- #1 Fronimus
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #2 Evospace
96% matchVery Positive82% of 387 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 20.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10.9%
- #3 Pistonica
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Building 11.5%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9%
- #4 TowerLine
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
Windows
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 28.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 8%
- #5 Starvector
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Starvector is a massive story-driven procedural universe where you aren't the main character. Collect resources, craft technology, build custom spaceships and bases, and so much more in a universe that existed long before you arrived, complete with pre-existing factions, conflicts, and history.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #6 Rocks Tools Hordes
93% 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 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Building 12.7%, Open World 11.6%, Sandbox 11%
- #7 Far Out
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bekardo
Windows
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover resources drawn from a vast randomly generated pool, 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 23.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
- #8 Cosmorists
91% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 11.8%, Automation 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10%
- #9 Satisfactory
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 29.7%, Base Building 23.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.7%, Open World 9.5%
- #10 Shuttle World
91% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 19%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #11 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 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Procedural Generation 14%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #12 The Maker Way
89% matchNo user reviews
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 22.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11%
- #13 The Last Seed
87% 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 26.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #14 WhyImmortal
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TMM
Windows
What is Immortal is a multiplayer sandbox game with Chinese Immortal Cultivation culture. Players take on the role of a cultivator, exploring, cultivating, refining and other events, during which they will realize the true meaning of "seeking immortality", "the great way" and "longevity".
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.3%
- #15 Primestone
85% 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: Automation 17.2%, Procedural Generation 17%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #16 Space Trash Scavenger
84% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 23.8%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.5%
- #17 shapez
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 32.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.9%
- #18 The Last Resourcer
84% 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 26.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Exploration 7.7%
- #19 Left Stranded
83% 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 26.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Procedural Generation 14%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%
- #20 XenoHaven
81% matchVery Positive86% of 64 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 19.3%, Automation 14.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 11.4%, Building 11.3%
- #21 WormWorld
82% 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 13.2%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #22 Factories in Factories in Factories
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Abe Wits
Windows · Linux
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 22.4%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 7.7%
- #23 ManaWeaver
80% matchNo user reviews
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 21.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #24 Core Keeper
78% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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 14.8%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #25 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 20.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 9.8%
- #26 Nova Lands
79% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 27.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.6%
- #27 SUGA: Survival Game
78% 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 23.6%, Base Building 12%, Exploration 10%, Building 9%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #28 PoliPlanet
77% 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 27.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.9%
- #29 Factorio
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 37.5%, Base Building 24.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 6.4%
- #30 Astral Divide
76% 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 25.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #31 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 29.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%
- #32 Factory Trashcension
75% 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 29.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #33 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 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 22.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #34 One More Turret
74% 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 28.6%, Base Building 19.9%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #35 Elsewhere
72% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12.4%
- #36 Alien Planet Survival
75% 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 33.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Open World 9.5%
- #37 Builderment
74% matchMixed66% of 119 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 32.1%, Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #38 Untitled Automation Game
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Untitled Automation Game is a automation game blended with mech combat, story and a little bit of magic!
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13.9%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #39 Earthborne
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luminous Arts
Windows
Explore, craft, fight and develop an automated technological civilization complete with airships and robotic drones!
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.7%
- #40 Nightwater
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
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 28.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.1%
- #41 99 Nights
71% 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 21.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Open World 10.4%
- #42 MoteMancer
70% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.6%
- #43 Factoriant
71% 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 34.1%, Base Building 21.8%, Procedural Generation 16.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 6.6%
- #44 FOUNDRY
70% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%
- #45 Layer Hunt
71% matchMixed59% of 17 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 19.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #46 Tempered Forge: Lands of Mine
70% 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 21.5%, Base Building 16%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #47 Idlings
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #48 Reprocessed
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Building 13%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #49 Constructed
69% 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 28.6%, Base Building 20%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #50 Sunny Shores
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mungbungo
Windows · Linux
Sunny Shores is software for casual and retired gamers who have prematurely reached unc-status in their careers. It features cozy lo-fi fishing mechanics, block-building and an open-world sandbox. Play with friends or play with yourself.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 21.9%, Building 15.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 12%
- #51 Chocolate Factory
68% matchMixed54% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.7%, Open World 8%
- #52 Runeline
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gnostic Games
Windows · Mac
Design, build, and code a factory within the magical world of Runeline! Work on producing increasingly complex products, which will require you to write not just functional but optimized code, all within the simple instructions of the machine core.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 13%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #53 Light No Fire
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Games
Windows
A game about adventure, building, survival and exploration together. Set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 17.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #54 Portal Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MessStudio
Windows · Mac
Portal Factory is an open-world factory-building game with exploration and dungeons. You can play alone or with friends, explore the world through procedural dungeons, and uncover mysteries!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #55 Super-Spatial
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Interline Studios LC
Windows
Explore, build, and master the art of automation. Build your base, discover colorful new worlds, and develop new technologies as you tame the far reaches of space and search for a way to return to Earth.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 11.3%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.8%
- #56 Krasnaya Factory
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.3%, Open World 10.7%
- #57 River Town Factory: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 21.9%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.4%