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  1. #1 FOUNDRY
    97% 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 14.6%, Voxel 14.5%, Base Building 10%, Robots 8.5%, Resource Management 7.7%

  2. #2 Autonauts
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    Why similar: Programming 29.1%, Automation 19.7%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 6%

  3. #3 Astro Colony
    96% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.3%

  4. #4 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    95% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

    Why similar: Programming 29.4%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Robots 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

  5. #5 Microtopia
    94% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in 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: Colony Sim 16.3%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 10%, Robots 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%

  6. #6 Mechanica
    94% matchMixed64% of 633 reviews2020
    Dev: Deimos Interactive
    Windows

    Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

    Why similar: Programming 35.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 13.3%, Building 11.8%, Robots 8.8%

  7. #7 Techtonica
    93% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%

  8. #8 Eden Crafters
    92% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

  9. #9 Stationeers
    91% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

    Why similar: Programming 21.6%, Automation 15.2%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.8%

  10. #10 Captain of Industry
    91% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 17%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Building 8.1%

  11. #11 Desynced
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
    Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

    Why similar: Programming 26.7%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%

  12. #12 Kubifaktorium
    89% matchVery Positive81% of 786 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 20.5%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Voxel 14.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.7%

  13. #13 Facteroids
    89% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: by Jan Zizka
    Windows

    Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

    Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Voxel 10.2%, Resource Management 9.4%

  14. #14 Final Factory
    88% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

    Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%

  15. #15 Factory Town
    87% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 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 22.3%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%

  16. #16 Dyson Sphere Program
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

    Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.9%

  17. #17 Stardeus
    86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
    Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%

  18. #18 Prospector
    85% 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 17.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Robots 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

  19. #19 Skyformer
    84% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
    Dev: Weatherfused
    Windows

    Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

    Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.2%

  20. #20 Satisfactory
    82% 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 25.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.5%

  21. #21 Nova Lands
    83% 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 22%, Base Building 14.2%, Robots 10.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%

  22. #22 The Colonists
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: Colony Sim 21.1%, Automation 20.5%, Robots 11.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.5%

  23. #23 Dawn Apart
    81% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 reviews2025
    Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
    Windows

    Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Automation 21.9%, Voxel 16.3%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10%

  24. #24 The Crust
    81% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 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 20.8%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9%

  25. #25 Occupy Mars: The Game
    80% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%

  26. #26 FortressCraft Evolved!
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
    Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

    Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Voxel 13.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11%

  27. #27 Plan B: Terraform
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

    Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.1%

  28. #28 Microtopia: Prologue
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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: Colony Sim 16.2%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Crafting 8.1%

  29. #29 Per Aspera
    79% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
    Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

    Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 12.4%, Robots 10.5%, Resource Management 9.6%

  30. #30 Surviving Ceres
    77% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

    Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Open World 8.2%

  31. #31 Evospace
    79% 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 16.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Voxel 13.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%

  32. #32 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
    75% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

    Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%

  33. #33 Plasma
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,062 reviews2023
    Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%

    Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

    Why similar: Programming 25.6%, Automation 16.6%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9.5%, Robots 9.3%

  34. #34 The Planet Crafter
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

    Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

  35. #35 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
    76% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,144 reviews2020
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

    Why similar: Programming 26.5%, Automation 14.9%, Robots 11.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8%

  36. #36 Rebots
    75% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2024
    Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
    Windows

    Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

    Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Robots 9.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

  37. #37 Automation Empire
    77% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 27.5%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 10.3%

  38. #38 StarRupture
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

    Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

  39. #39 Space Haven
    74% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 10.7%

  40. #40 MegaFactory Titan
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
    Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!

    Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Programming 19.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 12%

  41. #41 Final Upgrade
    73% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

    Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 10%

  42. #42 MineMogul
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
    Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

    Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 10.7%

  43. #43 Planetbase
    73% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 8.3%, Survival 7.7%, Building 7%

  44. #44 Elsewhere
    70% 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 21.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.4%, Open World 10.2%

  45. #45 Illuminaria
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
    Dev: Selva Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

    Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11%

  46. #46 Astrometica
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
    Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

    Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 11.5%, Resource Management 11%

  47. #47 Orebound
    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?

    Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Voxel 16.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%

  48. #48 Starbase
    72% matchMixed56% of 6,702 reviews2021
    Dev: Frozenbyte
    Windows
    Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

    Why similar: Programming 20.2%, Voxel 17%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 9.5%

  49. #49 Builderment
    71% 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 26.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 10.2%

  50. #50 TFM: The First Men
    71% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Gathering Tree
    Windows

    An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%

  51. #51 Space Trash Scavenger
    68% 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 23.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.8%

  52. #52 Colony Survival
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Voxel 8%

  53. #53 Factorio
    66% 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 30.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.5%

  54. #54 Sapiens
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

  55. #55 Screeps: World
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,056 reviews2016
    Dev: Screeps, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 52.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.

    Why similar: Programming 26.7%, Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

  56. #56 Autonauts vs Piratebots
    68% matchMostly Positive78% of 514 reviews2022
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

    Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Programming 18.2%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%

  57. #57 Embark
    70% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
    Dev: Overly Complicated Games
    Windows

    Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%

  58. #58 Outworld Station
    65% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

    Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 19.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 10.1%

  59. #59 Volcanoids
    67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
    Dev: Volcanoid
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

    Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 18%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12.2%

  60. #60 XenoHaven
    65% 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 17.6%, Automation 14%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.3%

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