
Grimmdustry is an automation game with adventure and RPG elements. After finding yourself stranded in a medieval world full of fantasy tropes, use your knowledge of modern technology to find a way home, or use it to make this new world your own!
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Grimmdustry is an automation game with adventure and RPG elements. After finding yourself stranded in a medieval world full of fantasy tropes, use your knowledge of modern technology to find a way home, or use it to make this new world your own!

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.

The Resonance Initiative
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.
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 33.7%, Crafting 21.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 6.4%, Exploration 6.2%
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 33.8%, Crafting 19.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.1%, Management 6.9%
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Magic 9.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 40.5%, Crafting 21.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Automation 28%, Sandbox 20.3%, RPG 15.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 43.8%, Crafting 23.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Resource Management 5.4%, 2D 3.4%
You are the last chance for humanity, Terraform, Build, Save Humanity one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Sandbox 23.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Exploration 8.7%
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 28.1%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 8%, Exploration 7.4%
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 31.8%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 7.5%, Management 7.3%
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 46.5%, Crafting 24.5%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 7.6%, Exploration 4.4%
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 36.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 9.5%, Management 5.2%
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 26.9%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Exploration 7.9%
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 40%, Crafting 17.5%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 7.2%, Management 5.7%
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 27.8%, Sandbox 18.7%, RPG 11.7%, Action RPG 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
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 35.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 6.3%, Building 6.2%
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, PvE 10%, Building 7.4%
Build and automate your own factory in Pixel Factory. Paint cubes in different colors and create unique patterns, design efficient production lines and upgrade your buildings to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 45.1%, Crafting 23.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 30%, Sandbox 20.3%, Crafting 18.9%, Building 7.8%, Exploration 7.8%
A 2D sandbox game with pixel physics. Freely place sand, water, lava, creatures, and physical entities. Watch them interact via gravity, fluids, and explosions. Chop trees, build structures, design circuits, trigger massive chain reactions, or simply create your own ecosystem!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 22.2%, Crafting 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Building 7.9%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, RPG 9.1%, Building 8.6%
An idle clicker and sandbox survival RPG where you click, build, mine, craft, and battle your way to mastering more than a dozen specialties and becoming master of your own empire.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 14.4%, Action RPG 12.9%, RPG 11.5%
Automate the arcane! Build spell-powered factories, reclaim ancient territories filled with magical secrets, and discover game-changing technology hidden across procedurally generated worlds. Master both engineering and magic in this cozy fusion of factory automation and RPG progression.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Magic 8.8%, Building 7%
You've been resurrected atop a grand pillar in an endless ocean. To leave the top you must restore its ancient magic. But before you can do that, you'll starve. Farm, craft, trade and fight your way to survival with the help of elemental creatures.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 12.2%, RPG 10.8%, Exploration 8%
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 45.4%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 7.2%, Management 4.1%
Handcraft ALL of your items in this fast-paced ARPG. You have to craft all of your gear from start to finish, and you are what you wear; craft powerful gear, create unique builds, explore dangerous biomes, and carve your own path through relentless combat and various leaderboards.
Why similar: Crafting 23.8%, Action RPG 17.9%, Sandbox 14.6%, PvE 13.9%, RPG 8%
The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!
