- #1 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 20.8%, City Builder 18.3%, Steampunk 17.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #2 Runeline
96% matchNo user reviews
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: Automation 25%, Programming 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #3 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
96% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 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: Automation 21.8%, Programming 21.2% ★, Robots 14.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%
- #4 ReFactory
95% 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 23.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 15%, City Builder 13.4%, Strategy 9.7%
- #5 One Turret
94% 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 31.8%, Base Building 19%, Robots 14.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #6 Poop Right Now
94% matchNo user reviews
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 29.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Programming 17.3% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #7 City of Robots
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: G11 S.A.
Windows
Play as a super advanced AI- take control over the city of robots and expand your futuristic metropolis. Build your dream city and be the heart and brain of it. Craft technology and equipment for humankind or prepare for war against them.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Automation 17.4%, Artificial Intelligence 16.7%, Robots 16.6%, Base Building 9.5%
- #8 Modulus: Factory Automation
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Futuristic 8.1%
- #9 Autonauts vs Piratebots
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 514 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 23.5%, City Builder 14.3%, Programming 13.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Robots 8.5%
- #10 Spaceflight Factory : Prologue
91% 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 26.8%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 21.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #11 Astral Divide
90% 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 23.5%, Steampunk 17.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Robots 10.6%
- #12 Microtopia: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Robots 11.7%, Crafting 11.2%
- #13 Builderment
89% matchMixed66% of 119 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 29.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #14 Autonauts
88% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 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: Automation 27.8%, Programming 26.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9%, Simulation 6.3%
- #15 Microtopia
86% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 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 20.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Robots 15%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #16 Galaxy Too Far
87% 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 14.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 12.5%
- #17 programming-factory-2
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 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 27.2% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 16.5%, Simulation 5.5%
- #18 Belts of Iron
85% matchNo user reviews
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 24.6%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
- #19 Lichworks
84% 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 29.2%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 14.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #20 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
83% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.2%
- #21 Assignment 42
84% 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 22.9% ★, Automation 22.7%, Robots 18.4%, Artificial Intelligence 18.4%, Strategy 5.1%
- #22 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
82% 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 36.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Simulation 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
- #23 Islandustry
82% 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 29.8%, Base Building 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #24 Final Frost
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, City Builder 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #25 Exark
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Robot Cat LimitedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Exark is an engine builder about building a city aboard a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, staff them with crew members, and maximise your ark's resource production by exploiting powerful synergies. Lead your Great House to safety at the rim of the world.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Automation 20.6%, Steampunk 20.4% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #26 Automation Empire
81% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 30.3%, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 11%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #27 Complex SKY
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Futuristic 9.1%
- #28 Desynced
77% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 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: Automation 23.1%, Programming 22.2% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #29 The Factory Must Grow
79% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Krayno Studios
Windows
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Crafting 13.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Simulation 11.4%
- #30 Cartefact
78% 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 40.7%, Crafting 20.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #31 FluxWerks
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #32 Icaria
77% 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: Automation 22.6%, Programming 21.1% ★, Base Building 15%, Robots 12.6%, Crafting 11.7%
- #33 Techtonica
76% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 30.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #34 BricksPhilosophorum
75% 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. The ultimate goal is to refine the Sage's Stone and turn it into gold.
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Programming 17.4% ★, Crafting 11.1%, City Builder 7.3%
- #35 Main Assembly
76% matchVery Positive84% of 1,337 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 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: Automation 19.9%, Programming 19.8% ★, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Robots 15.7%, Crafting 11.5%
- #36 Arcana Automata
74% 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 32.1% ★, Automation 25.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Robots 9.7%, Simulation 9.3%
- #37 Factorio
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 38.6%, Base Building 23.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, City Builder 8.1%
- #38 Making it Home
75% matchPositive92% of 39 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: Automation 25%, Programming 20.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #39 Airborne Kingdom
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 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 25.5%, Steampunk 24.4% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Relaxing 5.5%
- #40 Automation Station
73% 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 30.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 14.6%, City Builder 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #41 Yuri's Resolve
73% 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 29.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 15.9%, Artificial Intelligence 11.9%, Simulation 7.1%
- #42 Biofactory
72% 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 19%, Crafting 14.3%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #43 River Town Factory: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Base Building 20.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 7.1%
- #44 Kardashev
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #45 The Maker Way
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #46 VELONE
71% 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: Automation 32.1%, Programming 30.5% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Futuristic 7.5%, Relaxing 6.1%
- #47 Factory Town 2: Paradise
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 6.3%
- #48 Substructure
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 17.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #49 Alan's Automaton Workshop
70% 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: Steampunk 31.1% ★, Programming 27.4% ★, Automation 26.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Simulation 4.9%
- #50 Pistonica
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Steampunk 9.4% ★, Sandbox 7.6%
- #51 Paws & Circuits: Reboot Earth
69% 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 32.1%, Artificial Intelligence 18.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Relaxing 8.8%
- #52 Mechanica
70% matchMixed64% of 633 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 29.7% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Automation 16.9%, Robots 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #53 SteamTopia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JoniLagostin
Windows
SteamTopia is a casual, steampunk factory-building game, set in a world where money and factory expansion are the only things that matters. But even in this harsh world friends are important and playing co-op makes everything even better.
Why similar: Steampunk 39.3% ★, Automation 38.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%, Adventure 2.1%
- #54 The Last World
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Erochin
Windows
The Last World is a sci-fi simulation game with elements of space, adventure, survival, modding and automation. The game in which the player has to create his own empire from the ruins of the old one. Mine, build, research and produce!
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Robots 18.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Crafting 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%
- #55 Bitpunky
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: trieckaga
Windows
Bitpunky is a sandbox game of creating and developing your own digital civilization in the middle of a huge virtual space. Explore the outside world, use the resources of the virtual space for improving and automating processes within your futuristic city!
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 7.2%
- #56 Nova Lands
66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 29.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Robots 17.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #57 AGRONOM
67% 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 24.4%, Robots 16.8%, Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.4%
- #58 The Unexpected Quest Prologue
68% matchVery Positive85% of 131 reviews2020
Dev: RionixPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.
Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 10.6%
- #59 Core Splitter
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Splitter Studio
Windows
Automate your factory to fuel a planet-splitting laser drill. Mass-produce mechanized combat units, deploy them in tactical auto-battles to conquer enemy outposts, and route their resources back to your expanding mega-factory. Grow your army and destroy the Runaway Artificial Superintelligence (RAS)
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #60 Plasma
65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,062 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 22.8% ★, Automation 22.7%, Robots 16.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 7.9%