60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Automation, 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.
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Plan B: Terraform
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Automation 21.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Puzzle 5%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 7.6%
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 30.1% ★, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.8%
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%, Base Building 16.7%, Space 14.7%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9%
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 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
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: Colony Sim 20.8%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Space 10.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 33.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9.5%
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, Automation 17%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 33.4% ★, Automation 20.3%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 5.7%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Automation 23.3%, Sandbox 6.7%, Resource Management 5.5%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 33.7% ★, Automation 21.6%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.7%, Puzzle 7.7%
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: Colony Sim 20.9%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Space 11.1%, Building 8.2%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 32.8% ★, Automation 21.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 7.4%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 8%
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 23.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.8%, Space 9.6%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 28%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Procedural Generation 8%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Procedural Generation 10%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.3%
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 30.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.3%
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 13.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11%, Space 10.9%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Space 16%, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.9%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
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 26.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14%, Resource Management 8.2%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 18%, Space 15%, Building 6.6%, Strategy 5.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 61.6% ★, Automation 22.5%, Puzzle 5.2%, Simulation 3.7%, Sandbox 2.7%
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Why similar: Programming 56.2% ★, Automation 16%, Puzzle 14.1%, Sci-fi 4.2%, Space 3%
Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.
Why similar: Space 21.5%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Sandbox 16.2%, Automation 15.7%, Exploration 9%
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 66.4% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Puzzle 6.9%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Programming 33.9% ★, Automation 29.9%, Incremental 14%, Simulation 8.1%, Sandbox 5.5%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Space 24.2%, Procedural Generation 22.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.7%
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 14%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 22.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
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 20.4%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.7%
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 22.1%, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 10.6%
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Space 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.1%, Space 11%
Terraforming Titans is an incremental colony builder with a moderate focus on realism and scale. Terraform increasingly challenging and large worlds and guide humanity to complete control over the Milky Way.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Automation 19%, Incremental 17.9%, Space 13.5%, Simulation 7.6%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Base Building 21.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 7.1%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 13.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.5%
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Programming 20.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Space 8.8%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Space 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Programming 32.3% ★, Automation 16%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 22.8%, Automation 18%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 34%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.7%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Base Building 23.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 12.6%
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 24.6%, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 11.6%, Space 9.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
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 8.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 31.2%, Automation 25.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Space 9.7%, Strategy 5.1%
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 26.6%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Building 7%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.4%
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Automation 22%, Building 8.9%, Puzzle 5.6%, Strategy 5.6%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Incremental 23.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
Why similar: Programming 67.3% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Puzzle 8.4%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 31.4% ★, Automation 15.7%, Space 11.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.8%
