- #1 Satisfactory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 29.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: It translates Factorio's expanding conveyor-driven production chains into a first-person 3D world with co-op construction and enormous factory-building freedom.
- #2 Dyson Sphere Program
96% 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 35.4%, Base Building 22.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines increasingly complex automated production with interplanetary logistics and the grand long-term goal of constructing a Dyson sphere.
- #3 Mindustry
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 23.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This fast-paced 2D factory builder closely matches Factorio's belts, resource processing, research, and hostile-world defense loop.
- #4 Captain of Industry
95% 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 38%, Base Building 22.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Management 4.7%, Building 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed extraction, refining, vehicle routing, and waste-management systems make it a particularly deep industrial alternative to Factorio.
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a first-person voxel factory sandbox built around mining, conveyor networks, modular machinery, and cooperative play.
- #6 Factory Town
94% 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 26.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers satisfying automated transport and production chains while adding villagers, trains, and a more relaxed town-building presentation.
- #7 shapez
93% 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 31.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist interface strips factory design down to its purest form: designing scalable belt networks and optimizing throughput.
- #8 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines underground first-person exploration with layered conveyor factories, mining operations, and recursive production upgrades.
- #9 Final Factory
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This space-based factory builder emphasizes belts, drones, modular manufacturing, and defending your growing industrial fleet.
- #10 Desynced
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, City Builder 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: You build an automated sci-fi base around configurable bots, resource networks, research, and programmable logistics behavior.
- #11 Automation Empire
90% 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 31.3%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its central challenge is designing efficient supply networks of conveyors, vehicles, trains, and drones to feed expanding industry.
- #12 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a more simulation-heavy take on automated bases, asking you to manage atmospherics, electricity, logic circuits, and off-world industry.
- #13 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
88% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Trains 10.2% ★, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides approachable but capable automation through squads of worker creatures that gather, carry, and process resources across handcrafted environments.
- #14 FortressCraft Evolved!
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation sandbox features deep mining, conveyor systems, power management, and hostile creatures threatening your infrastructure.
- #15 AutoForge
87% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes conveyor-based resource automation with exploration and base expansion, with an emphasis on building a self-sustaining industrial outpost.
- #16 ReFactory
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 24.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 8%, Strategy 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This compact top-down builder is directly about constructing automated production lines and optimizing machine layouts on a dangerous planet.
- #17 Kubifaktorium
86% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Trains 10.8% ★, Crafting 8.9%, City Builder 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with production chains, allowing workers, transport routes, and factories to develop into a complex settlement economy.
- #18 Beltmatic
84% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is a compact, math-driven conveyor-building game that captures the pleasure of routing belts and incrementally scaling output.
- #19 Mob Factory
85% 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 33.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It puts a tower-defense twist on the genre by having you automate monster processing and production while protecting your factory.
- #20 RAILGRADE
84% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Trains 13% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Moddable 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Rather than belts, it uses rail networks to create efficient extraction and manufacturing chains across a demanding off-world colony.
- #21 InfraSpace
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Trains 7.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: This space-colony city builder focuses on balancing extraction, manufacturing, roads, transport, and the needs of an expanding population.
- #22 Learning Factory
82% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: You automate a production facility using conveyors and data-driven machine-learning systems while expanding through increasingly complex supply chains.
- #23 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% 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 29%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on designing and optimizing a large assembly line, with constant pressure to improve factory flow, staffing, and output.
- #24 Autonauts
81% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 41.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its automation comes from programming worker bots with visual logic, making production-line design feel like a playful coding challenge.
- #25 Nova Lands
80% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and survival with deployable bots that automate gathering, crafting, and base production over time.
- #26 shapez 2 - Factory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Moddable 7.7%
- #27 The Crust
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30.1%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, City Builder 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This lunar industrial management game emphasizes mining, processing, power, research, and building resilient automated production networks in space.
- #28 Sweet Transit
81% matchMixed67% of 1,278 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Trains 15.9% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Moddable 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its railway-centered economy challenges you to connect raw materials, industrial production, and growing settlements through carefully planned logistics.
- #29 Sandustry
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #30 Infinifactory
79% matchVery Positive95% of 2,485 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Automation 60.2%, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 3.2%, Indie 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person puzzle game delivers concentrated Factorio-like satisfaction through intricate block-processing and conveyor-routing assembly lines.
- #31 Modulus: Factory Automation
77% 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 27.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 7.3%
- #32 Opus Magnum
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,277 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Automation 82.7%, Sandbox 5.8%, Simulation 4%, Building 3.9%, Indie 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a polished engineering puzzle game about creating elegant, optimized automated machines for complex alchemical production.
- #33 Dwarf Fortress
76% matchVery Positive95% of 31,541 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Base Building 29%, Sandbox 15.5%, City Builder 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Management 9%
- #34 Plan B: Terraform
75% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Trains 11.2% ★, Sandbox 9.4%
- #35 Space Engineers
76% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Moddable 13.6%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.3%
- #36 MineMogul
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #37 Outworld Station
74% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #38 RimWorld
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Moddable 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, Management 7.3%
- #39 Incremental Factory
75% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 32.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #40 Alchemy Factory
72% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #41 Oxygen Not Included
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 38%, Resource Management 19.2%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.1%
- #42 Industry Idle
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,488 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 6.6%
- #43 Astro Colony
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 30.1%, Base Building 23.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #44 MoteMancer
71% matchVery Positive92% of 260 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 30.4%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8.5%
- #45 Builderment
72% 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 30.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #46 Tower Factory
70% 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 33.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #47 Widget Inc.
70% matchVery Positive85% of 779 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 45.9%, Base Building 25.4%, Resource Management 19.8%, Strategy 2.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%
- #48 Vectorio
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 398 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 5.6%
- #49 Final Upgrade
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 6.6%
- #50 Factory Town 2: Paradise
68% 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 27.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Trains 9.7% ★, Resource Management 7%
- #51 Belts of Iron
69% matchVery Positive87% of 52 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 25.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #52 Timberborn
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, City Builder 9.7%
- #53 Eden Crafters
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #54 Snacktorio
67% matchVery Positive92% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: ellraiserPub: TNgineers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Moddable 8.8%
- #55 Hydroneer
69% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 5.3%
- #56 Microtopia
68% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 26.7%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9%
- #57 Rogue Factory
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 167 reviews2026
Dev: curried_functor
Windows
The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!
Why similar: Automation 39.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, Survival 8%, Building 6.9%
- #58 Swarmdustry
66% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Moddable 8.5%, Crafting 7.8%
- #59 The Planet Crafter
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #60 Scrap Mechanic
63% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 11%, Survival 9.5%