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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Resource Management, Automation, Base Building.

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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.

Reviews: Very Positive — 83% — of 76 reviews
Released: 2022-08-04
Developer: Selva Interactive
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 3.9 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 84%

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  1. #1 Microtopia
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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 16.8%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 14%, Robots 12.4%, Resource Management 10.9%

  2. #2 The Colonists
    97% matchVery Positive86% of 1,240 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 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 18.2%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Robots 12.7%, Building 12%

  3. #3 Autonauts vs Piratebots
    96% matchMostly Positive77% of 523 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%, Colony Sim 15%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Robots 8.1%

  4. #4 Mob Factory
    95% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
    Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

    Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 8.5%

  5. #5 Islets Defense
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 191 reviews2025
    Dev: MiniGoofPub: Nuntius Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 25.9%, Base Building 22.7%, Resource Management 17%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 8.3%

  6. #6 Autonauts
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 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: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 8%

  7. #7 ShapeHero Factory
    92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,010 reviews2025
    Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.

    Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 10.2%

  8. #8 Dinky Guardians
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
    Dev: Endless Loop Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

    Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%

  9. #9 Guardians of the Sanctree
    91% matchMostly Positive75% of 373 reviews2024
    Dev: HuCang Studio
    Windows

    You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

    Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Automation 13.4%, Resource Management 10.4%

  10. #10 Automation Empire
    91% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 20%, Base Building 17.5%, Mining 11.3%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10%

  11. #11 Golemworks
    89% matchVery Positive90% of 80 reviews2026
    Dev: evilalbert
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Assemble a factory, manufacture golems, and defend yourself from ruin in this strategic automation roguelike.

    Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Tower Defense 25.7%, Robots 18.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%

  12. #12 Builderment
    90% matchMixed68% of 128 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 23.2%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 12.4%

  13. #13 Microtopia: Prologue
    88% matchVery Positive95% of 129 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 17.1%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.6%

  14. #14 Tower Factory
    87% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

    Why similar: Automation 19%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%

  15. #15 Hammerting
    89% matchMixed57% of 2,601 reviews2021
    Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

    Why similar: Mining 17.5%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 12.6%, Building 8.9%

  16. #16 Icaria
    85% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 reviews2026
    Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
    Windows

    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.

    Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 11.2%

  17. #17 Gridkeeper
    86% matchMixed68% of 148 reviews2025
    Dev: pixelwide
    Windows

    Gridkeeper is an incremental game about managing "Grids" and using their power to run MineBots, research tech, and grow your mining empire by getting better Grids.

    Why similar: Mining 20.6%, Building 18.9%, Automation 16.5%, Strategy 14%, Robots 10.5%

  18. #18 Mindustry
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,902 reviews2019
    Dev: AnukenDev
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

    Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 22.6%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Resource Management 15.1%, Building 9.9%

  19. #19 Survival Vacancy
    86% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, Automation 13.4%, Mining 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.9%

  20. #20 Lumencraft
    84% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,285 reviews2023
    Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 41.4%, Base Building 39.6%, Strategy 12.9%, 2D 3.1%, Indie 3%

  21. #21 Bish Bash Bots
    83% matchMostly Positive77% of 210 reviews2023
    Dev: CATASTROPHIC_OVERLOADPub: Balor Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Bish Bash Bots is a unique mix of casual tower defense strategy and all-out brawling action. Team up in couch co-op / online play or go it alone and fight to save the world by building upgradable turrets, unlocking gadgets and bashing bots with giant hammers.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 57.6%, Family Friendly 14.2%, Cute 13.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Casual 2.4%

  22. #22 Final Upgrade
    82% matchMostly Positive77% of 458 reviews2022
    Dev: TaosX
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    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 21.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 8.8%

  23. #23 Chipmatic
    80% matchMixed66% of 173 reviews2026
    Dev: Molter
    Windows · Linux

    Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!

