- #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 19.3%, Mining 13.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.3%
- #2 Builderment
96% matchMixed67% of 124 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 21.6%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 14.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #3 Modulus: Factory Automation
95% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 18.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #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 17.2%, Mining 13.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #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 18.7%, Mining 17.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #6 BOREWORKS
94% matchNo user reviews2026
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%, Mining 15.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%
- #7 Industronaut
93% 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 18.8%, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%
- #8 Factory on a Train
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 14.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Mining 12.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.6%
- #9 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 19.2%, Mining 13.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #10 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 17.3%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Space 8.6%
- #11 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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 24.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Space 13%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.5%
- #12 Automation Empire
90% matchMixed66% of 2,639 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 22.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Mining 9.3% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #13 Automation Station
89% 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 21.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #14 UNIT 42: Adrift in Space
88% 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 20.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Space 13%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #15 Final Upgrade
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 457 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 20.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Space 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #16 Proto Garden
86% 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 21.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Logic 10%, City Builder 10%
- #17 FACTORY I
86% matchNo user reviews
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 22.1%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%
- #18 Microtopia
85% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 16.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Robots 11.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #19 ASEMA
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: goblin-architecture
Windows
Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Space 9.9%
- #20 God Crafter
84% 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% ★, Automation 20.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Robots 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%
- #21 Truck City
82% matchPositive83% of 24 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 17.4%, City Builder 14.8%, Mining 12.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #22 Outer Factory
83% 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 23%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #23 Reprocessed
82% 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 20.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Space 10.4%
- #24 The Crust
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,637 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 23.8 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 19.6%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Space 11%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #25 Bot Crafter
80% 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 14.9%, Artificial Intelligence 12.7%, Robots 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #26 Good Company
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,782 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 17.7%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.5%
- #27 Biofactory
79% 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 22.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #28 Outworld Station
77% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 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 21.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 11.6%, RTS 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #29 Trappist
79% matchVery Positive90% of 72 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 17.8% ★, Automation 14.1%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.4%
- #30 Islandustry
78% 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 24%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #31 shapez
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 26.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #32 Star Ores Inc.
76% matchVery Positive82% of 321 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 20.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12%, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #33 RoboWarehouse
77% 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 19.6% ★, Automation 19.1%, Artificial Intelligence 15.4%, Robots 13.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #34 Factorio
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 30%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 10%
- #35 Odd Realm
75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 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: Automation 14.7%, Mining 14.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #36 Theurgy Architect
75% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: sweettaco
Windows
Theurgy Architect - Where Your Divine Touch Builds Wonders!
Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 12.9%, Building 9.6%
- #37 Ascend Factory
74% 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 24.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.2%, Logic 11%, Resource Management 9%
- #38 Rebots
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
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 17.7%, Robots 12.2%, Aliens 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Space 10.1%
- #39 Infinite Space: Mining
72% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 20.4%, Mining 17.4% ★, Space 12.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 9.4%
- #40 Substructure
73% 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 22.4%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11%
- #41 Illuminaria
74% 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 17.5% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Robots 11.2%
- #42 Plantile
73% 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 27.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #43 Captain of Industry
72% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 28.9%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 16.3%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 8.2%
- #44 Icetwine
71% matchMostly Negative36% of 14 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%, God Game 15.8% ★, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #45 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 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 21.8%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #46 Fractal Foundry
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Root Studio
Windows
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Management 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
- #47 MineMogul
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 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 22.2%, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%
- #48 Block Factory
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 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 21.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #49 Apocalypse Factory
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 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 18.7%, Mining 14% ★, Base Building 11.3%, City Builder 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%
- #50 Lifecraft
70% 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 21.5%, God Game 18.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #51 Chocolate Factory
70% matchMixed55% of 146 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 21.6%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #52 iCorp
70% 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 21.2%, Mining 16.9% ★, Robots 12.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 10.1%
- #53 Star Birds
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 21.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, City Builder 10.5%, Building 10.1%
- #54 Kardashev
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
Kardashev is an open-world, procedurally generated, factory building game, set amongst a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission is to harness energy and ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Space 14%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #55 Copacetic
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Management 14.4%, Automation 14%, Mining 12.7% ★, Resource Management 9.8%
- #56 Prospector
67% matchMostly Positive71% 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 18.5%, Base Building 14%, Robots 13.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%
- #57 Belts of Iron
66% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11%
- #58 Object Factory
67% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Kistler Studios
Windows · Linux
A unique take on factory building — design and optimize flowing 3D systems where routing and space are your most valuable resources. Start with guided challenges, then expand into an endless sandbox focused on efficiency, scale, and layout mastery.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, RTS 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Futuristic 9.4%
- #59 Hydroneer
68% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Mining 22.2% ★, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #60 Final Factory
66% 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 23.1%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.8%