- #1 Builderment
97% matchMixed67% of 121 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 27.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #2 Mix Universe
96% matchVery Positive95% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: Chris ZukowskiPub: Zuko Media LLC
Windows · Mac
Mix Universe is a musical sandbox game where you play as a Mixonaut adding beautiful vibes to the universe. Everything you hear and see is 100% real-time and editable in-game.
Why similar: Music-Based Procedural Generation 33.9% ★, Audio Production 24.8% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Rhythm 9.5%
- #3 Islandustry
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #4 Kloppyssimo
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sebastian Burckhardt
Windows
A fusion between puzzle-solving and music creation awaits you! Craft beats, solve playful puzzles, unlock new sounds, explore a strange overworld, and experiment in a freeform sandbox—to heal a pig? Lose yourself in this creative and synesthetic experience!
Why similar: Music-Based Procedural Generation 32.5% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Rhythm 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #5 ReFactory
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 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 25.6%, Base Building 21.1%, Crafting 16.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #6 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 8%, Building 7%
- #7 Mycelium Conquest
93% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Procedural Generation 4.6%
- #8 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 7.5%, Isometric 6.9%
- #9 FluxWerks
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 8.5%
- #10 Cog Foo
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #11 Automation Station
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, City Builder 11.1%
- #12 T-Drum
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: LV Studio
Windows
T-Drum é um jogo de puzzle para produção musical. Inspirado pelo Tetris e a TR-808, tem a jogabilidade de um block clearer melhorado e com as capacidades de produção musical de uma drum machine.
Why similar: Audio Production 35.6% ★, Music-Based Procedural Generation 22% ★, Sandbox 13%, Rhythm 9.1%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #13 Factorio
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 37.2%, Base Building 23.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, City Builder 8.2%
- #14 NodeLord
88% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: HowDeerYou
Windows
Build, automate and create - but most of all - survive!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #15 Doodle Factory
87% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 8.1%
- #16 Tower Factory
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,199 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 23.3%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Crafting 11.1%, RTS 6.8%
- #17 Modulus: Factory Automation
84% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 26.9%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%
- #18 River Town Factory: Prologue
86% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 17%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 6.3%
- #19 Substructure
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #20 Belts of Iron
84% matchNo user 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 27.3%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #21 TowerLine
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
Windows
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #22 Techtonica
82% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 28.1%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #23 The Last Seed
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Time Management 8%
- #24 Infindustry
82% 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 26.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%
- #25 Flow Factory
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, City Builder 10%
- #26 Elfgineer
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DigitalMishaps LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Elfgineer is a cozy factory game where you design the most important factory in the world, Santa's workshop. Automate toy production, craft festive contraptions and unlock new recipes, machines and technologies. Build, optimize and maximize christmas spirit before time runs out on Christmas Eve!
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Time Management 10.8%
- #27 Factory Town 2: Paradise
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #28 Potion Pipeline
79% 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 32.5%, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%
- #29 Shuttle World
78% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 9.9%
- #30 Biofactory
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, City Builder 11.7%
- #31 shapez
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 35%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 6.7%
- #32 Proto Garden
76% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #33 Automation Empire
78% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.8%, Base Building 19.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #34 Factory Town
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 27.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 12%
- #35 Ruin and Rebirth
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andrew Teo, Adam TeoPub: AT-AT Games
Windows
Ruin and Rebirth is a fantasy open-world factory building game with creature taming and breeding. In this playable creation myth, bring life back to a surreal, shattered, post-divine apocalyptic world where the gods have died.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%, City Builder 8%
- #36 Rhythm Town: Music Visualizer
75% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: RhythmTownGroup
Windows
Rhythm Town is a cozy music-driven sandbox where your world moves to the beat. Upload your favorite tracks from your PC, place objects freely, and watch as everything sways, pulses, and comes to life with the rhythm. No challenges or pressure—just pure creativity and musical relaxation.
