- #1 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
97% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 12.6%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #2 MegaFactory Tycoon
96% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Building 20.4%, Simulation 16.2%, Top-Down 6.8%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #3 Genterra
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: The Bunker Studios
Windows
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Building 18.2%, Simulation 18%, Strategy 15.1%, 2D 5.1%
- #4 A Dreaming Ladybug
95% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: LilyCompany
Windows · Mac
Shape your garden. Shape your luck. Use flowers and filters to guide ladybugs and change their colors and numbers, then hit the slots in the black moon. Cash out before your ecosystem collapses, or risk it all for a bigger payout. Unlock permanent upgrades and grow a greater garden.
Why similar: Automation 44.1%, Building 18.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 9.4%
- #5 Laplana
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 38.5%, Building 26%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #6 Potion Pipeline
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Building 21.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #7 Infinite Number Factory
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Building 18%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #8 Mito
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 44.1%, Building 18.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #9 Car Factory Tycoon
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jomica
Windows · Mac
Build cars step-by-step in a factory sim. Design vehicles, build your garage layout, hire and train workers, manage parking inventory, and sell cars through customer orders or walk-in buyers as you expand your operation.
Why similar: Automation 41.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #10 CosmoFab
91% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 46.5%, Building 17.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 9%
- #11 Project Matter
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Matter Grid Studio
Windows
Project Matter is a 2D factory automation game about turning raw inputs into an ever-expanding production web. Place buildings on an infinite grid, draw connections between them, and research new processing chains, waste recovery loops, and advanced materials.
Why similar: Automation 51.5%, Building 23.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 7.9%, 2D 4.4%
- #12 Food Facility
89% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Lemo-Logic Studios
Windows
Food Facility is a 2D factory automation game where you design and build complex production lines to create delicious food, sell your goods, and grow your business empire!
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Strategy 22.7%, Building 19.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Indie 5.7%
- #13 Industrix
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 14.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #14 We Need More Steam!
88% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 44.5%, Building 19.3%, Strategy 17%, Simulation 10.8%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #15 Solarise
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: adhd sloth
Windows
A short and sweet game that aims to be a love letter to solar panel production and the crisis of the modern century for Europe as it grapples with reindustrialisation. Manage your factory, power needs, politics, and just ordinary people, in order to lower costs and outcompete your global rivals.
Why similar: Automation 47.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Top-Down 11.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.1%
- #16 FACTO
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 49.1%, Simulation 14.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 9.3%
- #17 Auto Factory
89% match8 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Architect Studios
Windows
Build and run your own automated factory to turn materials into a range of products!
Why similar: Automation 45.7%, Building 27.4%, Simulation 25.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #18 ChromaFlow
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 45.2%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #19 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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%, Building 18.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #20 GridCraft
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 44%, Building 18.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Top-Down 8.3%, Strategy 5.4%
- #21 Block Shop
83% matchVery Positive99% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Foolbox Studio
Windows · Linux
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 57.7%, Strategy 19.5%, Building 14.7%, Indie 4.6%, 2D 2.8%
- #22 Tiny Industry
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Loominest
Windows
A relaxing automation game where building a factory stays simple. Create production lines, connect your buildings, and unlock new technologies without worrying about ratios. Just ask yourself one question: What does this item need?
Why similar: Automation 50.1%, Building 23.9%, Simulation 16%, Top-Down 6.9%, 2D 2.4%
- #23 FARWORLD BEACON
82% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: BEACON STUDIO
Windows
You are the supreme commander who directing the construction of a galactic space base. You need to manage the living and administrative needs of the space base residents, establish the industrial chain for space docks and starship, and ultimately complete a dream starship.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Building 22.4%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #24 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Automation 42%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #25 Endless Engine
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wizard Hat Studio
Windows
A roguelike where you build a factory — not a character.
Why similar: Automation 44.1%, Building 17.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #26 Industrial Garbage
78% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: LMT
Windows
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 48.3%, Building 16%, Simulation 15.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #27 Timberline Factory
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
A physics based sawmill simulation - tycoon where logs aren't just rigid icons, but physical objects that roll, collide, and jam. Automate complex production lines, master a dynamic market index, and turn waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 46.2%, Building 21.2%, Simulation 15%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #28 Assembly Line 2
79% matchMixed66% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 54.8%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Top-Down 7.6%, 2D 4.6%
- #29 Little Big Workshop
81% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Simulation 20.8%, Building 20.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #30 Astral Industrial Complex
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Con7rad7
Windows
A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.
