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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Singleplayer, Casual.

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Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy

Reviews: Mostly Negative — 34% — of 50 reviews
Released: 2017-04-24
Developer: Colossal Wreck
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.4 hrs
Mean playtime: 214.6 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 95%

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    97% 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.

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  2. #2 Block Factory
    96% matchMostly Positive78% of 262 reviews2025
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    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.

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  3. #3 Little Big Workshop
    96% 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: Management 16.4%, Economy 16.4%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 10.4%

  4. #4 Candy Shop Simulator
    95% matchMixed65% of 85 reviews2025
    Dev: Games Incubator
    Windows

    Dive into a sugary world of sweetness in Candy Shop Simulator! Open your shop, create delectable pastries, manage sales, and expand your candy empire. Satisfy your sweet tooth and build your confectionery legacy now!

    Why similar: Economy 28.8%, Management 24.6%, Cute 11%, Relaxing 10.2%, Simulation 8.6%

  5. #5 Freshly Frosted
    94% matchVery Positive99% of 373 reviews2022
    Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

    Why similar: Building 21.6%, Relaxing 16.5%, Cute 14.2%, Colorful 9.9%, Strategy 9%

  6. #6 Chocolate Factory
    94% 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!

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  7. #7 Incremental Factory
    93% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
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    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!

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  8. #8 Candy & Toys Store Simulator
    92% matchVery Positive83% of 196 reviews2024
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    Windows

    Run your own candy and toys store. Order supplies, receive deliveries, stock shelves, hire employees, set prices, and expand your business. Unlock a Gaming Club across the street, place arcade machines and billiard tables, set profits, and collect earnings.

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  9. #9 Node Math
    91% matchMostly Positive76% of 79 reviews2025
    Dev: ByerN
    Windows

    Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!

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    91% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2024
    Dev: Faith G.
    Windows
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

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  11. #11 Beltmatic
    89% matchVery Positive94% of 2,128 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

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  12. #12 Tiny Vending Machines
    90% matchMixed65% of 83 reviews2025
    Dev: Frozen Logic Studios
    Windows

    Tiny Vending Machines is an idle pixel art game that runs at the bottom of your screen. Buy and upgrade vending machines, stock them with drinks, snacks, and more, and keep customers happy. Automate your machines at higher levels and grow your vending empire while you work or study!

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  13. #13 Industry Idle
    89% 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: Idler 19.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 13.6%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

  14. #14 Learning Factory
    88% 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.

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  15. #15 Idle Gumball Machine
    87% matchVery Positive92% of 197 reviews2026
    Dev: Antique Gear Games
    Windows

    Plinko-style INCREMENTAL game. Shoot gumballs at gears and buy upgrades to make bigger and bigger numbers until you break the game! Short, sweet, relaxing, and addictive!

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  16. #16 Tiny Isle
    86% matchVery Positive92% of 156 reviews2026
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    Windows

    Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.

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    84% matchVery Positive90% of 377 reviews2026
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

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  18. #18 Coin Factory
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%

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    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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  22. #22 Boba Simulator : Idle Shop Management
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    Windows · Mac
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows
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  29. #29 Sixty Four
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive83% of 606 reviews2024
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    Windows
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  37. #37 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
    74% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 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! The free prologue for the full game!

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  38. #38 Idle Baker Boss
    74% matchMostly Positive74% of 159 reviews2025
    Dev: Doopwee Games
    Windows

    Grow your bakery franchise and manage bakeries in this cute idle tycoon game with over 150 desserts, 100+ in game awards, daily challenges, skill tree system, events each month with unique desserts and much more...

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  39. #39 FEED THE QUEEN
    73% matchMostly Positive72% of 465 reviews2026
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    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  40. #40 Food Processing Simulator
    72% matchVery Positive89% of 309 reviews2026
    Dev: Bewolba Studios
    Windows

    Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

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    76% matchMixed49% of 919 reviews2020
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    Windows
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  42. #42 Indoorlands
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 272 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    71% matchVery Positive86% of 127 reviews2026
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    Windows

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    72% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
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    Windows
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    70% matchVery Positive84% of 419 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    71% matchMixed64% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Lake Country Games
    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive83% of 82 reviews2024
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  54. #54 Factory Planner: First Sparks
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  55. #55 shapez 2 - Factory
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,612 reviews2026
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    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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  56. #56 Piñata Go Boom
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    67% matchVery Positive93% of 126 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build amazing marble contraptions with IncrediMarble! Enjoy idle incremental tycoon sandbox simulation gameplay with the best physics Unity can offer. It's like that old toy you had as a kid!

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