60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Simulation, Building, Sandbox.
A deep 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 21.7% ★, Automation 17%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
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 30% ★, Automation 22.9%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6%
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 27.3% ★, Automation 23.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.2%, Logic 6.9%
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 29.8% ★, Automation 24.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Puzzle 7.1%
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 21.2%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 9.7%, Sandbox 9%
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 20.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Space 10.1%, Building 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 33.2% ★, Automation 25.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, incremental 7.9%, Logic 7.1%
Harvest planets with programmable robots. Write real Python to collect every resource on the map, deliver it to your spaceship, and avoid the hazards. Sharpen your problem solving and coding skills, one level at a time. No coding experience needed — learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Building 7.9%, Resource Management 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 27.9%, Programming 22.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
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 33.5% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.1%, Logic 7.2%
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 23.4%, Programming 21% ★, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
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%
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 31% ★, Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Isometric 8%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Colony Sim 26%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Isometric 9.4%, Colony Sim 7.9%
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 25.2% ★, Automation 21%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Automation 26%, Procedural Generation 8%, Simulation 7.2%, Logic 7.1%
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 32.1% ★, Automation 22.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.3%, Procedural Generation 5.8%
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 41.7% ★, Automation 29.6%, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 5.9%, Simulation 5.1%
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 39.2% ★, Automation 28.6%, Building 11.7%, Puzzle 6.6%, Simulation 6.2%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Automation 17.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 8.9%, Logic 8.2%
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 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%
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 23.3%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 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 31.1% ★, Automation 28.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 8.9%, Simulation 7.5%
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 19.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Automation 13.1%, 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 23.9%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.6%
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 27.4% ★, Automation 21%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.7%
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 14%, Space 11.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 7.4%
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 23.3%, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.8%
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 20.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Resource Management 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 22.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.3%
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 31.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Logic 8.2%
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 33.7% ★, Automation 26.1%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Logic 5.8%
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 36.1% ★, Automation 26.2%, Building 7.2%, Logic 6.9%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 33.3%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 7.4%
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 30.9% ★, Automation 25.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11%, Logic 5.7%
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 31.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Space 13.8%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 22.2%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9%
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 34.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
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 31.3%, Automation 28.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Space 9%, Strategy 4.9%
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 31.7%, Automation 23.9%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
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 37.5% ★, Automation 25.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Logic 7.3%, Simulation 5.9%
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 31.6% ★, Automation 26.2%, Space 13.4%, Strategy 6.9%, Puzzle 6.2%
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 26.2%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Isometric 10.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 45.3% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Logic 7.2%, Strategy 6.5%
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 23.5%, Automation 16%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.1%
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 32.2% ★, Automation 24.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Puzzle 4.7%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Automation 24.9%, Logic 6.3%, Puzzle 4.7%, Simulation 3.8%
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Logic 8.1%
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 32.6%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 6.7%
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 38.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 24.3%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 8.8%
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 26.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.4%, Space 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 28.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 8.2%, Space 7.8%
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11.2%, Space 10.7%
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 34.9% ★, Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Logic 7.5%
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 32.4%, Automation 23.1%, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9%
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 27.3%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 8.8%, Simulation 8.5%
