60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Automation, Simulation, Building.
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Autonauts
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
FOUNDRY
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.
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 37.1% ★, Automation 22.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7.2%, Sandbox 6.5%
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 23.5%, Robots 18.7%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 35.6% ★, Automation 21.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Puzzle 5%
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Why similar: Programming 46.2% ★, Automation 19.9%, Education 16.6%, Sandbox 6%, Puzzle 4.5%
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 32.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Resource Management 4.9%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Education 20.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 5.5%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Programming 23.3% ★, Automation 22.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Robots 8.9%
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: Automation 24.8%, Robots 19.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.1%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Robots 11%, Sandbox 10%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Education 24.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Puzzle 6.7%, Simulation 4.3%
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 31%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 6.1%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%
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 38.2%, Base Building 22%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 5.3%
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Why similar: Programming 42% ★, Robots 19.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Education 11.8%, Simulation 6.3%
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Automation 19.5%, Robots 14.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 31.1% ★, Automation 20.2%, Education 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Robots 17.4%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 11.8%
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Programming 28.1% ★, Automation 17.9%, Robots 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World Survival Craft 10.5% ★
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 23.9%, Robots 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World Survival Craft 11.1% ★
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 32.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 5.1%
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Automation 13%, Robots 11.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 32.5% ★, Automation 19.8%, Education 16.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%
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 31.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 9.3%, Robots 7.7%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 33.8% ★, Automation 21.4%, Education 18.7%, Robots 15.9%, Puzzle 5.7%
SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!
Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 24.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Cute 4.1%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Programming 59% ★, Education 15.5%, Automation 10.2%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 2.5%
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 40.9% ★, Automation 26%, Sandbox 13.5%, Puzzle 10.8%, Simulation 3.6%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 16.8%, Strategy 5.4%
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 26.5%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 9.7%
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 32.8%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 5.9%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 36.8% ★, Automation 22.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 4.6%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 33.2% ★, Automation 18.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Robots 14.3%, Crafting 6.4%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 37.1% ★, Education 21%, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Puzzle 5.7%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Education 20.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 8.9%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 31.5% ★, Robots 17%, Automation 15.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
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: Automation 35.8%, Crafting 18%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Cute 5.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 57.8% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 9.2%, Puzzle 5.6%, Sandbox 2.6%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 27.5% ★, Automation 23.9%, Education 22.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Puzzle 6.6%
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 32.7%, Base Building 22.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 12%, Open World Survival Craft 7.3% ★
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 32.6%, Sandbox 21.4%, Crafting 12%, Puzzle 9.6%, Strategy 8.5%
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 32.7%, Base Building 23.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 5.3%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Robots 15.4%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.8%
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Puzzle 6.6%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Programming 35.7% ★, Education 18.8%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Education 17.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.3%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 12.9%, Crafting 9.5%
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: Automation 36.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Resource Management 5.8%
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Education 36.7%, Automation 36.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5.3%
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.2%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.5%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 41.5% ★, Automation 24.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Strategy 3.7%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 20.8%, Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 13.3%
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 42.3%, Base Building 25%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 5.3%, Simulation 4.5%
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Education 33%, Sandbox 27.2%, Crafting 25.8%, Simulation 7%, 2D 4%
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 29.5%, Puzzle 7.1%, Strategy 5.3%, Cute 3.9%
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Education 23.3%, Robots 14.4%, Automation 14%, Puzzle 6.4%
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: Automation 36.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 14.7%, Strategy 5.6%
