- #1 Greedy Little Kingdoms
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.5% ★, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.1%, City Builder 8.8%
- #2 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,472 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.9% ★, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, City Builder 8.3%
- #3 Automation Empire
96% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 20.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Real-Time with Pause 12.7% ★, Economy 8.1%, Building 8%
- #4 VoltHaven
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ARTilleryPub: ARTillery Studio
Windows
Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layout with drag-and-drop simplicity. Simulation based on european data.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27% ★, Automation 11.3%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.7%
- #5 Solar Baron
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Preon Studio
Windows
As head of an interplanetary corporation, your goal is to extract resources from across the solar system and bring them home faster and cheaper than your competitors. Construct trade depots and colonies. Build rockets and spaceports. Master realistic orbital mechanics and maximize profits.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.6% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 8.1%
- #6 Kingdom Workshop
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Automation 13.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11%, Economy 10.5%, Real-Time with Pause 9.8% ★
- #7 Islandustry
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #8 BOREWORKS
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 9.7%, Roguelite 7.6%
- #9 Little Big Workshop
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 11.1%, Simulation 9.8%
- #10 Power to the People
91% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.3% ★, Economy 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, City Builder 8.8%
- #11 Captain of Industry
90% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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 27.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Economy 10.9%, Building 7.6%
- #12 Potion Pipeline
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 14%, Sandbox 8.8%, Strategy 8.8%
- #13 Mito
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Roguelite 8.4%
- #14 Builderment
88% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 9.9%, City Builder 9.6%
- #15 Astral Enterprises
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimise production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 13.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 9.9%
- #16 plexum
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 7.1%
- #17 Biofactory
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 8%
- #18 Outer Factory
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #19 Smart City Plan
85% matchMixed65% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.3% ★, Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #20 Automation Station
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #21 Flotsam
81% matchVery Positive81% of 4,563 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.7% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.6%, Economy 7.9%
- #22 Offshore Prophets
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 17.3% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, City Builder 11.3%, Roguelite 10.9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #23 Business Magnate
84% matchMixed67% of 218 reviews2019
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.5% ★, Economy 17.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.3%
- #24 Buttons Up! 2
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Jestercraft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing gnomes. Get those Buttons Up by crafting buildings, trading with merchants and by travelling to weird biomes for rare resources. Unlock new skills with prestige points and become the button master in this chill survival incremental game.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.3% ★, Base Building 10%, RTS 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 8.7%
- #25 Forge Industry
80% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.9%, Economy 7.7%
- #26 Factory Town
79% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 21.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, City Builder 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #27 Industrial Garbage
77% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: LMT
Windows
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%
- #28 Factory Town 2: Paradise
76% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 10.9%, Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.8%
- #29 shapez
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 27.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%
- #30 Another Brick in The Mall
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,448 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 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: Automation 23.4%, Real-Time with Pause 14.4% ★, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10%, Economy 9.6%
- #31 Dynasty of the Sands
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rocket Flair Studios
Windows
Be the architect of your own Egyptian empire in this meditative survival city builder, where every decision, no matter how small, has lasting consequences. Survive alongside your people, expand your influence across the Nile and create a grand Dynasty to rival the gods themselves. Paradise awaits.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 10.3%, RTS 9.1%
- #32 FACTORY I
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.6%
- #33 Let Them Trade
75% matchVery Positive86% of 1,176 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.6% ★, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 9.6%
- #34 Production Line : Car factory simulation
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,483 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 20%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.7%
- #35 TowerLine
74% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 27.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 6.5%
- #36 One More Turret
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #37 Earth of Oryn
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 43 reviews2026
Dev: Earth of Oryn
Windows · Mac
A medieval kingdom-builder focused on meaningful decision-making and long-term strategy. Rule your lands, manage resources, plan your expansion, and guide your settlement from humble beginnings to a thriving realm as the seasons turn.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 8.4%
- #38 Factorio
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 31.3%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 7.5%
- #39 Modulus: Factory Automation
70% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 22.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #40 Airborne Kingdom
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,399 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 11.9%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #41 Tower Factory
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 11.7%, RTS 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Roguelite 9.1%
- #42 Complex SKY
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 12%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #43 Prison Architect 2
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Double ElevenPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Welcome Architects! Design and develop your own personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect 2. The classic prison-builder has broken out into 3D, and it’s up to you to contain it!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 22.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #44 Space Drilling Station
69% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.8%
- #45 CosmoFab
69% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 14%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%
- #46 Doodle Factory
71% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.3%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 10.7%
- #47 Crowded Blue Dot
73% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.2% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 9.4%
- #48 Good Company
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 12%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #49 Timberline Factory
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
Build and manage your industrial sawmill in Timberline Factory. Experience a tycoon game where logistics meet physics: logs aren't just icons, they are physical objects that roll, collide, and react to your machines. Design efficient lines, manage equipment, and turn wood waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Economy 14.2%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 7.6%
- #50 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, City Builder 9.4%
- #51 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 27%, Economy 15.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 9.7%
- #52 Astra Sentinel
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Somnambulist Games
Windows
Astra Sentinel is a wave-based survival RTS where endless alien hordes relentlessly assault your planets. Build defenses, colonize planets and manage resources under constant pressure. Will you be able to recover the control of the galaxy?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.4% ★, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 7.9%
- #53 Substructure
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, City Builder 8.6%
- #54 MegaFactory Tycoon
67% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Building 15.3%, Economy 12.6%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #55 Software CEO
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Economy 16.4%, Building 11.7%, Management 10%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #56 Mob Factory
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%
- #57 Flow Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
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 25.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #58 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HatchStudio
Windows
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 9.1%
- #59 Factory Magnate
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9%