- #1 Food Industry
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Evolugame
Windows
Build and expand in agriculture, industry and commerce. Evolve in the food industry sector, and weather the storms by helping your people build the new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Agriculture 14.5% ★, Automation 13.9%, City Builder 13.6%, Trading 13.5% ★
- #2 Truck City
74% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Mining 16.1% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Colony Sim 11.3% ★, Trading 10.4% ★
- #3 Survival Vacancy
77% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Automation 15.3%, Mining 14% ★, Inventory Management 11.6%, City Builder 8.8%
- #4 Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith
71% matchVery Positive81% of 446 reviews2025
Dev: Compact Core GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Forge your destiny and craft legends. Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith is your journey into the heart of craftsmanship. Dive into the enchanting world of a blacksmith, mine ores, create legendary weapons, arm heroes and send them on quests for loot and profit. The forge awaits!
Why similar: Mining 18.9% ★, Shop Keeper 18.4% ★, Trading 14.5% ★, Automation 12.8%, Inventory Management 10.9%
- #5 SIM Chef: Restaurant management
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernardo Nunes PinheiroPub: Becaptain
Windows · Mac
SIM Chef is a restaurant management simulator. Build and decorate, manage employees, create hundreds of classic dishes and drinks, make decisions and become the number one in the world.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Automation 14.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #6 Forgefolk
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunseed Games
Windows
Forgefolk is a blacksmithing simulator set in the workshop of a master dwarf. Gather resources, smelt, forge, and complete orders. Upgrade your workshop, craft better tools, and earn gold. If you’re looking for a calm yet satisfying gameplay loop, step up to the anvil.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.6% ★, Mining 31.2% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.9%
- #7 Havendock
68% matchVery Positive80% of 1,858 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Agriculture 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Automation 15.5%, City Builder 14.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #8 Matsudaira's Myoshu: A Sengoku Village Simulator
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dragonhead Gaming
Windows
Welcome, Myoshu, it is time to construct your village during the tumultous time of Sengoku where the legends of samurai and ninja were born. A multitude of buildings, technologies, festivals, and resources await your grand design but beware as bandits, ronin, and ninja seek to hinder your progress.
Why similar: Mining 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Agriculture 16.3% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Trading 14.1% ★
- #9 Apocalypse Factory
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Mining 18.2% ★, Inventory Management 14%, City Builder 11.5%, Crafting 9.8%
- #10 Numbers & Nodes
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Strategy 9.6%
- #11 Pinsky Protocol
67% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Colmillo Estelar
Windows
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Philosophical 24.3%, Mining 22.3% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #12 DigScape
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Pixellow Official
Windows
Build, mine, and manage your own industrial zone in this relaxing 3D simulation game. Plan production, automate systems, and expand your operations step by step as you create a thriving environment.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 9.6%
- #13 Winterreach Emporium
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Large Lads
Windows
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: Shop Keeper 25.5% ★, Automation 18.9%, Trading 15% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #14 Makato: Your Fantasy Shop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Sloth Games Paul Eidenmüller
Windows
Build your own medieval fantasy shop and sell armor, weapons, potions and more to earn money. Send out adventurers to gather goods and combine them to create more powerful and more valuable goods.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.6% ★, Trading 18.6% ★, Inventory Management 13.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #15 Wild West Miner Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
You've become the sheriff of a town that... doesn't exist. Nobody lives here, the governor's stupid joke. It's time to get to work and turn this NOWHERE into a bustling metropolis. Mine coal, ore, and gold. Build houses, find oil, bring in new residents, create a paradise in the middle of nowhere.
Why similar: Mining 23.6% ★, Trading 19.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #16 Drug Dealer 2049
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nextazio972
Windows
In Drug Dealer 2049, build your cartel, manage production, negotiate with customers, and survive against the police.
