- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,612 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.3 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 26.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #2 shapez
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,551 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 28.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 230,973 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.3 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 31.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #4 Factory Town
95% matchVery Positive91% of 4,445 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 22.7%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%
- #5 Beltmatic
94% matchVery Positive94% of 2,128 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #6 Satisfactory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.9 hrsMean: 110.9 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 29.5%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #7 FOUNDRY
93% matchVery Positive81% of 3,835 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.6 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 24.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.3%
- #8 Plan B: Terraform
92% matchVery Positive91% of 3,529 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 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 25.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #9 InfraSpace
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,922 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.6%
- #10 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,212 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 24.8%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.4%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #11 Modulus: Factory Automation
89% matchVery Positive92% of 770 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 15.3 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 22%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #12 Captain of Industry
90% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 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 32.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 16.6%, City Builder 10.2%, Building 7%
- #13 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 90,956 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 30.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, City Builder 10.2%, Building 9.9%
- #14 Widget Inc.
87% matchVery Positive85% of 758 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 60.6 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 41%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 19.8%, Simulation 4.5%, Top-Down 3%
- #15 MineMogul
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,858 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #16 Astro Colony
85% matchVery Positive81% of 2,634 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.2%
- #17 Automation Empire
88% matchMixed66% of 2,638 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 27.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 10%, City Builder 9%, Building 8.7%
- #18 ReFactory
86% 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 24.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 15.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #19 Autonauts
84% matchVery Positive90% of 4,938 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: Automation 34.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 7.5%
- #20 Outworld Station
82% matchVery Positive85% of 776 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 31.7%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #21 Nova Lands
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,448 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 28.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #22 Incremental Factory
84% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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 30.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #23 Beltex
83% matchVery Positive86% of 229 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10%
- #24 Microtopia
81% matchVery Positive87% of 943 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 22%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 11%
- #25 Kubifaktorium
81% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.1%
- #26 Prospector
80% matchMostly Positive71% 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 24.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11%
- #27 Industry Idle
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,475 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 8%
- #28 Mini Settlers
79% matchVery Positive82% of 708 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.1%
- #29 Learning Factory
78% matchVery Positive86% of 516 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 12%, Building 11.2%
- #30 Star Birds
76% matchVery Positive92% of 2,915 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, City Builder 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%
- #31 Mindustry
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,010 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Base Building 24.2%, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #32 Block Factory
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 262 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 23.7%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 10%
- #33 The Crust
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,605 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 15.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #34 Hydroneer
76% matchVery Positive86% of 28,029 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.5%
- #35 Factory Town Idle
75% matchVery Positive91% of 1,224 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 73.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Resource Management 17.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Management 4.5%
- #36 Alchemy Factory
73% matchVery Positive90% of 2,362 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 32.7%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #37 Orebound
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 933 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 13%, Building 10.2%
- #38 Mob Factory
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 30.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #39 Flotsam
72% matchVery Positive81% of 4,433 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #40 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
73% matchVery Positive85% of 625 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 33.8%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #41 Facteroids
74% 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 26.8%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 10.3%
- #42 Outpath
71% matchVery Positive93% of 3,051 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #43 Chocolate Factory
73% matchMixed55% of 146 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 23.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.3%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #44 Final Factory
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 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 26.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 9%
- #45 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Sandbox 14%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.6%
- #46 MoteMancer
70% matchVery Positive93% of 247 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #47 SteamWorld Build
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,187 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Resource Management 17.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #48 Parcel Simulator
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,541 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 7.1%
- #49 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #50 Mini Settlers: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 12.5%, Transportation 7% ★
- #51 Autonauts vs Piratebots
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 518 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 27.7%, City Builder 15.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #52 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 827 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Automation 17.4%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 10.7%
- #53 Final Upgrade
69% 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 29.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #54 The Colonists
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,228 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 26.7%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #55 Little Big Workshop
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,377 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 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 22.5%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #56 Factory Planner
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 378 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Crafting 20.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Management 5.5%, Strategy 4%
- #57 Skyformer
66% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #58 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
66% 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 38.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 6.1%
- #59 Illuminaria
68% 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 23.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 12.3%