Why similar: Automation 46.1%, Strategy 18.1%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #31 Rafting Factory
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 50.5%, Strategy 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 5.8%
- #32 The Factory Must Grow
78% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Krayno Studios
Windows
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 43.9%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 14.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #33 Factory Magnate
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 42%, Building 19.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9%
- #34 Factorwave
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 48.9%, Building 18.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Top-Down 5.7%
- #35 Islandustry
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Building 18.5%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 9.9%, Top-Down 7.5%
- #36 Scraplings
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 47.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #37 Prodix
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tyler CritchlowPub: Brody Critchlow
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prodix is a 2D isometric factory automation game, where the goal is to import, export, and automate your production of many different materials and items; while also managing company relationships through contracts.
Why similar: Automation 55%, Simulation 18.5%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.1%, 2D 3.4%
- #38 Let Them Fall
76% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Marcin Kubala
Windows
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Automation 41.9%, Building 20.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 15.6%, Indie 1.9%
- #39 The Last Factory
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jitkem TienngamPub: Hello World Labs
Windows · Mac
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 44.9%, Building 19.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #40 plexum
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 47.3%, Building 21.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 8.5%
- #41 Recursion
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cidots
Windows
Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Building 20.2%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 10.4%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #42 Fab.exe
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BT Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
Why similar: Automation 37%, Building 23.4%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 11.5%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #43 BricksPhilosophorum
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 芥语工作室
Windows
[点金方块]BricksPhilosophorum is an automated game that uses an assembly line to study alchemy. The game starts with collecting minerals, purchasing land, unlocking technology, and building automated production lines.
Why similar: Automation 44.8%, Building 21.9%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #44 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Automation 46.1%, Building 16%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #45 uFactory
70% matchMixed69% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #46 Fabricatio
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 43.6%, Building 15.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #47 Iron Inc.
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Segment Games
Windows · Mac
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Automation 48.2%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 21.7%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #48 Gear Number Go Up
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eyal Hazor
Windows · Linux
Build a gear mechanism to create really really big numbers in this incremental / roguelike game. Gears have functions on their teeth that affect other gears. Use them to create number exploding combinations.
Why similar: Building 32.7%, Automation 30.1%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 11.8%, 2D 4.5%
- #49 Holon
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Building 20.6%, Top-Down 10%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #50 Shape Together
68% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 41%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 19.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Indie 7.2%
- #51 Log Drop
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Who Nose Studios
Windows · Mac
A physics sandbox with one noble goal: get more logs into the core than physically reasonable. Chop the trees, build the contraption, then unleash a wave of logs for combo-fueled cash. Kick back and let it flow, or engineer the perfect cascade. Your sandbox, your rules.
Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Building 21.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 7%
- #52 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 43.2%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Top-Down 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
- #53 Lexip
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Craffel
Windows
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Why similar: Automation 54%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 14.1%, Top-Down 8.6%, 2D 3.9%
- #54 Phantasm Cube
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 66%, Simulation 15.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 3.9%, 2D 3.1%
- #55 Stella Astrum
66% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 48.3%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.4%
- #56 Alchemy Factory
64% 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 53.1%, Building 21.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #57 Industry Unbound:无界工业
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TU HENGYU
Windows
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: Automation 44.4%, Building 27.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Top-Down 4.4%
- #58 Highways & Co.
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iamsahaj
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you hate building cities but love managing traffic? Design the perfect road network in this traffic simulator. Build interchanges, roundabouts, bridges, and tunnels with powerful road-building tools. Keep traffic flowing, solve congestion, and avoid a pile-up!
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Building 24.1%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #59 Magnyard
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bakogame
Windows · Linux
A management and automation game built like a tower defense: the assault is a queue of trucks, the turrets are shredders. Build an automated recycling yard, equip your drones, and swallow waves of waste that only get heavier. One jammed queue and the yard shuts down.
Why similar: Automation 45.6%, Building 15%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #60 LineManager
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LineManager
Windows
Build and operate public transport in a living traffic simulation. Plan tram and bus networks, schedules and depots while cars, traffic lights, passengers and infrastructure interact around you. Keep it simple – or dive deep into signalling and operations.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Building 15.4%, Top-Down 10%