Games Like Buried Cargo

Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.

Why similar: Programming 17.6% ★, Automation 15.2%, Mining 11.8% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Underground 8.8% ★

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 17.3%, Mining 16.7% ★, Underground 13% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8%

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: Programming 21% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%

A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.

Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Mining 16.8% ★, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%

Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.

Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Mining 15.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%

"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 22.2%, Programming 17.4% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 11%

Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.

Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.3%

Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!

Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 9.7%

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 22.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Mining 10.4% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.

Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Mining 12.1% ★, Crafting 9.8%

A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.

Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%

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 25.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%

Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.

Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%

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 21.3%, Mining 14% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.

Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Automation 14.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 7.9%

Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.

Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 7.4%

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: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%

Build your own mining company in the coal region of Grubental! Construct your colliery above ground, descend into procedurally generated depths, and operate over 15 heavy machines. Master mine statics, infrastructure, complex transport networks, and sell your coal on dynamic markets.

Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Underground 23.6% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 7.1%

A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.

Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Mining 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 28.8% ★, Automation 23%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Resource Management 6.5%

The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.

Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Mining 13.3% ★, Automation 13.1%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!

Why similar: Hacking 20.3% ★, Automation 17%, Programming 14.3% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%

Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10%

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 20.2%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%

Explore a forgotten archipelago of floating islands. Gather resources, build and automate production, and link islands into a thriving trade network — until the sky belongs to you.

Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Mining 18.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 10.4%

Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 8.9%

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 22.4% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 22.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%

What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!

Why similar: Programming 26.4% ★, Automation 23.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 11.2%, Puzzle 7.3%

Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!

Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.

Why similar: Programming 27.1% ★, Hacking 22.1% ★, Automation 19.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8%

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 31.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

Explore a fully destructible procedural world made of millions of physics-driven blocks. Simulate water, lava, and steam, extract resources, build freely, and trade your materials. Every random seed creates a unique experience.

Why similar: Mining 21.5% ★, Underground 18.5% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.3%

In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.

Why similar: Hacking 29.8% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Automation 19.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Puzzle 4.7%

Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.

Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9%

Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

Why similar: Programming 23.5% ★, Hacking 22.9% ★, Underground 20.2% ★, Automation 17.9%, Puzzle 5%

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 29.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%

CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.

Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.5%

Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.

Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 7.5%, Sandbox 7.4%

Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.

Why similar: Mining 22% ★, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%

Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.

Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 10.5%

CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.

Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 10.6%

[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 25.5%, Programming 17.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 8.8%

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 28.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.4%

Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.

Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.5%

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 21.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 9.7%

LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science

Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Mining 17.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Why similar: Programming 36.2% ★, Hacking 25.8% ★, Automation 17.2%, Text-Based 10.9%, Sandbox 3.2%

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 24.4%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 26.3% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%

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 22.3% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Programming 28.9% ★, Automation 24.3%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12%, Puzzle 10%

Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.

Why similar: Programming 24.4% ★, Hacking 18.3% ★, Automation 18%, Text-Based 14.3%, Crafting 10.5%

Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!

Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8%

An automation roguelite where single-use JunkDroids turn out to be surprisingly useful: automate production network, rebuild a broken world piece by piece, and stop the Goofy Goo before it consumes everything. Play solo or in coop.

Why similar: Programming 23.1% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9%

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 27.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%

Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!

Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Mining 14.8% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Mining 16.7% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!

Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%

Design and expand your own data center. Manage clients. Negotiate offers. Setup and configure servers. Keep track of server maintenance and monitor their conditions. Every server counts in this strategic simulator of the digital backbone of our world.

Why similar: Hacking 27.4% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.6%