- #1 Dyson Sphere Program
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.5%, Base Building 24.6%, Building 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredible scale of space-based automation and logistics that perfectly captures the interstellar ambition of Evospace.
- #2 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 22.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Open World 11.2%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity, first-person 3D factory building experience that emphasizes verticality and complex machine chains.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 30.5%, Base Building 24.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that shares the core loop of resource extraction, complex logistics, and scaling production chains.
- #4 Stationeers
95% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.1%, Base Building 22.7%, Crafting 20.1%, Building 16%, Sandbox 16%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-complexity simulation and technical survival, requiring deep knowledge of systems and automation to thrive.
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 14.5%, Voxel 14.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person, voxel-based factory building game that emphasizes massive scale and infinite procedural worlds.
- #6 The Planet Crafter
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 16%, Building 13.3%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying progression of terraforming a planet through base-building and resource management.
- #7 FortressCraft Evolved!
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that mirrors the technical depth and block-based building style of Evospace.
- #8 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 24.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, destructible underground alien world.
- #9 Astro Colony
91% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Base Building 22%, Automation 21.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features modular base-building and automation in space, focusing on managing resources across a chain of interconnected colonies.
- #10 Autonauts
91% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Automation 31.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation with a charming programming-based system that allows you to automate entire colonies of robots.
- #11 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 22%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 16.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and crafting with automation mechanics to transform hostile environments.
- #12 Hydroneer
90% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.1%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based terrain manipulation and a unique physics-driven approach to resource extraction and automation.
- #13 Space Engineers
89% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 16.1%, Simulation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for voxel-based space construction and engineering, offering immense freedom in ship and base design.
- #14 Mindustry
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Base Building 32.8%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 14%, Indie 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends resource management and factory automation with tower defense mechanics in a challenging, strategic environment.
- #15 Occupy Mars: The Game
87% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 19.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 13.6%, Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A highly technical survival and base-building game that emphasizes realistic resource management and engineering.
- #16 Final Upgrade
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 27.6%, Base Building 22.9%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based automation game that allows you to build complex logistics networks using programmable ships.
- #17 Rebots
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPonies
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 12.7%, Procedural Generation 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features robot-assisted automation and resource management in a sandbox space environment.
- #18 shapez
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 24.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pure, minimalist automation game that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on the logic and efficiency of factory design.
- #19 Final Factory
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 22.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An automation game set in space that focuses on building massive, interconnected factory networks across solar systems.
- #20 ASTRONEER
84% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Open World 16.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Automation 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration, base-building, and resource processing with a distinct, tactile aesthetic.
- #21 Space Trash Scavenger
83% matchVery Positive83% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Crafting 15.9%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines scavenging and survival with base-building mechanics in a unique space setting.
- #22 Astrometica
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,211 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Crafting 21.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Open World 17.1%, First-Person 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-sim that emphasizes survival and exploration in a first-person, open-world environment.
- #23 Orebound
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 14.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Voxel 12.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access title that focuses on automation, crafting, and resource management in a sandbox world.
- #24 Skyformer
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 11.5%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base-building within an open-world survival crafting framework.
- #25 Elsewhere
80% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox game that focuses on exploration and survival mechanics.
- #26 Starship EVO
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,546 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Building 23.9%, Sandbox 19.6%, Voxel 17.6% ★, Simulation 12.6%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy game that allows for incredibly detailed ship building and mechanical engineering.
- #27 Sandustry
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11.8%
- #28 XenoHaven
79% matchVery Positive82% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 14%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base-building and exploration on alien worlds.
- #29 Icaria
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
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: Automation 16%, Base Building 14%, Voxel 13.8% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and automation with a unique focus on programming logic for complex systems.
- #30 SpaceCraft
77% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 13.3%
- #31 Space Engineers 2
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,654 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Building 20.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Open World 16%, Simulation 9.1%
- #32 StarRupture
74% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 12.7%
- #33 Remains
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 323 reviews2021
Dev: SoloQ
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 17.9%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival and base-building game that emphasizes crafting and resource management.
- #34 Lightyear Frontier
75% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #35 Star Crafter
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Automation 15.4%, Voxel 14.1% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
- #36 Voxel Eras
74% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Voxel 16.3% ★, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #37 Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
72% matchVery Positive87% of 1,372 reviews2026
Dev: SpaceOpsPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.8%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Realistic 10.5%, Futuristic 8.6%
- #38 JUNKPUNK
76% matchMixed62% of 688 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Crafting 19.1%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 7.9%
- #39 The Last Caretaker
71% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 18%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12.4%
- #40 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 34,438 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 77.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Voxel 22.6% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Building 16.2%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%
- #41 Volcanoids
73% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 19%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 14.1%, Open World 12%
- #42 Captain of Industry
71% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 39%, Base Building 30.5%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Crafting 4.8%
- #43 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Automation 17.8%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #44 Planetbase
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Base Building 47.2%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 9%, Open World 8.3%
- #45 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 18.7%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Automation 11.4%
- #46 Eco
71% matchVery Positive81% of 14,085 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, Crafting 26.5%, Open World 18.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Simulation 8.7%
- #47 InfraSpace
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 26.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 16%, Crafting 15.7%
- #48 Outpath
67% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.1%
- #49 Nova Lands
67% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #50 Planet Miner
70% matchVery Positive81% of 62 reviews2021
Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
Windows
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Simulation 37.8%, Adventure 23.7%, Exploration 13.8%, Futuristic 12.7%, 3D 6%
- #51 Prospector
68% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.7%
- #52 Space Haven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Base Building 27.8%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 18.6%, Open World 15%, Simulation 9.4%
- #53 FluxWerks
66% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 16.1%, Voxel 13.3% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.6%
- #54 Avorion
67% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Voxel 23.8% ★, Sandbox 20.3%, Building 19.9%, Open World 16.8%, Simulation 8.5%
- #55 AutoForge
67% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 12.1%
- #56 Starbase
69% matchMixed55% of 6,768 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 91.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Building 19.2%, Voxel 18.5% ★, Open World 17.3%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 14.7%
- #57 Belts of Iron
66% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
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: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #58 Exogate Initiative
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
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: Base Building 30.7%, Building 21.7%, Sandbox 21.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Exploration 7.7%