- #1 TowerLine
97% matchNo user 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 28.7%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%
- #2 FACTORY I
96% matchNo user reviews
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 27.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Minimalist 7.3%
- #3 shapez
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 32.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #4 One More Turret
95% 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 26.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Crafting 7.8%
- #5 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 36.6%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 14.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #6 Builderment
94% matchMixed67% of 124 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 30.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 10.1%, City Builder 6.5%
- #7 Outer Factory
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
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 28.8%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Minimalist 7.6%
- #8 Mito
92% 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 35.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Nature 7.3%
- #9 Plantile
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
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 33.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #10 Cartefact
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 16.2%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 5.1%
- #11 Islandustry
90% 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 30.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 6.9%, Management 6.9%
- #12 Captain of Industry
89% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 36%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 17.8%, Management 6.5%, Colony Sim 5.5%
- #13 Odd Realm
89% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #14 Doodle Factory
88% 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 29.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Minimalist 10.6%, City Builder 7.2%
- #15 Automation Station
87% 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 30.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #16 CosmoFab
86% matchNo user 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 38.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 15.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 6.1%
- #17 Automatica
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strawberry Dev
Windows
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Resource Management 17.6%, Management 11.2%, Minimalist 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%
- #18 GlowCore
84% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: CNDY StudiosPub: Nat Games
Windows · Linux
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Nature 8.6%
- #19 plexum
84% matchNo user reviews
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 35.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 16.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.1%
- #20 Factory Town
85% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 27%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Colony Sim 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%
- #21 Jigsaw Industry
83% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
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 35.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 16.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #22 Proto Garden
82% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
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 29.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Nature 7.3%
- #23 Skyberry Garden
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
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 31.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 9.2%
- #24 BOREWORKS
81% matchNo user reviews2026
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 30%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 9.5%, Management 8.3%
- #25 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 39.3%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, City Builder 7.8%, Simulation 6.1%
- #26 Factory Magnate
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 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 32.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 7.5%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #27 Substructure
79% 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 29.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Management 6.8%
- #28 Common'hood
81% matchMixed51% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Automation 17.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Minimalist 8.7%
- #29 Amicraft Factory™
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 36.4%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #30 Poop Right Now
77% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: 晓猫
Windows
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #31 Beyond These Stars
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Management 7.2%
- #32 Microtopia
76% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Colony Sim 9.8%
- #33 Pistonica
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
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 36.6%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 6.3%
- #34 Biofactory
75% 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 31.1%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Management 7.3%
- #35 PoliPlanet
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #36 Gobs & Gears
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GOBLINTEK
Windows · Mac
The Gob King wants his bomb. A big one. He wants it NOW. Reconstruct a lost factory in the Fog, route resources, and put the Gobs to work to build the BIG BOOM before he loses what's left of his patience.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #37 Infindustry
77% 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 28%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Crafting 7%
- #38 Potion Pipeline
73% 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 33.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #39 MoteMancer
72% matchVery Positive92% of 249 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Management 7%
- #40 Beltmatic
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,149 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Minimalist 8.5%
- #41 Dinky Guardians
74% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Crafting 10%
- #42 Flow Factory
72% 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 32.3%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #43 Mob Factory
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 35.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 15%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #44 Factory Trashcension
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #45 Factory Town 2: Paradise
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
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 27.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Colony Sim 7.9%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #46 Star Birds
69% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Minimalist 10.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #47 Moose Builders
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels and power your factory. Research new machines to automate everything in voxel-based multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends and turn the desert into a solar farm.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Base Building 23.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 10%, Procedural Generation 5.3%
- #48 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 7.7%
- #49 Galaxy Scavengers
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 25.1%, Automation 15.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #50 Dyson Sphere Program
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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 36.3%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 6.5%, Building 6.1%
- #51 Kardashev
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
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 40.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #52 Satisfactory
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 5.9%
- #53 Left Stranded
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevBre Games
Windows · Linux
Cast into a medieval kingdom by ancient stones, you must forge, automate, and expand your workshop. Alone or in multiplayer, fulfill royal orders, harness coal, steam, electricity and uncover the secrets that could return you home.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 18%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Minimalist 9.6%
- #54 Forge Industry
70% 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 27.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 8.9%, Management 8%
- #55 Mycelium Conquest: Mitosis
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Procedural Generation 6.6%, City Builder 6.1%
- #56 Chocolate Factory
69% matchMixed55% of 146 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 7.7%
- #57 Belts of Iron
66% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, City Builder 6.1%
- #58 Modulus: Factory Automation
65% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 29.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%
- #59 Microtopia: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 12%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #60 Manaftory
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 46.7%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 18.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Sandbox 6.5%