- #1 Automation Empire
97% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Automation 14.9%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Base Building 22%, Automation 17.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 11.5%, Economy 6.8%
- #3 Astral Enterprises
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Management 18.6%, Automation 12.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Economy 8.5%
- #4 Little Big Workshop
95% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 19.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 12.6%, Automation 11.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #5 plexum
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
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: Base Building 20.4%, Automation 17.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.5%
- #6 Islandustry
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Automation 15.7%, Management 13.2%, City Builder 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #7 ReFactory
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
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: Base Building 24.7%, Automation 14.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 12.2%
- #8 Outer Factory
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Automation 15.3%, Management 14.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Crafting 9.1%
- #9 Automation Station
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Automation 15.4%, Management 12%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #10 Flow Factory
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Automation 15.6%, Mining 12.2% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%
- #11 Potion Pipeline
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
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: Base Building 21.5%, Automation 16.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Management 11.4%, Building 11.3%
- #12 Complex SKY
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Automation 12.4%, Management 12.4%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #13 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
89% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: Base Building 22.3%, Management 18.9%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #14 Kingdom Workshop
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Management 12.5%, Automation 9.7%, Building 9.5%, City Builder 9.5%
- #15 Modulus: Factory Automation
86% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Base Building 18.1%, Management 14.8%, Automation 14.2%, Building 9%, City Builder 8.5%
- #16 Shopping Center Tycoon
87% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Management 23.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 11.1%
- #17 EndZ Village
86% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: DEVCLIED
Windows · Mac · Linux
EndZ Village is a 2D post-apocalyptic zombie survival game developed by DEVCLIED. This 2D survival game immerses you in a post-apocalyptic world infested with zombies, where humanity is fighting endlessly against the constant onslaught of infected zombie hordes.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Management 15.1%, Mining 13.8% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #18 Roller Coaster Park Simulator
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Panda Studio
Windows
Switch between first- and third-person as you build your park, ride your coasters, and serve your guests. Design rides, manage staff, and keep the chaos under control in your very own roller coaster park!
Why similar: Management 21.4%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 11.7%, Building 11%, Simulation 10.8%
- #19 Greedy Little Kingdoms
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Management 13.1%, Automation 11.8%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 8.9%
- #20 Forge Industry
83% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Management 14.8%, Automation 13.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 7.6%
- #21 Factory Engineer
84% matchMixed46% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 15.1%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 11.3%
- #22 Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
82% matchVery Positive87% of 373 reviews2020
Dev: A2 SoftworksPub: Manager Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.
Why similar: Management 23.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Simulation 13.1%, City Builder 10.7%, Strategy 9.5%
- #23 Biofactory
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Automation 16%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #24 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 23%, Base Building 16%, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.7%
- #25 Software CEO
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Management 20.7%, Automation 12%, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 10.3%, Building 9%
- #26 Builderment
80% matchMixed67% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Automation 17.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, City Builder 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%
- #27 Craterville
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fat Plankton
Windows
A base-building, simulation and inventory management game where you build and defend your base in the crater formed when blasting into a new dimension. Hire and equip combat units then send them into battle. Organise loot in your inventory. Complete objectives to advance your reputation.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Management 18.3%, City Builder 10.1%, Simulation 10%, Building 9.7%
- #28 MegaFactory Tycoon
78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Management 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%
- #29 shapez
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Base Building 23.1%, Automation 18.8%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #30 Twas The Night
78% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Mayham Games
Windows
Build and manage Santa's North Pole mega-workshop in this festive city builder where workshops produce toys for the world's children. Spend Christmas Spirit to create new holiday traditions and upgrade your workshops, but lose your spirit and you'll cease to exist.
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Management 20.2%, Simulation 16.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #31 Illuminaria
77% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Mining 13.9% ★, Management 12.6%, Automation 11.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #32 We Need More Steam!
77% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Management 20.8%, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 10.1%
- #33 Industrix
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Management 20.8%, Automation 16.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.8%
- #34 Odd Realm
75% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Base Building 18.8%, Management 14.6%, Mining 11.6% ★, Automation 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #35 Hotel Management Simulator
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ice Drop Coding
Windows
Build, renovate and manage your hotel to keep your guests happy. Increase your star rating, but be careful - unhappy guests leave bad reviews and you don't want to lose your hotel!
Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Management 19%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 10.4%
- #36 Techtonica
74% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Base Building 19.6%, Automation 15.4%, Management 11.7%, Building 9%, City Builder 8.6%
- #37 Aquis
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Management 16%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 10.8%, Economy 9.2%
- #38 Truck City
73% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Automation 12.5%, Management 12.5%, Mining 10.4% ★, City Builder 10.1%
- #39 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
73% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Management 18.3%, Automation 18%, Building 11.5%, Economy 10.4%
- #40 Infindustry
74% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Automation 14.7%, Mining 12% ★, Management 10%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #41 Factory Town 2: Paradise
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Base Building 17.8%, Automation 14.1%, Management 12.6%, City Builder 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%
- #42 Hammerting
72% matchMixed57% of 2,582 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Management 13.1%, Mining 13% ★, Automation 11.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #43 Gunsmith
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,038 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Management 19.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Automation 9.1%
- #44 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Base Building 23%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Automation 12%, City Builder 10.4%
- #45 Intergalactic Transfer Station
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build & manage your Intergalactic Transfer Hub. Receive travellers and dock ships. Help passengers transfer, but also control them. Expand hub, build shops, take care of everyone's needs. Increase profits, change taxes. But beware: dangerous diseases and asteroids may alter your plans!
Why similar: Simulation 18.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Automation 11.5%, Management 10.9%, City Builder 9.2%
- #46 Apocalypse Factory
69% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Automation 13%, Management 11.6%, Mining 11% ★, Crafting 8%
- #47 Smart Factory Tycoon
71% matchMixed61% of 869 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Management 17.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, City Builder 10%, Simulation 9.1%
- #48 Survival Vacancy
71% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Management 12.9%, Automation 12.1%, Mining 9.4% ★, Building 8%
- #49 Factory on a Train
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Management 11.6%, Mining 11.4% ★, Automation 11%, City Builder 10.3%
- #50 Coffee Noir - Business Detective Game
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 87 reviews2021
Dev: DOJI
Windows · Mac · Linux
A unique combination of a business management game and detective novel with elegant graphics in a noir comic-book art style. Experience an advanced business management simulation along with intriguing story set in alternative future of Neo-London.
Why similar: Management 22.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #51 Carved Out
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Till Morning Games
Windows
Carved Out is a management and building game where you play as a resort manager presenting dungeon tourism services to your guests! Your guests are heroes who is looking for a place to find comfort and taste, right at the doorstep of the dungeons they explore!
Why similar: Management 20.8%, Base Building 16%, Simulation 15.9%, Building 12.7%, Mining 9.1% ★
- #52 Factory Town
68% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 20.5%, Automation 14.8%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 10%, City Builder 9.5%
- #53 Boppio
69% matchMixed51% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Boppy Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Boppio is a game about obtaining materials, constructing buildings, and assembling a spaceship to return home. In order to succeed you will need to automate and optimize your base. Mine minerals and combine them into new items that will help you build your return vessel.
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Mining 18.1% ★, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, City Builder 11.4%
- #54 MineMogul
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Automation 15.4%, Mining 15.1% ★, Management 13.5%, Building 9.1%
- #55 Good Company
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Management 15.2%, Automation 12.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.5%
- #56 Galaxy Scavengers
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
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: Base Building 29.2%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.6%
- #57 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HatchStudio
Windows
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Management 18.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Automation 10.4%, Simulation 10.1%
- #58 Ducktopia
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Llama Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a mayor of your own city filled with ducks! Build your city up as you would like it, while making sure your ducks stay happy, healthy and productive, otherwise they may steal your duckeronies. Create the perfect city then you may end up with your own Ducktopia!
Why similar: Base Building 27.5%, Management 21.1%, City Builder 17%, Simulation 11.3%, Building 11%
- #59 Dyson Sphere Program
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Base Building 25.9%, Automation 19.2%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.1%
- #60 Rocket Automashapes
66% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Management 14.6%, Automation 13.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Abstract 9.2%