- #1 Industry Idle
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 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: Hex Grid 18.9% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, Automation 18%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 7%
- #2 NationForge
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Transportation 29.6% ★, Automation 23.7%, City Builder 19.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #3 Saimai Rd
96% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: MakhamDev
Windows
Grow a city with your transport system in this minimal logistic management game!
Why similar: Transportation 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Hex Grid 19.7% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Building 8.9%
- #4 City Masterplan
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1:1 Studio
Windows
Break the grid and build a true 1:1 scale metropolis. City Masterplan is a realistic city builder where traffic, citizens, and economy form a fully simulated system. Design complex road networks freely, manage real congestion, and shape a city through the decisions you make.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Transportation 16.5% ★, Automation 13%, Simulation 12.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #5 Infindustry
94% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
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 24.1%, Transportation 23.8% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #6 FluxWerks
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Transportation 23.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 6.2%
- #7 City Painter
93% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Blunix Games
Windows
Advanced city simulator with minimalist "Paint" graphics. Build complex intersections, edit traffic rules, and solve traffic jams without melting your PC.
Why similar: Transportation 26.7% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Simulation 12%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #8 Plan B: Terraform
92% matchVery Positive91% of 3,542 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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: Transportation 24.8% ★, Hex Grid 21.5% ★, Automation 20.9%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 6.5%
- #9 Truck City
91% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Transportation 26.6% ★, Automation 21.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 8%
- #10 Monster Shopper
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheShelfman
Windows
The Monster Market is back open! Use automation to assemble monster parts into the proper monsters, and keep your customers happy. A fun, relaxing, and challenging puzzle game where you have full control over how difficult it gets.
Why similar: Transportation 34.9% ★, Automation 22.8%, Building 14%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #11 It Sprawls
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kubaxent
Windows · Mac · Linux
It Sprawls is a casual city builder where you try to create the biggest city possible on a forever expanding hexagonal map - place housing, industry, and infrastructure such as railroads, to keep the expansion going for as long as possible!
Why similar: Hex Grid 37.7% ★, Transportation 31% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Building 5.3%, Casual 1.8%
- #12 Islandustry
89% 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 29.7%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 12%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 8.3%
- #13 Rail Route
88% matchVery Positive89% of 2,523 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 117.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Transportation 22.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Education 13.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 8.5%
- #14 Digit Factory
89% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Light Game
Windows
《Digit Factory》 is a game that allows you to give full play to your creativity and enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own pipeline to perform calculations on various combinations of numbers. In the endless demand, find a design that responds to changes with the same. Come , challenge your mind!
Why similar: Transportation 33.5% ★, Automation 31.5%, Building 10.3%, City Builder 8%, Simulation 5.7%
- #15 Intergalactic Transfer Station
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build & manage your Intergalactic Transfer Hub. Receive travellers and dock ships. Help passengers transfer, but also control them. Expand hub, build shops, take care of everyone's needs. Increase profits, change taxes. But beware: dangerous diseases and asteroids may alter your plans!
Why similar: Transportation 20.9% ★, Automation 20%, Simulation 15.2%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 10.3%
- #16 Builderment
86% matchMixed67% of 124 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 30.8%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Transportation 10.4% ★
- #17 ROADS: Tangled in Traffic
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SamPub: Super Swine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The city is strangled by its own explosive growth. Identify the chokepoints, invest in infrastructure, and redesign the network. One well-placed roundabout could nurse it back to life. Can you relieve the pressure and let prosperity flow as freely as the traffic?
