Games Like Federation

One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Automation 14.7%, Capitalism 11.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Capitalism 18.1%, Automation 16.2%, Economy 11.6%, Time Management 9.9%

Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Automation 23.9%, Capitalism 16.8%, Time Management 12.5%, Economy 11.9%

Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Capitalism 12.5%, Automation 12.2%, Economy 10%

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%, Capitalism 14.7%, Simulation 12%, Puzzle 9.4%, Economy 8.7%

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 19%, Capitalism 15.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 12.4%, Transportation 11.7% ★

CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 24.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 6%

A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Economy 7.8%, Simulation 4.7%

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 31.7%, Automation 21.1%, Logic 9.9%, Time Management 9.7%, Economy 8.2%

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 25.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Capitalism 13.5%, Economy 13.2%, Logic 7.9%

Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 11.5%, Capitalism 11.2%

Build and manage a massive supermarket. Order products, stock shelves, serve customers, and expand your business into the ultimate shopping destination.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, 3D Platformer 13%, Automation 12.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Capitalism 10%

Build a bottle-cap factory, automate the line, and survive quarterly reviews from investors who judge you on a single number. A satirical factory-management roguelite: hit their KPI, buy back every share, and show them the door.

Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Capitalism 22.1%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Economy 14.6%, Base Building 12.7%

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 24%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 16%, Economy 7.6%, Logic 6.8%

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 28.7%, Automation 21.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 10.1%, Third Person 9.4%

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 33.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Colony Sim 15%, Economy 12.7%, Simulation 6%

A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Capitalism 12%, Economy 11.8%

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 28.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Time Management 11.1%, Automation 9.7%, Simulation 7.1%

A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Automation 21.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Artificial Intelligence 9.5%, Capitalism 8.9%

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 15.2%, Time Management 11.9%, Automation 10%, Simulation 7.5%

A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 6.8%

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 35.4%, Automation 28.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 7%, Strategy 5.4%

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 29.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Automation 8.5%, Third Person 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%

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 24.6%, Automation 21.1%, Transportation 14.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 10.3%

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%, Base Building 19.6%, Automation 16.3%, Simulation 8.4%, Exploration 7.2%

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: Automation 24.3%, Colony Sim 20%, Economy 12.3%, Capitalism 12%, Base Building 8.5%

Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Automation 28.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 7.2%, Strategy 5%

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 26.8%, Transportation 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Logic 9.2%, Puzzle 6.3%

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 24.7%, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 16.4%, Transportation 10.1% ★, Economy 9.2%

Neighbor Craft is a survival card game where you build a civilization by placing cards next to one another. Decide what to place where, then gather resources, craft, fight, trade, and discover new cards as your civilization evolves.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Automation 28.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Relaxing 5.6%

A history-based, strategy, open-world game in which a nation's economy is built from scratch by utilizing all available resources. Create cities and wonders, hire labor, sell crafted products, and build armies. Meet historical figures who will either fight to stop your efforts or trade with you.

Why similar: Automation 29%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Economy 13%, Transportation 12.8% ★, Base Building 10%

The company is falling apart, and you're both the HR cleaning up the mess and the CEO profiting from it. Optimize people, rebuild workflows, automate production, and watch the numbers go up.

Why similar: Time Management 16.8%, Logic 15.6%, Automation 14.9%, Economy 14.4%, Puzzle 10.6%

Passive Income is an idle-ish simulator game where you can build houses, get upgrades, and gain money over time! Chill out and relax as you rip rent out of little cartoon people's pockets. Grow your passive income now!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Capitalism 15.9%, Automation 11.4%, Economy 10%, Simulation 7.5%

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 21.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Transportation 17% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 10.2%

An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 6.4%

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 26%, Automation 24%, Economy 16.6%, Simulation 10%, Logic 9.8%

Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9%, Automation 33.9%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 4.4%

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 29%, Time Travel 27.8% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Time Management 8.4%, Simulation 8%

Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.

Why similar: Automation 45.6%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 2.6%

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 34.6% ★, Automation 23.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Time Management 9.6%, Simulation 6.2%

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: Colony Sim 22.7%, Automation 21.9%, Time Travel 21.7% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 6.7%

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 27.4%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Transportation 14.3% ★, Simulation 7.8%

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%, Automation 21.8%, Capitalism 16%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 10.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 12.1%

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

Why similar: Time Travel 24.5% ★, 3D Platformer 18.4%, Time Management 15.3%, Strategy 12.6%, Puzzle 10.9%

Design laptops from the PCB up and build a global tech empire! Balance complex heat and power mechanics, manage your corporate budget, and conquer international markets. Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate Laptop Architect?

Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Capitalism 20%, Economy 15.8%, Logic 15.4%, Crafting 8.3%

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 26.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Logic 10.9%, Capitalism 10.1%, Puzzle 7.5%

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 29.1%, Automation 22.5%, Capitalism 16.5%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%

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 38%, Base Building 24.8%, Logic 19.7%, Simulation 12%, Puzzle 5.5%

Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.

Why similar: Automation 30%, Transportation 19.8% ★, Capitalism 17.1%, Economy 15.4%, Simulation 7.5%

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 33.9%, Time Management 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Artificial Intelligence 11.3%, Economy 11.1%

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 48.7% ★, 3D Platformer 16.1%, Capitalism 13.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Logic 6.2%

Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.

Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Logic 13.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 8.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Automation 20.5%, Capitalism 19.7%, Time Management 9.4%, Third Person 8.3%

Build, schedule, and grow your rail network to fulfill transportation demands. Optimize paths around forests, mountains and rivers, and balance fuel costs. Across real-world continents or on endlessly unique maps, build the best railway company, one train at a time!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Automation 17.9%, Transportation 16.3% ★, Capitalism 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%

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 28.1%, Automation 20.2%, Logic 7.8%, Economy 7.2%, Simulation 7.1%

Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Automation 24.5%, Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 7.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.

Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 20.4%, Simulation 10%, Economy 7.7%

Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 6.3%

Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...

Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Capitalism 17.9%, Simulation 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Time Management 10.3%