Why similar: Music-Based Procedural Generation 36.1% ★, Audio Production 22.7% ★, Rhythm 14%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 8.5%
- #37 Cubactory
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quim GarrigósPub: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cubactory is the only factory game where you truly build objects freely, transforming, blending, carving and compacting colored cubes into intricate voxel figures while automating your modular factory to meet increasingly complex orders.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #38 Factomancer
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Voltige Games
Windows · Mac
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Time Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #39 Dewdrop
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Second State Games
Windows · Mac
A relaxing physics puzzle game where every bounce makes music. Draw vines to guide dewdrops to vortexes, unlock new sounds, and experiment in a musical sandbox.
Why similar: Music-Based Procedural Generation 42.4% ★, Audio Production 31.3% ★, Rhythm 14.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Colorful 1.7%
- #40 Alchemy Factory
71% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 10.1%
- #41 Microtopia: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive95% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 23.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #42 PoliPlanet
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 14.9%, City Builder 12%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #43 Lichworks
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rune Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 20.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #44 Dynasty of the Sands
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rocket Flair Studios
Windows
Be the architect of your own Egyptian empire in this meditative survival city builder, where every decision, no matter how small, has lasting consequences. Survive alongside your people, expand your influence across the Nile and create a grand Dynasty to rival the gods themselves. Paradise awaits.
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #45 Soglia
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Jacopo Foschi
Windows
"Like all psychic life, creativity also comes from the unconscious. If you identify with the creative process, you end up believing that you are the creator." Soglia is a game based entirely on sound. A dreamlike journey into our unconscious to discover where ideas are born.
Why similar: Music-Based Procedural Generation 48.4% ★, Audio Production 39.1% ★, Philosophical 12.5%
- #46 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 201 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 28.4%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 8.2%
- #47 Robo Maestro
71% matchVery Positive97% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: Joost van Dongen
Windows
Play with music like never before! Robo Maestro is a procedural music toy. Guide an endless stream of new music or make detailed tweaks in Editor Mode. Create songs, be inspired and share your creations. No music skills required, just have fun!
Why similar: Music-Based Procedural Generation 32.6% ★, Audio Production 25% ★, Automation 16.2%, Rhythm 7%, Procedural Generation 6.4%
- #48 Cartefact
70% 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 42.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 21.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 3.9%
- #49 Factoriant
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 12%, City Builder 8.7%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #50 Chocolate Factory
69% matchMixed56% of 145 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 28.2%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 17%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 8.3%
- #51 Spaceflight Factory : Prologue
70% matchPositive82% of 44 reviews2023
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
Spaceflight: Prologue is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.During this prologue, You will lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 24.8%, Crafting 6.6%, Strategy 4.6%
- #52 Bitpunky
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: trieckaga
Windows
Bitpunky is a sandbox game of creating and developing your own digital civilization in the middle of a huge virtual space. Explore the outside world, use the resources of the virtual space for improving and automating processes within your futuristic city!
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 9%
- #53 Left Stranded
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevBre Games
Windows · Linux
Cast into a medieval kingdom by ancient stones, you must forge, automate, and expand your workshop. Alone or in multiplayer, fulfill royal orders, harness coal, steam, electricity and uncover the secrets that could return you home.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 10%
- #54 Forge Industry
69% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #55 Outer Factory
67% 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 31.8%, Base Building 21%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 7.5%
- #56 Rejuvan
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Papergod
Windows
Build, make money, create, repeat. Rejuvan is a game about making the most efficient factories on your own little island. Use everything you can think of to maximize profits and keep the narrative on track. Keep in mind that, at certain money thresholds, your experience may unexpectedly change.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, City Builder 23.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Time Management 11.6%, Building 10.3%
- #57 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
66% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 5.6%
- #58 Lifecraft
67% matchVery Positive81% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 9.6%
- #59 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 618 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Automation 27%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 9.4%
- #60 Territory: Farming and Warfare
64% matchVery Positive85% of 715 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 7.9%