60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Indie, Simulation, Automation.
A minimalist factory puzzle game about reaching the speed of light. Build an experimental engine that runs off galactic dust to accelerate your ship to impossible speeds. Match dust signatures carefully and manage your energy to avoid Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly!
Compound Interest
Build your atomic empire. Fuse elements, craft real compounds, trigger chain reactions, and break the periodic table wide open in an idle game where chemistry IS the strategy.
SkyRig
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Build your atomic empire. Fuse elements, craft real compounds, trigger chain reactions, and break the periodic table wide open in an idle game where chemistry IS the strategy.
Why similar: Science 37.3% ★, Automation 20.9%, Crafting 17.5%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 7.2%
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Science 29.3% ★, Automation 24.7%, Space 14.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 5.7%
231 real materials. 352 accurate recipes. Build a Hyperdrive Engine using actual chemistry. Your factory grows. Your efficiency improves. Someone notices. Every decision is logged. Welcome, Director.
Why similar: Science 34.5% ★, Automation 24.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 5.5%
Message from extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Why similar: Science 41% ★, Space 24.1%, Puzzle 13.6%, Minimalist 10.6%, Sci-fi 7.2%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Science 22.3% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Space 13%, Resource Management 8%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Space 21.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Resource Management 8.4%, Strategy 7.7%
From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.
Why similar: Science 32.1% ★, Automation 22.9%, Crafting 17.7%, Resource Management 5.6%, Simulation 5.1%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Crafting 26.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Resource Management 7.2%, Simulation 6.6%
After an accident at a space station, you lose all communication with the earth and are no longer able to locate yourself in space, your best chance of returning is to use the space monitoring system to identify known constellations and configure the route back home.
Why similar: Science 41.6% ★, Space 23.9%, Puzzle 13.2%, Minimalist 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.
Why similar: Science 31.8% ★, Automation 22.6%, Space 15.7%, Crafting 14.4%, Simulation 6.5%
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 35.5%, Crafting 22.3%, Space 13.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 5.8%
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Why similar: Science 38% ★, Space 30.4%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 6.5%
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 44.5%, Crafting 27.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Sci-fi 4.9%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Science 38.1% ★, Automation 29.1%, Puzzle 16.5%, Simulation 14%, Indie 1.2%
Train rats in a series of mazes and help them improve their stats. Submit rats for grant money and use it to upgrade your lab with new tools and buy new rats with powerful abilities! These new rats have such amazing potential. How smart are these rats becoming?
Why similar: Science 30.8% ★, Automation 22.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Science 37.9% ★, Automation 34%, Crafting 23.1%, 2D 3.1%, Simulation 1.8%
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: Automation 33.7%, Crafting 22.4%, Space 10.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 6.7%
That Rocket Game is the ultimate space themed relaxing arcade game. Upgrade your rocket to reach further into the unknown...
Why similar: Science 47.5% ★, Space 31.1%, Minimalist 7.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Casual 2.7%
A casual puzzle game of "Mysterious Galaxy". Plan the movement path and unseal the stars. Experience a variety of mechanisms and challenges in galaxies with different themes. Use your wisdom to overcome difficulties and witness the reappearance of ancient constellations!
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Space 27%, Puzzle 14.4%, Minimalist 8.5%, Sci-fi 5.2%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 38%, Crafting 22.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Puzzle 8.7%, Strategy 6.1%
2.5D Falling sand game. Collect Rare Items and discover new Elements. Use Elements to make Powerful Spells. Build and Destroy at your will.
Why similar: Automation 42.6%, Crafting 27.7%, Simulation 19.9%, 2D 6.4%, Casual 2.4%
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 44.2%, Crafting 26%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 6.5%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Crafting 16.8%, Puzzle 13.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10%
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 36.3%, Crafting 24.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 7.5%
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 40.5%, Crafting 19%, Resource Management 10.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 6.4%
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Crafting 23.4%, Puzzle 12.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.9%
Ecocoru is a puzzle game where you have to solve compass and ruler construction problems.
Why similar: Science 53.5% ★, Puzzle 18.5%, Minimalist 11.6%, Simulation 10.7%, 2D 3.6%
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: Science 34.1% ★, Automation 31.4%, Crafting 21.1%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 4.2%
Travel through the solar system in your own spaceship! The motion of each celestial body is accurately reproduced by the Kepler equation.
Why similar: Science 40.8% ★, Crafting 26.4%, Space 23.8%, Simulation 5.6%, Sci-fi 2.8%
Survive a hostile world with your droid. Build your base, automate with robots, and manage the energy that keeps you alive. Beware. The tech you rely on may save your life – or destroy it.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Crafting 20.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Space 10.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Science 30.6% ★, Automation 28.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 4.3%
2D automation game set in a time loop. Only time anchored factories and knowledge can be carried through multiple loops, until a way to escape time is discovered. Manage factories, production, research and bonuses to reach the end. What will you carry an what will you leave to the mercy of time?
