- #1 Industronaut
97% 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 19.9%, Mining 15.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #2 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 24.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #3 Automation Station
96% 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 23.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #4 BOREWORKS
94% 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 23.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Mining 10.4% ★, Crafting 9.4%
- #5 MineMogul
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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 21.8%, Mining 16.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #6 Automation Empire
95% matchMixed66% of 2,643 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 24.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Mining 9% ★
- #7 Modulus: Factory Automation
93% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 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 21.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #8 shapez
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 27.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #9 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 21.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Mining 13.6% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #10 Factorio
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 31.1%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%
- #11 Proto Garden
90% 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 23.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Logic 9.1%
- #12 Jigsaw Industry
89% 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 28.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #13 Factor Y
89% 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 21.7%, Mining 18% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #14 Islandustry
88% 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 25.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #15 Potion Pipeline
87% 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 26.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #16 ChromaFlow
86% 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 28.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Logic 9.2%, Building 7%
- #17 Reprocessed
86% 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 22.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%
- #18 CosmoFab
84% 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 31.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10%
- #19 Outer Factory
85% 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 24.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #20 plexum
84% 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 28.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.6%
- #21 Plantile
83% 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 28.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%
- #22 Clogwork
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Odd Sprout Games
Windows
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 12%
- #23 Block Factory
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 264 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 22.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #24 Cartefact
81% 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 34.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #25 Bouncekraft
81% 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 18.9%, Automation 16.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #26 FACTORY I
79% 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 25.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.2%
- #27 Odd Realm
80% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 15.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Mining 13.8% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #28 Kardaviik
79% 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 32.1%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.7%
- #29 Substructure
78% 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 23.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #30 TowerLine
76% matchPositive96% of 26 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 28.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #31 Skyreap
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Entin Games
Windows · Mac
Explore a forgotten archipelago of floating islands. Gather resources, build and automate production, and link islands into a thriving trade network — until the sky belongs to you.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Mining 16% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #32 Hydroneer
78% matchVery Positive86% of 28,389 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.2 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 22.9%, Mining 20.5% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #33 Alien Planet Survival
77% 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 28.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 9.6%
- #34 Incremental Factory
76% matchMixed68% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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 24.7%, Mining 12.7% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 9.8%
- #35 The Maker Way
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 10.1%
- #36 Ascend Factory
75% 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 26.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 11.6%, Logic 9.9%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #37 Rafting Factory
74% 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 32.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 7.9%
- #38 Captain of Industry
74% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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 16.2%, Mining 7.6% ★, Building 7.3%
- #39 Truck City
73% matchPositive83% of 24 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 13.2%, Mining 12.7% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #40 Biofactory
73% matchNo user reviews2026
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 25.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #41 Dyson Sphere Program
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 29.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #42 Copacetic
72% 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 21.3%, Automation 15.2%, Mining 12.1% ★, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 8.5%
- #43 MoteMancer
71% matchVery Positive92% of 256 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 26.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%
- #44 Pistonica
72% 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 30.5%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #45 Factory on a Train
71% 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 18.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Mining 14.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #46 ASEMA
70% 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 Locals.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #47 Amicraft Factory™
70% 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 30.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #48 Roody:2d
70% matchPositive98% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: redinator2000
Windows
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Mining 13% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.5%
- #49 Cobalt Miner
68% 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 22.6%, Mining 21.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #50 Exovia
69% 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 18.2%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9%, Crafting 8.7%
- #51 PoliPlanet
69% 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 25%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #52 The Resonance Initiative
68% 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 29.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #53 Satisfactory
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 29.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.7%
- #54 Stationeers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 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 16.8%, Mining 13.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%
- #55 Krasnaya Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #56 Alchemy Factory
65% matchVery Positive90% of 2,515 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32.4%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%
- #57 Techtonica
66% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%
- #58 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.4%
- #59 Belts of Iron
64% matchPositive90% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #60 Survival Vacancy
69% 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: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Mining 11.6% ★, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.3%