Games Like Desynced

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 16.8%, RTS 16.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with automation, requiring you to build supply chains to fuel your defensive structures in an RTS-style environment.

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 25%, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an expansive, interstellar scale of automation that challenges you to manage logistics across multiple star systems.

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 27.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, City Builder 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential automation game that defines the genre with its deep focus on resource logistics and factory optimization.

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 26.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person perspective on factory building, emphasizing verticality and complex 3D production line management.

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 36.3% ★, Automation 23%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 6.2%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique programming-based automation system where you teach units to perform tasks through a visual scripting language.

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 19%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory builder set in a bioluminescent alien cave system that emphasizes exploration alongside automation.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on massive-scale space automation, allowing you to build sprawling production lines across a procedurally generated galaxy.

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 27.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A pure, minimalist automation experience that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on geometric production and factory scaling.

Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.

Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Automation 18%, RTS 14%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore MMO strategy game where you must write real JavaScript code to control your units and manage your base.

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Programming 36.5% ★, Multiplayer 27%, Strategy 23.8%, Automation 5.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on the logic-based programming of units to fight autonomously in an arena, mirroring the unit-behavior aspect of Desynced.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A lunar base-building game that combines resource extraction with automated logistics and colony management.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 27%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulation that requires intricate logic and automation to manage gas, liquid, and power systems for your survivors.

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 29.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep logistics and resource management game that tasks you with building a self-sufficient industrial colony from scratch.

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 21.6%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that introduces unique water-physics-based automation, forcing you to engineer your environment to survive droughts.

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 19.5%, Base Building 14%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory builder that allows for infinite expansion and complex automation in an open, procedurally generated world.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers extreme depth in systems engineering, requiring you to manage complex atmospheric and electrical logic to survive in space.

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 26.6%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features modular base-building and automation in space, where you must manage resources while moving your colony through the stars.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Automation 15.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A planetary-scale strategy game where you automate the terraforming of Mars through a massive, interconnected network of buildings.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex economic and logistics simulation on the market, perfect for those who enjoy the macro-management side of Desynced.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A ship-based colony sim that emphasizes internal logistics, air management, and tactical combat in a sci-fi setting.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that requires careful resource allocation and logistics to keep your population alive during a perilous journey.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An AI-driven space colony sim that allows for deep customization and automation of your ship's systems and crew tasks.

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 19.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that uses a robot-based automation system to manage the flow of resources between your settlements.

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: Automation 20.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that forces you to solve complex traffic and transportation logistics to keep your futuristic city running.

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 17.1%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and optimization of production lines within a business context, emphasizing efficiency and product design.

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 14.3%, RTS 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 7.5%

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 20.4%, Management 13.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 11.1%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the macro-logistics of building supply chains and managing a growing industrial empire across a map.

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: Automation 21.7%, Programming 20.9% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Builds upon the programming-based automation of the original with added combat mechanics and defensive base-building.

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 19.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.2%

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Why similar: Programming 64.1% ★, Automation 24.7%, Sandbox 4.4%, Simulation 3.5%, Strategy 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A programming-based hacking simulation that captures the 'logic-first' mindset required to master the advanced systems in Desynced.

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 24.2%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that uses a node-based automation system to help your settlers produce goods and expand their territory.

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 19.5%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.2%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 6.7%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony survival game that requires you to automate resource production to sustain your base in harsh environments.

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 18.8%, Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.7%, RTS 13%, Base Building 12%

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 23.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.5%, Survival 7.8%

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 28.9%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 12.1%, Multiplayer 7%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, RTS 14.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.4%, RTS 13.1%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 15%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 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 24.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, City Builder 9.5%, Building 9.2%

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 27.3% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.4%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Building 20.6%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Survival 14%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Multiplayer 11.1%

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Programming 36.4% ★, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 4.5%

The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%

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 19.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.

Why similar: RTS 23.5%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 13.1%, Strategy 11.6%

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.5%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 11.3%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 22.9%, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 14%, Strategy 10.4%, Sandbox 9%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 8%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 14.7%, Building 13.4%, Sci-fi 9%

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 9.2%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Base Building 27.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Sandbox 6.2%, Resource Management 6.1%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 31.7%, Survival 19.4%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%

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 24.7% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 8.7%, Survival 8.6%

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 27.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 9.3%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Programming 17.3% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.2%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Base Building 14.9%, RTS 9.2%, Management 9%, Resource Management 7.1%