- #1 Resources Assemble!
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Idler 18.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 9.4%
- #2 Outer Factory
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 10%, Management 7.1%
- #3 Upgrade! Inc.
96% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: rexty
Windows · Linux
Upgrade! Inc. is a satisfying text-based idle game about unlock and upgrade a series of production lines, hire employeesa nd researching for powerful bonuses. Simple, cozy, addictive, and endlessly engaging. Start your empire today!
Why similar: Idler 22.2%, Automation 18.7%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Crafting 10.2%
- #4 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
95% matchPositive84% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Idler 20.1%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 12.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #5 FACTO
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #6 Incremental Factory
94% matchMixed68% of 244 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 28%, Idler 16.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 7.3%
- #7 Node Math
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Idler 16.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%
- #8 Monster Shopper
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheShelfman
Windows
The Monster Market is back open! Use automation to assemble monster parts into the proper monsters, and keep your customers happy. A fun, relaxing, and challenging puzzle game where you have full control over how difficult it gets.
Why similar: Transportation 25.3% ★, Automation 23.6%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 8%
- #9 Feed The Flame
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Retnuh
Windows
Feed The Flame is a simple incremental game where you grow a flame to burn down the world. Buy better resources, unlock upgrades and employ thousands of workers to mine, chop and hunt down fuel for the flame. Easy. Satisfying. Highly addictive.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Idler 24.4%, Simulation 13.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Casual 11.7%
- #10 Idle interstellar Factory 2
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 7.9%
- #11 Assembly Line 2
90% matchMixed64% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 41.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Idler 13.8%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 9.8%
- #12 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Idler 20.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Management 7.9%
- #13 Automatica
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strawberry Dev
Windows
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Resource Management 18.7%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Crafting 7.6%
- #14 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Idler 22.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 7%
- #15 Crime Empire Idle
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Litwire Games
Windows · Linux
Build your criminal dynasty in a deep idle/incremental game. Run crimes, launder dirty cash, upgrade your empire, use the black market, craft weapons & gear to fight criminal opponents while you balance heat and notoriety.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Idler 22.4%, Resource Management 17.1%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 9.2%
- #16 Industry Idle
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Transportation 17.6% ★, Idler 14.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 5.6%
- #17 Industrix
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 9%
- #18 NationForge
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Transportation 25.8% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 7.8%
- #19 Beltmatic
84% matchVery Positive94% of 2,149 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Resource Management 14.8%, Idler 14%, Crafting 9.2%, Simulation 7%
- #20 Neuron Connection
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Falls Wood Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into a microscopic world where neurons float and pulse. Connect synapses, guide neurotransmitters, and shape the flow of the network. Watch neurotransmitters travel along the paths, circuits light up, and the neural world softly hum to life under your connections.
Why similar: Transportation 31.4% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Resource Management 16.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Management 8.7%
- #21 Potion Pipeline
82% 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 34%, Strategy 11.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #22 Infindustry
84% 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 27.8%, Transportation 19.2% ★, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 7.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #23 Beltex
82% matchVery Positive86% of 231 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Idler 14.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Simulation 7.6%
- #24 The Factory
81% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Awesome Studios
Windows
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Idler 17.6%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Crafting 7.1%
- #25 Scrap Yard Idle
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: David SecoPub: HeadArrow
Windows
Build your own scrap empire in this incremental idle game. Collect, process, and automate your production chain while optimizing resources and scaling your industrial system.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Resource Management 19.2%, Simulation 13%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 8.5%
- #26 Genterra
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: The Bunker Studios
Windows
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #27 Loop Alchemist
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mackdumbler
Windows
You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Idler 24%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Casual 6.2%
- #28 Nodes
81% matchMixed61% of 46 reviews2022
Dev: Damaged Axons
Windows
Node production simulator. Purchase nodes to produce resources, so you can advance in the technology tree and build yourself a large production line. This game will satisfy your need for incremental simulators with the large amount of content.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Simulation 18.6%, Idler 16.2%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #29 Cursor Kingdom
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oba Games
Windows
Create an army of cursor clones by recording your actions. Automate resource gathering, production, and defense while your kingdom grows on its own.
Why similar: Automation 39%, Idler 18.5%, Simulation 9%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 7.3%
- #30 Planet Harvester
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Otto Development
Windows · Mac
Planet Harvester is a sci-fi automation and resource management sim where you deploy autonomous drones, harvest planets, transfer resources to your mothership, buy upgrades, solve bottlenecks, and expand across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 43.6%, Idler 21.2%, Resource Management 20.2%, Simulation 13.9%, 2D 1.1%
- #31 LaVonne's Grid Idle
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LaVonne
Windows
A deeply mathematical 3D idle game leveraging exponential scaling. Unlock the Void Dimension, assemble powerful Artifacts, unlock massive Constellation technology trees, and fully automate your resource production to achieve endless numerical growth.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Resource Management 22.9%, Idler 15.3%, Management 14.3%, Casual 11.4%
- #32 Mine Empire
74% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Forge Games
Windows
In Mine Empire, start with basic mining and expand by gathering resources, upgrading equipment, and deploying machines for full automation. Blast through deep mineral veins with explosives, unlock rebirth upgrades and advanced technology, and build your own powerful mine empire.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Idler 22.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Mining 9.1% ★, Simulation 6.4%
- #33 Marketfield Idle
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pollikk Studios
Windows
Marketfield Idle is all about growing crops, selling goods, cooking recipes, automating production, and prestige into stronger runs in a cozy incremental farming game with 1200+ upgrades, strategy paths, and lots of synergies to discover.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Idler 21.1%, Resource Management 17.4%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.7%
- #34 Apiary in Flow
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AkinoEgo
Windows
Apiary in Flow is an incremental game with automation elements where you place bees inside a hive to build efficient honey-gathering chains. Unlock new bee types and spend your harvest on permanent skill tree upgrades!
