Games Like Factorio

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 30.9%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Factorio’s conveyor-driven factory expansion into first-person 3D while keeping the same obsession with throughput, layout, and scaling production chains.

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 36.8%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same addictive escalation from simple automation to vast interplanetary logistics networks, with an especially strong focus on optimization at huge scale.

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 39.2%, Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 4.8%, Building 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep production chains, mining logistics, and constant pressure to expand infrastructure make it one of the closest matches to Factorio’s industrial planning loop.

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 27.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: This is essentially a voxel-based first-person Factorio, centered on conveyor belts, automated production lines, and building ever-larger factories in an open world.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Base Building 23.9%, Resource Management 15.9%, Sandbox 7.2%, Building 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automated extraction and manufacturing with base defense, capturing both Factorio’s logistics puzzle and its pressure from hostile forces.

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 30.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers underground first-person factory building with conveyors, mining, and continuous production optimization that clearly targets Factorio fans.

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 16.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Factorio is pure factory design and optimization without survival friction, this is one of the cleanest and smartest modern takes on it.

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 32.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It strips away everything but the joy of building efficient production lines, making it a great recommendation for players who love Factorio’s logistics core.

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 32.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: It feels like Factorio in space, with automated production, transport chains, and defensive fleet-building wrapped around a similar scale-up mindset.

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 27.7%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on satisfying transport and production chain building in a more relaxed style, but still scratches the same automation and efficiency itch.

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 26.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11%, Trains 10% ★, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its carrier-based automation and exploration-driven expansion offer a fresh but very recognizable take on the Factorio loop of production, routing, and growth.

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 37.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong alien-world factory builder where mining, automation, and defending your industrial sprawl feel very much in Factorio’s lane.

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 25.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although far more simulation-heavy, it delivers deep systems engineering, automation, and infrastructure management that appeal to Factorio players who love complexity.

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 29.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Trains 10.6% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Resource Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with conveyor-based industry, giving you the familiar pleasure of turning manual production into efficient automated networks.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 34.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes automated resource networks and base construction with heavier action and defense, making it a strong pick if you enjoy Factorio’s combat side too.

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 42.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Programming worker bots to automate increasingly complex tasks taps directly into the same satisfaction Factorio creates through systemizing labor.

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 32.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Crafting 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its core appeal is building sprawling transport and production systems, making it a solid match for players who mainly enjoy Factorio’s logistics side.

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 37.2%, Resource Management 20.5%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces belts with colony systems, gases, liquids, and survival pressures, but it scratches the same deep optimization and chain-reaction planning itch.

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a distilled automation puzzler built around belts, routing, and scalable production logic, making it an easy recommendation for conveyor obsessives.

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 31.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter, more approachable version of the same gather-automate-expand cycle, with islands and drones standing in for Factorio’s harsher survival focus.

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 30.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Trains 10.9% ★, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a calmer, planetary-scale logistics builder focused on extracting, transporting, and refining resources through increasingly large automated networks.

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 26.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Trains 7.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It leans more city-builder than sandbox factory sim, but its emphasis on industrial throughput, supply chains, and infrastructure makes it a strong adjacent pick.

Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Trains 14.7% ★, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its transport networks and industrial supply chains offer a similarly satisfying process of building interconnected systems that become more efficient over time.

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 31%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the scaling and balancing side of Factorio in a more abstract form, with complex production chains and constant pressure to optimize output.

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 30.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: While much more sandboxy and hands-on, it still offers satisfying mining automation, machine setup, and iterative factory expansion.

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its conveyor-based production lines and process optimization are mechanically very appealing to Factorio fans despite the lighter theme.

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 30.9%, Base Building 23.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automated production and defensive pressure in a way that clearly echoes Factorio, even if it is a smaller-scale interpretation.

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.8%

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 28.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 9.4%, Survival 9.2%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its assembly-line design and manufacturing optimization give you many of the same layout and bottleneck-solving pleasures as a compact management sim.

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 14.3%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.3%

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 34.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It applies Factorio-style layout and transformation-chain thinking to a pharmaceutical tycoon format, making it a good lower-ranked pick for players who love production design.

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%, Sandbox 12.4%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Survival 9.5%, Management 7.6%

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 33.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

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%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 7.4%

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 33.5%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%

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 32.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 31.3%, Base Building 23%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 7.2%, Crafting 7%

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 30%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.4%

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 47.3%, Base Building 24.1%, Resource Management 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 2.3%, Strategy 2.3%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Automation 18.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%

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 27.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%

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 28.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, City Builder 6.1%

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 10%, Management 5.7%

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 33.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 9%, Building 6.2%

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 25%, Trains 12.5% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Moddable 7.7% ★

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 40.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 7.6%, Building 6.5%

An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. 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%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%

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 25.5%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 33.2%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 6.9%

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 32.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Trains 8.7% ★

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 15.1%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.4%

Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.

Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 6.2%

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 43.4%, Resource Management 18.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 7.9%

Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.

Why similar: Automation 33%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%

In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!

Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Trains 12% ★, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 10.6%

Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.

Why similar: Automation 41.9%, Sandbox 16.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 7%