- #1 Wonderstries
97% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Altered Pixel Games
Windows
Harvest natural resources and build machines to rebuild society following a terrible war that left the world scarred.
Why similar: Strategy 24.8%, Sandbox 22.3%, Building 12.8%, Logic 10.1%, Management 7.9%
- #2 The Last Seed
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.5%, Automation 14.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%
- #3 Potion Pipeline
96% 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: Strategy 23.5%, Building 17.5%, Automation 17%, Sandbox 16.4%, Base Building 9.7%
- #4 shapez
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 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: Automation 19.2%, Sandbox 18%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #5 Surviving Medieval
94% matchMixed60% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Vlasov Tower
Windows
Survival strategy with indirect control and tower defense elements. Build and manage your medieval town.
Why similar: Strategy 29.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.6%
- #6 Flow Factory
94% 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: Sandbox 15.5%, Automation 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Logic 9.8%
- #7 Islandustry
93% 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: Sandbox 18.2%, Automation 17.6%, Strategy 16.3%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 10.3%
- #8 Automation Station
92% 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: Sandbox 19%, Automation 17.2%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Crafting 9.5%
- #9 Modulus: Factory Automation
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.2%, Automation 15.7%, Building 15%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 10%
- #10 Factory Engineer
91% 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: Strategy 23.3%, Sandbox 21.8%, Building 18.6%, Automation 11.8%, Management 9.1%
- #11 Let Them Fall
90% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Marcin Kubala
Windows
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Strategy 23.9%, Sandbox 23.8%, Automation 18.3%, Building 16.2%, Logic 10%
- #12 We Need More Steam!
89% 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: Strategy 27.6%, Automation 20.6%, Building 16.1%, Management 13.5%, Logic 9.8%
- #13 shapez 2
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 16.6%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 12.9%, Management 11.9%, Strategy 11.2%
- #14 ReFactory
89% 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: Strategy 24.5%, Automation 16.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12%
- #15 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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: Sandbox 24.9%, Strategy 20.4%, Automation 18.7%, Building 15.5%, Logic 10.4%
- #16 Ascend Factory
87% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Matlyce Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Building 17%, Strategy 15.1%, Logic 14.1%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #17 Mito
86% 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: Strategy 23.1%, Automation 21.8%, Building 16.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 7.2%
- #18 Proto Garden
85% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Building 13.9%, Logic 13.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #19 Lifecraft
84% matchVery Positive81% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Sandbox 18.9%, Automation 16.1%, Building 15.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Management 10.2%
- #20 Rocket Automashapes
84% 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: Sandbox 16.2%, Automation 14.5%, Building 13.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Logic 10.3%
- #21 Jigsaw Industry
82% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Sandbox 19.1%, Logic 14.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Base Building 12.4%
- #22 Little Mall Tycoon
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArmBox
Windows
Let's make your dream mall! Hire great employees and train them. Sell everything that customers want. Upgrade your mall and prepare to deal with unexpected events. Be the best mall in the world.
Why similar: Strategy 37.7%, Sandbox 28.3%, Building 14.5%, Management 11.8%, 2D 7%
- #23 Away Team
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows
Away Team is a new Oxygen Not Included adventure. Take control of a Duplicant and harness a new world where every tile is simulated.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.8%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Automation 13.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 10.9%
- #24 Total Factory
81% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Total Craft Games
Windows
You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to ensure the automatic production of the necessary resources and their dispatch. It would seem that what could go wrong?
Why similar: Sandbox 18.4%, Building 16.1%, Automation 13%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 11.7%
- #25 Builderment
81% matchMixed66% of 119 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: Automation 19.6%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%
- #26 Block Factory
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 255 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.6%, Automation 15.5%, Building 14.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Logic 11%
- #27 Outer Factory
80% 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: Sandbox 20.2%, Automation 18.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.3%
- #28 One More Turret
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 13%, Base Building 10.9%
- #29 Numachina
77% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Uberbax Gaming
Windows
Minimalist automation puzzle game where you build physics-based machines to manipulate the flow of numbers.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.9%, Automation 20.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 11.9%, Logic 11.9%
- #30 Jaden Industries: Cozy Automation Puzzler
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pushka Studios
Windows
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.5%, Building 17.8%, Automation 15.7%, Strategy 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%
- #31 Reprocessed
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Sandbox 19%, Automation 16.9%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 11.1%
- #32 Substructure
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.9%, Automation 17.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.4%
- #33 Tile Blocks
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fivi Games
Windows
Challenge your ingenuity to win! Your mission is to use objects from your inventory to guide Clampy to its destination.
Why similar: Building 27.5%, Strategy 27.4%, Sandbox 26.3%, Logic 12.2%, 2D 4.9%
- #34 Chocolatio
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RawEgg
Windows
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Strategy 27.4%, Automation 25.5%, Logic 15.9%, Management 12.2%, Base Building 7.8%
- #35 Little Big Workshop
75% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Strategy 28%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 14.9%, Automation 14.2%
- #36 The Kingdom of God
74% matchMixed69% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: 明枭网络
Windows · Mac
The Kingdom of God: Creation is an independent game integrating territory management, resource management, strategic chess and exploration. As a new God, players develop their own country in the dangerous universe and eventually become the king of the new generation of gods.
Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.9%, Management 7.5%, Indie 6.3%
- #37 TowerLine
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
Windows
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%
- #38 Factor Y
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Automation 17%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #39 Factory Magnate
72% matchNo user reviews
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 19.9%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 15.1%, Base Building 12%
- #40 Alchemy Factory
70% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 17.7%, Strategy 14.5%, Crafting 10.5%
- #41 Farlight Explorers
74% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Sandbox 35%, Building 30.8%, Strategy 23.7%, Crafting 6.9%, Indie 3.6%
- #42 Factory Trashcension
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.8%, Automation 19%, Building 16%, Crafting 12%, Strategy 11.8%
- #43 Left Stranded
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevBre Games
Windows · Linux
Cast into a medieval kingdom by ancient stones, you must forge, automate, and expand your workshop. Alone or in multiplayer, fulfill royal orders, harness coal, steam, electricity and uncover the secrets that could return you home.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Automation 17.7%, Building 17.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%
- #44 The Fourth Sense Evolution: Stone Age
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Soft Bulb Studios
Windows · Mac
Top View, 2D, Evolution, Survival, and Cult game. "Be a God, Evolve Followers, and Spread Your Faith: A Stone Age Sandbox Game"
Why similar: Sandbox 23.3%, Strategy 19.2%, Building 13.8%, Survival 11.2%, Logic 10.7%
- #45 Factorio
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 24.5%, Sandbox 18.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%
- #46 Krasnaya Factory
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Strategy 12.3%
- #47 Terraform Inc
73% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: FuzzyCube
Windows · Linux
Terraform Inc is a game to build a reliable physics-based delivery network. You will get new planets, add enhancements in transit, then deliver to buyers. Construct elaborate designs to prove your ingenuity. Choose your friends wisely, working to earn respect and unlock even further opportunities.
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 20.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Logic 15.8%
- #48 Fluida
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Coya
Windows
Fluida is a simulation puzzle game where you build and play levels using flexible modules to strategically control water pressure and solve challenges.
Why similar: Sandbox 26%, Strategy 20.2%, Building 18.3%, Logic 15.1%, Management 11.9%
- #49 MoteMancer
67% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Sandbox 19.5%, Strategy 13%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%
- #50 Clipper
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 19.7%, Strategy 16.9%, Building 15.5%, Management 13.8%
- #51 代号:文字生存
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AutumnTower Studio
Windows
以汉字果腹,又以汉字规划建设你的家园。在这款独一无二的生存建设类游戏中,你可以收获汉字资源,并将他们拆分合并为新字,用脑洞开拓属于你的神奇世界。
Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Hand-drawn 16%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Strategy 12.4%
- #52 Project Highrise
70% matchVery Positive85% of 4,730 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Building 28.9%, Management 24.6%, Strategy 23.6%, Sandbox 15%, 2D 4.8%
- #53 The Maker Way
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.6%, Building 16.4%, Automation 15.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 11.8%
- #54 NodeLord
68% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: HowDeerYou
Windows
Build, automate and create - but most of all - survive!
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11%
- #55 Build Battle
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Guy Games
Windows
Build Battle is a 2D multiplayer strategy game. Squeeze every useful resource from beautiful maps, build a base, and nuke your opponents. Fast-paced matches filled with explosions in a decorated, but fully destructible world. The perfect game for a quick, chaotic fight with friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 22%, Strategy 19.1%, Building 17.5%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Automation 9.7%
- #56 The Great Indian Safari
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flying Robot StudiosPub: SYV Games LLP
Windows
Build an Indian wildlife reserve, rewild habitats, design safari routes, and capture breathtaking wildlife photography. Balance ecosystem health with ecotourism as you grow from local park to global conservation icon.
Why similar: Strategy 31.1%, Sandbox 27.4%, Building 15.4%, Automation 9.8%, Management 9.3%
- #57 Gateworlds
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.7%, Building 12.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
- #58 Making it Home
67% matchPositive92% of 39 reviews2021
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Linux
A vehicle building game. Put your engineering, design and creativity skills to the test as you combine simple elements into complex contraptions. Jump around your vehicle to keep it moving and overcome challenges in the campaign, or just relax and build your dream machine in the cozy mode!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Building 16.9%, Automation 16.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Management 9%
- #59 ZIRQUITZ
65% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Surrogate of Sorrow
Windows · Linux
ZIRQUITZ is a chill yet deep graph-building game. Build and optimize an evolving graph of nodes to produce “Work,” your resource for upgrades and expansion. Discover synergy, power up your network, and unlock endless potential!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Strategy 17.7%, Automation 15.1%, Building 14%, Logic 9.6%