Games Like Clipper

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 29.2%, Automation 23%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Building 8%

Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.

Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 8.5%

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Robots 10.7%, 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 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Robots 10.8%, Management 10.4%, 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 37.4%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Sandbox 12%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 8%

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 33.3%, Building 14.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%

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 26.5%, Management 16.4%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Colony Sim 11.7%

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 24.8%, Automation 20.3%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 11%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 30.9%, Colony Sim 18%, Management 16.4%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 7.4%

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 15.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Building 9.5%

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 21.5%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 11.3%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Automation 20%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.1%

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 30.3%, Automation 29.2%, Robots 13%, Management 13%, Base Building 8%

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 31.2%, Automation 27.2%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

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

Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Management 12.1%, Building 10.2%, Base 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 25.4%, Automation 24%, Management 12.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.4%

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 39.8%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Management 7.9%

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 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, 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 28.9%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.9%

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 33.9%, Automation 28.2%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Procedural Generation 6.7%

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 28.7%, Building 12%, Base Building 11.8%, Robots 11.5%, Automation 10.2%

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 24.7%, Automation 18.2%, Building 13.1%, Management 13%, Base Building 11.6%

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 34.8%, Base Building 13%, Management 12.5%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.7%

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 26.9%, Automation 23.8%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 39.1%, Management 17.5%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 13%, Base Building 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 25.3%, Automation 19.1%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 41%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Management 11.3%, Building 8.4%

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%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.6%

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 25.8%, Automation 24.4%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

Fast-paced factory builder with combat. Automate, defend, and destroy the alien mothership!

Why similar: Automation 41.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.5%, Base Building 8.7%

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 29.1%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.3%, 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 28.8%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Building 11%, 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 33.2%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.7%

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 25.7%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.7%

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 28.4%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.3%

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 35.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.5%

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 35.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 12.4%, Building 12%

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 23.6%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.5%, Robots 11.1%

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 32.7%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 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 29.8%, Automation 27.5%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%

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 36.1%, Sandbox 17%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 10.7%

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 30%, Automation 15.9%, Management 14.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.7%

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

Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Management 18.4%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.7%

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 30.9%, Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 27.8%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 9.2%, Strategy 7.6%

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: Automation 29.6%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%

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 39.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

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 31.7%, Automation 25.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 10%, Building 7.6%

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 36.8%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 13%, Simulation 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: Colony Sim 35.7%, Automation 35.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 6.7%, Sandbox 4.5%

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 31.3%, Automation 22.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 11%, Management 10.1%

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 34.9%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7.1%

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 23.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 15.6%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 12.3%

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

Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 11.4%

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

Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Management 14.8%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 9.7%

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 26.3%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 40.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11.2%, Building 9.2%

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 41%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%