60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Resource Management, Strategy, Automation, Economy.
A history-based, strategy, open-world game in which a nation's economy is built from scratch by utilizing all available resources. Create cities and wonders, hire labor, sell crafted products, and build armies. Meet historical figures who will either fight to stop your efforts or trade with you.
Captain of Industry
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.
the Cellarer
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.
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 31.8%, Resource Management 17.3%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Colony Sim 8.2%
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 29.2%, Resource Management 14%, Transportation 11.6% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 9.6%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Colony Sim 17%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 8.5%
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 25.9%, Transportation 21.8% ★, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 8.4%, Economy 8.1%
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 25.6%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Transportation 10.8% ★, Base Building 9.4%
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: Automation 29.2%, Transportation 20.1% ★, Resource Management 14.9%, Economy 14.1%, City Builder 9.6%
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 21.9%, Transportation 16% ★, Colony Sim 14.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 10.1%
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 22.2%, Transportation 18.1% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.3%, City Builder 10.2%
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 20.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 10.5%
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%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Transportation 15.2% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 10.7%
Heroes go on adventures. You make sure they have swords, potions, and supplies. Command workers RTS-style to gather, haul, and process resources. Upgrade from hand-carrying to carts, and grow a production and trade network that keeps the adventurers' guild running.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Transportation 18.8% ★, Resource Management 15.2%, City Builder 9.4%, Base Building 8.3%
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 29.4%, Transportation 23.9% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 10.6%
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 40.2%, Economy 21.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Resource Management 14.5%, Indie 5.4%
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 26.7%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Economy 13%, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 8.9%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%
Spaceport Kingdom is a sci-fi strategy and siege builder. Construct ship docks to establish new transport routes in a sector 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 22%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Economy 12%, Base Building 10.8%
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 24.2%, Resource Management 17.8%, Strategy 12.4%, City Builder 12.3%, Economy 11.4%
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: Colony Sim 16.9%, Automation 16.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%
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 15.9%, Transportation 15.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.1%, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
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 20.3%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 12%
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 20.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Economy 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%
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 28.5%, Transportation 21.3% ★, Economy 14.9%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.1%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 51.4%, Resource Management 17.4%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 4.6%
Build a bottle-cap factory, automate the line, and survive quarterly reviews from investors who judge you on a single number. A satirical factory-management roguelite: hit their KPI, buy back every share, and show them the door.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Economy 16.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%
Core Logistics is a management sim about growing a transport company from a single van into a network across the whole map. Choose which contracts to take, match the right trucks and licenses to each load, and chain jobs together so your trucks never drive empty. When you need to think, hit pause.
Why similar: Transportation 29.7% ★, Automation 27.5%, Economy 16.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 8.8%
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 22.1%, Strategy 21.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Historical 13.5%, Economy 8.9%
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Resource Management 16.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 11.4%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 10%
Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 8.1%
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 34.1%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 10.4%, City Builder 8.7%
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Resource Management 17.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%
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 41.4%, Strategy 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 7.4%, Colorful 6%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns 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 25.2%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%
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 25.1%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%
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 43.4%, Strategy 19%, Resource Management 19%, Base Building 14.5%, Indie 2.2%
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Automation 19.5%, Resource Management 15.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Economy 11.6%
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build your own brands, and compete in a living economy where prices are shaped by supply and demand.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Economy 18.6%, Transportation 16.7% ★, Resource Management 16.5%, Historical 11.2%
Lead your civilization from the Stone Age into the future in a card-driven strategy game. Gather resources, manage workers, build a settlement, discover technologies, and shape history through trade or conquest.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Historical 13.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Economy 11.2%
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 21.5%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 11.4%
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 36.4%, Resource Management 18.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 13%, Transportation 8.2% ★
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 20.3%, Transportation 18.2% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Economy 15.7%, Historical 11.1%
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 34.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, Transportation 16.2% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 11.4%
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 27.1%, Transportation 18.5% ★, Resource Management 15%, Economy 11.6%, City Builder 9.6%
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 27.1%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Economy 15%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 13%, Base Building 11.7%
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 11%, Cartoony 7.5%
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%, Transportation 18.8% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Economy 13.3%, City Builder 10.7%
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Automation 21%, Strategy 17.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Economy 9.7%
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 47.3%, Strategy 21.8%, Resource Management 21.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Economy 14.2%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, City Builder 9.3%
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%, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Economy 14.1%
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 40%, Resource Management 18.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 12%, City Builder 11.2%
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Economy 14.1%, City Builder 12.1%, Strategy 10.3%
Start with a single sickle and a small field. Cut and sell grass, automate your workforce, optimize supply chains, and build a sprawling incremental empire.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Resource Management 18.8%, Economy 16.6%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Strategy 9.1%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Colorful 4.7%
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 34.1%, Strategy 24.7%, Resource Management 19.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Indie 8.8%
Build a European logistics company from a single van into a continent-spanning operation. Plan profitable freight routes, manage vehicles and drivers, expand your depot network, master connected tours, and automate a growing transport empire.
Why similar: Transportation 32.5% ★, Automation 28%, Economy 18.2%, Strategy 16.7%, Indie 3.6%
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Resource Management 20.8%, Economy 19.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 9.3%
Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Resource Management 19.6%, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 12.7%
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 24.2%, Transportation 16.5% ★, City Builder 11%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
