Games Like Clipper

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 30.6%, Automation 26.8%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%

Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.

Why similar: Automation 43%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Robots 8%

A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8%

Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, Automation 20.9%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 11.2%

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

Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 9.5%, Robots 8.6%

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 25.7%, Automation 23.1%, Sandbox 11%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.7%

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: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 22.4%, Robots 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 22%, Automation 21.3%, Robots 11.2%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Automation 19.6%, Management 10.3%, Robots 10%, Sandbox 8.9%

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 36.1%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 8.1%

Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.

Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 6.7%

Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Automation 10.8%, Strategy 9.6%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 9.5%

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 32%, Building 15.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 12%

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 25.4%, Management 16.3%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Colony Sim 11.9%

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 25.2%, Automation 19.3%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%

ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Automation 26.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 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 29.3%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Management 16.6%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 7.5%

Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 14.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 11.2%

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 25.6%, Automation 18.9%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Automation 29.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 8.4%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Automation 23.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.3%

Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.

Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Robots 13.4%, Management 12.5%, Building 11.7%

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 30.8%, Automation 28%, Robots 13.6%, Management 12.8%, Base Building 8.1%

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 25.8%, Automation 23%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.7%

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 31.6%, Automation 26%, Building 14%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.6%

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

Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Colony Sim 28%, Management 12%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%

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 24.1%, Automation 23.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.7%

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 38.4%, Building 13.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Management 7.9%

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 34.5%, Automation 26.9%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Procedural Generation 6.7%

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 24.9%, Automation 17.3%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.7%

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 22%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 11.2%

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 28.8%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Robots 11.9%, Automation 9.6%

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 37.2%, Automation 18.3%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 6.1%

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 27.6%, Automation 22.6%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 25.7%, Automation 18.2%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10%

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 33.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 12%

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 27.3%, Automation 22.7%, Management 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 39.3%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 11.2%, Building 9%

A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 10%

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 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.4%

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 37.8%, Management 17.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 10.4%

A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.

Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 8.4%

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 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.8%

Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.

Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 12.6%, Management 11.5%, Base Building 9%

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 37.2%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 9.5%

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 26.2%, Automation 23.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 24.4%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.9%

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.3%

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 30%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 8.7%

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 29.5%, Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 27%, Colony Sim 20%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.6%

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 33.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.5%, Management 12.3%

Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 15%, Simulation 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Robots 11.6%

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 45.9%, Automation 38.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 5.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 30.3%, Automation 26.3%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%

The Last Seed is a 2D automation strategy game where factory efficiency is hard-linked to environmental control. Construct complex logistics networks, process resource chains, and balance closed-loop humidity systems—because if the ecosystem crashes, your entire automated infrastructure halts.

Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11%

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 34%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.6%

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

Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Management 18.5%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 11.7%