- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.2 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 34%, Management 16%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Exploration 5.9%
- #2 Factory Planner: First Sparks
97% matchVery Positive83% of 120 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: Solitaire 20% ★, Tabletop 13%, Card Game 12.7%, Automation 10.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #3 shapez
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 38.8%, Sandbox 17.7%, Crafting 17%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 5.9%
- #4 Factory Town
95% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 17.9%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 4.5%
- #5 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 46.7%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 15.5%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 4.7%
- #6 Dyson Sphere Program
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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%, Sandbox 16.8%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 4.8%, Simulation 4.7%
- #7 Incremental Factory
94% 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 38.6%, Crafting 20.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 5.1%
- #8 Modulus: Factory Automation
91% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 34.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Management 14.8%, Crafting 14%, Strategy 7.1%
- #9 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 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 34.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 14%, Management 10.9%, Exploration 8.3%
- #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 39.5%, Crafting 18.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 6.2%
- #11 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 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 37.3%, Sandbox 23.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 7.1%
- #12 FOUNDRY
89% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 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 33.9%, Crafting 19.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #13 Alchemy Factory
87% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 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 45.1%, Sandbox 20.1%, Crafting 17.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 3.9%
- #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 30.3%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Management 11.4%
- #15 Satisfactory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 45.1%, Crafting 21.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, Exploration 6.9%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #16 Cardboard Town
88% matchVery Positive80% of 2,270 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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.
Why similar: Solitaire 34.1% ★, Card Game 20.2%, Tabletop 17.1%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 6.1%
- #17 Final Factory
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 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 37.1%, Crafting 18.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Exploration 7.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #18 Stacklands
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,809 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 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!
Why similar: Solitaire 30.3% ★, Card Game 22.8%, Management 17.3%, Tabletop 13.1%, Strategy 5.4%
- #19 Scrap Collector
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 128 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.
Why similar: Tabletop 24.5%, Card Game 24.1%, Management 20.7%, Crafting 18.4%, Strategy 8.7%
- #20 Cookard
82% matchVery Positive94% of 2,390 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.
Why similar: Solitaire 24.4% ★, Automation 17.7%, Card Game 14.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Tabletop 9.2%
- #21 MoteMancer
82% matchVery Positive92% of 249 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 36.4%, Sandbox 17.6%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #22 Little Big Workshop
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 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 27%, Management 19.3%, Sandbox 13.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 10.5%
- #23 Paper Kingdom
81% matchMixed60% of 62 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.
Why similar: Solitaire 31.8% ★, Card Game 17.3%, Tabletop 14.1%, Management 12.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #24 Mob Factory
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 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 42.4%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 6%
- #25 MineMogul
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 37.9%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #26 Block Factory
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 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 32.9%, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 17%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 6.3%
- #27 Center Station Simulator
78% matchVery Positive88% of 571 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: Automation 28.4%, Sandbox 21.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Management 13.6%, Exploration 10.2%
- #28 Builderment
80% matchMixed67% of 124 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 38.7%, Crafting 20.1%, Sandbox 16.2%, Management 5.5%, Strategy 4%
- #29 Factory Engineer
83% 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 26.4%, Sandbox 23.9%, Management 13.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%
- #30 Widget Inc.
78% matchVery Positive85% of 764 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 60.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 69.2%, Resource Management 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 6.5%, Casual 5.1%
- #31 Kubifaktorium
79% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Crafting 18.7%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 5.7%
- #32 Tower Factory
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,226 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 35.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Management 13.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Exploration 7.3%
- #33 Learning Factory
76% matchVery Positive86% of 519 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: Automation 31%, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 16.8%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 6.3%
- #34 Plan B: Terraform
73% matchVery Positive91% of 3,542 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 13.3%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 4.8%
- #35 Factory Town Idle
75% matchVery Positive91% of 1,227 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 72.6 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 40.7%, Crafting 21.6%, Management 17.2%, Resource Management 5.1%, 2D 4.8%
- #36 Sizzle & Stack
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 310 reviews2025
Dev: Arvis Games
Windows · Mac
Sizzle & Stack is a fast-paced restaurant management card game where you stack ingredients, cook dishes, explore recipes, and serve hungry customers. Upgrade your kitchen and master strategic cooking in a unique blend of card play and time management!
Why similar: Card Game 22.6%, Crafting 18.6%, Management 15.9%, Tabletop 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #37 Beltmatic
74% matchVery Positive94% of 2,149 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 40.2%, Sandbox 20%, Crafting 17.7%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 4.6%
- #38 Captain of Industry
74% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 57.9%, Management 16.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Resource Management 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%
- #39 Kaya's Prophecy
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 235 reviews2025
Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
Why similar: Card Game 28.4%, Management 20.6%, Crafting 17%, Exploration 11.1%, Strategy 10.8%
- #40 Outworld Station
71% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 37.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 16.3%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 5.8%
- #41 Star Birds
70% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 43%, Crafting 20%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 5.4%, Strategy 4.5%
- #42 Desynced
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,999 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Sandbox 20.4%, Management 15.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Exploration 5.3%
- #43 Food Processing Simulator
70% matchVery Positive89% of 315 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 48.5%, Sandbox 23.7%, Management 16.7%, Simulation 6.6%, Resource Management 4.1%
- #44 ShapeHero Factory
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,000 reviews2025
Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
Why similar: Automation 55%, Crafting 17%, Strategy 8.9%, Cute 7.7%, Simulation 5.8%
- #45 Masterplan Tycoon
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 741 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Management 23.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #46 Sixty Four
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,657 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Management 15.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%
- #47 Grime&Gold
69% matchNo user reviews96% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Pemdora
Windows
Fancy some cards, alchemist? Grime & Gold is a small game about stacking and mixing cards to craft strange recipes. Open boosters, delve into dungeons to find rare resources, hire goblins to help you to craft the Holy Grail and save the city, and don't forget to serve your shady clients!
Why similar: Solitaire 33.9% ★, Automation 23.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Card Game 12.2%, Management 9.9%
- #48 Production Line : Car factory simulation
72% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 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 35.4%, Management 25.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.2%
- #49 Microtopia
68% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 16%, Management 13%, Exploration 7.9%
- #50 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
69% matchVery Positive85% of 630 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 19.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Cute 4.8%
- #51 Automation Empire
72% matchMixed66% of 2,639 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 39.8%, Sandbox 17.1%, Management 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #52 Mindustry
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,276 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 59.5%, Sandbox 19.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Resource Management 6.2%, 2D 2.4%
- #53 Industry Idle
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 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 39.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 7.5%
- #54 Chipmatic
66% matchMixed66% of 167 reviews2026
Dev: Molter
Windows · Linux
Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!
Why similar: Automation 41.1%, Crafting 17.6%, Management 14.7%, Exploration 7.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #55 Word Factori
67% matchVery Positive84% of 461 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Management 17.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.6%
- #56 Factory 95
65% matchNo user reviews86% of 57 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: Automation 27.8%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 12%
- #57 Orebound
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 18.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Simulation 5.5%
- #58 Stacks:Space!
67% matchVery Positive84% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Stacks:Engine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!
Why similar: Card Game 34.6%, Crafting 29.5%, Management 16.2%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Cute 5.5%
- #59 Coin Factory
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 215 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!
Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Casual 27%, Resource Management 16.8%, 2D 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.6%