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Idler 23.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 5.8%, Casual 5.2%
- #35 Meister
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: OOJJRS
Windows
Collects resources, makes products, get money, and repair a time machine.
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Resource Management 17.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 8.2%
- #36 Sixty Four
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,657 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Resource Management 15%, Idler 14.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Simulation 8.8%
- #37 Builderment
76% matchMixed67% of 124 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 34.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Transportation 8.2% ★, Sandbox 6.5%
- #38 Little Big Workshop
77% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Simulation 19%, Resource Management 16.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 11.3%
- #39 Lazy Train Game
72% matchPositive83% of 30 reviews2026
Dev: Game Warden Games
Windows · Linux
Lazy Train Game is a relaxing game about building out your railway, collecting resources, crafting tracks, overcoming obstacles, and unlocking new tracks, scenarios, and engines. Set up your railway in such a way that your trains can do most of the work for you.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Idler 19.5%, Crafting 11%, Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #40 Flower Tower
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Polnoch
Windows
A short, relaxing incremental game about growing flowers, where your garden quietly thrives and blooms on its own.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Idler 24.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Resource Management 9%, Management 6.1%
- #41 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Simulation 13.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 9.4%
- #42 Buerokratie Idler: Germany
72% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: AKM Interactive
Windows
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Idler 24.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Management 8.7%
- #43 Hue Factory
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yellow Tree Games
Windows
A colorful, minimalist automation game. Place machines, mix colors, and manage the flow of an evolving factory. Listen to the hum of the machines and watch the colors blend while keeping your lines efficient.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Crafting 6.7%
- #44 AetherRift
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Slade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Place magical constructs around a swirling cosmic rift, chain together exotic energies, and collapse reality to grow stronger in this deep incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Idler 23.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
- #45 Resourcer
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Wings Ltd
Windows
Dig deep into diverse biomes, uncover ancient treasures and mine various resources. Craft new tools and build various production structures. Improve your character’s skills and unlock new features as you progress through the game. Manage the resources and create an efficient production chain.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Idler 18.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 11%, Mining 8% ★
- #46 Gobs & Gears
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GOBLINTEK
Windows · Mac
The Gob King wants his bomb. A big one. He wants it NOW. Reconstruct a lost factory in the Fog, route resources, and put the Gobs to work to build the BIG BOOM before he loses what's left of his patience.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Transportation 20.5% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Simulation 8.6%
- #47 Nightwater
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Idler 16%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 6.4%
- #48 Mito
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 40.8%, Resource Management 18.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 5.2%
- #49 Shear Field
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Playthink
Windows
It begins with a single sheep and the satisfying snip of your first clip. Welcome to Shear Field, an incremental sheep shearing game. You are not just a shearer you are the architect of a massive woolly empire.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Idler 24.1%, Resource Management 19%, Simulation 13.7%, Casual 5.2%
- #50 Tiny Road Interchanges
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: threekittensgame
Windows
Create tiny road interchanges as a traffic engineer. Be as creative as possible, simulate the traffic flow and create efficient interchanges.
Why similar: Transportation 30.8% ★, Automation 20%, Simulation 15.2%, Management 11.8%, Strategy 8.6%
- #51 Truck City
68% 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 25.4%, Transportation 22.2% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 6.8%, Simulation 6%
- #52 Starvester
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 734 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Idler 18.6%, Resource Management 15.3%, Mining 7.1% ★, Simulation 7.1%
- #53 Cartefact
68% 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 45.9%, Resource Management 19.7%, Crafting 15.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #54 Gridbound
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SkidaddleDev
Windows · Mac
Gridbound is a grid-based puzzle and resource strategy game about placing items, optimizing magical essence, and uncovering clever synergies across different levels, each with their unique challenges.
Why similar: Idler 25%, Automation 22.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Casual 11.1%, Strategy 10.1%
- #55 摸鱼仙村
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 不怕虎工作室
Windows
This idle game blends card-based building, resource management, and relaxed gameplay. Expand your village, master sect skills, explore realms, and enjoy offline rewards. Effortless fun awaits—start your journey to immortality!
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Idler 19.4%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 8.9%
- #56 Rocket Automashapes
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Idler 12.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Management 7.7%
- #57 Ever Flip
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TMA Forge
Windows
Ever Flip is an incremental coin-flipping game where streaks from 50% coin flips unlock bigger rewards and growing automation.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Idler 21.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 8.1%
- #58 Idle Research
69% matchVery Positive84% of 1,877 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Idler 21.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%
- #59 POWERCELL
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Julian Dietz
Windows
Relax and sit back as you create mesmerizing particle reactions and become a source of infinite power.
Why similar: Idler 24.4%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 13%, Casual 11.4%
- #60 plexum
66% matchNo user reviews
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 39.5%, Resource Management 19%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 6.3%