Why similar: Trading 19.1% ★, Automation 17.1%, Agriculture 14% ★, Inventory Management 13.6%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #17 Autonauts vs Piratebots
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 20.8%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Crafting 10.9%
- #18 Center Station Simulator
66% matchVery Positive88% of 553 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Trading 22.8% ★, Automation 21%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Inventory Management 8.1%
- #19 Motile Works
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Mining 15% ★, City Builder 15%, Automation 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
- #20 Seaport Tycoon
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SaintWorks
Windows
SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!
Why similar: Trading 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Automation 18.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #21 Beauty Store Simulator - Prologue
64% matchPositive89% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: NovaraGamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Run your own beauty store in Beauty Store Simulator! Manage a variety of cosmetics, fashion items, jewelry, and more. Design your store, keep customers happy, and build a successful beauty empire. Can you become the ultimate beauty mogul?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.5% ★, City Builder 18%, Sandbox 8.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Inventory Management 6.8%
- #22 STARIO: Haven Tower
64% matchVery Positive94% of 336 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Automation 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #23 All Roads Connected
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Trading 17.8% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #24 Industrix
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Mining 18% ★, Trading 14.2% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 10.6%
- #25 Macaronpolis
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lemiraum
Windows
Macaronpolis is a management and automation simulation game where you build your own efficient and versatile factory, mass-produce a wide variety of products, and generate profits. Start from the ground up on a new fantasy continent and grow into a factory owner with the highest tier!
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Shop Keeper 20.5% ★, Trading 16.3% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #26 Hammerting
66% matchMixed57% of 2,576 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Mining 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, Automation 16.6%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #27 The Crust
63% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,376 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #28 Cosmic Construct
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YuLabs Entertainment
Windows
Create your cute animal overlord and command 100 pawns. Build a settlement into a civilization under the guide of an ancient and mysterious totem; in this 2D colony simulation and management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Agriculture 17.2% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Inventory Management 15.3%, Crafting 11.2%
- #29 Captain of Industry
64% matchVery Positive91% of 10,318 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 79.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 30.1%, Resource Management 17%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Mining 10.8% ★, City Builder 10.7%
- #30 Factor Y
64% 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: Mining 27.9% ★, Automation 22.3%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10%
- #31 Automation Empire
66% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.6%, Mining 14% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, City Builder 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #32 Manufactur’ inc.
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Mining 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Agriculture 15.1% ★, Resource Management 10.8%
- #33 Richat Structure
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Strategic excavation simulator. Dig deep into the mysterious Earth's bullseye, build underground bases and study anomalous finds. The deeper your miners advance, the more questions this geo-phenomenon raises. Will you be able to unearth the true nature of the Richat Structure?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Mining 21% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Side Scroller 10.8%, Crafting 8%
- #34 Hosting Simulator
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HypeDevelopments
Windows
Build and manage your own data center! Design modular servers, set up realistic networking, and power systems. Manage heat, install OS (Windows/Ubuntu), and fulfill contracts for profit. Technical depth and hardware precision await!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.5% ★, Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 11%
- #35 Home Store Simulator
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GOSOVEN
Windows
Run your own home goods store! Sell sofas, refrigerators, TVs and more. Purchase products, set your prices, take payments, design your layout, handle shoplifters, and expand your store to build a successful retail business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.3% ★, Trading 19.1% ★, Inventory Management 16.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 9.3%
- #36 Facteroids
63% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 21.3% ★, Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #37 Thriving City: Song
61% matchVery Positive81% of 3,269 reviews2024
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Why similar: Mining 18% ★, City Builder 17%, Agriculture 16.9% ★, Trading 14.8% ★, Inventory Management 11.4%
- #38 Microtopia: Prologue
61% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
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: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Automation 19.8%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%
- #39 The Wandering Village
59% matchVery Positive92% of 8,057 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Automation 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #40 Space Salvage Simulator
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Surgical
Windows
Welcome to Space Salvage Simulator. Saddled with an unfair debt, you're locked in a forced labor camp on the edge of the galaxy. Scavenge and craft from an endless stream of trash to earn an honest living, or bet it all in the underground arena for a quick jackpot. Pay your debt, buy your freedom!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.7% ★, Inventory Management 26.6%, Crafting 15.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #41 Factory Simulator
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shiftcore Games
Windows
Factory Simulator is a realistic production and management simulation game where you build automated factories, manage supply chains, operate machines, and sell products. Play solo or cooperatively and grow your industrial empire from scratch.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.6% ★, Automation 20.4%, Inventory Management 14.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%
- #42 KLIKFEST: Medieval
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SalmonSnakePub: I'm Digi ry
Windows
KLIKFEST is a medieval clicker game where you develop villages as the king’s advisor. Build mines, craft unique items, and manage resources in a 3-day loop. Early Access focuses on mining, with multiplayer and 14 parts coming. Shape the game with feedback!
