- #1 Phantasm Cube
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.8%
- #2 Fill the Sky
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 7.3%
- #3 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 32.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Management 8.8%
- #4 ASTERSTEAD
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 7.5%
- #5 CircuitVeil
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #6 Skyberry Garden
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
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: Automation 28%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #7 Scraplings
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12%, Simulation 11.4%, Dystopian 6.4%
- #8 Clipper
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #9 Manaftory
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 43%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 14.9%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #10 Factory Town
91% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.2%, Base Building 17%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.3%
- #11 Biofactory
90% matchNo user reviews2027
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: Automation 29.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 10.4%, Dystopian 6.8%
- #12 Galaxy Scavengers
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Automation 14.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 10.3%
- #13 Astral Enterprises
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 20.4%, Management 15.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Economy 8.6%
- #14 ChromaFlow
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 14.7%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 9.3%
- #15 The Crust
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Automation 26.3%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 9.2%
- #16 Necromancer's Workshop
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #17 Automation Empire
87% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 9.4%
- #18 11 pm
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Marijenburg
Windows
Lay out your machines, route your resources, and chase the perfect flow. Then a single new module reshapes everything and hands you a fresh puzzle. An automation game where you never solve the same factory twice.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 8.7%
- #19 Production Line : Car factory simulation
86% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 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: Automation 25.2%, Management 17.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%
- #20 RIFT DIGGER
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Osama Ahmed
Windows
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 24.5%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7.5%, Colony Sim 6.6%
- #21 Shape Together
82% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
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 30.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #22 Space Architect
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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: Automation 22.8%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #23 Attrition Line
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 6.1%
- #24 Little Big Workshop
83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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: Automation 23.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Management 16.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 8%
- #25 HavenCraft
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
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 24.9%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 11%, Simulation 7.8%
- #26 Potion Pipeline
80% 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: Automation 33.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 9.5%
- #27 Outer Factory
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #28 The Glorious Colony
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WeLIAS Studio
Windows
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 38.7%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #29 Stella Astrum
76% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 7.3%
- #30 Factory Magnate
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
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 33%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 8.3%
- #31 Dinky Guardians
79% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 30%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 11.4%
- #32 plexum
77% matchNo user reviews2026
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: Automation 36.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Management 7.3%
- #33 Factorio
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 40.4%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #34 Production Zero
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alloi Games
Windows
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Isometric 10.3%, Management 8.9%
- #35 Factoriant
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Management 9.4%
- #36 Cog Foo
74% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Colony Sim 17%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 8.4%
- #37 Islandustry
75% 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: Automation 32.8%, Base Building 20.4%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Simulation 8.2%
- #38 Rafting Factory
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Base Building 24.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #39 Deep Space Directive
73% matchPositive88% of 16 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: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 14.7%, Management 12.5%
- #40 Mito
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
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 39.3%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 14%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 7.6%
- #41 Cartefact
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 44.1%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #42 PlanetForge Protocol
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Railstar GamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 38.9%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 5.5%
- #43 Beyond These Stars
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
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: Automation 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 11.2%
- #44 the Cellarer
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 8.9%
- #45 Astro Colony
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 29%, Base Building 22.5%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Simulation 6.7%
- #46 Factorwave
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #47 TOWERPUNK
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TESSERAX GAMES
Windows
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 13%, Dystopian 8.7%
- #48 Fosoria
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 23.4%, Management 14.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 8.2%
- #49 Gridmax
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 23.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #50 shapez
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 37.2%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #51 MegaFactory Tycoon
69% 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 38.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%
- #52 Dystopians
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Automation 14.9%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 9.6%
- #53 MMOS: MMO Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SwiftSync
Windows
Build and run your own fantasy MMO in a single-player management sim. Design the world, classes, loot and raids, then watch simulated adventurers play, form guilds and chase rare drops. Keep them happy, keep them subscribed, and decide what your MMO needs next.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 8.5%
- #54 Underground Nomads
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
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 28%, Base Building 22.1%, Automation 18.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 9.7%
- #55 CosmoFab
66% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 42.1%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 15.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 5%
- #56 BOREWORKS
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 8.4%
- #57 Common'hood
70% matchMixed51% of 342 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Automation 17.9%, Management 12.4%, Simulation 10.4%
- #58 Project Oasis
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #59 Factory Town 2: Paradise
65% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Management 10.2%, Simulation 8.1%
- #60 The Colonists
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 11%, Economy 7.3%