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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Singleplayer, Automation.

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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.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 74% — of 319 reviews
Released: 2026-01-19
Developer: Lebleby Games
Publisher: Red Axe Games
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchVery Positive86% of 104 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.

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  2. #2 shapez 2
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
    Dev: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

    Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Management 17%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 5.9%

  3. #3 shapez
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 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 39.2%, Sandbox 17.5%, Crafting 16.8%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 5.8%

  4. #4 Factory Town
    95% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 36.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 17.7%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 4.5%

  5. #5 Factorio
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 47.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 15.3%, Management 8.7%, Strategy 4.6%

  6. #6 Techtonica
    94% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Management 11.3%, Exploration 6.5%

  7. #7 Satisfactory
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 45.5%, Crafting 21%, Sandbox 16.1%, Exploration 6.9%, Resource Management 3.8%

  8. #8 Dyson Sphere Program
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 51.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 4.7%, Simulation 4.7%

  9. #9 Incremental Factory
    93% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
    Dev: Significant Steak
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    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 39.1%, Crafting 19.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 5%

  10. #10 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
    91% 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 40.1%, Crafting 18.7%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 6.2%

  11. #11 Cardboard Town
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
    Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

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  12. #12 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
    89% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 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 37.4%, Sandbox 23.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 7.1%

  13. #13 Alchemy Factory
    88% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
    Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 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 44.9%, Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 17.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 3.8%

  14. #14 ReFactory
    89% 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: Automation 30.8%, Crafting 19.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 11.5%

  15. #15 Stacklands
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

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  16. #16 Mob Factory
    87% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
    Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    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.

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  17. #17 Scrap Collector
    86% matchMostly Positive74% of 124 reviews2025
    Dev: Wibert
    Windows

    Collect, combine, and automate card production. Discover new areas, resources, and enemies all while growing your mechanized army. Plan ahead before taking on the challenges of the ruptured earth.

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  18. #18 Cookard
    84% matchVery Positive95% of 2,305 reviews2024
    Dev: Panitia GameDev
    Windows · Mac

    Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.

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  19. #19 Final Factory
    84% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 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.

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  20. #20 Beltmatic
    82% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

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    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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!

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  22. #22 Little Big Workshop
    83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
    Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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

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  23. #23 FOUNDRY
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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.

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  24. #24 Builderment
    82% matchMixed66% of 119 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!

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    81% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
    Dev: obece
    Windows

    Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.

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    85% matchMixed46% of 132 reviews2017
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    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.

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    79% matchVery Positive88% of 555 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    79% matchMostly Positive77% of 296 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac

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    78% matchVery Positive86% of 511 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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  30. #30 Tower Factory
    77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    Windows
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    Windows

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    76% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    78% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
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    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%

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    76% matchMostly Positive77% of 226 reviews2025
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    Windows

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  36. #36 ShapeHero Factory
    74% matchVery Positive89% of 972 reviews2025
    Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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    75% matchMixed65% of 491 reviews2026
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    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
    Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
    Windows

    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.

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    73% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

    Why similar: Automation 41.1%, Crafting 21.3%, Management 17.3%, Resource Management 5.2%, 2D 4.7%

  40. #40 Food Processing Simulator
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 248 reviews2025
    Dev: Bewolba Studios
    Windows

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    71% matchVery Positive93% of 2,628 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%

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    74% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 reviews2023
    Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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    70% matchNo user reviews95% of 64 reviews2026
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    71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,629 reviews2024
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    70% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    72% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
    Dev: Positech Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    73% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    69% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
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    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 556 reviews2025
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    69% matchMostly Positive76% of 210 reviews2024
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  52. #52 Space industrial empire
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 1,031 reviews2024
    Dev: 游戏养家工作室
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 36.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!

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    67% matchVery Positive84% of 447 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

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    68% matchVery Positive85% of 104 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    68% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2024
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 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 39.9%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 13.5%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 7.4%

  58. #58 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
    66% matchMostly Positive73% of 580 reviews2024
    Dev: Miradil
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!

    Why similar: Management 29.7%, Sandbox 22.4%, Crafting 19.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 7.6%

  59. #59 Node Math
    65% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 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 37.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Crafting 16.7%, Management 6.6%, Strategy 6.2%

  60. #60 Clonizer
    64% matchVery Positive86% of 173 reviews2025
    Dev: Juicy PlumePub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Clonizer combines Hex-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding! Play cards, manage clones, explore unique charming planets and outsmart aliens. Craft a powerful deck through your expedition and Clonize the universe to become employee of the month of CLONPO!

    Why similar: Card Game 40.9%, Exploration 18.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Cute 11%, Simulation 9%

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