60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Base Building, Automation, Simulation.
Build data centers, manufacture integrated circuits, and deal with threats to your network in this automation game with an emphasis on computer hardware and networks.
Blacksmith's Kingdom
A fantasy blacksmith shop simulator with survival-crafting gameplay. Start as a small-town blacksmith and forge your way to the throne. Craft powerful swords, expand your workshop, and gather rare resources. Defeat powerful enemies and prove your strength in the mines and at the forge.
Factory Trashcension
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
A fantasy blacksmith shop simulator with survival-crafting gameplay. Start as a small-town blacksmith and forge your way to the throne. Craft powerful swords, expand your workshop, and gather rare resources. Defeat powerful enemies and prove your strength in the mines and at the forge.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Co-op 14.4%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Co-op 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Moddable 8.8% ★, Co-op 8.4%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Base Building 20.5%, PvE 9.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Level Editor 7%
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 29.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Co-op 11%, Sandbox 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%
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 35.1%, Base Building 22.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 6.6%, Co-op 5.7%
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 25.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Co-op 11.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 9.8%
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Co-op 10.1%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.1%
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 10%, Moddable 8% ★
Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Co-op 16.2%, Management 15%, Base Building 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%
A light-hearted but deep first person exploration and survival game for you and your friends set in a procedurally-generated asteroid belt on the edge of known space. Explore the world, learn new skills, build and defend your base, and conquer the belt's unique threats.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Co-op 12.7%, Level Editor 11.9%, PvE 8.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 9.7%, Open World 6.9%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 24.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.9%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Co-op 7%
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 27.7%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.8%, Co-op 8.8%
Open world, multiplayer, survival fantasy setting. Create your custom character, Craft tools, learn spells, loot your enemies. explore through arid deserts, snowy tundras, murky swamps, windy meadows and deep forests. Build a base to stash your rewards or rest from your travels.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Co-op 17.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Character Customization 12.6%, PvE 11.5%
Start as a small-time filler and work your way up to kingpin. Buy CC info, print blanks, card online and launder your money through crypto. But watch out: the more you scam, the more heat you get. Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Base Building 15%, Management 13.2%, Physics 8.7%
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 15%, Physics 11.2%, Open World 8.6%
Embark on a journey from Stone Age to industrial power in ZeroFactory, where survival meets automation in a magical, corrupted world. Face bosses, harness artifacts, and build a mechanical empire.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Character Customization 9%
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 34.8%, Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 14%, Management 9.8%, Moddable 6.8% ★
Start from the streets and rise to the top produce, sell, and manage a growing drug empire. Expand operations, evade the law, and crush the competition. Build labs, hire dealers, and dominate the underworld. Will you rule or get rolled?
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Co-op 14.8%, Management 12%, Multiplayer 9.5%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Co-op 16.2%, Management 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.3%
The zombie apocalypse is here - time to make a profit. Loot, manufacture and distribute shady goods across a zombie-infested sandbox. Hire survivors, brainwash the undead, automate production, and grow your empire in this open-world co-op sim.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 13.2%, Co-op 12.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 12%, Co-op 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
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 34.5%, Base Building 22.5%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.8%, Open World 7.4%
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 32%, Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Management 11.6%, Moddable 11% ★
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 38.8%, Base Building 23.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Open World 4.4%
You're the last remaining video rental store. From humble VHS clerk to rental racketeer - run your video store and explore Reshoot Springs, building an underground empire. Expand with upgrades, side hustles, store membership, and more. Whatever it takes to survive - solo or in up to 4-player co-op.
Why similar: Co-op 17.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Character Customization 12.7%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Co-op 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Base Building 22.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 9.4%, Strategy 6%
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 29.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 14%, Sandbox 11.2%, Moddable 9.1% ★
Fast-paced factory builder with combat. Automate, defend, and destroy the alien mothership!
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 10.7%, PvE 7.2%
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 8.5%, Open World 8.5%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.7%
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 20%, Sandbox 13%, PvE 9.2%, Exploration 6.1%
Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Moddable 10.3% ★
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 16.6%, Exploration 10.3%, PvE 8.9%
Crash-landed in the universe of Cantata, will you expand your empire or bring peace to the war torn planet? Grow your army, manage resources and discover the colourful planet of Shoal, its people, and the armed forces overrunning this land in this genre-defining Grand Tactics game.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 11.9%, Moddable 11.8% ★
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: Automation 26.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 11%, Co-op 9.3%
Main Sequence is a space-sim factory builder where your goal is to build an interstellar industrial empire. Collect resources, automate production, and expand your fleet of ships in order to survive and leave your mark on the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%, PvE 6.5%
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 34.5%, Base Building 21.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 10.1%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 11.1%, Physics 9%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Base Building 25.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%
A multiplayer 2D physics sandbox game where you can build and share creations. Features include electricity, temperature, and destructible ragdolls.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Sandbox 21.9%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Level Editor 11.6%, Co-op 10.5%
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 11.3%, Open World 8.6%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 7.6%, Strategy 5.9%
Minimalist automation puzzle game where you build physics-based machines to manipulate the flow of numbers.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Physics 12.5%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%
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%, Base Building 25.3%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
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: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%
Build your recycling empire from junk! Collect, process, and craft valuable products in a chill, satisfying simulator where garbage becomes gold ♻️ .
Why similar: Base Building 25.1%, Automation 20%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.3%, Open World 8.6%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Co-op 11.8%, Moddable 11.5% ★, Physics 10.1%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Management 16%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 7%
Pilgor's baaack! Gather your herd and venture forth into Goat Simulator 3; an all-new (at least on Steam), totally realistic, sandbox farmyard experience. Invite up to three friends in local or online co-op, create carnage as a team, or compete in mini-games and then not be friends anymore.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Physics 15.7%, Character Customization 13.9%, Co-op 11.7%, Open World 10.7%
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 24.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Co-op 12%, Sandbox 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Physics 5.9%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Management 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Physics 10.3%
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 30.3%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 6.1%
Factory Defence - is a first-person shooter in which you build automated factories and defend them. Plan your factory and defensive structures to take the enemy by surprise. Explore and colonize the planet alone or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Co-op 13.3%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 10.7%, Open World 8.6%
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 14%, Exploration 7.1%
