60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Base Building, Resource Management, Sandbox.
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Skyberry Garden
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
HavenCraft
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Automation 19%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%
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: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 7.9%, Simulation 6.9%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Automation 20%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Simulation 7.7%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Strategy 5.5%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Automation 22.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 32.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 10.9%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Automation 11.8%, Resource Management 9.5%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Simulation 18.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Exploration 4.3%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Automation 16.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 8.2%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 14%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Base Building 19%, Simulation 9.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Resource Management 7.4%
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: Colony Sim 27.3%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
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 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Automation 30.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 4.7%, Casual 1%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Automation 14.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 8%
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: Colony Sim 25.1%, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 7.4%
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 32.8%, Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 8.8%
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Automation 18.2%, Simulation 16.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 13%
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 8.2%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Simulation 14.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 8.9%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Automation 29.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 8.3%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 28%, Base Building 17.6%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 11.6%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 7.7%, Simulation 7.5%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 12%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Strategy 9.4%
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 33.6%, Base Building 20.2%, Simulation 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 11.4%
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 24.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 12%
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 31.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 7.3%
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: Colony Sim 27.7%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
"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 29.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 11.1%
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 33.7%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 8.2%
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Automation 25.8%, Simulation 22.1%, Resource Management 7.9%, Indie 0.8%
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 26.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Simulation 19.3%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
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 29.2%, Base Building 22%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 11%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Colony Sim 26%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 8.4%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 8.9%
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Simulation 20.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Strategy 13%, Base Building 9.1%
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 30.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 9.6%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Crafting 10%, Automation 9.6%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Simulation 17.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 13.6%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Automation 22.1%, Simulation 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 6.8%
