- #1 Flow Factory
97% 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 18.6%, Mining 13.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
- #2 Builderment
96% 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 20.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #3 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 18.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #4 Facteroids
96% 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 16.5%, Mining 13% ★, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.7%, Robots 9%
- #5 Factor Y
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Mining 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #6 Veinfall
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doca
Windows
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Mining 19.9% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%
- #7 StarShip-DF
93% matchPositive100% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: 四哥
Windows
Build a 3D multi-layer starship and lead your colonists. Mine resources and salvage wreckage in space, or land to gather supplies on planets. Fight enemies, protect your crew, and build robots for the ultimate mobile base.
Why similar: God Game 17.1% ★, Base Building 12%, City Builder 11.9%, Space 10.1%, Artificial Intelligence 9%
- #8 Industronaut
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #9 Complex SKY
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Space 8.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #10 Outworld Station
90% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 19.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Space 11%, RTS 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #11 Infindustry
91% 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 18.6%, Mining 13.8% ★, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #12 BOREWORKS
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Mining 10.8% ★, Management 9.5%
- #13 Automation Empire
89% 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 22.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Mining 9.4% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.8%
- #14 Corposlop
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andreasintech
Windows
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 10.2%, Management 9.7%
- #15 Dyson Sphere Program
87% 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 24%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 13.4%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #16 Automation Station
86% 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 21.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #17 UNIT 42: Adrift in Space
86% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: AwitaGames
Windows · Linux
An incremental journey through space. Manage your ship's capsules, choose your path through the stars, and watch your crew and automation do the rest.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Space 13.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10%
- #18 FACTORY I
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 13.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%
- #19 Final Upgrade
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 20.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Space 11.4%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #20 Proto Garden
84% 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 20.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Logic 10.3%, City Builder 10.3%
- #21 Astrocraft
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flowcraft GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Open your own shop on a space station: stock the shelves, serve space travelers, and grow from a lone miner into a space tycoon. Mine asteroids, craft goods in your machines, hire a crew of robots, found outposts, and take to the stars in your own ship, solo or in co-op for up to four players.
Why similar: Automation 14.6%, Mining 13% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Robots 10.8%, Space 9.9%
- #22 The Crust
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Space 11.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #23 Microtopia
82% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 15.9%, City Builder 12.9%, Robots 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #24 Factory on a Train
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Automation 15.2%, City Builder 15%, Mining 13.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.3%
- #25 ASEMA
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: goblin-architecture
Windows
Automate your factory in space. Build logistic railguns to feed the production lines of your ever growing machines. Gravity disrupts your trajectories - master it. Connect your machines over the vast void. Find resource rich moons and asteroid streams to harvest and mine, but beware of the humans.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 10.6%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #26 Starward Era
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: QianMo Studio
Windows
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #27 Truck City
79% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, City Builder 15.2%, Mining 12.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #28 God Crafter
79% match2 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Community Game
Windows
God Crafter is a casual and satisfying 3D clicker game where you, as a god, get to recreate Earth for the humans you create. Shape and design the world with your divine powers. Immerse yourself in a relaxing and rewarding gameplay experience as you build a beautiful and thriving world from scratch.
Why similar: God Game 22.6% ★, Automation 19.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Robots 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%
- #29 Outer Factory
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #30 Good Company
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 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 17%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.6%
- #31 Reprocessed
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Space 10.6%
- #32 Trappist
77% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: God Game 18.1% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.5%
- #33 Atom By Atom
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inner Core Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a factory around a black hole. Extract elements, route atoms through Matter Tubes, bond them using valence-driven chemistry, and scale precise molecular production lines atom by atom.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11%
- #34 Bot Crafter
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Dreams
Windows
Construct, maintain, manage and upgrade the fleet of your space robots in this sandbox crafter. Build the base, gather resources and automate to succeed in your mission in a unique robotic spacesim.
Why similar: Automation 14.3%, Artificial Intelligence 12.7%, Robots 12%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.6%
- #35 Biofactory
75% matchNo user reviews2027
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 22.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #36 Islandustry
75% 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 23.2%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.6%
- #37 RoboWarehouse
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kozmik Journey
Windows
A business simulation game in which you take an autonomous robotics company from a garage to a multi-national powerhouse!
Why similar: God Game 20% ★, Automation 18.3%, Artificial Intelligence 15.5%, Robots 14.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #38 Star Ores Inc.
73% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 20.1% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Space 11.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #39 Theurgy Architect
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: sweettaco
Windows
Theurgy Architect - Where Your Divine Touch Builds Wonders!
Why similar: God Game 22.2% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Automation 12.3%, Building 9.7%
- #40 shapez
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 26%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #41 Fill the Sky
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10%
- #42 Icetwine
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, God Game 16% ★, RTS 12.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #43 Holon
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.5%
- #44 Odd Realm
71% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Mining 14.6% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #45 Factorio
71% 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 29.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 10.2%
- #46 BELTFED - Roguelike Factory Defense
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hello World Studios
Windows
You are a rogue AI with one directive: AUTOMATE DEATH. Shred, burn and vaporize overwhelming swarms of ravenous bugs as your part factory, part war machine lays waste to one world after another. In BELTFED, the factory is your weapon.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 15.6%, RTS 12.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #47 Rebots
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPonies
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 17%, Robots 12.5%, Aliens 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Space 10.3%
- #48 Ascend Factory
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Matlyce Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.4%, Logic 11.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #49 Infinite Space: Mining
68% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Taner Saydam
Windows
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Mining 17.4% ★, Space 12.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 9.3%
- #50 Substructure
69% 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 21.7%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%
- #51 Captain of Industry
69% 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 28.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Management 8.1%
- #52 Plantile
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #53 MineMogul
66% 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 22%, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10%
- #54 Illuminaria
70% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 17.6% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Robots 11.6%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #55 Lifecraft
68% matchVery Positive81% of 148 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 20.7%, God Game 19% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #56 Block Factory
67% 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 20.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #57 Apocalypse Factory
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Mining 13.9% ★, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #58 iCorp
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Mining 16.9% ★, Robots 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.3%
- #59 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
68% 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 21.1%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #60 Star Birds
65% matchVery Positive92% of 3,164 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 10.3%