- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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 20.3%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 28.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Colony Sim 10.1%, City Builder 7.5%
- #3 Factory Town 2: Paradise
96% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
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 19.9%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 6.6%
- #4 Kingdom Workshop
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #5 The Crust
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #6 Cog Foo
94% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #7 Radia Island
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Automation 14%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #8 Skyberry Garden
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
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 26.5%, Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 7.1%
- #9 Beyond These Stars
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 12.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #10 Galaxy Scavengers
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Automation 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #11 Islandustry
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #12 The Colonists
91% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 7%
- #13 Deep Space Directive
89% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, City Builder 11.8%
- #14 Project Oasis
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #15 Odd Realm
87% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 10%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #16 HavenCraft
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
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 21.3%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 6.8%
- #17 Builderment
86% matchMixed68% of 128 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 27.2%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #18 CircuitVeil
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
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 25%, Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #19 Goblin Colony
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 6.8%
- #20 Oxygen: First Breath
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 6.8%
- #21 Automation Empire
85% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 26.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%, City Builder 7.1%
- #22 Greedy Little Kingdoms
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #23 plexum
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 6%
- #24 Necromancer's Workshop
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
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 21.1%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #25 Microtopia
80% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 19%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #26 Modulus: Factory Automation
78% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 23.6%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #27 Terra-7
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.4%
- #28 Common'hood
81% matchMixed51% of 342 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 14.3%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #29 ALL WILL FALL
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 11.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #30 Automation Station
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.7%
- #31 Vilset
79% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
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 24.9%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #32 Mini Settlers: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Automation 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #33 Truck City
74% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 19.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.7%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #34 Architect of Ruin
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 12.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #35 Founders' Fortune
77% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Building 7%, Sandbox 7%
- #36 Kubifaktorium
76% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 6.7%
- #37 PoliPlanet
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #38 CivDle
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StarSoftware
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #39 Astral Enterprises
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Economy 9%, Management 8.7%
- #40 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
71% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Automation 16.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #41 Biofactory
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, City Builder 7%
- #42 Survival Vacancy
75% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 8.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #43 Farmman
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.4%
- #44 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #45 Green Again
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mattsnippetsPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 9%
- #46 Factorio
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 33.9%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 6.2%
- #47 CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 岡部 正孝Pub: Dayveil Games
Windows
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 29.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 7.3%
- #48 Clipper
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8%
- #49 FACTORY I
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #50 Phantasm Cube
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 6.3%
- #51 简单模拟 SimpleSimulation
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FENG LEIPub: FENG ELI
Windows
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 9.3%
- #52 Rise Under the Warstorm
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #53 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #54 Resort Galactica
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 12.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.9%
- #55 Outer Factory
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 8%
- #56 Potion Pipeline
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #57 Astro Colony
65% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 6.6%
- #58 Age of Respair
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Automation 14%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #59 Factoriant
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #60 Terraform Co: Factory and City
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
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 23.2%, Automation 16.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%