
Part gunsmith part store front simulator. Restore and build guns, sell guns, don't sell guns. Punch crooks. Makes you feel like you clocked into work. Bleeding eye UI. Smallest buttons in the biz.
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Part gunsmith part store front simulator. Restore and build guns, sell guns, don't sell guns. Punch crooks. Makes you feel like you clocked into work. Bleeding eye UI. Smallest buttons in the biz.

The Factory
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.

COLD AISLE: Data Center Tycoon
Build your own data center business from an empty industrial hall. Order hardware, install servers and GPUs, connect power and networking, manage cooling and capacity, and grow from your first rack into a market-leading company.
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.8%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 19.9%, Automation 18.6%, Crafting 6%
Build your own data center business from an empty industrial hall. Order hardware, install servers and GPUs, connect power and networking, manage cooling and capacity, and grow from your first rack into a market-leading company.
Why similar: Strategy 33.8%, Simulation 32.8%, Sandbox 23.9%, 3D 7.1%, Indie 1.4%
Become the boss of the casino and lead your way to wealth and success with your strategic decisions. Casino Simulator offers an exciting experience full of realistic graphics, discover the intricacies of casino operation.
Why similar: Life Sim 24.9%, Simulation 20.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Automation 11.4%, Inventory Management 7.4%
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 25.9%, Simulation 17%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Strategy 22.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Automation 14%, Inventory Management 11.9%
Road to Millionaire – Investing is an investment simulation where you start with $10,000 and have 480 in-game days to reach $1,000,000. Buy and sell stocks, collect and reinvest dividends, track company fundamentals, and adapt to bull, bear, and sideways markets.
Why similar: Strategy 31.1%, Life Sim 30.8%, Simulation 30.1%, Resource Management 5.7%, Indie 1.3%
Build and manage your own 3D printing farm! Expand production, fulfill custom orders, and automate your workflow in a realistic economic simulation.
Why similar: Life Sim 32.2%, Simulation 21.4%, Crafting 18.1%, Inventory Management 11.3%, First-Person 8.2%
In dependency of where in the body you are positioned, you get different boni. In general you will get Bone, Blood and Tissue with which you can create more bugs. In addition to that you will be able to research different bug types which have boni themself.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Life Sim 23.5%, Simulation 20.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 8.9%
Begin a journey like no other, become the Ant Queen and establish your empire. Ant Queen is a simulation game where you breed different types of ants to ultimately conquer your surroundings and achieve a stable ant colony.
Why similar: Strategy 39%, Simulation 33.1%, Sandbox 23.7%, Indie 4.1%
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 28.4%, Sandbox 21.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Simulation 11.8%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Strategy 27.9%, Simulation 24.4%, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 17%, Resource Management 6.8%
Shape a planet. Watch history unfold.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.6%, Strategy 24.4%, Simulation 23.2%, Sandbox 19.8%, 3D 4.5%
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Strategy 31.6%, Simulation 27.7%, Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Indie 2.5%
Galactineers is a genre-mix of open world sandbox game and realtime strategy game. You can use blocks and items to build your world in space, and also construct your own ships. Win cooperative PVE missions or PVP arena battles with your own custom ships.
Why similar: Strategy 36.7%, Simulation 28.6%, Sandbox 19.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Indie 3.9%
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 23.1%, Sandbox 21.5%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 18.2%, Crafting 8.1%
A real estate investment and business simulator, with aspects of life simulator who puts you in the skin of someone who just lost everything including your parents and needs to win in life.
Why similar: Life Sim 27%, Strategy 24.7%, Simulation 22.9%, Sandbox 18.1%, 3D 4.3%
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Simulation 21.8%, Strategy 17.7%, Crafting 9.7%, First-Person 9.6%
Found a scrappy AI startup, train models nobody's seen before, and race rival labs to the frontier. Hire researchers, ship chatbots and developer tools, juggle burn and churn, go public, and build the lab that defines the field — a cozy retro management sim about the AI Hype rush.
Why similar: Strategy 26.1%, Life Sim 25.6%, Simulation 24.3%, Sandbox 20.1%, Resource Management 3.6%
Turn your Steam library into a cozy game room. Display your game cases, decorate every corner, and view the unlocked achievements in your collection.