Why similar: Transportation 39.1% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Simulation 12%, Management 12%, Building 11.5%
- #18 Civilize
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NCAT
Windows
From the first stone tool to the first starship. One city carries an entire civilization across eight ages. Civilize is the first CivForge: a city-builder where multiple islands and 100+ resources let you forge an arc of human history that is entirely your own.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Transportation 23.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 10.5%
- #19 Mini Settlers: Prologue
84% 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 23.3%, Transportation 22.7% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Simulation 7.2%
- #20 Outer Factory
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Transportation 21% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.4%
- #21 LandPort
84% matchMixed42% of 26 reviews2022
Dev: Prairie Game
Windows · Linux
Today, the intelligent revolution is taking place. Release in the field of art and design and industry has become the focus of research in art and technology majors. The theme of the project is "Creating the future" is a response to the times when the intelligent revolution is taking place.
Why similar: Transportation 29.4% ★, Automation 18%, City Builder 17.2%, Education 17%, Management 7.9%
- #22 FLOWORKS
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QUENCH FORGE
Windows
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Transportation 25.5% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 6.9%
- #23 Modulus: Factory Automation
79% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 26.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 12.8%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #24 Scorchlands
81% matchVery Positive90% of 135 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Hex Grid 34.7% ★, Automation 18.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 7.3%
- #25 Airport CEO
81% matchVery Positive83% of 8,268 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 21.7% ★, Automation 18.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #26 Cities in Motion 2
82% matchMixed58% of 2,500 reviews2013
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Why similar: Transportation 43.6% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Management 12.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #27 Baklava Simulator2
80% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Diony Station
Windows
In Baklava Simulator 2, you're in control of your baklava shop. Upgrade, create delightful treats, and serve customers strategically. With customizable features, security, and entertainment, this game is where flavor meets management. Dive into Baklava Simulator 2 and build your baklava empire! 🌟🥮
Why similar: Transportation 29.4% ★, Automation 21.5%, Education 19.9%, Building 11.7%, Survival 11.2%
- #28 Technicity: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive83% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, City Builder 20.1%, Transportation 16.6% ★, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #29 Factory Life
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
Factory Life is a factory simulation from a worker’s perspective, where you start alone in a small garage and grow into a modern manufacturing operation inspired by real-world production hubs. Build products, manage your team, and scale up through smart automation.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Education 18.1%, Building 10.8%, Immersive Sim 9%, Sandbox 9%
- #30 Energy Manager
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Create, manage and grow your energy empire and network in this energy simulator tycoon. Energy Manager is among the most realistic of the strategy genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Why similar: Transportation 19.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Hex Grid 15.9% ★, Automation 13.7%, Building 9.6%
- #31 Greedy Little Kingdoms
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, City Builder 20.5%, Hex Grid 15.3% ★, Building 12.6%, Management 8.2%
- #32 ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Donsen Games
Windows
A professional-grade road design sim built on real-world maps. Recreate complex interchanges and iconic highways 1:1, engineer custom solutions with real workflows, and drive what you design.
Why similar: Transportation 23.8% ★, Automation 17%, Education 16%, City Builder 15.5%, Building 8.3%
- #33 Sebil Engineering
76% matchVery Positive98% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: FrogStore
Windows · Mac
Sebil Engineering is a game about fixing roads. Use your wrench and hammer to engineer the perfect traffic jam. Play in overhead view or first person in this realistic Civil Engineering simulator.
Why similar: Transportation 30.6% ★, Education 20.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Destruction 12.6%, Building 12.1%
- #34 Karless
75% match7 user reviews75% of 7 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 32.7%, Transportation 25.1% ★, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
- #35 Country Architect
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Transportation 20.5% ★, Building 11.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #36 Deep Space Directive
75% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.8% ★, Automation 20.5%, City Builder 17.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 9.6%
- #37 National Transit
73% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: NationQ Studio
Windows · Mac
A sandbox strategy game. Build your nation's transport network, grow your economy, and raise your people's prosperity. Every map is procedurally generated and unique.
Why similar: Transportation 24.5% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Immersive Sim 9.7%
- #38 Factory Town
74% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.6%, Transportation 17.4% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.6%
- #39 InfraSpace
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 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: Transportation 27.7% ★, Automation 21.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #40 Jammed
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Szaloki Sandor
Windows
You are a traffic engineer. Draw roads and bridges, connect growing districts, and watch your city come alive. Design efficient interchanges and avoid traffic jams.
