- #1 Sandustry
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #2 Techtonica
96% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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 24.9%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.6%
- #3 Belts of Iron
96% matchVery Positive87% of 52 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 22.7%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 6.4%
- #4 Modulus: Factory Automation
95% 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 22.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 7.9%
- #5 Satisfactory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 29.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Open World 7.2%
- #6 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 20.9%, Voxel 17.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #7 Nova Lands
93% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 28.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #8 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
92% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 23.8%, Building 19.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.1%
- #9 Voxel Eras
91% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Voxel 18.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #10 Orebound
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Voxel 16.6% ★, Building 14.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12%
- #11 ReFactory
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 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 23.2%, Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Simulation 8.9%
- #12 MineMogul
89% 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 30%, Base Building 15%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #13 Eden Crafters
88% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #14 Voxel Tycoon
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Transportation 17.5% ★, Voxel 13.3% ★, City Builder 13%, Building 9.7%
- #15 Chocolate Factory
87% matchMixed56% of 152 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!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.5%
- #16 Factory Town
86% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Transportation 11.8% ★, Crafting 9.5%
- #17 Evospace
86% matchVery Positive83% of 392 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 20%, Base Building 16.1%, Voxel 13.3% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.6%
- #18 Factorio
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, City Builder 6.7%
- #19 Icaria
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2026
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 22.4%, Voxel 16.4% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%
- #20 FortressCraft Evolved!
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 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 26.3%, Building 12.6%, Voxel 12.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 11.3%
- #21 Automation Empire
84% 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 28.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 11.2%, City Builder 10.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #22 AutoForge
82% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 25.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #23 Kubifaktorium
82% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, City Builder 17.3%, Voxel 13.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.1%
- #24 Swarmdustry
80% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 7%
- #25 Revive & Prosper
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Voxel 15.6% ★, Transportation 13.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.1%
- #26 Builderment
81% 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 24.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #27 Deep Crafter
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13%, Building 10.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #28 Facteroids
79% 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 17.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Voxel 12.7% ★, Building 12.7%
- #29 MoteMancer
77% 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 29.7%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9%
- #30 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 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 22.9%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.4%
- #31 JUNKPUNK
79% matchMixed62% of 688 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Building 16%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Simulation 7.1%
- #32 Dawn Apart
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 264 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 31.4%, Base Building 21.6%, Voxel 20% ★, Crafting 13%, Strategy 5%
- #33 Dyson Sphere Program
75% 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 31%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 12.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #34 Outpath
74% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #35 Plan B: Terraform
73% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 24.9%, Transportation 23.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8%
- #36 Captain of Industry
74% 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 33.9%, Base Building 20.2%, City Builder 11.9%, Building 9.6%, Transportation 7.4% ★
- #37 Mob Factory
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 32.9%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #38 Crafting Block World
77% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #39 Outerverse
76% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Voxel 31.6% ★, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 6%
- #40 TerraTech Worlds
73% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Base Building 21%, Automation 19%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 10%
- #41 Nightwater
71% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows
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 28.5%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 8.7%
- #42 Star Crafter
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Voxel 16% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Building 8.5%
- #43 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 34.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #44 Factory Town 2: Paradise
70% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%
- #45 Technicity: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Building 12.7%, Transportation 12% ★, Crafting 10.7%
- #46 InfraSpace
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Transportation 20.7% ★, Automation 19.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.8%
- #47 Final Factory
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #48 Astro Colony
67% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 22.5%, Building 12%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #49 GearBlocks
69% matchVery Positive91% of 802 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!
Why similar: Building 39.8%, Sandbox 22.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Open World 10.9%, Third Person 6%
- #50 Elsewhere
68% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #51 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 30%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 8.3%
- #52 Desynced
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 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 24.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #53 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
66% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Automation 37%, Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 13%, Strategy 5.5%
- #54 Medieval Engineers
71% matchMixed52% of 7,326 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 30.2%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 11.6%, Voxel 7.7% ★
- #55 Center Station Simulator
68% matchVery Positive88% of 577 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 8.8%
- #56 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,909 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Transportation 12.6% ★, Building 11.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #57 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
66% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #58 Voxel Turf
69% matchVery Positive88% of 578 reviews2017
Dev: L Twigger
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!
Why similar: Voxel 32.3% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Open World 9.5%
- #59 Block Factory
66% 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 27.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #60 Farlight Explorers
70% matchMixed55% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Building 38%, Sandbox 23.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%