Why similar: Life Sim 34%, Simulation 28.6%, Sandbox 22.8%, 3D 6.9%, First-Person 6.1%
Explore a beautifully crafted modern apartment in Dream Home Simulator. Relax and walk through a detailed, fully furnished space, offering a glimpse of your dream home in a peaceful, casual experience.
Why similar: Simulation 40.5%, Life Sim 37.1%, 3D 10.8%, First-Person 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.5%
"Start with a small apartment and expand into a thriving residential site with buildings, shops, and services. Manage cleaning, security, and fees to keep residents happy and build your dream community!"
Why similar: Life Sim 24.8%, Strategy 24.1%, Simulation 22%, Sandbox 19.2%, First-Person 4.9%
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Strategy 21.1%, Simulation 19.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9%
Craft Elements is a first person minecraft-esque journey into the nuclear reactor design, periodic table and vaporwave world. It is a unique, simple and atmospheric sandbox puzzle game with a focus on complex simulation and calculations.
Why similar: Strategy 39.1%, Simulation 35.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 6.5%, Indie 4.8%
A conveyor-based production and logistics sandbox including smart machines, node based conveyor belts, logic and recipe based item generation and powerful design time construction. Create and connect Miners, Splitters, Factories, Containers, Vaults and more...
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Strategy 25.8%, Simulation 19.4%, Sandbox 18.9%, 3D 4.7%
Run your very own K-PC Cafe! Captivate customers with high-performance PCs and delicious K-food, and build your gaming empire through strategic pricing, staff management, and store expansion.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.7%, Simulation 24.2%, Automation 14.1%, Inventory Management 10.8%, First-Person 7.2%
Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Sandbox 28.9%, Simulation 19.8%, First-Person 7.6%, 3D 4.3%
Manage your own Pet Shop like no one else!
Why similar: Simulation 34.9%, Sandbox 26.5%, Strategy 23.7%, 3D 7.9%, Resource Management 6.4%
Business simulator with strategy elements, where you manage a network of order delivery points in the conditions of severe competition, gray schemes and unexpected risks. Develop your business, improve points, defend against competitors' attacks, conduct risky transactions in the gray market.
Why similar: Strategy 29.5%, Simulation 28.3%, Sandbox 22.6%, First-Person 8%, 3D 6.8%
Step into the world of bootleg booze in this story-driven, single-player sim! Grow your crops, brew your drinks, bond with eccentric customers, and bottle it all under your own brand. Uncover the truth behind your brother’s arrest, complete quirky missions, and build your underground empire.
Why similar: Simulation 23%, Sandbox 20.5%, Inventory Management 10.2%, Life Sim 9.8%, Automation 9.6%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 27.2%, Strategy 27%, Automation 17.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Resource Management 6.9%
Life & Debt: A Real Life Simulator is a 2D pixel art game that challenges players to manage their finances and maintain their cashflow while navigating the challenges of new home ownership. Players must also overcome a shopping addiction and make decisions about how to furnish their home.
Why similar: Life Sim 40.9%, Strategy 29.7%, Simulation 27.6%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Programming for unmanned vehicle to realize automatic operation
Why similar: Strategy 28.5%, Simulation 27%, Sandbox 21.6%, Automation 15.2%, 3D 6.1%
A simulator game where you play as a gacha-addicted human of society. Go to work, earn money, survive, and do what you were meant to do as a human being - play all the gacha games in the world. Gacha pulls earn you collectibles that you can place in and decorate the space of your small apartment!
Why similar: Life Sim 29.2%, Strategy 28.2%, Simulation 25.9%, First-Person 5.2%, 3D 5.2%
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Simulation 25.2%, Strategy 25.1%, Automation 23.9%, Sandbox 22.2%, 3D 2.2%
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Strategy 24.7%, Life Sim 16.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Inventory Management 11.2%
Assemble Ensemble is a music-themed factory-building game, that offers a variety of fun melodies, for you to recreate by cleverly placing machines and conveyors!
