- #1 Attrition Line
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 9.6%
- #2 Hue Factory
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yellow Tree Games
Windows
A colorful, minimalist automation game. Place machines, mix colors, and manage the flow of an evolving factory. Listen to the hum of the machines and watch the colors blend while keeping your lines efficient.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 11.8%, Minimalist 10.2%, Crafting 6.7%
- #3 Plantile
96% 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 32.4%, Resource Management 17.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 11%, Management 7.6%
- #4 TowerLine
95% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 32%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 16.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Management 5%
- #5 Amicraft Factory™
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 33%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 17.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #6 Chocolatio
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RawEgg
Windows
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Resource Management 18.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 10.2%
- #7 Outer Factory
93% 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 28.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 15.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Management 9.3%
- #8 Cartefact
91% 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 39.4%, Resource Management 19.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Exploration 5.3%
- #9 Gnomemade
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jar o' Bees
Windows
Gnomemade is a card-based baking game where you manage a gnome-run bakery, satisfy your fellow gnomes' specific tastes by creating all kinds of traditional, weird, wacky and even mystical creations!
Why similar: Card Game 30.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Cartoony 13.3%, Resource Management 8.3%, Crafting 8%
- #10 Pistonica
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #11 Poop Right Now
89% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: 晓猫
Windows
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Strategy 6%
- #12 One More Turret
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 8.9%
- #13 Factoriant
88% 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 33.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 17.4%, Minimalist 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #14 CosmoFab
86% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 38%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 19%, Crafting 13.3%, Strategy 7.5%
- #15 BOREWORKS
87% 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 29%, Resource Management 19%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 10.4%, Crafting 10.4%
- #16 Meow Factories.Inc
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Automate. Assemble. Deliver cats. Build an adorable factory, create cats piece by piece, and optimize your production to meet an ever-growing demand. Unlock machines, paint your cats, and make your feline assembly line run like clockwork!
Why similar: Automation 36.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #17 Factorio
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 232,802 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.2 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 38.4%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 5.7%
- #18 Star Birds
83% matchVery Positive92% of 3,030 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 26.5%, Resource Management 17.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 9.9%, Minimalist 8.7%
- #19 ASTERSTEAD
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 20.6%, Management 10.8%, Top-Down 3.6%
- #20 shapez
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,744 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 34.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 17.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Management 7.8%
- #21 Automatica
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strawberry Dev
Windows
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 39.7%, Resource Management 21.8%, Management 14.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Minimalist 6.4%
- #22 Macaronpolis
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lemiraum
Windows
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 10.5%
- #23 Conjoined
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: cogchomp
Windows
Step into a relaxing world where you stack and merge magical ingredients. Toss herbs, crystals, and curious finds into a bubbling cauldron to gain essence, travel through the portal to discover new cards and mechanics, enjoy a cozy, stress free magical experience.
Why similar: Card Game 25.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Automation 14%, Cozy 13.1%, Management 11%
- #24 Builderment
82% matchMixed67% of 126 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 32.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 17.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Strategy 3.9%
- #25 Candy Luna Park
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Up TeamPub: Power Up Publishing
Windows
Harvest candy, build whimsical rides, and design your dream getaway in this cozy theme park builder. Relax as you expand your sugary world and watch your slice of paradise flourish. One attraction at a time!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Resource Management 18.5%, Cozy 16.3%, Management 13.1%, Cute 7.1%
- #26 GlowCore
79% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: CNDY StudiosPub: Nat Games
Windows · Linux
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Resource Management 17.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11%, Exploration 7.9%
- #27 Fabricatio
78% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 16.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Management 6.8%
- #28 Rafting Factory
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Base Building 21.7%, Resource Management 18.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Exploration 3.8%
- #29 Factory Planner
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 388 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Card Game 21%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 9.9%, Exploration 9.2%
- #30 Potion Pipeline
78% 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 33.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 8.7%
- #31 Jigsaw Industry
77% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 20.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #32 plexum
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Resource Management 20.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #33 OrderlyWorld
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OrderlyWorld
Windows
Build a supply chain. Roll an elemental army. Survive the waves. Choose a finite hero pool, produce the resources that unlock Water, Fire, and Lightning draws, then adapt your formation to every roll and enemy threat.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Card Game 20.7%, Resource Management 17.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Cartoony 9.4%
- #34 Cats & Cakes: The Card Game
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Cubs Studio
Windows
Cats & Cakes: The Card Game is a cozy card-stacking bakery sim where you bake pastries, serve eccentric feline customers, and manage the chaos of your shop in real time. Build fame, decorate your bakery shop!
Why similar: Card Game 25.3%, Automation 18.7%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #35 Outpath
75% matchVery Positive93% of 3,089 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 24.3%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Cozy 10%
- #36 Kardashev
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kardashev is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 18.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Strategy 9.1%
- #37 Infinite Number Factory
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Resource Management 20.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Minimalist 5.6%
- #38 Cookard
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,418 reviews2024
Dev: Panitia GameDev
Windows · Mac
Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.
Why similar: Card Game 25.4%, Automation 22.6%, Resource Management 15.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 8.6%
- #39 MoteMancer
72% matchVery Positive92% of 253 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 31.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 17.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Management 8.7%
- #40 Islandustry
73% 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 32.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.8%
- #41 Automation Station
72% 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 31.8%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 16%, Crafting 12.4%, Management 8.3%
- #42 Vectorio
73% matchVery Positive80% of 397 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Management 8.9%, Minimalist 8.2%
- #43 Factory Magnate
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 19.5%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #44 FACTORY I
70% 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 32%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 18%, Crafting 12.8%, Management 9.4%
- #45 Beltmatic
71% matchVery Positive94% of 2,195 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 17.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Minimalist 7.4%
- #46 The Last Resourcer
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MechaWing Lab
Windows
Survive a hostile world with your droid. Build your base, automate with robots, and manage the energy that keeps you alive. Beware. The tech you rely on may save your life – or destroy it.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Crafting 12%, Exploration 9.2%
- #47 Belts of Iron
68% matchPositive94% of 48 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 30.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Exploration 8%
- #48 Cubetory
69% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Robogoose Games
Windows
Build a huge factory on a tiny island! Resources are scarce and unique - tweak and optimize everything for peak efficiency. Start with simple painted cubes, unlock tons of upgrades, and scale up to complex production chains. No enemies, just satisfying spaghetti.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Cozy 14.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Cartoony 10.3%
- #49 Captain of Industry
71% matchVery Positive90% of 11,353 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.4 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 38.1%, Resource Management 22.9%, Base Building 21.4%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 6%
- #50 Factory Trashcension
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 7.8%
- #51 Jaden Industries: Cozy Automation Puzzler
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pushka Studios
Windows
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.9%, Exploration 10.2%
- #52 Mob Factory
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 36.3%, Resource Management 19%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 6.6%
- #53 Astral Industrial Complex
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Con7rad7
Windows
A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 18.5%, Strategy 15.3%, Top-Down 4.2%
- #54 Block Factory
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 264 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 29.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 11%
- #55 Beltex
70% matchVery Positive86% of 233 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 17.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #56 Proto Garden
68% 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 31.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Management 8.3%
- #57 Node Math
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Resource Management 18%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Minimalist 7.1%
- #58 Fields of Fortune
66% matchPositive92% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: UC Studios
Windows
Leave the everyday stress behind and start a new, relaxed life on a peaceful island. Build structures and craft new items, manually or with automation. The choice is yours. This is your island.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Cozy 11.2%
- #59 Resources Assemble!
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Resource Management 16.7%, Crafting 14.8%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 10.7%