Why similar: Mining 18.9% ★, Automation 15.9%, Trading 15.5% ★, Agriculture 15.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%
- #43 Assemblands
61% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Tafusoft
Windows
Build your factory from zero and produce high-tech products like drones, PC, robots and compete against thousands of players.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Trading 20.8% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Inventory Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.9%
- #44 Story of Mine Company
62% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Nine Four Games
Windows
Hire miners and help them to extract ore using different tools. Try to control the chaos of the workflow. Trade in the market. Improve your buildings. Craft items. Manage resources wisely to stay profitable.
Why similar: Mining 29.7% ★, Trading 17.8% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Inventory Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%
- #45 Sunshine Farm
60% matchMostly Positive70% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Pretoriano_devPub: Coliseum Studio
Windows
Sunshine Farm is a farming simulator with shop management. Grow your farm, explore a vast world, expand the fair, and run a successful store.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.5% ★, Agriculture 22.2% ★, Mining 14.8% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #46 Hexfactory
60% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila Industrial
Windows
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Automation 17.1%, Mining 14.9% ★, Crafting 8.2%
- #47 Medieval StartUp
59% matchPositive98% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Editions Aspic Games
Windows
Medieval StartUp is a unique mix of tavern management, crafting, and exploration set in a rich medieval world. Manage your tavern, craft unique items, recruit staff, and explore a mysterious marsh full of hidden secrets and rare resources.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 35% ★, Trading 22.1% ★, Inventory Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #48 NationForge
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Automation 24.8%, Trading 14.5% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 8%
- #49 Factory Town
61% matchVery Positive91% of 4,418 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 22.7%, Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%
- #50 FACTO
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Resource Management 17%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Inventory Management 10.1%
- #51 Primitive Society Simulator
60% matchVery Positive83% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Agriculture 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Trading 15.4% ★, Crafting 8.7%
- #52 Resourcer
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Wings Ltd
Windows
Dig deep into diverse biomes, uncover ancient treasures and mine various resources. Craft new tools and build various production structures. Improve your character’s skills and unlock new features as you progress through the game. Manage the resources and create an efficient production chain.
Why similar: Mining 30.7% ★, Automation 19.8%, Inventory Management 15.2%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 12.2%
- #53 Raccoon Crafts Factory
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Automation 15.9%, Mining 12% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Side Scroller 11%
- #54 Sproutmart – Grocery Store Simulator
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kappa Bits Games
Windows
Run your own grocery store. Stock shelves, scan items at the checkout, and keep the store moving — solo or with friends. Farm, process, and fish for goods to expand what you can sell.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.1% ★, Trading 18.3% ★, Inventory Management 13.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #55 Industry Giant 4.0
59% matchMostly Negative37% of 544 reviews2025
Dev: Don VS DodoPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
Why similar: Mining 20.9% ★, Trading 17.5% ★, Automation 17.2%, City Builder 16.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #56 Never Secure
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Inventory Management 14.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Simulation 8.6%
- #57 Another Brick in The Mall
61% matchVery Positive83% of 2,421 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.4% ★, Automation 25%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 6.1%
- #58 City Builder Pro
58% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 10.6%
- #59 Microtopia
58% matchVery Positive88% of 901 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 20.5% ★, Automation 19.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%