- #1 Veinfall
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doca
Windows
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Mining 18.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%
- #2 Industronaut
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Mining 15.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.6%
- #3 Builderment
96% 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 24%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9%
- #4 Automation Station
95% 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 22.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10%
- #5 MineMogul
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Mining 16.5% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #6 Automation Empire
94% 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 24.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Mining 9% ★
- #7 BOREWORKS
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Mining 10.4% ★, Crafting 9.5%
- #8 Modulus: Factory Automation
92% 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 21.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #9 shapez
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 16.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #10 Starward Era
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: QianMo Studio
Windows
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #11 Infindustry
91% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 14.2%, Mining 13.6% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #12 Corposlop
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andreasintech
Windows
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 11%, Mining 9.1% ★, Sandbox 8.2%
- #13 Factorio
89% 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 30.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #14 Proto Garden
88% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Logic 9.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #15 Factor Y
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
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 21.2%, Mining 17.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
- #16 Jigsaw Industry
86% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.9%
- #17 Holon
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.4%
- #18 Islandustry
85% 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 24.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #19 Potion Pipeline
84% 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 25.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #20 ChromaFlow
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
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 28.3%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.7%, Logic 9.4%, Building 7.1%
- #21 Reprocessed
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%
- #22 Outer Factory
82% 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 24.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #23 CosmoFab
81% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 10.2%
- #24 MineEngineer
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: MoonBuninni
Windows · Mac
Build physics-driven ships and automated factories block by block in a 2D space survival sandbox. Mine planets and asteroids, program machines, explore a hostile universe and survive solo or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Mining 13.7% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%
- #25 plexum
81% 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 28.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.7%
- #26 Stella Astrum
79% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #27 Scraplings
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #28 Plantile
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%
- #29 Block Factory
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 266 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #30 Cartefact
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #31 Bouncekraft
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Base Building 19%, Automation 16.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 6.6%
- #32 Fill the Sky
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
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 27.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Building 7.4%
- #33 FACTORY I
76% 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 24.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.3%
- #34 Odd Realm
76% 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: Automation 15.5%, Base Building 14%, Mining 13.8% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #35 Atom By Atom
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inner Core Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a factory around a black hole. Extract elements, route atoms through Matter Tubes, bond them using valence-driven chemistry, and scale precise molecular production lines atom by atom.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #36 Kardaviik
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #37 TowerLine
73% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #38 Substructure
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #39 Incremental Factory
73% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Mining 12.8% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #40 Hydroneer
74% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Mining 20.6% ★, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #41 Rafting Factory
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 8%
- #42 Captain of Industry
72% 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 31.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 16%, Building 7.6%, Mining 7.5% ★
- #43 Laplana
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 16.6%, Crafting 16.4%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #44 Alien Planet Survival
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 9.8%
- #45 Ascend Factory
72% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Matlyce Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.7%, Logic 10%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #46 GridCraft
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.6%
- #47 Truck City
70% 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 19.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Mining 12.7% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #48 Biofactory
70% 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 25.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #49 Copacetic
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Automation 14.9%, Mining 12.1% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #50 Dyson Sphere Program
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 19.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #51 Pistonica
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%
- #52 MoteMancer
68% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%
- #53 Factory on a Train
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Mining 14.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #54 Exovia
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #55 ASEMA
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: goblin-architecture
Windows
Automate your factory in space. Build logistic railguns to feed the production lines of your ever growing machines. Gravity disrupts your trajectories - master it. Connect your machines over the vast void. Find resource rich moons and asteroid streams to harvest and mine, but beware of the humans.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #56 Alchemy Factory
64% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%
- #57 Cobalt Miner
66% matchMixed44% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Mining 21.4% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #58 Amicraft Factory™
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #59 PoliPlanet
66% 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 24.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #60 The Resonance Initiative
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10%