- #1 OrderlyWorld
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OrderlyWorld
Windows
OrderlyWorld is a low-poly strategy game where your production line becomes your firepower. Plan routes, move resources, and convert what you produce into weapons - then use that preparation to survive Boss pressure. Produce, convert, fight.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Transportation 15.7% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 8.7%
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 32.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Colony Sim 7.6%
- #3 Block King Demands Red Squares
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parrexion Games
Windows
Automate a network of towns producing the required shapes for the ever fickle Block King while keeping the citizens happy. Remember, if you fail, you will get fired.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Transportation 21.4% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 8.4%
- #4 Spaceflight Factory
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Transportation 15.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.4%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 10.3%
- #5 Factory Town
94% matchVery Positive91% of 4,445 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 26.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Transportation 10.7% ★, Economy 9.3%
- #6 Truck City
94% matchPositive83% of 24 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: Automation 22.9%, Transportation 17.7% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Economy 10%
- #7 Deep Space Directive
93% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Resource Management 17.4%, Economy 15.1%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 10.2%
- #8 Mini Settlers: Prologue
92% 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 24.9%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Transportation 15% ★, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.5%
- #9 Clicker Kids
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Forge
Windows
A clicker / idle incremental game with simple gameplay, deep progression, and endless strategy. Level heroes, unlock powerful upgrades, and watch the numbers go up. Easy to start, hard to stop.
Why similar: Automation 40.8%, Economy 21.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 14.1%, Indie 5.2%
- #10 NationForge
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Transportation 23.4% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Strategy 13%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #11 Factory Town 2: Paradise
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Economy 13.3%, Colony Sim 12.7%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 8.7%
- #12 Age of Respair
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, City Builder 11.9%, Strategy 11.1%
- #13 Compact Colonies
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Strategy 12.3%, City Builder 11.9%, Economy 11.8%
- #14 Kingdom Workshop
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Colony Sim 15%, Economy 14.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 11.8%
- #15 Virum:Colony
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Economy 13.8%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12%
- #16 Ridiculous Shipping
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crowfriend
Windows · Linux
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Transportation 20.9% ★, Economy 15.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #17 Casino Resort Tower
86% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Automation 16.4%, Transportation 15.3% ★, Economy 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #18 Rise Under the Warstorm
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 10.2%, City Builder 8.4%
- #19 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Strategy 21.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Historical 13.2%, Economy 9.2%
- #20 Meow Factories.Inc
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Automate. Assemble. Deliver cats. Build an adorable factory, create cats piece by piece, and optimize your production to meet an ever-growing demand. Unlock machines, paint your cats, and make your feline assembly line run like clockwork!
Why similar: Automation 42.6%, Strategy 16.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Colorful 5.8%
- #21 Rafting Factory
83% 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 44.2%, Resource Management 19.4%, Strategy 18.5%, Base Building 14%, Indie 2.1%
- #22 Greedy Little Kingdoms
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Resource Management 13.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Strategy 12%, Base Building 11.2%
- #23 Space Architect
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 289 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 10%
- #24 Builderment
81% matchMixed67% of 123 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 37.4%, Resource Management 18.6%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 12.4%, Transportation 7.8% ★
- #25 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
78% matchVery Positive82% of 1,427 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Economy 11.7%
- #26 The Colonists
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,228 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Economy 15.3%, City Builder 12.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #27 Outer Factory
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Resource Management 18%, Transportation 15.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 11.1%
- #28 Wild West Pioneers
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Transportation 14% ★, Economy 12.8%, City Builder 12.1%, Historical 11.3%
- #29 Malmyr
80% matchPositive81% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: ziegler gamedev GbR
Windows · Linux
Malmyr - Plan and optimize complex production chains. In each of the royal missions, the rules change and you are always challenged anew. What is it about the magical dwarven runes? Can you combine the runes correctly to master even the greatest challenges?
