60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Simulation, Sandbox, Strategy.
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.
Icaria
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.
Autonauts
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.
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: Programming 23.8% ★, Automation 15.2%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
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: Programming 32.7% ★, Automation 20.9%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 9%, Sandbox 5.6%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 33.1% ★, Automation 22.3%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.7%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 24.9%, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 8%
"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 24.3%, Programming 23.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 8.1%
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: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 20.8%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Space 10.9%, Building 8.2%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 31.6% ★, Automation 22.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11%, Puzzle 5.8%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 31.1% ★, Automation 20.9%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 14.5%, Incremental 13%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Isometric 10.1%, Colony Sim 7.7%
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 24.8%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%
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 27%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 18.7%, Incremental 15.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Automation 19.5%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.8%
VELONE is a creative automation game in which you assemble and program mechanisms to solve logic puzzles. Both relaxing and highly replayable, you save the planet VELONE by creating automated constructs that move and assemble according to your masterplan.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Automation 25.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Incremental 6%, Puzzle 5.7%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.5%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11%, Sandbox 6.5%
A programming puzzle game about helping a wizard reach his goal. Learn to use the rules to your advantage. Build contraptions. Optimize your solution.
Why similar: Programming 43.9% ★, Automation 26.5%, Building 12.3%, Puzzle 7.1%, Simulation 6%
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 19.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Automation 12%, Building 8.6%
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 22.7%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.5%
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 25%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 36.5% ★, Automation 21.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.8%, Procedural Generation 6.4%
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 22.7%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!
Why similar: Programming 35.9% ★, Automation 21.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Isometric 9.1%
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 26.5%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Resource Management 7.1%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Automation 28.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Simulation 5.1%, Building 3.3%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 34.9% ★, Automation 21.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Puzzle 4.9%
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 20.8%, Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.7%
An automation roguelite where single-use JunkDroids turn out to be surprisingly useful: automate production network, rebuild a broken world piece by piece, and stop the Goofy Goo before it consumes everything. Play solo or in coop.
Why similar: Programming 30.5% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Space 14.5%, Building 11%, Sandbox 8.9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 43% ★, Automation 24.9%, Procedural Generation 9%, Simulation 7.2%, Puzzle 6.7%
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 32.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Space 14.1%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 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 31.4%, Colony Sim 25%, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Exploration 6.2%
An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.
Why similar: Programming 37.2% ★, Automation 29.4%, Building 13.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 7.5%
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Why similar: Programming 52.7% ★, Automation 30%, Puzzle 6.9%, Strategy 5.6%, Exploration 2.9%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.4%, Space 8.1%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 44.4% ★, Automation 21.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 6.3%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
Spaceolar is an isometric base building and automation game. You land on a planet and need to build drills to farm resources and further process them to advance your research and expand onto other planets. Spaceolar supports multiplayer so you can build your base together with your friends
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Isometric 16%, Base Building 12.6%, Space 11.7%, Colony Sim 9%
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Isometric 11.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
A single-player business simulation about running a technology company. You act as its CEO, CTO, and CFO at the same time: building products, managing staff and finances, going public, and competing with rival firms.
Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Incremental 22.4%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 6.5%
The bank wants a million dollars or your house. Boot up EggOS, a playable fake desktop, and make games to pay it back: coding, dart-throwing, slot machines, mini-games, and a deep prestige tree. Beat the bank, then do it all again, faster.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 28.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Incremental 11.9%, 2D 3.7%
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 21.8%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.4%
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 32.2%, Automation 25.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 4.5%
A sci-fi first-person survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Automation 15%, Incremental 15%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 10.9%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 19.5%, Building 13.7%, Isometric 7.7%, Resource Management 6.7%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.7%, Space 9.5%
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 22.9%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.4%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
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 32.9%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 9.6%, Isometric 9%, Building 8.4%
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 31.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Automation 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 24%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.2%
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 31.3%, Automation 22.2%, Building 13.8%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Simulation 10.4%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Space 10.8%
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 32.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 9.1%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Automation 17%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 9.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
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%, Automation 26.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 5.1%
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 23.1%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 9.4%
