
Scan dumpsters for valuable recyclable materials and restore a city trapped in darkness. Craft solar infrastructure from recovered waste, automate recycling systems, and gradually bring buildings, traffic, and an entire city back to life.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Building, Sandbox, Base Building.

Scan dumpsters for valuable recyclable materials and restore a city trapped in darkness. Craft solar infrastructure from recovered waste, automate recycling systems, and gradually bring buildings, traffic, and an entire city back to life.

Modulus: Factory Automation
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.

Automation Station
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
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 14%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.2%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 15.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.6%
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 17.8%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 13.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 10.4%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Automation 16%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.5%
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 20.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.4%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Automation 15.6%, Crafting 12.5%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%
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 17.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Automation 16%, Crafting 12.4%, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 9.1%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Automation 15.9%, Crafting 12.6%, City Builder 11%, Resource Management 10%
Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10.1%, City Builder 9.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.8%
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: Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 15%, Automation 14.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.6%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.6%
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 18.4%, Base Building 17.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
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: Base Building 22.1%, Automation 19.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.2%
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 12.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 11.1%
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%
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: Automation 16.9%, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 10.5%
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: Base Building 17.8%, Automation 16.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 11%
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: Base Building 18%, Automation 17.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.5%
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: Base Building 17.7%, Automation 17.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.2%, City Builder 9.6%
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 24.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 18.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 20.5%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, City Builder 8.9%
Medieval city builder with tower defense elements, where you scribble charming towns and gothic wonders in the gentle, timeless style of hand-painted manuscripts.
Why similar: Cozy 22%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%
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 17.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Open World 9.1%
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 19%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 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 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Futuristic 9.1%
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 23.3%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
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: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%
Build a huge factory on a tiny island! Resources are scarce and unique - tweak and optimize everything for peak efficiency. Start with simple painted cubes, unlock tons of upgrades, and scale up to complex production chains. No enemies, just satisfying spaghetti.
Why similar: Cozy 23.2%, Automation 20.3%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.2%
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 15.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.3%
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: Cozy 14.8%, Building 14.3%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.5%
The Gob King wants his bomb. A big one. He wants it NOW. Reconstruct a lost factory in the Fog, route resources, and put the Gobs to work to build the BIG BOOM before he loses what's left of his patience.
Why similar: Cozy 17.8%, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 10%
Keflings may be small, but their kingdom-building adventures are gigantic! Build a world with your friends in A World of Keflings! Harvest resources, construct robots, befriend a dragon, and help a creepy witch get even creepier in this update of the classic 2010 city-building adventure.
Why similar: Cozy 23.4%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.9%
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Automation 15.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 10.4%, Economy 10.1%
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 18.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
Bitpunky is a sandbox game of creating and developing your own digital civilization in the middle of a huge virtual space. Explore the outside world, use the resources of the virtual space for improving and automating processes within your futuristic city!
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 16%, Automation 15.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.9%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Automation 16.5%, City Builder 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Automation 18.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 11.6%, Futuristic 7.3%
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11%
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 21.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
Build a unique civilization in a flat world! Explore, extract resources, expand, and battle enemies. Use your time management skills to fend off attacks and face a mysterious threat. Are you ready to create a world that can survive?
Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Cozy 14.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 21.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 11.3%
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels and power your factory. Research new machines to automate everything in voxel-based multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends and turn the desert into a solar farm.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Automation 19.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9.2%
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 17.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.6%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Base Building 15%, City Builder 14.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 12.7%, Automation 11.9%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.3%, Futuristic 9.7%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.1%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Automation 9.4%, Building 9.1%
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.4%, Futuristic 8.9%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Automation 20.2%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 12.6%, Open World 8.4%
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Base Building 13.7%, Automation 13.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.4%
Run your own fantasy ski shop in the frosty peaks of Winterreach. Stock magical gear, serve a variety of races, hire and manage staff, research upgrades, and adapt to festivals, shortages, and the shifting demands of a living, lore-rich world.
Why similar: Cozy 16.5%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 10.7%
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 10.1%
Return to an Earth abandoned for over 500 years and explore its transformed oceans in search of vital resources. With supplies on humanity's new home world running dry, you must gather materials, build automated underwater operations, and uncover the secrets that now lie beneath the waves.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.8%
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Automation 18.7%, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 12%, Building 11%
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Automation 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10%