Why similar: Transportation 42.9% ★, Building 13.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 11.4%, City Builder 10%
- #41 Subway Builder
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Building 14.7%, Automation 14.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 10.9%
- #42 Doodle Factory
72% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, City Builder 20.4%, Building 12%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #43 All Lanes Must Exit
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Map Edge Studio
Windows
Build a highway interchange to connect all the roads. Don't go over-budget and don't have traffic jams. Can you complete all the levels? Yes, easily, it's not a particularly demanding game.
Why similar: Transportation 45.9% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Building 12%, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #44 Block King Demands Red Squares
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parrexion Games
Windows
Automate a network of towns producing the required shapes for the ever fickle Block King while keeping the citizens happy. Remember, if you fail, you will get fired.
Why similar: Transportation 36% ★, Automation 27.9%, Building 11.1%, Management 7.3%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #45 Ridiculous Shipping
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crowfriend
Windows · Linux
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: Transportation 30.9% ★, Automation 26.9%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 4.5%
- #46 Unregulated
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Somiaz Studios
Windows · Linux
A physics puzzle game about moving coloured boxes via conveyors to their respective coloured chutes before the end of the day! Constantly adding and removing different types of conveyors to make sure you create the most optimal routes.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Transportation 28.9% ★, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.7%
- #47 Tiny Road Interchanges
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: threekittensgame
Windows
Create tiny road interchanges as a traffic engineer. Be as creative as possible, simulate the traffic flow and create efficient interchanges.
Why similar: Transportation 41.1% ★, Automation 18.6%, Management 13.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Building 6%
- #48 Cities: Skylines II
69% matchMixed55% of 90,178 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 73.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Transportation 17.6% ★, Building 15.4%, Simulation 10%, Management 9.9%
- #49 Neuron Connection
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Falls Wood Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into a microscopic world where neurons float and pulse. Connect synapses, guide neurotransmitters, and shape the flow of the network. Watch neurotransmitters travel along the paths, circuits light up, and the neural world softly hum to life under your connections.
Why similar: Transportation 44.6% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Resource Management 12%, Management 10.8%, Building 7.2%
- #50 Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RubyRack Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online. A first-person infrastructure sim where ports, power, fault domains, RSTP and BGP do real work, not flavour text. Readable for newcomers, honest for engineers.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Building 17%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 12%
- #51 Train Valley World
69% matchMixed70% of 292 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!
Why similar: Transportation 33.9% ★, Automation 19.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 7.3%
- #52 Production Line : Car factory simulation
70% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Management 14.7%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 10.6%, Education 10.3%
- #53 Train World
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Turn Point Games
Windows
Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.
Why similar: Transportation 30.4% ★, Automation 15.4%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, City Builder 8.7%
- #54 MoteMancer
66% matchVery Positive92% of 249 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
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 31.5%, Hex Grid 23.1% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #55 FACTORY I
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11%, Management 9%
- #56 Revive & Prosper
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Transportation 20.9% ★, Building 11.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 10.7%
- #57 Substructure
67% 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 29.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #58 Traffic Brains 2
68% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Fix urban traffic issues by placing road signs and programming traffic light patterns. Create green lanes, and divert traffic!
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Automation 23.2%, Transportation 22.4% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Building 10.3%
- #59 MegaFactory Tycoon
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Building 17.2%, Simulation 14.8%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #60 Isoforge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MaixenStudiosPub: Endothermic Entertainment
Windows
Build your dream city on a vast island in Isoforge! Unlock new buildings every in-game day, each influencing others in unique ways. Recruit soldiers to defend against invasions, manage upgrades, and tackle dynamic events like unlocks and challenges. Can you create the ultimate city?
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, City Builder 20.7%, Building 12.5%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%