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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 22.7%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Robots 10.6%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9%

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Robots 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.6%

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 37.8%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 7.9%

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 33.7%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%

Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!

Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Management 16.5%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★

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 24.6% ★, Automation 20.6%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%

Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Automation 21.6%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 9.5%

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 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 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 28.1% ★, Management 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Base Building 9.5%

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Management 16.5%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 7.4%

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: Automation 32.6%, Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.7%, Building 7.9%

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 31% ★, Automation 27.6%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

A sci-fi game where you help restore collapsed ecosystems on an alien planet. Raise and breed bees, grow native plants from bee produce and automate production as you stabilise the planet's ecosystems.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Automation 29.6%, Management 13%, Robots 12.9%, Base Building 7.9%

The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Management 12.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 10.1%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Automation 24.3%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.3%

A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.

Why similar: Automation 40.2%, Building 12.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 8.1%, Management 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: Automation 25.4%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 9.4%

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 29.3%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%

Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Automation 28.6%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 9.3%, Procedural Generation 6.6%

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 24.6% ★, Automation 18.5%, Management 13.1%, Building 13%, Base Building 11.5%

Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Robots 11.4%, Automation 10.4%

We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!

Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Management 17.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 10%

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 26.7% ★, Automation 24.1%, Management 10.7%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 36.6% ★, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 6%

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 40.7%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Management 11.3%, Building 8%

A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.

Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.6%

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 46.4% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.7%

Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Automation 24.8%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.8%

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: Automation 26.1%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.7%

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 29.5%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.4%

Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!

Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Building 10.9%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.8%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 11.7%

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 35.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.4%

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 28.8%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.2%

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 35.6%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 12.4%, Building 11.9%

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 11.4%, Management 11%

Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.

Why similar: Automation 33%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.5%

Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?

Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 13.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 10.7%

A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Automation 27.9%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 26%, Management 18.5%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.7%

A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Management 14.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.6%

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 28.2%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 7.5%

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.6%

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: Automation 36.1%, Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 6.7%, Sandbox 4.5%

Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.

Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.4%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Automation 26.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 10%, Building 7.5%

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

Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 11.4%

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 35.4%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.4%, Management 7%

A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 10.1%

Light Up the Dark is a colony survival sim set in a dark world filled with unseen horrors. Collect, build, automate, research techs, and explore the procedural map. Manage three classes of colonists; keep them sane, or make use of their insanity. Solve endless interesting problems, your way.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Automation 26%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 7.7%

Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.

Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 15.5%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 12.2%

Untitled Automation Game is a automation game blended with mech combat, story and a little bit of magic!

Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Management 14.8%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 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 40.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 11.2%, Building 9.1%

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 26.7%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%

Start as a small-time filler and work your way up to kingpin. Buy CC info, print blanks, card online and launder your money through crypto. But watch out: the more you scam, the more heat you get. Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Management 15.5%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 9.8%

Cyber Lounge Tycoon is a sandbox management game where you get to build and customize your own gaming club. Serve each customer or get a staff to do that for you. Upgrade and maintain your existing services. Expand and unlock new options. Decide what kind of club you want to run!

Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Management 17.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 8.8%

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: Automation 31.8%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.9%

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 34.3%, Management 16.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.6%