60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Simulation, Programming, Sandbox.
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.
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
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.
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 32.2% ★, Automation 22.2%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 5.8%
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: Programming 23.5% ★, Automation 16.5%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 29.2% ★, Automation 22.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.9%, Logic 6.7%
"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 26.1%, Programming 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 31.8% ★, Automation 23.2%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Puzzle 6.9%
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 21.2%, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Space 9.8%, Sandbox 9%
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 36.1% ★, Automation 25.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Logic 7.1%, Incremental 5.8%
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: Automation 21.9%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 10.5%, Building 7.9%
Harvest planets using robots you program yourself. Write real Python to collect every resource and load it into your spaceship, dodging hazards along the way. Sharpen your problem-solving and coding skills one level at a time. No experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Automation 19.9%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 6.8%
A space themed open world crafting and base-building game where you terraform a planet by scaling up a colony of autonomous robots. Provide shelter, gather resources, and manage your bots to keep work moving across the base. Create a new atmosphere and make the planet inhabitable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Automation 20.4%, Incremental 13.6%, Space 10.8%, 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 35.7% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.8%, Logic 7%
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 33.1% ★, Automation 21.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Isometric 7.8%
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: Automation 22.8%, Programming 22.7% ★, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%
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 44.1% ★, Automation 28.3%, Puzzle 8.1%, Logic 5.7%, Simulation 4.9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 39.4% ★, Automation 24.9%, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Logic 6.9%, Simulation 6.9%
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 27.1% ★, Automation 20.4%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%
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 41.5% ★, Automation 27.4%, Building 11.3%, Puzzle 6.4%, Simulation 6%
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 34.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8%, Procedural Generation 5.7%
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory is a relaxed automation sim where you build at your own pace. Design complex lines with the intuitive Link System and Relays. Unlock new tech via the Tech Tree, boost production with your clicks, and manufacture everything from iron to sushi in your ultimate factory!
Why similar: Programming 23.4% ★, Automation 21.4%, Incremental 12.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 7.5%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 39.9% ★, Automation 16.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 8.6%, Logic 7.9%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 19.8%, Incremental 16.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 8.3%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%
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 27.4%, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Programming 33.3% ★, Automation 27.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 8.6%, Simulation 7.3%
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 25.2%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Isometric 9.4%, Colony Sim 7.9%
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 29.3% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Building 8.5%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 33% ★, Automation 24.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Logic 5.6%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Automation 25.2%, Building 7%, Logic 6.6%, Puzzle 6.3%
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
Why similar: Programming 35.8% ★, Automation 25.2%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 5.7%, Logic 5.6%
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 25.4%, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 47.6% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Puzzle 7.3%, Logic 6.9%, Strategy 6.2%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 56% ★, Automation 23.5%, Logic 6%, Puzzle 4.5%, Simulation 3.6%
Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!
Why similar: Programming 39.8% ★, Automation 24.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Logic 7%, Simulation 5.6%
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 23.3%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.1%
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 19.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Automation 13%, Building 8.3%
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 33%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 9.5%, Exploration 5.9%
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 23.8%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.6%
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
Why similar: Programming 33% ★, Automation 26.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 9.4%, Logic 6.8%
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 23.2%, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.8%
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Why similar: Programming 33.7% ★, Automation 25.2%, Space 13%, Strategy 6.7%, Puzzle 6%
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 34.4% ★, Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Puzzle 4.6%
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 27.2%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Resource Management 6.9%
ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Automation 22.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.3%, Logic 7.3%
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 22.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.3%
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 27.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 4.3%
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 36.3% ★, Automation 31.5%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Puzzle 7.4%
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 31.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Logic 8.2%
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 51.4% ★, Automation 32.1%, Puzzle 6.4%, Strategy 5.4%, Exploration 2.8%
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 33.2%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 8.6%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
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 42.3% ★, Incremental 23.3%, Sandbox 16.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Resource Management 6.2%
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 43.5% ★, Automation 22.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Sandbox 6.4%
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 22.1%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 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 30.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Space 13.9%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 30.3% ★, Automation 19.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 6.3%
A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.
Why similar: Programming 46.8% ★, Automation 25.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Resource Management 5.3%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 34% ★, Automation 23.2%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9%, Logic 7.1%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Automation 25.8%, Logic 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Sandbox 6.1%
