- #1 Dyson Sphere Program
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Space 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the scale of space-based automation and interstellar logistics found in Final Factory.
- #2 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive automation game, it provides the core logistical depth and resource management mechanics that define the genre.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a high-fidelity 3D factory building experience that focuses on complex production lines and exploration.
- #4 Desynced
95% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.3 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 23.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features unit-based automation and programming that mirrors the fleet-management complexity of Final Factory.
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes large-scale factory construction in an open, procedurally generated world.
- #6 The Crust
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on lunar base-building and automation, providing a similar sci-fi industrial atmosphere.
- #7 Astro Colony
93% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Space 10.2%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines space exploration with modular base-building and automated resource gathering across multiple planets.
- #8 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
92% matchVery Positive95% of 12,431 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Building 24.7%, Space 24%, Sci-fi 23.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Exploration 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at the ship design and tactical fleet combat aspects that are central to the Final Factory experience.
- #9 Techtonica
91% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory builder focuses on underground automation and resource management in a mysterious alien environment.
- #10 Captain of Industry
91% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 37.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 19.3%, Building 8%, Simulation 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a massive scale of industrial logistics and resource management that challenges the player's planning skills.
- #11 shapez 2
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A pure, minimalist automation experience that focuses entirely on the satisfaction of optimizing complex production chains.
- #12 Stationeers
90% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Moddable 14.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex engineering and atmospheric management for space stations, appealing to players who enjoy technical challenges.
- #13 Final Upgrade
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.8%, Space 10.7%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on space-based logistics and automation, providing a direct thematic link to the seed game.
- #14 Factory Town
88% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines logistics, automation, and town-building in a charming, grid-based environment.
- #15 Oxygen Not Included
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 33.9%, Resource Management 20.8%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Space 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features intricate simulation and automation mechanics that require careful management of resources and base layout.
- #16 Space Haven
87% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 13.1%, Space 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on ship-based survival and management, requiring players to build and maintain complex systems in space.
- #17 Avorion
86% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.1%, Building 21.7%, Space 20.8%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Exploration 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It allows for extensive ship building and fleet management, perfect for those who enjoy the construction side of space games.
- #18 Voidtrain
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Base Building 29.9%, Crafting 23.7%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Exploration 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends automation and exploration with a unique train-building mechanic that evolves as you traverse an infinite void.
- #19 Nova Lands
85% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A blend of automation, exploration, and survival that simplifies the factory-building loop for a more accessible experience.
- #20 Tower Factory
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, RTS 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It uniquely combines factory automation with tower defense mechanics, requiring both production and combat strategy.
- #21 MegaFactory Titan
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 12.2%, Space 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic approach to factory building with a focus on scaling production in a sci-fi setting.
- #22 Timberborn
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Base Building 21.5%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: While not space-themed, its complex resource management and vertical building mechanics are highly satisfying for automation fans.
- #23 ReFactory
83% 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 28.8%, Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 16.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused automation game that emphasizes efficient base design and resource flow.
- #24 Facteroids
82% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on asteroid mining and automated production, directly mirroring the space-industrial theme.
- #25 shapez
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: The original minimalist automation game that strips away combat to focus purely on the logic of production.
- #26 X4: Foundations
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 27,985 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 94.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.
Why similar: Moddable 20.4% ★, Sandbox 18.7%, Space 17.3%, Building 11.4%, Sci-fi 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep fleet management and a complex space economy that rewards strategic industrial planning.
- #27 The Last Starship
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,419 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12%, Space 11.7%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the construction and management of complex starships, focusing on the engineering side of space travel.
- #28 Mob Factory
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title integrates automation with tower defense, focusing on harvesting resources from enemies to fuel your factory.
- #29 Alchemy Factory
77% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 11.2%
- #30 Outworld Station
77% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 22.2%, Base Building 14%, Space 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Inventory Management 7.9%
- #31 MineMogul
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #32 Automation Empire
80% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 29.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a wide variety of logistical tools and transport methods to build a massive, interconnected industrial network.
- #33 The Planet Crafter
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #34 Builderment
78% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A streamlined automation game that focuses on crafting and resource transport across a large map.
- #35 Astrometica
75% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Space 11.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #36 Incremental Factory
76% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #37 Widget Inc.
74% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 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 38.6%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 18.8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #38 StarRupture
73% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Immersive Sim 7.9%
- #39 InfraSpace
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 9%
- #40 Eden Crafters
72% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.8%
- #41 Mindustry
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 23.3%, Resource Management 17.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.6%
- #42 Learning Factory
72% matchVery Positive86% of 511 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 23.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.1%
- #43 Microtopia
71% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.8%, Base Building 12%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%
- #44 Star Birds
70% matchVery Positive93% of 2,628 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 26.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.7%
- #45 Infinifactory
73% matchVery Positive95% of 2,459 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Automation 43.2%, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #46 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
70% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Building 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #47 AutoForge
71% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%
- #48 Plan B: Terraform
69% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 26.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%
- #49 Stardeus
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Moddable 14.7% ★, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Space 10.1%
- #50 Space Architect
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #51 Exogate Initiative
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, RTS 9.2%
- #52 Reassembly
69% matchVery Positive94% of 4,066 reviews2015
Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
Why similar: Building 27.2%, Space 24.9%, Sandbox 22.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #53 Per Aspera
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Moddable 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 8.9%
- #54 Skyformer
67% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #55 FortressCraft Evolved!
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.4%
- #56 Prospector
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #57 Dawn Apart
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
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: Automation 33%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 14.7%, Space 9.5%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #58 Space Trash Scavenger
65% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Space 10.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #59 Evospace
68% matchVery Positive82% of 387 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11%
- #60 Icaria
65% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%