Games Like Craftlings

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 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Trains 13.5% ★, Resource Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the blend of automation and logistical pathing required to move resources efficiently across a map.

Lemmings meets Lost Vikings. Dwarflings is a hardcore classic which will be a challenge for the brain and fingers. In the game, you will take control of up to five characters, each one with a unique ability.

Why similar: Lemmings 58.5% ★, Time Management 16.2%, Difficult 9.1%, Retro 7.5%, Puzzle 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly channels the classic Lemmings-style gameplay of guiding units through dangerous environments to reach their goal.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Trains 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Automation 16.2%, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation that emphasizes complex production chains and resource management in a stylized, blocky world.

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 34.6% ★, Automation 24.6%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Resource Management 7.6%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on programming units to perform repetitive tasks, mirroring the automation and management core of the seed game.

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Trains 19.1% ★, Automation 18.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that focuses on the core loop of resource management and expansion without unnecessary complexity.

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 37.5%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Resource Management 14.7%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: An essential puzzle-automation game that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on optimizing complex manufacturing pipelines.

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Why similar: Trains 28.5% ★, Automation 15.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical puzzle of transporting resources via rail, requiring careful planning and optimization of paths.

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Resource Management 20%, Building 18.6%, Economy 18.1%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a minimalist node-based interface to challenge your ability to manage complex resource production chains.

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Building 14.3%, Difficult 11.6%, Resource Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony simulation with complex economic management, forcing players to balance the needs of their citizens with production efficiency.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Automation 20.8%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep colony management with a heavy emphasis on water engineering and pathing, which feels like a modern evolution of classic management games.

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 31.8% ★, Automation 24%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Puzzle 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-heavy automation game challenges you to build intricate assembly lines in a 3D space, rewarding creative logistical solutions.

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Building 14.5%, Difficult 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based city builder that forces you to carefully manage limited resources and space, much like a puzzle game.

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Automation 18.7%, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 15%, Economy 13%

Why You'll Like It: A hex-based city builder that integrates automation and resource management with a unique, stylized aesthetic.

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Automation 21.5%, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural colony sim that emphasizes sandbox building and resource management in a small, manageable scale.

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Time Management 10.5%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-oriented city builder that emphasizes spatial planning and resource management in a compact, satisfying format.

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Resource Management 18.2%, Economy 17.2%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a classic city-building experience with a strong focus on supply chain management and resource logistics.

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 25.4%, Trains 15.3% ★, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive scale for automation enthusiasts who want to build sprawling, interconnected production networks.

KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.

Why similar: Strategy 46%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Resource Management 4.2%, Old School 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 90s RTS that is famous for its intricate supply chain management and unit-based resource delivery systems.

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Resource Management 25.6%, Retro 15.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-strategy game that tasks you with building a thriving settlement through careful resource management and planning.

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Building 17.7%, Resource Management 17.7%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that focuses on tribe management and resource gathering with a distinct, character-driven feel.

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Automation 18.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic placement of buildings and automation to survive in a harsh, resource-scarce environment.

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Trains 17.4% ★, Idler 16%, Resource Management 12.9%, Economy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure automation experience that focuses on the satisfaction of scaling production through incremental upgrades.

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: Automation 31.2%, City Builder 22.5%, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated automation game that focuses on the satisfying progression of scaling up production chains from simple to complex.

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8% ★, Economy 17.8%, Building 16.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Retro 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist simulation that distills the city-building experience down to its most essential resource-management components.

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Economy 16.8%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that emphasizes exploration and building, capturing the spirit of classic management titles.

In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!

Why similar: Trains 23.2% ★, City Builder 15%, Economy 13.3%, Time Management 11.6%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation that focuses on the economy and the flow of goods, perfect for fans of 90s-style strategy.

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Trains 27.5% ★, Automation 19.8%, Building 18%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 11%

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Automation 19%, Trains 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a focused, bite-sized version of minimalist automation and resource management gameplay.

Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!

Why similar: Trains 27.3% ★, Automation 15.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Time Management 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines puzzle-solving with transportation logistics, requiring players to manage paths and resources under time pressure.

A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!

Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Automation 31.4%, Building 16.9%, Puzzle 7%, Retro 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled automation game that uses physics and programming to solve complex puzzles.

As president of a train company, lead city growth to make your transport business prosper. The retro style, square grid map, and complete tutorials are easy on the newcomer, but veterans will find a challenge with advanced resource management, research, and the passage of time.

Why similar: Trains 25.5% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 13.5%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game that focuses on transportation and city development, requiring high-level strategic planning.

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Trains 19.8% ★, Automation 18.5%, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11%

Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Why similar: Trains 32.6% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 11.2%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Automation 15.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 10.6%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Building 12.1%, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 10.1%

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Resource Management 16.2%, Idler 13.5%, Economy 12.1%

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: Automation 22.9%, Economy 16.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 14%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Economy 20.9%, Resource Management 18.1%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.9%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Idler 18%, Resource Management 17.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 15.1%

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: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Automation 23.4%, Economy 16%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 13.7%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, City Builder 31%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Resource Management 16.8%, Building 16.7%, Economy 15.6%, Strategy 11.9%

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Economy 18.7%, Trains 14.7% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Automation 11.4%

Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.

Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Time Management 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.2%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 16.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 12.3%

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Programming 25.2% ★, Automation 20.3%, Economy 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.5%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Building 15.1%, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Resource Management 19.7%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 15.2%, Strategy 6.2%

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Resource Management 37.8%, Building 24.2%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Time Management 11.5%, Strategy 8.6%

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 24.2%, Economy 17.9%, Building 14.5%, Resource Management 14%, City Builder 12.4%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Economy 13.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 12.7%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 14.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 12.5%

Build, strategize, and conquer with Citizens: Prologue - the free city-building and puzzler game for strategy masterminds! Extract resources, manage your population, and build the ultimate settlement. Ready to take on the challenge? Download now and discover the magic of Citizens: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Time Management 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Economy 10.7%

uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.

Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Strategy 18.8%, Building 18.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Puzzle 9.3%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 35.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Trains 15.4% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, City Builder 8.2%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, Building 20.2%, Sandbox 17.5%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 6.4%

(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Why similar: Idler 34.1%, Economy 24.2%, Building 20.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 8.6%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Building 12%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 7.4%