- #1 Nile Express
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roland Mueller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the first railway network in Africa. Create profitable routes in Egypt, from Alexandria to Aswan. Deliver passengers and goods to the right destinations. Take care of your railway network and deal with accidents.
Why similar: Transportation 27.1% ★, Trains 21.1% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 32.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 16.4%, Transportation 8.5% ★, Simulation 5.2%
- #3 Outer Factory
96% 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 26.5%, Transportation 18.5% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 5.6%
- #4 the Cellarer
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Transportation 16.7% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Agriculture 7.4% ★
- #5 Macaronpolis
94% 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: Transportation 24.9% ★, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 6.6%
- #6 Tiny Train Tycoon
93% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: 2D is enough
Windows
Build a toy railway from limited pieces, transport cargo, create supply chains, and help cities grow.
Why similar: Transportation 27.3% ★, Trains 22.9% ★, Automation 18.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 6.3%
- #7 Food Factory
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mosqi Games
Windows
Food Factory is a game in which players can produce food using various machines, starting by collecting basic products.
Why similar: Transportation 24.8% ★, Automation 20.5%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #8 Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flat Lab
Windows
Build a logistics empire in a grim cyberpunk world: lay tracks, optimize production and delivery chains, research technologies, and expand your influence. Corporations are the new gods, and the Market decides who survives.
Why similar: Transportation 26.8% ★, Trains 22.9% ★, Automation 19.5%, Resource Management 6.3%, Base Building 6%
- #9 Mighty Tiny Railways
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mighty Tiny Games
Windows
Build a steam railway where the network you build determines how it operates. Deliver cargo and passengers on time, grow towns and industries, and optimize your network. Invite a friend to build together in online co-op.
Why similar: Transportation 25.7% ★, Automation 23.4%, Trains 20.3% ★, Simulation 9%, Building 7.9%
- #10 Factorio
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 35.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Trains 8.8% ★, Sandbox 4.6%
- #11 Train World
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Turn Point Games
Windows
Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.
Why similar: Transportation 26.2% ★, Trains 23.3% ★, Automation 13.5%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 6.4%
- #12 Train Reaction
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logic Breaker Studio
Windows
Train Reaction is a satisfying puzzle game about automating efficient train networks. Create the logic that powers signals and junctions in order to deliver cargo and avoid crashes. Optimize your solutions for efficiency and climb the global leader boards!
Why similar: Transportation 33.8% ★, Trains 26.4% ★, Automation 24.8%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 3.8%
- #13 Plan B: Terraform
88% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Transportation 24% ★, Automation 20.8%, Trains 15.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #14 Automation Empire
89% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Trains 10.2% ★, Simulation 7.9%
- #15 Mini Settlers: Prologue
87% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Transportation 21.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Trains 11.5% ★
- #16 Factory Town
86% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Transportation 15.8% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Trains 10.3% ★
- #17 Highways & Co.
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iamsahaj
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you hate building cities but love managing traffic? Design the perfect road network in this traffic simulator. Build interchanges, roundabouts, bridges, and tunnels with powerful road-building tools. Keep traffic flowing, solve congestion, and avoid a pile-up!
Why similar: Transportation 40.6% ★, Automation 17.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.7%
- #18 TowerLine
84% matchPositive96% of 28 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 32.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 6.4%, Open World 6.3%
- #19 Infindustry
86% 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 25.4%, Transportation 24.4% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 6.1%
- #20 ChromaFlow
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
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 33.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 16.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Puzzle 5.6%
- #21 Find The Needle
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FindTheNeedleDevPub: Hay Passionates
Windows
You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it. Somewhere inside there's a needle. Dig it out by hand, sell the hay, then spend the money on belts and machines until you don't have to dig anymore.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 15%, Agriculture 12.5% ★, Farming Sim 9.1%, Simulation 9.1%
- #22 Production Zero
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alloi Games
Windows
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 17%, Simulation 13.1%, Transportation 12.8% ★, Resource Management 7.7%
- #23 Builderment
82% matchMixed68% of 128 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 30.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Transportation 10.4% ★, Building 6.6%
- #24 Constructed
81% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Project
Windows
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.7%, Farming Sim 11.2%, Agriculture 8.5% ★
- #25 Belts of Iron
79% matchVery Positive87% of 52 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 27%, Base Building 16.7%, Trains 14.8% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Open World 8.3%
- #26 Hanzi Factory
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 六书。Pub: Lime Studios
Windows
Hanzi Factory is a 3D automation game about manufacturing Chinese characters. Split them into components, reshape and reposition each piece, then carry distant parts over mountains and lakes to assemble new ones. Grow one workshop into a vast factory—and create glyphs no dictionary has ever seen.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Transportation 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Building 6.8%, Puzzle 5.7%
- #27 Steam To Electric
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Build and optimize your railway network in this elegant voxel rail tycoon. Transport passengers and goods, unlock crazy-but-real historical train inventions, and evolve from steam to electric. Easy to start, deep to master. From the creators of Station to Station and Town to City.
