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  1. #1 FOUNDRY
    97% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Voxel 14.6%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 10%, Robots 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%

  2. #2 Autonauts
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 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 29.4%, Automation 19.3%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 5.9%

  3. #3 Astro Colony
    96% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 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%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8.3%

  4. #4 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    95% matchVery Positive85% of 624 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 29.8%, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Robots 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%

  5. #5 Microtopia
    94% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 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 16.4%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Robots 9.2%, Resource Management 8.4%

  6. #6 Eden Crafters
    93% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

  7. #7 Mechanica
    94% matchMixed63% of 635 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 36.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Automation 12.9%, Building 11.7%, Robots 8.8%

  8. #8 Nova Lands
    92% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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 21.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Robots 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.4%

  9. #9 Techtonica
    91% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 25.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%

  10. #10 Desynced
    91% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,936 reviews2026
    Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 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 27.2%, Automation 18%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.5%

  11. #11 Captain of Industry
    90% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 32.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 17.1%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Building 8.4%

  12. #12 Modulus: Factory Automation
    88% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
    Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

    Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 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 17.9%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Voxel 10.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

  14. #14 Kubifaktorium
    89% 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 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Voxel 14.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.8%

  15. #15 Stationeers
    87% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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: Colony Sim 19.2%, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.9%

  16. #16 Prospector
    86% matchMostly Positive71% of 152 reviews2025
    Dev: Loonworks Games
    Windows

    Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

    Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Base Building 13%, Robots 11%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%

  17. #17 Skyformer
    86% matchVery Positive87% of 67 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 23.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9.1%

  18. #18 Satisfactory
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 24.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.6%

  19. #19 Stardeus
    85% matchVery Positive87% of 1,534 reviews2022
    Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.0 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 21.3%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%

  20. #20 Evospace
    84% matchVery Positive83% of 388 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 16.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Voxel 13.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10%

  21. #21 Final Factory
    83% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2024
    Dev: Never Games Limited
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.0 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 22.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

  22. #22 The Crust
    82% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%

  23. #23 Dyson Sphere Program
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 29.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9%

  24. #24 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 23.2%, Automation 21.6%, Voxel 16.5%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10%

  25. #25 Factory Town
    80% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 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 22.1%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%

  26. #26 Plan B: Terraform
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 reviews2025
    Dev: Gaddy Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%

  27. #27 The Colonists
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,222 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 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: Colony Sim 21.2%, Automation 20.2%, Robots 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.6%

  28. #28 Microtopia: Prologue
    79% matchVery Positive95% of 118 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 16.3%, Automation 16%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Crafting 8.1%

  29. #29 Surviving Ceres
    77% matchVery Positive87% of 138 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 8.3%

  30. #30 FortressCraft Evolved!
    79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 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%, Voxel 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.1%

  31. #31 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
    78% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,148 reviews2020
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 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 26.8%, Automation 14.6%, Robots 11.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8%

  32. #32 Orebound
    76% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
    Dev: Emberforge
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

    Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Voxel 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

  33. #33 Per Aspera
    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,702 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: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 18%, Base Building 12.5%, Robots 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

  34. #34 Occupy Mars: The Game
    74% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%

  35. #35 Automation Empire
    77% matchMixed66% of 2,635 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 27.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.4%

  36. #36 Rebots
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 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 17.1%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Robots 10%, Resource Management 9.1%

  37. #37 Plasma
    74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,093 reviews2023
    Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%

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

    Why similar: Programming 26.2%, Automation 16.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 9.5%, Robots 9.3%

  38. #38 StarRupture
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%

  39. #39 MegaFactory Titan
    75% 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 22.1%, Programming 19.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.8%

  40. #40 The Planet Crafter
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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 18.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.6%

  41. #41 Illuminaria
    73% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
    Dev: Selva Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11.1%

  42. #42 MineMogul
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
    Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    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 27.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 10.5%

  43. #43 Starbase
    73% matchMixed56% of 6,719 reviews2021
    Dev: Frozenbyte
    Windows
    Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.3 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 20.5%, Voxel 16.9%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 9.5%

  44. #44 Oceaneers
    70% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2026
    Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Survival 7.1%

  45. #45 Planetbase
    73% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 35.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 8.1%, Survival 7.7%, Building 7%

  46. #46 Builderment
    71% matchMixed67% of 121 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 25.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 10.3%

  47. #47 TFM: The First Men
    72% 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 28.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%

  48. #48 Screeps: World
    71% matchVery Positive87% of 2,073 reviews2016
    Dev: Screeps, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 52.4 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 27.2%, Automation 17%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.8%

  49. #49 Factorio
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 30.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.6%

  50. #50 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

    Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%

  51. #51 Outworld Station
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 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 29.8%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 10%

  52. #52 Space Haven
    65% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 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 23.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%

  53. #53 Colony Survival
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 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 8.1%

  54. #54 Maia
    72% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
    Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Sandbox 6.6%

  55. #55 Autonauts vs Piratebots
    69% matchMostly Positive77% of 517 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 19.8%, Programming 18.5%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

  56. #56 Don't get lost
    68% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
    Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
    Windows · Linux

    A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.9%

  57. #57 TerraTech Worlds
    67% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
    Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

    Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.8%

  58. #58 Main Assembly
    68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
    Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%

    You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

    Why similar: Programming 30.2%, Automation 19.2%, Robots 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%

  59. #59 Elsewhere
    66% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2025
    Dev: Four White Cats
    Windows

    A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.

    Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.9%

  60. #60 XenoHaven
    66% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
    Windows

    In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

    Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Automation 13.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.3%

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