
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
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Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.

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A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.

Flow Factory
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.
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 20.8%, Mining 18.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.3%
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 22%, Mining 18% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.1%
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Automation 14.3%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 7.5%
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 15.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 8.1%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 20.5% ★, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Mining 13.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 21.3% ★, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Mining 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Mining 16.3% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
Mine resources, craft tools, and battle fierce underground enemies as you explore, trade, and build your way back to the stars. Level up, upgrade your gear, and automate your processes for ultimate efficiency. Play solo or team up with a friend in this 1-2 player mining and combat adventure.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 29.1% ★, Automation 20.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 7.3%, Building 7.1%
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: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 26.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Mining 12.7% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.5%
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 27%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 11.4%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Mining 14.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 25.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 8%
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 22.6%, Mining 19.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 8.5%
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: Mining 27.7% ★, Automation 23%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 8.9%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Mining 24.1% ★, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 22.6% ★, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Building 9.6%
Gather, craft, and then automate resources to build fabulous Kastles. Beware the locals don't like you destroying their land. Defend your Kastles through combat and defenses. Explore the land to find additional recipes, resources, and items to help you defend and build your Kingdom!
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 8.6%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Mining 20.9% ★, Automation 17.5%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 10.1%
Descend into the depths, extract valuable resources, and turn them into the engine of a growing industrial operation. Build underground infrastructure and process everything on the surface to expand your production and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 28.8% ★, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Mining 22.3% ★, Automation 22%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.4%
Crash-land on Kepler-442b. With nothing but a terminal, build automated factories from raw ore. Power them. Fight back the wildlife. Descend 4 world layers to save 50,000 colonists in cryo-sleep. ASCII factory automation, deep and brutal. Pure text. Pure systems.
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 7%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Mining 28.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 9.3%
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: Mining 18.6% ★, Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
A gold mining tycoon built on real operations. Clear overburden, Dig, haul, wash, and pan your way from hand tools to a living operation. Manage wages, fuel, repairs, landlord cuts, and loans, time your sales to a living gold market, and survive season after season.
Why similar: Mining 34.5% ★, Automation 22%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Economy 9.5%, Building 6.3%
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 26.7% ★, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 30.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 7.6%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Automation 27%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Space 8.1%
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 32.1%, Base Building 19.8%, Mining 10.2% ★, Colony Sim 8.9%, Economy 8.3%
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Space 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%
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 27.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.7%
Another world is about to become a resource colony for your Creator. Prove your usefulness. Spread your influence across the planet. Take all resources you can reach. Build a base on the surface and in space. Сomplete the construction of an intergalactic beacon to absorb the entire planet.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Mining 17.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 22.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
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 31.2%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Logic 9.4%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%
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 28.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.6%
Craft, defend, and conquer in Colony! Solo or with friends. Engage in battles against rival colonies, harness automation for efficient production, explore new islands with new resources, and master the art of survival. Don't wait, your colony needs you!
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 21.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.8%
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 7.1%
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, Space 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Mining 22.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Mining 21.5% ★, Automation 18%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.1%
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10%
Kardashev is an open-world, procedurally generated, factory building game, set amongst a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission is to harness energy and ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Base Building 21%, Sandbox 13%, Space 12.6%, Crafting 9.8%
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 25.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.8%
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Logic 6.6%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Space 10.5%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.4%