- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.1%
- #2 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 24.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 8%
- #3 Automation Empire
96% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #4 Production Line : Car factory simulation
95% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 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 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Management 14%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 11.6%
- #5 Modulus: Factory Automation
94% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 17%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Simulation 10.5%
- #6 Little Big Workshop
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 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: Simulation 20%, Strategy 16.2%, Building 14.4%, Automation 12%, Management 10.7%
- #7 Block Factory
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 261 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
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 16%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Simulation 10%
- #8 Beer Factory
92% matchMixed42% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: MyceliumGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Simulation 16.8%, Inventory Management 15.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 13%
- #9 Alchemy Factory
90% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 10%
- #10 Incremental Factory
91% matchMixed68% of 244 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 20.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 11.5%
- #11 shapez 2 - Factory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 19.9%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11.9%
- #12 Smart Factory Tycoon
91% matchMixed61% of 869 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 14%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #13 Factory Outlet Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 559 reviews2024
Dev: PISHO
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive product manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!
Why similar: Inventory Management 19.7%, Simulation 18.1%, Management 14.1%, Automation 13.7%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #14 shapez
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 20.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 10.8%
- #15 Gunsmith
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,038 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 10.1%
- #16 ReFactory
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 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: Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 11%
- #17 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 75 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: Sandbox 19.4%, Automation 19.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Building 15.4%, Strategy 14.6%
- #18 Center Station Simulator
85% matchVery Positive88% of 568 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Sandbox 19.3%, Automation 16.7%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 14.5%, Management 10%
- #19 MineMogul
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 18.6%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 9%
- #20 Food Processing Simulator
84% matchVery Positive89% of 294 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Inventory Management 19.2%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 14%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #21 Mob Factory
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 21.4%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #22 Builderment
82% matchMixed67% of 121 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 20.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #23 Final Factory
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 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 17.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Inventory Management 11.8%
- #24 Assembly Line 2
82% matchMixed64% of 66 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 33.1%, Simulation 25.2%, Strategy 21.5%, Management 15.9%, Crafting 4.4%
- #25 Beer Factory - Prologue
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,018 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Simulation 17.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Inventory Management 11.8%
- #26 Factory 95
80% matchNo user reviews87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Macrobit Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build PowerPoint factories in Windows 95! Manage space, make increasingly complex slides and worry about Y2K in this challenging factory builder.
Why similar: Simulation 24.1%, Automation 13%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%
- #27 Captain of Industry
78% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 24.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 15.7%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 10.2%
- #28 Factory Planner
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 342 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Sandbox 23.7%, Management 14%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 9.8%
- #29 Good Company
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 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 15.8%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #30 Outworld Station
75% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 19%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13.3%, Inventory Management 12.4%, Simulation 10.7%
- #31 Farlight Explorers
79% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Building 29.5%, Sandbox 26.4%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 16%, Indie 8.4%
- #32 Dyson Sphere Program
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 22.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #33 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 502 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 17.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Management 15.7%, Strategy 15.5%, Sandbox 13.6%
- #34 uFactory
75% 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: Simulation 22.5%, Strategy 21.9%, Automation 17.8%, Building 13.8%, Management 8.8%
- #35 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
74% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 17.1%, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 14.5%
- #36 Crafting Idle Clicker
77% matchMixed49% of 913 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 14%, Management 12.6%
- #37 Satisfactory
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 23.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #38 Gun Factory Simulator
73% matchMixed66% of 156 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Clock
Windows
Take control of your very own firearms factory. Start with a workshop and a gun shop, and evolve it into a factory of mass destruction. Craft bullets to rockets, handguns to shotguns, hire workers & managers, and become a merchant of death. Get use to the smell of gunpowder and cash.
Why similar: Inventory Management 15.9%, Automation 14.9%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 11.6%
- #39 Assembly Planter
73% matchVery Positive91% of 248 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 11%
- #40 Candy Machine
77% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Colossal Wreck
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 211.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy
Why similar: Building 20.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 10.6%
- #41 Industry Idle
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 18.6%, Base Building 14%, Building 14%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #42 My Factory 我的工厂
76% matchMixed53% of 78 reviews2017
Dev: Great God
Windows
末日之后,重建工厂。研发科技,加强武装。收集材料,生产发财。
Why similar: Simulation 44.3%, Strategy 39.9%, Indie 15.8%
- #43 Factory Outlet Simulator: Prologue
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 458 reviews2024
Dev: PISHO
Windows
Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive clothes manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!
Why similar: Simulation 27.2%, Inventory Management 20.7%, Resource Management 16%, Automation 9.9%, Building 9.8%
- #44 FOUNDRY
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 17.6%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #45 Beltmatic
69% matchVery Positive94% of 2,089 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.4%
- #46 Car Factory Empire
71% matchMixed59% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: RDS Games
Windows
Create a car company from scratch! Go from the first mechanical carriages to luxurious racing cars! Design cars, sell them, participate in races, expand your company and lead it to market dominance!
Why similar: Simulation 34.6%, Strategy 32.1%, Management 18.7%, Resource Management 14.6%
- #47 Food Factory
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: Mosqi Games
Windows
Food Factory is a game in which players can produce food using various machines, starting by collecting basic products.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Building 19.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #48 Node Math
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 11.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #49 Beer Manufacture Simulator
69% matchVery Positive82% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Brew your own beer from scratch! Take on the role of a brewmaster, learn brewing techniques, create unique recipes, and grow your craft brewery into a full-scale factory. Expand your brewery from mashing and fermenting to bottling and selling - every decision shapes your beer empire
Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, Automation 16.4%, Management 15%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #50 Blockchain Tycoon
73% matchMixed48% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Wamill
Windows · Mac
Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.
Why similar: Inventory Management 14.9%, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.5%
- #51 MegaFactory Titan
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Building 20.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 10.5%
- #52 Factory Planner: First Sparks
68% matchVery Positive84% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner: First Sparks is a card-based simulation and strategy game. In this Prologue version, build your own factory using strategic card combinations and enjoy a unique sandbox experience.
Why similar: Simulation 26%, Strategy 23.1%, Sandbox 18.2%, Automation 13.7%, Management 6.8%
- #53 Learning Factory
67% matchVery Positive86% of 515 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: Building 15.8%, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #54 Beltex
68% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #55 Car Manufacture
67% matchMixed64% of 1,349 reviews2024
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Building 19.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%
- #56 Military Incremental Complex
64% matchVery Positive85% of 672 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Inventory Management 16.8%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #57 Car Manufacture: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive86% of 314 reviews2023
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.
Why similar: Building 21.6%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 15.4%, Management 14.1%, Strategy 13.8%
- #58 Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive93% of 387 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue is a free business simulator game in which you make money from garbage. Collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improving your factory.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Building 17.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #59 Facteroids
66% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 18%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.7%