Games Like Federation

Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Capitalism 18.1%, Automation 16.9%, Economy 12%, Time Management 9.8%

An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Automation 22.2%, Time Management 9.7%, Logic 9.6%, Economy 8.6%

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Capitalism 15.2%, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 12.1%

Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Capitalism 15.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Economy 9.3%, Puzzle 9.3%

Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Automation 18%, Capitalism 14.8%, Transportation 12.7% ★, Economy 10.2%

Factory Automation game that takes simulation to new heights! Dive into a world where you have the power to turn your small CPU factory into a world-leading factory, becoming a pillar in the global economy.

Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 14.1%, Capitalism 13.6%, Logic 8.9%

Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Automation 17%, Capitalism 13.2%, Time Management 11.7%, Economy 8.2%

Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Time Management 11.7%, Automation 11.1%, Capitalism 9.1%, Economy 8.4%

Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Third Person 10.1%, Simulation 9.1%

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 35.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Economy 13.7%, Simulation 6.1%

Build Your Business Empire! Start with a small company and grow it into a corporate giant. Rent offices, hire employees, manage finances, and compete in a dynamic market. Buy out rivals, expand strategically, and build your dream headquarters. Will you dominate the business world or play it safe?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Capitalism 15.6%, Time Management 12%, Automation 10.7%, Economy 7.9%

SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 22%, Transportation 14.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 10.7%

A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.

Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Time Travel 23.5% ★, Economy 15.2%, Time Management 10.6%, Strategy 7.4%

Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.

Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Economy 8.4%, Logic 7%

An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 6.3%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Political 19.1% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 7.5%

Multiplayer Incremental Idle tycoon with a stock market that actually works. 200 stocks, real options pricing, Fed rate decisions, 55 businesses across 10 tiers, real estate, banking, taxes, and a 530-node research tree. Multiplayer shares one market. There's also a casino.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.8%, Automation 24.8%, Economy 17.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Logic 9.3%

Gentlemen, I have a hell of a deal for you. Rent a beacon station on the Fog Lane with almost nothing down. Build. Produce. Trade. Outrun the rent — and the place is yours. The bustle shall not stop! A turn-based roguelite city-builder with production chains and trade.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Capitalism 15.6%, Automation 12.5%, Economy 10.3%

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Transportation 14.1% ★, Simulation 7.7%

SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12%

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Capitalism 15.1%, Economy 12%, Base Building 11.9%

Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Time Management 11.9%, Automation 11%, Simulation 7.6%

Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.

Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Transportation 17.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 11%

Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!

Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 13.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Automation 31.7%, Base Building 20.5%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 4.7%

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 27.4%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 17%, Transportation 10.5% ★, Economy 10.2%

A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Automation 23.4%, Capitalism 16.5%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%

Another Game About Automation is a casual factory-building where you have to generate numbers and combine them with mathematical operations. Upgrade and unlock new mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Base Building 24.3%, Logic 19%, Simulation 11.8%, Puzzle 5.3%

Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Time Management 12.8%, Automation 10.2%, Economy 9.9%

Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Automation 9.6%, Third Person 7.7%, Simulation 7.2%

Lead a 14th-century Anatolian tribe from a small camp to a great Sancak. Build your dynasty, manage characters with real personalities, survive seasons and raids — a deep colony management game. Made solo over 2 years.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Time Management 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 11.6%, Artificial Intelligence 11.3%

A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Automation 26.8%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 6.6%, Logic 6.2%

Expand your supply chain by flipping tiles.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.2%, Automation 20.6%, Transportation 18% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, Economy 9.8%

A roguelike where you build a factory — not a character.

Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Time Management 17%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%

Experience the thrill of managing your own grocery store, from stocking shelves to handling customers, and transforming a small shop into a thriving supermarket. Control prices, Order goods, Hire Staff, Fight with Thieves and much more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Automation 18.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Time Management 15.6%, Exploration 8.5%

Move through time. Back and forward. Create clones across timelines and cooperate with yourself to solve impossible puzzles.

Why similar: Time Travel 24.1% ★, 3D Platformer 18.1%, Time Management 15.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Puzzle 10.8%

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 29.2%, Transportation 16.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 6.5%

Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.

Why similar: Time Travel 48.2% ★, 3D Platformer 16%, Capitalism 14.1%, Puzzle 8.2%, Logic 6.2%

Raccateer is a colony sim idle game. Recruit and upgrade raccoons each with unique personalities and stats, manage their equipment and synergize your team to become a Trashilionaire. Go from trash to riches in this tight, narrative-focused idler

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Automation 30.1%, Capitalism 24.7%, Simulation 8.4%

A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Automation 30.7%, Simulation 17.2%, 3D 6.8%

Build and automate a cargo fleet across over 250 real-world ports in this maritime tycoon. Route ships through strategic canals, navigate tropical cyclones and geopolitical sanctions, and grow a small shipping company into a global logistics empire.

Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Transportation 19.9% ★, Capitalism 14.7%, Political 13% ★, Economy 9.1%

You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Automation 17.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Exploration 7.2%

Become a CEO of your own delivery company. Transport parcels from A to B, expand your fleet and depots. Face multiple challenges and earn as much money as you can.

Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Transportation 21.6% ★, Economy 17.9%, Time Management 15.1%, Simulation 9.1%

CryptoRIG is a semi-idle server management game focussed on cryptocurrency mining and trading.

Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Capitalism 21.7%, Artificial Intelligence 15%, Economy 14.5%, Time Management 14.4%

A conveyor-based production and logistics sandbox including smart machines, node based conveyor belts, logic and recipe based item generation and powerful design time construction. Create and connect Miners, Splitters, Factories, Containers, Vaults and more...

Why similar: Automation 43.7%, Logic 15.6%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 11.6%, Third Person 6.6%

A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Automation 23.8%, Capitalism 16.8%, Economy 15%, Base Building 10.8%

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Automation 19.8%, Capitalism 16.5%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Time Travel 35% ★, Automation 26.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Time Management 10.1%, Simulation 6.5%

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: Colony Sim 34.3%, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Economy 8.6%

Manage your own adult supermarket! Hire staff, stock shelves with 70+ unique adult products, set prices, expand your store, and satisfy your customers’ desires. Unlock new items and create the ultimate shopping experience for adults!

Why similar: Economy 21.1%, Automation 14%, Time Management 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Capitalism 11.5%

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Time Travel 28.5% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Time Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.5%

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 38.5%, Economy 15.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Capitalism 14.2%, Base Building 9.5%

TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Time Travel 22.5% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Exploration 6.1%

Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 19.9%, Automation 18.1%, Logic 9.4%, Simulation 8.2%

Stranded Engineers is a city-building game in which your strategy and economy skills are required. Build large citys on several islands, take care of your resource buildings and make your citizens happy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Automation 22.4%, Logic 8%, Economy 7.9%, Simulation 7.5%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Automation 24.4%, Base Building 17%, Economy 11.5%, Simulation 6.1%

A casual casino themed idle game with a lot of replayability. Attract and cynically exploit your customers to expand your casino empire globally and beyond.

Why similar: Time Travel 25.7% ★, Capitalism 19.6%, Automation 19.3%, Economy 13.3%, Time Management 8.8%

An open-world entrepreneurial sandbox game. Sell resources, purchase properties, become rich.

Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Capitalism 21.1%, Time Management 10%, Third Person 8.4%

An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Automation 26.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 6.2%

Build, run, and grow your own Gaming Cafe. Set up gaming stations, manage customer flow, and boost profits by selling drinks and shelf products.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Capitalism 17.8%, Automation 17.6%, Economy 13%, Base Building 12%