
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.

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.

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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 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 21.2%, Mining 17.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
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 20.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Mining 13.1% ★, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 25% ★, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 17%, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, 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 20.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 29.8% ★, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.2%
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 21.2% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
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 16.8%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Mining 13.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 15%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.2%
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 25.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 7.1%
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 23.6%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 10.5%
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%, Mining 16.4% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.5%
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 19.5% ★, Automation 16.6%, Colony Sim 12%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.1%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Automation 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.3%
The Ignition Protocol is a slow-paced, top-down incremental asteroid-mining game. Fly your ship in zero-g, mine and tow asteroids, transport resources, automate your base, and ignite a new star - the last light in a fading universe.
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Space 10.7%, Base Building 8.5%
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 18.1%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 21.8%, Base Building 18.3%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Space 10.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
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%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%
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 26.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%
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 25.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Mining 12.8% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 8.7%
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 28.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Mining 10.4% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Strategy 9.2%
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 17.5%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Mining 14.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
Build a factory around a black hole. Extract elements, route atoms through Matter Tubes, bond them using valence-driven chemistry, and scale precise molecular production lines atom by atom.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Space 9.6%
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.4%
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 24.8%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 12%, Building 8.1%
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 21.9%, Mining 19.3% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 8.7%
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% ★, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Mining 12.2% ★, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
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 22.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 9.1%
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 22.5% ★, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Colony Sim 12%, Building 9.8%
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 21.3% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.1%
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, Automation 15.4%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%
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 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 8.5%
A roguelite automation miner. Every run: dig, deploy robots, lay roads, deploy buildings, expand, refine, defend - and escape before instability tears the site apart. Cargo you don't ship is cargo you lose. Permanent upgrades and new contracts wait at the Corporate Hub™. Sandbox mode included.
Why similar: Mining 28.3% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Building 7.1%
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 29.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.8%
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 24.6% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9%
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 17.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 10%
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 22.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%
A factory automation game made entirely out of text characters. Real simulated electricity, fluid pressure, steam and logic gates. You crash on a dead planet with a terminal and 50,000 sleeping colonists somewhere below you. Runs on almost anything. Free demo.
Why similar: Mining 16% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 7%
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 21.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.6%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11%
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 22.2% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%
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 29.7%, Base Building 18.3%, Logic 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%, Strategy 7.8%
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 24.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Logic 8.8%
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 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 9.4%
Build physics-driven ships and automated factories block by block in a 2D space survival sandbox. Mine planets and asteroids, program machines, explore a hostile universe and survive solo or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Mining 19.4% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Space 9.3%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.5%
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 26.9% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Space 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%
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 26.6% ★, Automation 19%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Mining 13.3% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 7.9%
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 26%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Space 8.3%
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 18.5% ★, Automation 16.2%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 31.4%, Base Building 20%, Mining 10.4% ★, Colony Sim 9.2%, Economy 7.9%
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 29.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 7.8%
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 26.5%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 7.8%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Sandbox 11%, Space 10.8%
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 22.8% ★, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.6%
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 30.1%, Base Building 20.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Logic 9.6%
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 25.2% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, Space 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%