- #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 37.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Building 12.5%, Top-Down 7.6%
- #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 40.6%, Building 20.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Top-Down 6.7%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #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 37.1%, Building 18%, Simulation 17.9%, Strategy 15%, 2D 5.1%
- #4 Potion Pipeline
95% 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 38.7%, Building 21.4%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 11.5%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #5 Infinite Number Factory
94% 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 43.3%, Building 17.7%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.8%
- #6 Mito
94% 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 44.6%, Building 18.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #7 Blueprint Factory
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Smiling Panda Studios
Windows
Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.
Why similar: Automation 51.3%, Simulation 15.3%, Building 15%, Strategy 14.9%, 2D 2.8%
- #8 Car Factory Tycoon
92% matchNo user 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 42%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 13.6%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #9 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 47%, Building 16.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #10 Project Matter
91% 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 52.1%, Building 22.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 7.8%, 2D 4.4%
- #11 Food Facility
90% match6 user reviews100% of 6 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 36%, Strategy 22.5%, Building 19%, Simulation 16.8%, Indie 5.6%
- #12 Industrix
88% 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 39.6%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 14%, Strategy 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #13 We Need More Steam!
89% 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 45.1%, Building 19%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 10.7%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #14 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 46.3%, Building 27%, Simulation 24.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #15 FACTO
87% 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 49.6%, Simulation 14%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 9.2%
- #16 ChromaFlow
86% 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 45.6%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 10.5%
- #17 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 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 41.5%, Building 18.1%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #18 Block Shop
85% matchVery Positive99% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Foolbox Studio
Windows
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 58.3%, Strategy 19.2%, Building 14.5%, Indie 4.5%, 2D 2.8%
- #19 FARWORLD BEACON
84% 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 35.2%, Building 22.1%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 9.8%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #20 Tiny Industry
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Loominest
Windows
Un jeu d’automatisation relaxant où construire une usine reste simple. Créez des lignes de production, connectez vos bâtiments et débloquez de nouvelles technologies sans vous soucier des ratios. Posez-vous simplement une question : de quoi cet objet a-t-il besoin ?
Why similar: Automation 50.8%, Building 23.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Top-Down 6.8%, 2D 2.4%
- #21 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
83% 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 42.5%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #22 Endless Engine
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wizard Hat Studio
Windows
A roguelike where you build a factory — not a character.
Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #23 Industrial Garbage
81% match6 user reviews100% of 6 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 48.8%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Resource Management 10%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #24 Timberline Factory
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
Build and manage your industrial sawmill in Timberline Factory. Experience a tycoon game where logistics meet physics: logs aren't just icons, they are physical objects that roll, collide, and react to your machines. Design efficient lines, manage equipment, and turn wood waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 46.7%, Building 20.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #25 Little Big Workshop
82% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
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 30.8%, Simulation 20.7%, Building 20.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #26 Assembly Line 2
80% matchMixed65% of 67 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 55.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Top-Down 7.4%, 2D 4.5%
- #27 The Factory Must Grow
79% 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 44.4%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 14.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #28 Rafting Factory
79% 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 51%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 14%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 5.8%
- #29 Astral Industrial Complex
78% 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 46.6%, Strategy 17.9%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Top-Down 8.1%
- #30 Factory Magnate
77% 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 42.5%, Building 18.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #31 Factorwave
78% 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 49.4%, Building 18.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Simulation 9.3%, Top-Down 5.6%
- #32 Islandustry
76% 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 42.1%, Building 18.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Top-Down 7.4%
- #33 Let Them Fall
77% 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 42.5%, Building 20.2%, Simulation 19.3%, Strategy 15.5%, Indie 1.9%
- #34 The Last Factory
75% 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 45.5%, Building 18.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 6.4%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #35 Prodix
76% 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 55.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.1%, 2D 3.4%
- #36 plexum
75% 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 47.7%, Building 21.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.4%
- #37 Recursion
74% 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 43.4%, Building 20%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Top-Down 7%
- #38 BricksPhilosophorum
73% 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 45.4%, Building 21.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #39 Fabricatio
72% matchPositive91% of 11 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 44.1%, Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 8.1%
- #40 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
72% 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 46.6%, Building 15.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #41 uFactory
73% matchMixed70% of 63 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 35.5%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Building 15.5%, Resource Management 6%
- #42 Shape Together
70% 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 41.5%, Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 19.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Indie 7%
- #43 Swarmdustry
69% matchPositive91% of 43 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 43.7%, Building 14.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Top-Down 8.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #44 Gear Number Go Up
71% 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 32.4%, Automation 30.6%, Simulation 20%, Strategy 11.8%, 2D 4.5%
- #45 Lexip
71% 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 54.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Building 13.9%, Top-Down 8.5%, 2D 3.8%
- #46 Iron Inc.
71% 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 47.6%, Simulation 23.5%, Strategy 22.3%, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #47 Phantasm Cube
70% 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 66.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 3.8%, 2D 3%
- #48 Factory Engineer
74% matchMixed46% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Building 23.9%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 15.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #49 Highways & Co.
69% 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 25.9%, Building 23.3%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #50 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 55.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 16.4%, Resource Management 7.5%, 2D 3%
- #51 Terraform Inc
73% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: FuzzyCube
Windows · Linux
Terraform Inc is a game to build a reliable physics-based delivery network. You will get new planets, add enhancements in transit, then deliver to buyers. Construct elaborate designs to prove your ingenuity. Choose your friends wisely, working to earn respect and unlock even further opportunities.
Why similar: Automation 44.7%, Building 28.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 11%, Indie 1.9%
- #52 Doterra Industries
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DelayNetwork
Windows · Mac · Linux
Doterra Industries is a 2D factory-building sandbox about exploring a strange mineral world, building production lines, and slowly turning a rough outpost into an automated industrial network.
Why similar: Automation 52.8%, Simulation 40.5%, 2D 6.7%
- #53 Alien Planet Survival
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 47.6%, Building 18.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #54 The Factory
68% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Awesome Studios
Windows
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Automation 42.9%, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Building 14.2%, Resource Management 4.2%
- #55 10000 Pizzas Please
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team K6Pub: Hatch Up
Windows
Build a pizza factory to feed an endless swarm of hungry aliens! Automate every machine, fine-tune your conveyor belts, and engineer the perfect production line in a gloriously chaotic cooking-and-automation sim where more cheese means more cosmic mayhem.
Why similar: Automation 46.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 9.2%
- #56 TowerLine
65% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 49.9%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 7.3%
- #57 Alchemy Factory
65% 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 53%, Building 21.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #58 Global Plates
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FBS Games
Windows
Build delicious food factories! Place machines, lay conveyor belts, and cook the world's favorite dishes — pizza, sushi, paella, and masala. But keep it fresh: the longer ingredients travel, the sadder the food. A cozy cooking-automation game about tasty efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 49.3%, Building 20.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #59 Assemblands
66% matchMostly Positive68% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Tafusoft
Windows
Build your factory from zero and produce high-tech products like drones, PC, robots and compete against thousands of players.
Why similar: Automation 43.7%, Building 21.7%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 5%