Why similar: Strategy 37.2%, Sandbox 27.1%, Automation 25.3%, 3D 8.2%, Indie 1.4%
A dark management tycoon where profit has consequences. Grow from basement to factory and choose profit over workers' rights. Survive on small margins and even smaller morals. Keep the state happy or face brutal inspections.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.6%, Simulation 21.6%, Sandbox 18%, Automation 15.5%, Strategy 6.9%
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 21.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Moddable 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.6%
Falldenn is a medieval sandbox VR game developed by one person, focusing on realistic crafting and survival mechanics. Players can master various trades, while building a thriving empire. Navigate a dynamic economy, manage resources, and explore a beautifully immersive medieval world.
Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Sandbox 22.8%, Inventory Management 10.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%
Step into the world of bootleg booze in this story-driven, single-player sim! Grow your crops, brew your drinks, bond with eccentric customers, and bottle it all under your own brand. Uncover the truth behind your brother’s arrest, complete quirky missions, and build your underground empire.
Why similar: Simulation 23.4%, Sandbox 20.5%, Life Sim 10%, Inventory Management 9.8%, Automation 9.6%
Worldless: Mercenaries is a fantasy-themed strategy and management game. Recruit, hire, equip and manage your mercenaries. Send them to explore the world, hunt treasures and trade among cities. They might find a dragon - or be found.
Why similar: Strategy 41.5%, Simulation 35%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 6%, Indie 4.7%
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: Strategy 27.7%, Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 17.1%, Crafting 7.7%
A Linux-native robot programming sandbox inspired by Brad Heide's 1992 Robugs. Wire logic gates into miniature fighting machines, build arenas, and watch emergent battles, foraging, and reproduction. No fixed score—just design, simulate, and save your own circuits.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 22.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Crafting 6.3%
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Life Sim 22.4%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 12.6%, Inventory Management 12%
The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.
Why similar: Life Sim 49.4%, Simulation 21.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, Moddable 9.4%, Strategy 2.5%
Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.4%, Simulation 23%, Sandbox 20.7%, Automation 15.4%, Inventory Management 6.9%
Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.
Why similar: Life Sim 24.9%, Sandbox 17.4%, Automation 16.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Inventory Management 10.7%
Build an automated factory where machinery meets alchemy. Explore a technomagical world, scan matter and extract its hidden principles. Connect production lines, assemble research circuits and contain the Dissonance your factory creates. Play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Strategy 29.3%, Simulation 28.1%, Sandbox 22.8%, Crafting 8.7%, 3D 6.4%
Shop simulator in a medieval setting. You need to create products for sale, along the way equipping and improving your store and your skills.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.2%, Sandbox 19.4%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 15.7%, Crafting 8.2%
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 26.6%, Sandbox 20.7%, Simulation 20.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Strategy 9.2%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Moddable 10.5%
Welcome to the most realistic Pawn Shop Simulator out there! It is time to make the dream a reality-open your own unique Pawn Shop in stunning Sunset Bay, and become #1 Pawn Shop in the Region! Pawn Shop Management, Buy and Sell, Negotiate, Upgrade and Expand, and so much more!
Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Simulation 26.3%, Strategy 23.6%, Inventory Management 8.5%, Resource Management 6.1%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Strategy 26.4%, Simulation 22.5%, Automation 21.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 13.2%
Resort Manager – become the owner of a holiday resort and build the tourist empire of your dreams! Manage, invest, and grow your summer haven to attract more and more guests and transform a small getaway into a vibrant hotspot full of attractions.
Why similar: Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 22.2%, Sandbox 21%, Life Sim 18.4%, 3D 5.2%
Build your factory from zero and produce high-tech products like drones, PC, robots and compete against thousands of players.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%
Free introduction to the full Police Chief Simulator game takes you to Winston Springs Police Station! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!
Why similar: Strategy 22.3%, Life Sim 20.7%, Simulation 19.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Automation 10.5%
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 29.7%, Strategy 18.9%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 7.6%
Print a Robot is a Shop Simulator game about 3D printing robot parts. Design the store to your liking, use various tools to create and modify your models and fulfill the orders of your fellow robots. Upgrade yourself to improve your process and increase your team in order to expand your business.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Automation 25.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 5.9%
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Strategy 29.8%, Simulation 28.6%, Automation 25.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 4%