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

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.

GridCraft
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.

Industrial Garbage
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.2%
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Time Management 9%, Base Building 8.1%
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.4%
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 26.1%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 34.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 7.3%
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 25.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Time Management 8.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
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 24.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 9%
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 28.7%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 13.8%, Nature 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%
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 29%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 6.6%
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 24.8%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.9%
A roguelike where you build a factory — not a character.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Time Management 16%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 8.4%, Stylized 7.3%
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 27.5%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Time Management 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 30.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
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 25.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
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 24.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 30.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Open World 8.2%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 31.6%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 27.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.8%
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 24.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 26.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.8%
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 30.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Time Management 11%, Building 9.3%
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 25.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
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 34.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 9.3%
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 34.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.9%
Turn a wild pixel-art world into a living factory. Gather by hand, automate five industrial tiers, explore for powerful optional upgrades, and master belts, pipes, power grids, rovers, trains and nuclear energy—solo or in online co-op for up to 8 players.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%, Top-Down 8%
"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 30.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
Kardaviik 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 34.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
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 30.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8%
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 24.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.5%
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 29.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%
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 32.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 8.6%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.2%
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 27.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
Congratulations! You've been hired by an elite organization that cooks for gods. Farm, automate, and cook gourmet meals to appease divine beings.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Time Management 13.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 6.9%, Building 6.8%
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 28.5%, Time Management 15.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.7%
After an accident, you and your team become stranded on an island. With only sticks and stones, you'll build and automate. As your factories expand, you begin to uncover strange traces of the past. Secrets this island has kept hidden for far longer than anyone ever imagined.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Stylized 9%, Building 8.3%
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 26.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9%
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 36%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 15.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 7.3%
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 25.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
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 24.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 8.6%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 14.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 8.9%
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 27.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 7.9%
The Last Seed is a 2D automation strategy game where factory efficiency is hard-linked to environmental control. Construct complex logistics networks, process resource chains, and balance closed-loop humidity systems—because if the ecosystem crashes, your entire automated infrastructure halts.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Time Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.7%
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 33.1%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 17.1%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 11%
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9%
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 38.9%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 18%, Sandbox 9.2%, Top-Down 6.6%