- #1 Evospace
97% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.1%
- #2 Fronimus
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #3 The Resonance Initiative
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
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%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #4 Pistonica
94% 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 29.7%, Base Building 20.2%, Building 11.8%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #5 Rocks Tools Hordes
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neural Monkeys
Windows · Mac
Rocks, Tools, Hordes is a survival crafting game where a brave little girl explores vast caves, builds her base, and battles endless zombie waves. Play the Demo! Add to Wishlist! Mine resources, craft gear, and pilot powerful robots to withstand the horde. Robots, rocks, and really rude zombies.
Why similar: Base Building 14.6%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Building 12.8%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 11%
- #6 Starvector
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%
- #7 TowerLine
92% matchPositive96% of 26 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 29.3%, Base Building 20.9%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 7%
- #8 Cosmorists
91% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Base Building 13.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Open World 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 10%
- #9 Far Out
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bekardo
Windows
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 22.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%
- #10 Satisfactory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 23.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Open World 9.7%
- #11 Wieldo
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Robin Nicolet
Windows
Wield your sword and your creativity to survive in this procedural world. Fight to build. Build to fight. Bring some friends and make it home 🏠
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #12 Deus Mantle
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1SPEED
Windows
Craft, build, fight monsters, discover new technologies and explore an infinite procedurally generated world! Delve into unknown worlds to uncover ancient secrets and return home.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 14.9%, Procedural Generation 14%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #13 The Maker Way
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #14 Signalfall
87% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Fallen Relay
Windows
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 20.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #15 Sandustry
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #16 The Last Seed
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 19%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #17 Corelink Protocol
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Corelink Studio
Windows
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity, all without any fighting.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Procedural Generation 11%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 7.8%
- #18 shapez
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 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 31.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.1%
- #19 Craftica
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: NeoVoxel
Windows · Mac
Craftica is an elegant block-based sandbox game with ultra high degrees of freedom for creative building. Here you can build smooth and beautiful architectures, or construct advanced devices and machineries such as computers, vehicles and robots. Try it out and start exploring your imaginations!
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #20 Primestone
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MrBeef
Windows
Primestone is a brutal stone age survival-craft game that won’t hold your grubby little hand. Use your big, beautiful brain to invent tools, tame fire, outsmart rival tribes - and maybe uncover the ruins of something much older than you.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 17%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 16.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #21 Everlost
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Building 17.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.8%
- #22 Space Trash Scavenger
81% matchVery Positive84% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #23 Left Stranded
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevBre Games
Windows · Linux
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 25.2%, Base Building 18%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.6%
- #24 WormWorld
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyjmo
Windows
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
Why similar: Base Building 16.5%, Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #25 XenoHaven
78% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Automation 13.9%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.4%
- #26 Elsewhere
77% matchVery Positive96% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #27 Voxelantis
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeoVoxel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Voxelantis is a sandbox building and survival game set in a flat or spherical voxel world. Build anything out of your imagination, or adventure into uncharted territories to fight dangerous creatures. You can and deserve to have a small home planet of your own.
Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Automation 16.2%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
- #28 Stranded
79% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: DevBandeiraPub: DevBandeira Studios
Windows
Explore, collect and build in this action roguelike, create bases, hire allies, evolve your character and survive hordes of enemies as far as you can handle!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 20%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10%
- #29 Core Keeper
76% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.8%
- #30 ManaWeaver
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BadgerHub Studio
Windows · Mac
A fantasy open-world terraforming and crafting adventure. Survive, gather resources, and harness magic to build your home. Construct mystical machines to purify the curse and restore life to the realm. Uncover history as you reshape the world around you.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.8%
- #31 SUGA: Survival Game
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SeXtant
Windows
SUGA is a 2D Multiplayer SUrvival GAme set in a post-apocalyptic future where you and up to 4 friends explore a procedural world fighting enemies by night and building up bases by day.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 23.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Exploration 10%, Building 9%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #32 Factories in Factories in Factories
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Abe Wits
Windows · Linux
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 22.9%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 8%
- #33 Nova Lands
75% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #34 PoliPlanet
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
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 26.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.3%
- #35 Factorio
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 36.2%, Base Building 25%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 6.6%
- #36 MudBox
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sout
Windows
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 18.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Exploration 8.6%
- #37 Automation Station
73% 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 28.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%
- #38 Natura: Reborn
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stargazing Games
Windows
Natura: Reborn is a top-down sandbox adventure where nature and creatures have fused. Explore, survive, and fight through an overgrown fantasy world.
Why similar: Sandbox 15.9%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Crafting 10%
- #39 Factory Trashcension
72% 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 28.2%, Base Building 20.7%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #40 Astral Divide
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sébastien Aoki
Windows · Linux
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #41 One More Turret
71% 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 27.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%
- #42 Prospector
70% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #43 Unearthed
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitWatson
Windows · Linux
Unearthed is top down mining adventure set in a procedurally generated blocky underground world. Explore endless cave systems filled with dangerous creatures and unexpected companions. Mine resources, survive the depths, and rebuild the world as you see it fit.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 22.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 15%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 8.6%
- #44 GlowCore
68% matchPositive100% of 10 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 28%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #45 Untitled Automation Game
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 14.2%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #46 Builderment
71% 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 30.7%, Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #47 Alien Planet Survival
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
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 31.7%, Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.4%, Open World 9.9%
- #48 ForgeCraft
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luminous Arts
Windows
Explore, craft, fight and develop an automated technological civilization complete with airships and robotic drones!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 15.8%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.8%
- #49 Layer Hunt
69% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Edvin Andersson
Windows
Layer Hunt is a singleplayer, survival sandbox game where the goal is to survive and hunt down all the bosses. To reach your goal you will have to mine, craft, build, farm, fight and explore for new abilities and resources.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 19.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #50 Arcfactory
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SadMofrog
Windows
Factory automation meets megastructure. Explore an ancient space station in search of a buried star. Build automated factories and defend against a living and realigning station.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 20.7%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
- #51 Unvoided
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alexandre
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mine asteroids and refine resources to build your own spaceship, designing every detail as you balance mass, thrust, and torque. Alone or with a crew, expand your vessel into a self-sustaining mobile factory through automation as you survive the harshness of space.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 11.1%
- #52 Factoriant
68% 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 32.8%, Base Building 22.3%, Procedural Generation 17%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 6.8%
- #53 Rafting Factory
67% 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 37.1%, Base Building 24.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.3%, Survival 5.1%
- #54 FOUNDRY
67% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.2%
- #55 Tempered Forge: Lands of Mine
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Sticklen Games
Windows
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 20.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10%
- #56 99 Nights
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ammonite Design Studios
Windows
Chop down trees, gather fuel & scrap, search abandoned structures, and build a base camp strong enough to withstand what comes after the sun sets. The wilderness grows more dangerous with every passing night, and something is always watching from beyond the firelight. Survive all 99 Nights.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.3%
- #57 The Last Resourcer
66% 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 21.7%, Base Building 19.3%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Crafting 12.7%, PvE 7.6%