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Crafting 24.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Space 5.7%
Based on true Newtonian Physics, n-body VR immerses you in a deep space, 4D playground of sight and sound with your HTC Vive. This unique new experience promises to be fun and interesting to generations of space-time enthusiasts.
Why similar: Science 47.7% ★, Space 25.5%, Simulation 24.3%, Indie 2.4%
Fakutori is a laid-back and colorful automation game; place machines, discover new elements, and try to craft the elusive Legendary Blocks! No limits, no pressure, just blocks!
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Crafting 21.3%, Space 18.7%, Simulation 9%, Resource Management 9%
Given a 5-liter cup and a 3-liter cup, how measure 4 liters of water?
Why similar: Science 49.8% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Minimalist 13.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Casual 6.6%
An incremental journey through space. Manage your ship's capsules, choose your path through the stars, and watch your crew and automation do the rest.
Why similar: Automation 32.7%, Space 25.4%, Crafting 19.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 5.3%
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Crafting 23.5%, Space 19.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Sci-fi 6%
Can mine, can fight, and has sisters, collecting more than 30 types of ore such as iron ore, copper ore, manganese ore, chrome ore, vanadium ore, titanium ore, etc. Team up to break through the 100th floor
Why similar: Science 28.9% ★, Automation 28.3%, Crafting 18.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 4.3%
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Science 39% ★, Automation 30.1%, Crafting 19.4%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 2.6%
Open a portal and begin your journey! Teleport rocks, water and your spaceship. Immerse in handcrafted colorful worlds, solve puzzles and be the first at the center of the Earth.
Why similar: Science 38.3% ★, Space 18.9%, Puzzle 16.4%, Casual 6.8%, Sci-fi 6.1%
Master the Ultimate Chain Reaction in this physics-driven incremental game. Optimize atomic flows, manage instability, and master fusion in a seamless single-run journey. Experience tactile energy farming where high-level strategy meets purposeful automation. Rebuilt for total optimization.
Why similar: Science 49.1% ★, Crafting 25.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Minimalist 5%
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: Science 25.6% ★, Automation 25.2%, Space 16.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 6.9%
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 44.3%, Crafting 22.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Minimalist 7.2%
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 33.9%, Crafting 21.6%, Space 16.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Simulation 6.6%
Star Haul Tycoon is a narrative logistics sim where efficiency is the only path to profit. Connect planets, manage a fleet of transport ships and optimize complex supply chains. In an economy where fuel equals money, you must pay off your massive corporate debt to a supervisor who's always watching.
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Space 22.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 6%
A zany single-player, open-world survival-crafting adventure game, set in space across a colorful planetary system. Explore the system at your own pace, leverage the unique properties and lifeforms of the planets, build bases and factories, and reveal the mystery of a vanished science colony.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Science 25.7% ★, Crafting 19.7%, Space 16.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
Collects resources, makes products, get money, and repair a time machine.
Why similar: Automation 38.9%, Crafting 23%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 6.9%
Strange radio bursts have been detected! Embark on an immersive adventure as you analyze radio signals coming from space, decipher hidden messages, symbols, sounds, and translate alien languages. Follow an engaging story with countless dialogues and game-changing choices.
Why similar: Science 53.3% ★, Space 15.3%, Puzzle 12.1%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Simulation 4.7%
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 40%, Crafting 24.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Resource Management 8.5%
Orbit a planet, fire your laser, and mine it to the core. Upgrade your ship and conquer seasonal hazards across four unique zones. A satisfying incremental mining game set in space.
Why similar: Space 32.9%, Automation 31.6%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 5.2%
An idle game of growth and strategy. Build, upgrade, and prestige your way to limitless power.
Why similar: Science 40.3% ★, Automation 38.1%, Simulation 8.6%, Minimalist 5.7%, 2D 3.5%
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 30.6%, Crafting 19.3%, Space 13.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Minimalist 7%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Science 28.6% ★, Puzzle 15.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6.6%
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 36.4%, Crafting 20.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Simulation 8%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Science 34.9% ★, Automation 32.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Puzzle 6.6%, Strategy 5.9%
The Monster Market is back open! Use automation to assemble monster parts into the proper monsters, and keep your customers happy. A fun, relaxing, and challenging puzzle game where you have full control over how difficult it gets.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Crafting 25.7%, Puzzle 14%, Minimalist 6.5%, Strategy 6%
Eureka! Superconductor Lab is a crafting+simulation game where you synthesize materials and witness the astonishing scientific phenomena. Work alongside scholars, science geeks, and your girlfriend to synthesize the Holy Grail of modern physics: a room-temperature superconductor!
Why similar: Science 44.8% ★, Crafting 22.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Sci-fi 5.3%
Neutrino, The Mission - a minimalist game where a photon seeks the core of Neutrinos Kingdom, find out why they have mass and destroy them!
Why similar: Science 42.7% ★, Space 24.3%, Puzzle 14.1%, Minimalist 11.5%, Casual 3.7%
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 55.8%, Puzzle 18.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Casual 3.6%, 2D 2.6%
