Games Like Factorwave

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 30.7%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

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

Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?

Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 5.4%

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 32%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 35.6%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 7.9%

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 32.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.2%

Bestion is a game that combines Roguelike tower defense elements with automated factory construction. Players are required to construct their own factory on a planet and protect the kernel from monster attacks.

Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Tower Defense 21.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 6.4%

Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!

Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 36.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.

Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 5.4%

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 38.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 7.8%

Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.

Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%

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 32.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%

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 33.2%, Tower Defense 26.1%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 8.6%, PvE 6%

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 37.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.5%

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 13.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.3%

Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.

Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.1%

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 22.1%, Sandbox 17%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 10.1%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 41.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 5.9%

Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.

Why similar: Automation 46.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Simulation 10.6%

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%

As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 11.7%, Building 10.7%

Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!

Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%

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 34.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.2%

Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!

Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8%

Hostile Mars is a Factory-Building game focused on Combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech, unlocking powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!

Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%

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 31.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 12%, Management 11.9%

Zombies Per Minute is a factory-building roguelite where everything you build is measured by one thing: how many zombies you can kill per minute. Yes, really. Use your imagination to grow your factory, make decisive choices each wave and progress from one outpost to the other. Until Earth is saved.

Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 7.3%

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 31%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%

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 36.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.1%

A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Automation 21.8%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 7.3%

Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.9%

FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!

Why similar: Automation 43.7%, Resource Management 17.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 5.8%

Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!

Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%

Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.

Why similar: Automation 46.9%, Resource Management 17.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 7%

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 40.5%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 8.2%

Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.

Why similar: Automation 43.4%, Resource Management 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Strategy 4.6%

In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.

Why similar: Automation 50.2%, Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 9.2%, Top-Down 5.5%

Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.

Why similar: Automation 35%, Sandbox 14.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.9%

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 34.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9%

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 41.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.6%

Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.

Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.4%

Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!

Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.9%

Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.

Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 10.3%

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 41.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.3%

Defend your Nexus by placing mirrors and buildings on the path of your projectiles. Deflect, empower, manage and solve each map using your creative and strategic mind.

Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Tower Defense 25.1%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 7.3%, PvE 5.7%

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 33.6%, Sandbox 16.2%, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 11.8%

Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.

Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.7%

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 27.8%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.9%

Hostile Mars is a factory-building game focused on combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech to unlock powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!

Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%

The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.

Why similar: Automation 40.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 6.7%

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 36.9%, Sandbox 20.4%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 8.8%

Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.

Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 8.6%

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 37.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.4%

Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.

Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%

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 37.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 7.2%

The original, uncompleted version of Vectorio. Claim resources, unlock new buildings, and expand your defenses as you fight back against enemy forces in the classic edition of Vectorio! Play for free now.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, Automation 19.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.4%

Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.

Why similar: Automation 61.3%, Sandbox 26.8%, Simulation 9.2%, 3D 2.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%