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Transportation 18.4% ★, Resource Management 13.8%, Economy 13.6%, City Builder 10.3%
- #30 The Crust
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,605 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10%
- #31 Civilize
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NCAT
Windows
From the first stone tool to the first starship. One city carries an entire civilization across eight ages. Civilize is the first CivForge: a city-builder where multiple islands and 100+ resources let you forge an arc of human history that is entirely your own.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.2%, Transportation 18% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 16.2%, Historical 10.8%
- #32 Industry Idle
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,475 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Transportation 18% ★, Resource Management 15.4%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 9.2%
- #33 Chocolatio
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RawEgg
Windows
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 48%, Resource Management 21.6%, Strategy 21.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #34 Dinky Guardians
76% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Colorful 4.5%
- #35 Astral Enterprises
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Resource Management 21.3%, Economy 19.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 9%
- #36 Shape Together
73% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
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: Automation 34.9%, Strategy 24.1%, Resource Management 19.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Indie 8.5%
- #37 Hold The Roost
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody Hiatt
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Resource Management 16.6%, Base Building 11.2%
- #38 Macaronpolis
74% 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: Automation 30.2%, Resource Management 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 10.7%
- #39 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
73% matchVery Positive89% of 632 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.8%, Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 16%, Strategy 15.1%, Economy 14.5%
- #40 Automation Empire
75% matchMixed66% of 2,638 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 37.5%, Resource Management 14.9%, Economy 13.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%
- #41 Intergalactic Transfer Station
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build & manage your Intergalactic Transfer Hub. Receive travellers and dock ships. Help passengers transfer, but also control them. Expand hub, build shops, take care of everyone's needs. Increase profits, change taxes. But beware: dangerous diseases and asteroids may alter your plans!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Transportation 16.1% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 11.1%, City Builder 10.6%
- #42 Kardashev
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 45.6%, Resource Management 19.7%, Strategy 14.8%, Base Building 14.4%, 3D 2.6%
- #43 DeliverieZ
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateusz Mielczarek
Windows · Mac
Become a CEO of your own delivery company. Transport parcels from A to B, expand your fleet and depots. Face multiple challenges and earn as much money as you can.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Transportation 25.8% ★, Economy 19.1%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 11.5%
- #44 STARIO: Haven Tower
69% matchVery Positive95% of 348 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Resource Management 16.8%, Economy 14.1%, City Builder 12.5%
- #45 Rise of Industry
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,176 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 20%, Resource Management 16.4%, Automation 15.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Strategy 12.6%
- #46 Doodle Factory
71% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 35%, Resource Management 19.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 9.6%
- #47 Bustle Beacon
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
Become the Landman of a fog-light station. Expand your hearth, harvest resources from the dark forest, and build production chains based on available permits. Attract tourists and traders — trade, feed, and entertain them. Develop your settlement according to decrees. Turn a profit in your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Strategy 16.5%, Automation 14.8%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 11.5%
- #48 Galaxy Scavengers
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.3%, Automation 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Strategy 16.2%, Base Building 15.7%
- #49 Idle Colony
69% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Economy 17.3%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #50 Spaceport Kingdom
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spaceport Kingdom
Windows
You build and command an orbital starport caught in an endless war zone. Pirates, meteors, and cosmic anomalies strike without pause. The galaxy doesn’t grant peace, only those who build through the fire survive.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Economy 16.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Strategy 13.8%, Base Building 10.6%
- #51 Little Big Workshop
71% matchVery Positive84% of 3,377 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Strategy 22.1%, Resource Management 19.4%, Economy 15.9%, Base Building 4%
- #52 Scorchlands
69% matchVery Positive90% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Resource Management 17.2%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Economy 13.1%, City Builder 10%
- #53 Astral Industrial Complex
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Con7rad7
Windows
A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.
Why similar: Automation 42.4%, Strategy 23.9%, Resource Management 18.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #54 Microtopia: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 9.9%, City Builder 9.7%
- #55 Islandustry
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 10.9%
- #56 PoliPlanet
67% 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 34.6%, Resource Management 18.5%, Base Building 12%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Strategy 8.9%
- #57 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Economy 14%, City Builder 11.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #58 Infindustry
68% 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 32.5%, Transportation 19.9% ★, Resource Management 17.2%, Base Building 11.1%, City Builder 10.2%
- #59 Comet Tycoon
65% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Resource Management 20.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.6%
- #60 Spherical Symphony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maaz BaigPub: Night Rain Studios
Windows
Guide tiny planets back into harmony in Spherical Symphony. Balance each world’s living systems, recruit cozy catfolk helpers, befriend cosmic sea creatures, trade between worlds, repel threats, and awaken the sleeping sun at the heart of it all.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Colony Sim 21%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.3%