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Games Like FOUNDRY

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Building, Automation, Sandbox.

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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.

Reviews: Very Positive — 81% — of 3,918 reviews
Released: 2024-05-02
Developer: Channel 3 Entertainment
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 7.7 hrs
Mean playtime: 48.4 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 88%

Overview

FOUNDRY stands out for its seamless blend of first-person voxel exploration and intricate, large-scale factory automation. These recommendations prioritize games that offer deep logistical challenges, complex resource management systems, and the satisfying progression of building an efficient, automated empire in an expansive environment.

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  1. #1 Satisfactory
    97% 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 19.6%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.6%, Building 8.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It is the closest experience to FOUNDRY, offering a first-person 3D perspective on massive-scale factory building and automation.

  2. #2 Factorio
    96% 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 26.6%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%

    Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that sets the gold standard for complex logistics and resource management systems.

  3. #3 Dyson Sphere Program
    96% 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 26.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Open World 9.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on interstellar logistics and massive-scale automation, perfect for players who enjoy scaling up their production lines.

  4. #4 Techtonica
    95% 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 18.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent subterranean alien world.

  5. #5 The Planet Crafter
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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: Base Building 14%, Automation 13.6%, Online Co-Op 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and automation with a rewarding terraforming mechanic that changes the world around you.

  6. #6 Stationeers
    94% 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 19.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly complex, hardcore approach to automation and atmospheric management that will appeal to fans of FOUNDRY's technical depth.

  7. #7 Final Factory
    93% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    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 20.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.4%

    Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build massive, space-faring factories with a focus on logistics and automated production in a vast galaxy.

  8. #8 Astro Colony
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 20.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A space-based automation game where you build and expand a modular colony while managing complex resource systems.

  9. #9 FortressCraft Evolved!
    92% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,063 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 21%, Voxel 14%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A pioneer in the first-person voxel automation genre that shares the same block-based building DNA as FOUNDRY.

  10. #10 ASTRONEER
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 139,015 reviews2019
    Dev: System Era Softworks
    Windows
    Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 14.5%, Open World 13.1%, Automation 10.3%, Co-op 10%, Sandbox 9.9%

    Why You'll Like It: Features a voxel-based world with a focus on exploration, resource gathering, and modular base building.

  11. #11 Mindustry
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
    Dev: AnukenDev
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

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

    Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8%

    Why You'll Like It: Blends automation with tower defense, requiring you to build supply chains to fuel your military defenses.

  12. #12 Eden Crafters
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 17.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Features open-world survival and automation mechanics centered around terraforming a hostile planet.

  13. #13 Hydroneer
    89% 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 18.9%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 10%, Co-op 9.7%, Building 9.6%

    Why You'll Like It: A unique mining and automation game that uses physics-based systems to process resources and build elaborate machinery.

  14. #14 Captain of Industry
    88% 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 33.9%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 18.8%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 5.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, complex simulation of industrial logistics and supply chains on a resource-scarce island.

  15. #15 Autonauts
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 31.1%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on programming cute robots to automate tasks, offering a charming but deep approach to the automation genre.

  16. #16 Automation Empire
    87% 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 24.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 9.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building massive, multi-layered industrial networks that span across large maps.

  17. #17 Sandustry
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
    Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 18.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A sandbox automation game that emphasizes building complex, efficient production lines in an open world.

  18. #18 Volcanoids
    86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
    Dev: Volcanoid
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Co-op 10.6%

    Why You'll Like It: Features a unique steampunk setting where you manage a mobile drill-ship base that you must automate and upgrade.

  19. #19 Factory Town
    85% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 25%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 12.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Combines automation with town management, requiring you to optimize transport lines to keep your citizens thriving.

  20. #20 Kubifaktorium
    84% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 22.6%, Voxel 19.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes building supply chains and managing logistics in a colorful, blocky world.

  21. #21 Nova Lands
    83% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 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 19.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Robots 12.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9%

    Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet engaging automation game that features exploration, base building, and automated resource gathering.

  22. #22 shapez
    82% 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 24.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%

    Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation game that challenges you to process and combine geometric shapes through increasingly complex factories.

  23. #23 Modulus: Factory Automation
    81% 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 21.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular factory design and complex system management within a simulation-heavy environment.