Why similar: Automation 38%, PvE 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 6.7%
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 40.6%, Crafting 22.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 7%, Building 4.3%
Join the Grand Archive in Advenclave - an open world action RPG. You are tasked with filling a magical grimoire with your own story. Learn spells, engage in thrilling combat, and work with the Head Librarian to chronicle your adventures. Explore different realms and cement your place in history!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Crafting 16.7%, RPG 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Exploration 9.3%
Azure Archipelago is a survival game with 2 core modes, story and sandbox. In sandbox play with modulators, mods, and or friends on servers or local multiplayer. If that doesn't interest you tackle the campaign in story mode to save your friends and company from a frosty fate.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 15.5%, Action RPG 9.7%, Building 7.3%
Mine resources, craft tools, and battle fierce underground enemies as you explore, trade, and build your way back to the stars. Level up, upgrade your gear, and automate your processes for ultimate efficiency. Play solo or team up with a friend in this 1-2 player mining and combat adventure.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 15%, Action RPG 10.1%, PvE 9.2%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 8.3%, Resource Management 6%
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, PvE 8.3%, Building 7.8%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 38.1%, Crafting 18.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Resource Management 7.4%, Top-Down 6.2%
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 36.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 6.7%, Magic 6.3%
Fakutori is a laid-back automation game with a lot more going on beneath the surface. Combine elements, build sprawling production lines, and chase down the Legendary Blocks that only the most dedicated builders ever find. All at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Sandbox 18.8%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
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 31.1%, Crafting 18.7%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 7.4%, RPG 6.5%
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 41.5%, Crafting 18.9%, Sandbox 17.1%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 5.7%
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 43.4%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 6.4%
A short automation challenge aimed at everyone from beginner to veteran. Take your time to uncover the lore of an ancient civilization without any dangers. Can you find a clever way to use logistics to overcome the scarce space available?
Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Crafting 20.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Exploration 7.7%, Top-Down 6.8%
A system-heavy RPG sandbox with interlocking skills and progression systems. Build your island, master your abilities, and face the Observer to unlock new features that evolve your gameplay.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Automation 22%, Action RPG 18.4%, RPG 14.7%, Crafting 11%
Cast into a medieval kingdom by ancient stones, you must forge, automate, and expand your workshop. Alone or in multiplayer, fulfill royal orders, harness coal, steam, electricity and uncover the secrets that could return you home.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
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 48%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
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 45%, Sandbox 19%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 7.2%, Building 6.8%
A desolate world where many plants have disappeared. Hamburgers and pizzas are a huge luxury, and many people subsist on porridge squeezed out of slime. For Ava, a girl born in a world like this, talking grass "Dra" starts improving her diet...
Why similar: Crafting 32.7%, Action RPG 18.6%, PvE 17.7%, RPG 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
Become a Shi’kegnt harvester and travel to distant planets to harvest food and resources for your civilization. Rise in the ranks and become the Supreme Shi’kegnt. Stay alive at all costs. Survive, construct, harvest, and progress in this pixel art, sci-fi, survival game set in a distant future.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.5%, Action RPG 18%, RPG 16.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
Webcraft is a claw machine mixed with open world crafting game in space. Catch resources floating by, craft and expand your base from a single square!
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Sandbox 19.3%, RPG 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Exploration 8%
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 39.1%, Crafting 21%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 7.1%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 38.1%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 7.7%, Management 6.5%
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 37%, Crafting 20.7%, Sandbox 18.1%, Management 7.3%, Resource Management 6.7%
An infinite open world survival game for 1-8 players to explore. Journey into the deepest caves, enter alternate dimensions, and release an ancient evil's grasp on the world of Epocria.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 14.9%, Action RPG 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Turn a peaceful forest into a bustling production hub. Build factories, automate crafting, run your own shop, and fulfill the needs of a diverse community as you research new technologies and expand your growing business.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Crafting 19.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Top-Down 5.3%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Action RPG 8%, Survival 6.7%
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Crafting 19.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, PvE 7.9%, RPG 7.1%
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 39.4%, Sandbox 22.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 8.1%, Resource Management 5.6%
Build automated factories in a bright afterlife. Mine, belt, power, and produce at massive scale, then defend your work from the spirits it attracts. A third-person factory game of automation, base building, and tower defense.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 15.7%, PvE 9.4%, Building 7.2%
Text Factory: Automation is an offline, text-based factory simulation game. Build production lines, set up transportation between maps, upgrade technologies, craft weapons and armor, and defeat enemies to gather more resources and expand your factory.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Sandbox 25.7%, Crafting 23.3%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 5.2%
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, RPG 7.1%