- #1 Satisfactory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 30.1%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures Factorio's core joy of designing, scaling, and optimizing huge automated production chains, just from a first-person 3D perspective.
- #2 Dyson Sphere Program
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 35.7%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Building 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its interplanetary factories, conveyor logistics, and escalating production complexity make it one of the closest games to Factorio's expansion-and-optimization loop.
- #3 Mindustry
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Base Building 23.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines conveyor-heavy factory building with resource processing and base defense, echoing Factorio's automation-plus-threat management dynamic.
- #4 Captain of Industry
95% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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 37.9%, Base Building 22.8%, Resource Management 17.1%, Management 4.7%, City Builder 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a deep automation and supply-chain game where extracting resources, refining them, and scaling industry feels very close to Factorio's progression.
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 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 26.6%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: FOUNDRY feels like a voxel first-person take on Factorio, with belts, machines, mining, and large-scale factory planning at the center.
- #6 shapez
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 31.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is a minimalist but highly addictive automation game built around the same belt logic, scaling, and production optimization that make Factorio compelling.
- #7 Techtonica
93% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 29.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its underground automation focus, conveyor networks, and machine progression make it a strong fit for players who love building efficient factory layouts.
- #8 Factory Town
92% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 26.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Though gentler in tone, it delivers rich logistics planning through belts, pipes, rails, and layered automation systems.
- #9 Final Factory
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 31.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It translates Factorio-style factory building and logistics into a 2D space setting with production chains, expansion, and combat pressure.
- #10 FortressCraft Evolved!
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 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 36.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This blends open-world survival crafting with deep conveyor-based automation and large industrial builds in a way many Factorio fans appreciate.
- #11 Automation Empire
90% matchMixed66% of 2,643 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 31.7%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is all about building interconnected extraction and manufacturing networks, with an emphasis on transport and scaling output efficiently.
- #12 Kubifaktorium
89% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 28.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Trains 10.6% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Resource Management 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes colony simulation with transport belts and production chains, offering a lighter but still satisfying automation sandbox.
- #13 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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 24.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy Factorio's engineering mindset, Stationeers offers even more detailed automation through power, atmospherics, logic, and machinery.
- #14 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
87% matchVery Positive84% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Trains 10% ★, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its charming presentation hides a real focus on production lines, transport networks, and gradually automating away busywork.
- #15 Autonauts
88% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 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 41.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Instead of belts and inserters, you automate everything with worker bots, but the core appeal of eliminating manual labor is very Factorio-like.
- #16 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 30.6%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 7.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It brings resource extraction, conveyor logistics, and expandable automated bases into a cooperative space-colony format.
- #17 Beltmatic
86% matchVery Positive94% of 2,224 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 33.3%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a stripped-down conveyor puzzle game that zeroes in on the belt-routing and transformation logic Factorio players often love most.
- #18 Hydroneer
85% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 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 29.4%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its mining machines, conveyors, sorters, and self-running production setups make it a good fit if you enjoy building practical automation chains.
- #19 Oxygen Not Included
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 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 37.8%, Resource Management 19.6%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: While more colony-focused, it offers the same kind of intricate problem-solving around layouts, resource flows, automation, and scaling complex systems.
- #20 Learning Factory
84% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 28.4%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This uses conveyor production lines and process optimization in a more compact management format that still feels satisfyingly factory-driven.
- #21 Nova Lands
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 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 30.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes exploration and crafting with island-to-island automation, gradually letting you build self-sustaining production systems.
- #22 Infinifactory
83% matchVery Positive95% of 2,483 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 60.8%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 13%, Simulation 3.2%, Indie 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Although level-based and puzzle-oriented, it delivers the same pleasure of designing compact automated machine layouts to meet production goals.
- #23 Plan B: Terraform
81% matchVery Positive91% of 3,595 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 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 30%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Trains 11% ★, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale resource transport networks and planetary industrial expansion evoke Factorio's satisfaction of building ever-bigger interconnected systems.
- #24 Voxel Tycoon
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,786 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in 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 22.4%, Trains 14.8% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of transport logistics and industrial production chains appeals to the same optimization instincts as Factorio, especially on the supply side.
- #25 RAILGRADE
81% matchVery Positive85% of 1,255 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 24.3%, Trains 12.6% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Moddable 7.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on solving industrial logistics problems with rail networks and throughput planning, capturing Factorio's optimization feel from a transport angle.
- #26 shapez 2 - Factory
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 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 35.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Moddable 7.7% ★
- #27 Sandustry
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #28 Good Company
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.8%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This factory management game revolves around designing assembly lines, balancing workflows, and improving efficiency across production chains.
- #29 Sweet Transit
79% matchMixed68% of 1,268 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 15.7% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Moddable 10.6% ★, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Factorio is trains and moving goods efficiently, this rail-centered city-builder is an excellent match.
- #30 Modulus: Factory Automation
77% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 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 28.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 7.2%
- #31 Alchemy Factory
76% matchVery Positive90% of 2,515 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 16.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #32 Dwarf Fortress
77% matchVery Positive95% of 31,421 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 39.4 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 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #33 Big Pharma
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,939 reviews2015
Dev: Twice CircledPub: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more tycoon-like take on production-line design, but the machine placement and process optimization will still feel familiar to Factorio fans.
- #34 Industry Idle
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,484 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.8 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 30.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Crafting 6.5%
- #35 MineMogul
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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 16.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #36 Outworld Station
73% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 32.8%, Base Building 21.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 9%
- #37 Space Engineers
75% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 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 8.5%, Building 8.3%
- #38 Incremental Factory
76% matchMixed68% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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 32.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9%
- #39 RimWorld
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 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 9.5%, Management 7.4%
- #40 Mob Factory
74% 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 34%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #41 InfraSpace
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,954 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.2 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 26.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Trains 7.8% ★
- #42 Microtopia
71% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%
- #43 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 31.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #44 MoteMancer
70% matchVery Positive92% of 256 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 30.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.4%
- #45 ReFactory
72% 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 29.9%, Base Building 24.4%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%
- #46 The Planet Crafter
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 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 24.2%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #47 Prison Architect
71% matchVery Positive89% of 73,696 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.9%, City Builder 8.4%
- #48 Tower Factory
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 33.6%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #49 Widget Inc.
69% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 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 46.2%, Base Building 25.1%, Resource Management 20%, Strategy 2.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.3%
- #50 Production Line : Car factory simulation
71% matchVery Positive82% of 3,483 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 29.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #51 Desynced
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,026 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.8 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 27.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, City Builder 6.2%
- #52 Vectorio
70% matchVery Positive80% of 397 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 21.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 5.6%
- #53 Timberborn
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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 28.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, City Builder 9.5%
- #54 Final Upgrade
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 458 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 34%, Base Building 21.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 6.5%
- #55 Factory Town 2: Paradise
67% matchVery Positive91% of 151 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 28.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Trains 9.6% ★, Resource Management 7.2%
- #56 Scrap Mechanic
65% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 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 19.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 15%, Building 11%, Survival 9.4%
- #57 Rogue Factory
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 165 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 39.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 16%, Survival 7.9%, Building 6.8%
- #58 Snacktorio
67% matchVery Positive92% of 231 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 36.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Moddable 8.7% ★
- #59 Eden Crafters
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 30.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #60 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,534 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Automation 38.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 7%, Crafting 6.2%