- #1 Automation Empire
97% matchMixed66% of 2,646 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 21.5%, Base Building 14%, Real-Time with Pause 10.9% ★, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #2 Greedy Little Kingdoms
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns 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 17.1% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.4%
- #3 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 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 24.6% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.2%
- #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 Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables.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 23.9% ★, Automation 12.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.8%
- #5 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 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #6 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 25.5% ★, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Economy 7.7%
- #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 23.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.4%, City Builder 8%
- #8 Captain of Industry
92% 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 28.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 14.9%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.2%
- #9 BOREWORKS
91% 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 22.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 6.5%
- #10 Potion Pipeline
91% 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 24.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 8.5%
- #11 Fill the Sky
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 8.3%, City Builder 7.6%
- #12 Builderment
89% 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 24.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.8%
- #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 28.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 7.6%
- #14 BELTFED - Roguelike Factory Defense
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hello World Studios
Windows
You are a rogue AI with one directive: AUTOMATE DEATH. Shred, burn and vaporize overwhelming swarms of ravenous bugs as your part factory, part war machine lays waste to one world after another. In BELTFED, the factory is your weapon.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 11%, RTS 8.6%, Building 6.1%
- #15 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 27.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 6.5%
- #16 Little Big Workshop
87% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
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 18.3%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Economy 10.1%
- #17 Astral Enterprises
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Economy 12.5%, Building 10.6%
- #18 Biofactory
85% matchNo user reviews2027
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 23.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #19 Automation Station
84% 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 24.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #20 Scraplings
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #21 Stella Astrum
82% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #22 Outer Factory
83% 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 24.3%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #23 TowerLine
80% matchPositive96% of 28 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 27.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 6.8%
- #24 shapez
82% 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 28.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #25 CosmoFab
79% 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 19.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #26 Power to the People
81% 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 25.9% ★, Building 11.7%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, City Builder 9.5%
- #27 FACTORY I
79% 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 24.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 12.2%, City Builder 8.6%
- #28 Forge Industry
81% 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 21.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.5%, City Builder 7.2%
- #29 One More Turret
78% 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 23.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 10%, Crafting 7%
- #30 Factorio
78% 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 31.8%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #31 Factory Town 2: Paradise
76% matchVery Positive91% of 171 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 21.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.1%, City Builder 10.1%, Economy 9.8%
- #32 Modulus: Factory Automation
75% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 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 22.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, City Builder 8.5%
- #33 Factory Town
77% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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 22%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, City Builder 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #34 Dynasty of the Sands
76% 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 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9.8%, Building 9.5%
- #35 Industrial Garbage
74% matchPositive100% of 14 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 30.8%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #36 Laplana
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Building 19.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Strategy 7.8%
- #37 Production Line : Car factory simulation
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 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 20.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.6%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #38 Flotsam
72% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 24.2% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, City Builder 8.3%
- #39 Complex SKY
73% 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 20.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Economy 9.9%
- #40 Another Brick in The Mall
74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 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 24.6%, Building 13%, Real-Time with Pause 12.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Economy 8.8%
- #41 Good Company
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 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 19.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 10.8%
- #42 Timberline Factory
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
A physics based sawmill simulation - tycoon where logs aren't just rigid icons, but physical objects that roll, collide, and jam. Automate complex production lines, master a dynamic market index, and turn waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Building 14.4%, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Simulation 8%
- #43 Factory Magnate
70% 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 26.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #44 MegaFactory Tycoon
71% 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 30.3%, Building 16.2%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #45 The Factory Must Grow
72% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Krayno Studios
Windows
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%
- #46 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
73% 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 27.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 15.5%, Economy 14.3%, Crafting 9%
- #47 Flow Factory
70% 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 26.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #48 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
70% 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 20.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 9.6%
- #49 Tower Factory
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,259 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 21.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, RTS 9.5%, City Builder 7.8%
- #50 Infindustry
71% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.7%, City Builder 8.5%
- #51 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 24.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 8.9%, City Builder 8.7%
- #52 Mob Factory
69% 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 28.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 8.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #53 火箭工厂 Rocket Factory
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fame Studio
Windows
Rocket Factory is a light roguelite factory-building game. In the game, players will construct machines, manage workers, set up assembly lines, and expand their factory until they build a rocket and set off for the next destination.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 12%, RTS 8.2%, Roguelite 7.7%
- #54 Offshore Prophets
67% 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 15.4% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.5%
- #55 the Cellarer
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, City Builder 8.5%, Economy 7.9%
- #56 Dyson Sphere Program
67% 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 29.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, City Builder 6.3%
- #57 Starstack
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hexline Games
Windows
Build an automated planetary factory, design modular warships, then risk them in tactical space expeditions for rare technology and resources. Push deeper for greater rewards—or return home alive and expand your factory. The factory powers the ship; the ship unlocks the factory.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.3% ★, Automation 21.9%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 7.3%
- #58 ChromaFlow
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 6.2%
- #59 Smart City Plan
69% 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 27.2% ★, Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.4%
- #60 Crowded Blue Dot
69% 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: Base Building 17.6%, Real-Time with Pause 16.6% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Building 10.3%