  24. #24 Timberborn
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
    Dev: Mechanistry
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 26.7%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates water physics and complex resource management, requiring clever engineering to survive.

  25. #25 Orebound
    81% matchMostly Positive78% of 976 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: Resource Management 18.2%, Voxel 14.8%, Automation 13.1%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mining and resource management in a voxel world with a strong emphasis on building and survival.

  26. #26 Evospace
    82% 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 14.7%, Voxel 14.4%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.3%

    Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that offers a high degree of freedom in how you build and manage your production lines.

  27. #27 Alchemy Factory
    78% 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 24.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%

  28. #28 Good Company
    80% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
    Dev: Chasing Carrots
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 15.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.4%, Robots 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A management-focused game where you design and automate the production of high-tech gadgets.

  29. #29 MineMogul
    77% 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 25%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

  30. #30 Outworld Station
    77% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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 21.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%

  31. #31 Eco
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
    Dev: Strange Loop Games
    Windows
    Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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 21.7%, Crafting 18%, Resource Management 16.4%, Open World 14.4%, Sandbox 13.5%

    Why You'll Like It: A collaborative survival game where players must build and automate to save their world from an impending disaster.

  32. #32 shapez 2 - Factory
    75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
    Dev: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 24.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10%

  33. #33 StarRupture
    76% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 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 17.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 9.5%, Open World 9.1%

  34. #34 Microtopia
    76% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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 16.4%, Robots 13.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%

  35. #35 Rise of Industry
    78% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 reviews2019
    Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

    Why similar: Resource Management 19.4%, Base Building 19.3%, Automation 18.1%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 10.5%

    Why You'll Like It: A strategic logistics game that tasks you with building and managing a sprawling industrial empire.

  36. #36 Icaria
    75% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 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: Voxel 14.7%, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Robots 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%

  37. #37 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
    74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,534 reviews2026
    Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    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 22.3%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Co-op 10.9%, Building 9.5%

  38. #38 Skyformer
    74% matchVery Positive83% of 87 reviews2026
    Dev: Weatherfused
    Windows

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  39. #39 SpaceCraft
    73% matchMixed65% of 2,687 reviews2026
    Dev: Shiro Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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  40. #40 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
    73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,273 reviews2025
    Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Co-op 9.1%

  41. #41 AutoForge
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 463 reviews2024
    Dev: Siege Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    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 16.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.4%

  42. #42 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%

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    Why similar: Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Open World 8.3%

  43. #43 Voxel Eras
    72% 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: Voxel 18.8%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 9.6%

  44. #44 Starground
    72% matchVery Positive82% of 191 reviews2024
    Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
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    Why similar: Automation 16.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.5%

  45. #45 Desynced
    70% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,026 reviews2026
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    Windows
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    Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9%

  46. #46 Scrap Mechanic
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
    Dev: Axolot Games
    Windows
    Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    Why similar: Building 17.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%

  47. #47 Incremental Factory
    71% 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 26.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 11%

  48. #48 MoteMancer
    69% 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 23.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.9%

  49. #49 Mob Factory
    70% 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 25.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 10.1%

  50. #50 Occupy Mars: The Game
    68% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 14.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.9%

  51. #51 JUNKPUNK
    71% matchMixed62% of 687 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 23%, Crafting 14.6%, Robots 14.3%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 11%

  52. #52 Builderment
    70% 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 23.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 10.4%

  53. #53 Prospector
    68% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
    Dev: Loonworks Games
    Windows

    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%, Robots 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%

  54. #54 TerraTech Worlds
    69% matchMixed63% of 2,287 reviews2024
    Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 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 15.7%, Automation 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%

  55. #55 Final Upgrade
    69% matchMostly Positive77% of 458 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    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 22.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 9.3%

  56. #56 Outpath
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 3,103 reviews2023
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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

    Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 10.5%

  57. #57 Facteroids
    68% 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 18.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Voxel 13%, Robots 11%, Resource Management 10%

  58. #58 Solarpunk™
    65% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
    Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
    Windows
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

    Why similar: Automation 14.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10%

  59. #59 The Crust
    66% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 24.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 11.4%

  60. #60 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 637 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    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 23.9%, Robots 18.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 13%

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