60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Automation, Building, Sandbox.
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
FOUNDRY
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.
Autonauts
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.
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 14.8% ★, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Robots 8.7%, Crafting 7.7%
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 29.9% ★, Automation 18.5%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 5.9%
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: Colony Sim 19.1%, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.4%
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 14.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Robots 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8%
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: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 24.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 10%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Robots 11%, Sandbox 10%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.8%
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%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 16.2%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Building 9.1%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
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 22%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
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 27.5% ★, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.6%
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 19.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 23.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 37% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Automation 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Robots 9%
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: Colony Sim 19.9%, Automation 19.2%, Voxel 14.7% ★, Base Building 11%, Building 10%
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 28.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
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 22.7%, Voxel 13.5% ★, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.3%
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: Base Building 17.7%, Automation 17.3%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 21.2%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
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 20.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Robots 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 26%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.9%
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
Why similar: Programming 24.8% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Robots 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%
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 29.4%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
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 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 16.9%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Voxel 10.6% ★, Resource Management 8.8%
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 21.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
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: Resource Management 16.5%, Voxel 12.5% ★, Automation 12.4%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Base Building 8.9%
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 15.7%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Programming 24.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Robots 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%
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 16.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Robots 11.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%
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 18.2%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Robots 11%, Building 9.4%
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 20.2%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
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 26.7% ★, Automation 13.6%, Robots 12.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8%
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 19.4%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10%
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 21.8%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
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 28.9%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 15.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Resource Management 8%
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 21.3%, Automation 19.3%, Robots 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.8%
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.7%
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 27.7% ★, Automation 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 16.3%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Robots 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
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%, Base Building 14%, Voxel 13.8% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10%
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 35.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 7.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 7%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.9%
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 23.4%, Automation 20.5%, Voxel 17% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.1%
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Voxel 16.4% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 26.6% ★, Automation 15.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 9.6%, Robots 9.6%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 21%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 9.6%, Survival 8.2%
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, Voxel 18.7% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.9%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Automation 25.2%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 5%
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 26.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%
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 20.8%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Open World 10.3%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
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 21.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
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 38.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 8.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.6%
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 16.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%
