1%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #16 Block Line Engineer
88% matchMixed53% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: ElectronDust
Windows
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Programming 26.6% ★, Automation 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, Robots 12.7%, Simulation 11.5%
- #17 Arcana Automata
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grumpy Penguin Games
Windows
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Automation 21.7%, Robots 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 8.1%
- #18 Builderment
85% matchMixed67% of 121 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 28%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #19 import robots
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SP96 Interactive
Windows
Harvest planets with programmable robots. Write real Python to collect every resource on the map, deliver it to your spaceship, and avoid the hazards. Sharpen your problem solving and coding skills, one level at a time. No coding experience needed — learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 33.1% ★, Automation 21.5%, Farming Sim 12.1%, Robots 11.4%, Crafting 9.4%
- #20 Plasma
84% matchVery Positive90% of 1,093 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 28.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Robots 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 6.6%
- #21 Alan's Automaton Workshop
83% matchVery Positive83% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Laputa Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 34.3% ★, Steampunk 28.3% ★, Automation 22.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 4.2%
- #22 Nova Lands
81% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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 24.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Robots 14.9%, Farming Sim 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%
- #23 Mechanica
82% matchMixed63% of 635 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 37.9% ★, Base Building 17%, Automation 14.4%, Robots 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #24 Assignment 42
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 37 reviews2021
Dev: ArriblePub: Mindfire
Windows · Mac
Assignment 42 is a strategic, puzzle-based experience set in a maze of superstructure interiors. Progress by programming a machine to handle fried electrics and fires while you, with the guidance of your partner operator, evacuate every civilian and investigate who is behind the disaster.
Why similar: Programming 30.8% ★, Automation 20.9%, Artificial Intelligence 17.4%, Robots 17.4%, Strategy 4.7%
- #25 BricksPhilosophorum
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 芥语工作室
Windows
[点金方块]BricksPhilosophorum is an automated game that uses an assembly line to study alchemy. The game starts with collecting minerals, purchasing land, unlocking technology, and building automated production lines.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Programming 22.1% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #26 Main Assembly
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 25.6% ★, Automation 17.6%, Artificial Intelligence 15.7%, Robots 14.3%, Crafting 10.5%
- #27 Astral Divide
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sébastien Aoki
Windows · Linux
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Steampunk 18.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%
- #28 Microtopia: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive95% of 118 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 20.9%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Robots 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%
- #29 DumbBots
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Michael Hall
Windows
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Automation 20.6%, Artificial Intelligence 19.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #30 The Farmer Was Replaced
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,430 reviews2025
Dev: Timon HerzogPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.3 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 40.8% ★, Automation 20.7%, Farming Sim 13.5%, Artificial Intelligence 12.3%, Sandbox 4.9%
- #31 Fractal Foundry
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Root Studio
Windows
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Programming 24% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #32 Industrial Petting
78% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Another Yeti
Windows · Mac
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Farming Sim 15.5%, Robots 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.6%
- #33 Airborne Kingdom
77% matchVery Positive87% of 2,369 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Steampunk 23.3% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Relaxing 5.6%
- #34 Paws & Circuits: Reboot Earth
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flame Lashes
Windows
A cozy explovival game where you play a wounded raccoon and his helper drone, cleaning a polluted 4×4 km island, recycling trash, gathering plants and surviving weather, seasons and hunger while slowly rebooting nature.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Artificial Intelligence 17.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Relaxing 8.9%
- #35 Outpath
74% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Farming Sim 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #36 Making it Home
76% matchPositive90% of 40 reviews2021
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Linux
A vehicle building game. Put your engineering, design and creativity skills to the test as you combine simple elements into complex contraptions. Jump around your vehicle to keep it moving and overcome challenges in the campaign, or just relax and build your dream machine in the cozy mode!
Why similar: Programming 27.3% ★, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #37 Dimensional Project
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DarSha
Windows
Travel to multiple completely unique dimensions, gather their unique natural resources, build new structures and buildings, craft high-level materials, and automate everything. In doing so, you will be able to complete your ultimate goal: constructing the "Dimensional Engine".
Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Farming Sim 9.4%
- #38 Assembly Planter
74% matchVery Positive91% of 248 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Farming Sim 17.9%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%
- #39 Lichworks
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rune Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Strategy 7.1%
- #40 Plantile
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #41 Opus Magnum
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,887 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Programming 47.3% ★, Automation 31.4%, Steampunk 9.6% ★, Simulation 5.5%, Sandbox 2.7%
- #42 Islandustry
71% 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 28.9%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #43 Modulus: Factory Automation
68% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 25.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #44 Belts of Iron
71% matchNo user 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 25.8%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #45 VELONE
72% matchMixed42% of 31 reviews2022
Dev: ZAR 21Pub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
VELONE is a creative automation game in which you assemble and program mechanisms to solve logic puzzles. Both relaxing and highly replayable, you save the planet VELONE by creating automated constructs that move and assemble according to your masterplan.
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Automation 29.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Relaxing 6.3%, Atmospheric 4.9%
- #46 Cartefact
70% 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 38.3%, Crafting 19.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 8.4%, Simulation 7.5%
- #47 SUPER BUILD
72% matchVery Positive82% of 241 reviews2019
Dev: MOONBEAR
Windows · Mac
Build, design, and explore your own fantasy world using over 1000+ items, in this relaxing sandbox game. No missions, no objectives, no timers. Just stress-free building, exploration, and good vibes.
Why similar: Farming Sim 28.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Steampunk 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.3%
- #48 Microtopia
68% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 20.9%, City Builder 16.5%, Robots 15.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%
- #49 Factory on a Train
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #50 Spaceflight Factory : Prologue
70% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
Spaceflight: Prologue is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.During this prologue, You will lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 22.3%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #51 Automation Station
68% 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 28.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12%, City Builder 10.7%
- #52 DumbBots: Hello World
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Michael Hall
Windows
DumbBots: Hello World is the FREE introduction to the world of coding a DumbBot. Learn a new skill in 2020, and pickup the basics of coding with drag-and-drop ease in a fun setting. Or show your coding mettle by competing with other DumbBots.
Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 15.6%, Automation 15.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 7.8%
- #53 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 36%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 21.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #54 Droning On
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ReadOnly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Write real Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that don't end well. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie however you like.
Why similar: Programming 35.3% ★, Automation 22.2%, Artificial Intelligence 16.7%, Robots 11.9%, Simulation 4.6%
- #55 Pathless Woods
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.7%, City Builder 19.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #56 Karless
66% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Pagecall
Windows · Mac
A factory automation game where you build vehicle production lines to reconnect a shattered post-apocalyptic continent. Mine raw resources, research new technologies, and build vehicle supply chains — ship them out to reconnect the severed regions of Aris.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Steampunk 14.3% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%
- #57 Automation Empire
69% matchMixed66% of 2,635 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 29.5%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #58 If Red Then Stop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Automation 26.7%, Artificial Intelligence 8.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #59 Yuri's Resolve
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Apothecary Games
Windows
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%, Sandbox 7.9%