Games Like FOUNDRY

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 20.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.4%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive first-person 3D factory builder that mirrors the scale and aesthetic of FOUNDRY perfectly.

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 27.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While 2D, it remains the gold standard for deep automation, logistics, and resource management mechanics.

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 19%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent underground world that emphasizes voxel-based mining and automation.

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 27.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredible sense of scale by allowing you to automate production across entire star systems.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Automation 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines first-person survival with terraforming and base-building, capturing the exploration-heavy feel of FOUNDRY.

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the logic and optimization of factory lines in a 3D space without the distraction of combat or survival.

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 21.7%, Voxel 13.9% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A pioneer in the voxel-based factory genre that focuses heavily on deep-earth mining and complex conveyor systems.

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 19.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly technical, first-person simulation of atmospheric and electrical systems that will appeal to players who enjoy complex factory management.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Open World 12.8%, Automation 10.7%, Co-op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a charming voxel-based art style with a strong emphasis on exploration, base building, and modular automation.

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 34.3%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 19%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game that challenges players to manage complex logistics, mining, and manufacturing on a massive scale.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends classic factory automation with tower defense, requiring you to protect your production lines from waves of enemies.

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 20.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused automation game where you build and expand your factory across multiple space stations.

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 18.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person, open-world survival and automation game that focuses on terraforming a hostile planet.

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 19.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Co-op 9.7%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique voxel-based mining game where you build complex machinery to automate the extraction and processing of resources.

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 21.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines massive-scale automation with space exploration and combat, perfect for those who want to build beyond a single planet.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a 3D grid-based system to manage complex logistics and supply chains in a vibrant, stylized world.

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 24.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original minimalist automation game that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on factory design and optimization.

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 25%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building massive, interconnected logistics networks to transport resources across large maps.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based game that requires players to balance industrial automation with environmental sustainability.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces a unique visual programming language to automate your workers, offering a different but rewarding take on factory management.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Voxel 26.5% ★, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that features advanced water-management mechanics and vertical construction, requiring careful logistical planning.

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 23.3%, Voxel 19.1% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony management game that emphasizes production chains and resource logistics.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Co-op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique first-person survival game where you operate and automate a mobile drill-ship to survive volcanic eruptions.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 17.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for incredible creativity in building automated machines and vehicles using a robust physics engine.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%, Robots 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and production line optimization aspects of running a robotics manufacturing business.

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 20.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Robots 12.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming 2D game that balances exploration, base-building, and automation in a colorful, alien world.

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed survival and base-building game that focuses on the technical challenges of colonizing Mars.

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: Procedural Generation 17.5%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling automation game that emphasizes exploration, research, and building a sprawling factory.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 31.5%, Resource Management 19%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation game that forces you to manage gas, liquid, and electrical systems in a challenging underground environment.

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 24.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

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: Voxel 15.7% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Resource Management 7.6%

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%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 25.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.2%

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Robots 15.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 11%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep customization for building robots and automated machines using a powerful physics-based editor.

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 18.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.4%, Open World 8.8%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Automation 17%, Robots 13.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 17.4%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Co-op 9%

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: Voxel 14.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 10%, Robots 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%

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 15.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.1%

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 19.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 15.1%, Voxel 14.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.2%

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 27%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 26.2%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 9.8%

Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!

Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 23.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Robots 14%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 10.9%

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 15.7%, Automation 13.6%, Crafting 12%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.6%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Automation 15.6%, Robots 13%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%

Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.2%, Open World 9.4%

An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.8%

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 19.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Voxel 12.8% ★, Robots 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Robots 17.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 11.1%

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.3%

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 24.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.3%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Robots 12.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.1%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11%, Co-op 9.7%, Building 8.9%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.7%