Why similar: Trains 26.9% ★, Transportation 21.8% ★, Automation 13.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Simulation 8.6%
- #28 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 390 reviews2025
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Why similar: Transportation 28.6% ★, Automation 22.5%, Trains 18.1% ★, Building 6.4%, Management 5.1%
- #29 FluxWerks
77% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Transportation 25.1% ★, Base Building 17%, Building 7.5%, Simulation 6.4%
- #30 ASTERSTEAD
78% 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 40.5%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 17.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Management 6.5%
- #31 shapez
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 15.2%, Open World 5.7%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #32 Exhibitors
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: Suncats
Windows · Mac
Deep within the clouds of a gas giant, supermassive creatures occupy the sky, each exhibiting an ecosystem. Exhibitors is a Factory building game with elements of farming and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Agriculture 9.9% ★, Farming Sim 9.8%
- #33 Automation Station
76% 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 29.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 8%, Open World 7.3%
- #34 Roboplant
76% matchMixed65% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Rebelpug
Windows · Linux
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Farming Sim 16.2%, Agriculture 15.9% ★, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 11.8%
- #35 Monster Shopper
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheShelfman
Windows
The Monster Market is back open! Use automation to assemble monster parts into the proper monsters, and keep your customers happy. A fun, relaxing, and challenging puzzle game where you have full control over how difficult it gets.
Why similar: Transportation 35.3% ★, Automation 23.8%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Puzzle 7%
- #36 Stoplights
74% matchPositive90% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Wicked Blobfish
Windows
Stoplights is a strategy simulation game about creating an efficient train network to support the growing needs of your cities. Make connections by building rails, control train routes with traffic signals to get essential resources where they need to be - in time.
Why similar: Transportation 31.9% ★, Trains 24.4% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Management 6.3%
- #37 FLOWORKS
73% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: QUENCH FORGE
Windows
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Transportation 25.4% ★, Resource Management 15.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 4.4%
- #38 RAILGRADE
74% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 22.2% ★, Automation 20.3%, Transportation 13.1% ★, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 7.2%
- #39 F.E.A.S.T
73% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Before40
Windows
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 25.2%, Farming Sim 15.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Agriculture 12.4% ★, Resource Management 7.1%
- #40 shapez 2 - Factory
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Transportation 25.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 6.5%, Management 6.5%
- #41 Multiply Factory
75% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Time Shrink Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Multiply Factory is a factory building game. Build your own multiple-layer factory within a 3-D space with belts, inserters, factories and stairs. Enjoy the fantasy of manufacturing.
Why similar: Transportation 25.7% ★, Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 5.2%
- #42 Infinite Number Factory
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 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 35.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 17%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 8%
- #43 InfraSpace
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 26.7% ★, Automation 20.9%, Trains 12.9% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10%
- #44 plexum
72% matchNo user reviews2026
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 35%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 7.1%
- #45 Chinese Rail SIm
73% matchMixed50% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Lawliet
Windows
Build a railway network across China. Connect cities, run local and express passenger services, and balance fares, capacity and upkeep. Meet weekly goals in Challenge mode or shape your own network with unlimited funds in Sandbox.
Why similar: Transportation 35.7% ★, Trains 29.5% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%
- #46 Stella Astrum
69% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
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 34.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Simulation 6.3%, Open World 5.4%
- #47 Plantile
70% 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 34.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 16.6%, Farming Sim 13%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #48 Traffic Architect
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Green Signal Games
Windows
Become the master of traffic with your expert infrastructure designs. Lay down streets, shape junctions, time traffic lights, design a public transport network, and watch the city come alive. It grows on its own, and every new building sends more trips onto the roads you built.
Why similar: Transportation 37% ★, Automation 15.7%, Trains 13.7% ★, Simulation 7.7%, Puzzle 6%
- #49 Upalu Mundi
69% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: True Baboons
Windows · Mac · Linux
Upalu Mundi is a puzzle game set in a dwarven world at the dawn of railways. Lay tracks, build stations and set switches to keep goods moving and profits soaring. Read the news to see how the public reacts as you shape the future of transportation!
Why similar: Transportation 32.4% ★, Automation 26.3%, Trains 21.3% ★, Puzzle 6.3%, Building 5.8%
- #50 Manaftory
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 43.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Sandbox 5%
- #51 Assembly Planter
71% matchVery Positive90% of 251 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 15%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Agriculture 13.5% ★, Resource Management 12%
- #52 Dyson Sphere Program
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 34.6%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13%, Open World 7.8%, Building 7.3%
- #53 Factory Town 2: Paradise
67% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 26%, Trains 18.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Transportation 8.7% ★, Resource Management 7.5%
- #54 Pistonica
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
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 35.5%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 15%, Open World 9.8%, Building 7.6%
- #55 Rafting Factory
68% 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%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 16%, Building 5.9%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #56 Substructure
67% 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 28.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Trains 10.2% ★, Open World 6.2%
- #57 Iron Roads
67% matchPositive84% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Linux
Optimise and grow your railways in this challenging train management game. Instead of waiting for money to arrive, earn resource tokens by refining your network until your towns are thriving. Avoid queues, jams, or angry passengers to be recognised as the unsung train hero you know you are.
Why similar: Transportation 28.4% ★, Trains 24.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 7.4%, Building 7.2%
- #58 Economicon
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gomo StudiosPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.
Why similar: Transportation 31.7% ★, Automation 31%, Resource Management 14.8%, Simulation 7%, Building 4.7%
- #59 MoteMancer
65% matchVery Positive92% of 260 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 30.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 15%, Open World 6.9%, Building 5.7%
- #60 Truck City
66% matchPositive84% of 25 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: Transportation 28.5% ★, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 5.3%