    Why similar: Mining 33.7%, Automation 23.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 9.4%, Robots 7.6%

  24. #24 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
    79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,273 reviews2025
    Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Building 25.2%, Automation 23%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 11.7%

  25. #25 BARRICADEZ
    82% matchMostly Positive80% of 144 reviews2021
    Dev: Fly Penguin inc.
    Windows · Mac

    Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 16.8%, Mining 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 12.3%, Resource Management 10.9%

  26. #26 Kubifaktorium
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    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 18.3%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%

  27. #27 Faun Town
    79% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
    Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
    Windows

    After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

    Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Automation 16%, Robots 12.6%, Resource Management 11%, Building 11%

  28. #28 FOUNDRY
    78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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 18.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Robots 14.9%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.8%

  29. #29 Kairobotica
    81% matchVery Positive84% of 61 reviews2023
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Vanquish villains and lead the Kairobot Corps to glory in this spacefaring saga!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Strategy 12%, Robots 11.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Building 7.3%

  30. #30 Learning Factory
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
    Dev: Luden.io
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Automation 17.3%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%

  31. #31 Buggos
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 1,432 reviews2022
    Dev: Intrepid Marmot
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

    Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Building 17.5%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.7%

  32. #32 Town Keeper
    77% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2024
    Dev: Cuddle Code
    Windows · Mac

    Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 21.7%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.7%

  33. #33 Starground
    76% matchVery Positive82% of 191 reviews2024
    Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
    Windows · Linux

    Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!

    Why similar: Mining 25.6%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 10.2%

  34. #34 Mashina
    74% matchVery Positive98% of 198 reviews2025
    Dev: Talha and Jack CoPub: Judatone Studios
    Windows

    A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.

    Why similar: Mining 21.3%, Automation 17.2%, Robots 15.6%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%

  35. #35 Prospector
    75% matchMixed70% 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: Base Building 18.9%, Automation 18.1%, Robots 15.5%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 13.4%

  36. #36 Little Kingdom RTS
    74% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2025
    Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
    Windows

    Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 21.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14%, Action RTS 11.3%, Building 9.3%

  37. #37 Mineral Defense
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 253 reviews2024
    Dev: Corestone Games
    Windows · Linux

    Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, Base Building 24.9%, Management 10%, Building 9.9%, Robots 9.8%

  38. #38 Vectorio
    75% matchVery Positive80% of 397 reviews2023
    Dev: BN Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build. Automate. Defend.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, Base Building 22%, Automation 21.8%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 10.1%

  39. #39 Factorio
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 28.2%, Base Building 25%, Resource Management 15.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 7%

  40. #40 Idle Monster TD
    76% matchMostly Positive72% of 855 reviews2021
    Dev: Swell Games LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 162.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, Automation 17.3%, Resource Management 15%, Strategy 9.7%, Management 7.3%

  41. #41 Mistward
    73% matchMixed62% of 91 reviews2026
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac

    Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 8.2%

  42. #42 Rising Army
    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 65 reviews2026
    Dev: Arkbits
    Windows

    Rising Army is a strategy auto-battler game where you can train and equip every single troop, upgrade your camp, and recruit new warriors. Experience a campaign in an open world and take on epic battles.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 17.5%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 11.8%

  43. #43 Time to Morp
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 243 reviews2025
    Dev: Team HalfBeardPub: Yogscast Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!

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  44. #44 Good Company
    73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
    Dev: Chasing Carrots
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

    Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 17%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Robots 10.3%

  45. #45 Gladiator Guild Manager
    70% matchVery Positive81% of 4,068 reviews2024
    Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

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  46. #46 Infinite Ruins
    68% matchMostly Positive75% of 131 reviews2026
    Dev: Kileka Games
    Windows

    An incremental mining game where you manage golems, destroy blocks, unlock upgrades, and descend infinitely in search of ever more valuable resources.

    Why similar: Mining 36.2%, Automation 25.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Management 8.2%, Fantasy 4.7%

  47. #47 Island Idle RPG
    72% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
    Dev: Overaction Game Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons

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  48. #48 The Monarch: First Light
    70% matchMixed66% of 111 reviews2024
    Dev: Citadel Games
    Windows

    Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Base Building 27.5%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Management 6.9%, Strategy 6.2%

  49. #49 CLOUD DWELLERS
    67% matchVery Positive87% of 90 reviews2026
    Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
    Windows

    CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

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  50. #50 Here Comes The Swarm
    66% matchVery Positive85% of 330 reviews2026
    Dev: CableHook Games
    Windows

    Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

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  51. #51 Signal Zone
    67% matchMostly Positive78% of 103 reviews2026
    Dev: Norafox Studio
    Windows

    Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.

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  52. #52 Holo vs Robo
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 584 reviews2026
    Dev: Pompmaker1Pub: holo Indie
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build a strong defense of hololive dolls to defeat a robot army in this exciting hololive-themed tower defense game!!

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  53. #53 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 637 reviews2024
    Dev: Luden.io
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    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    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: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Robots 18.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Strategy 6%

  54. #54 Cave Heroes
    70% matchMixed57% of 127 reviews2023
    Dev: VSTGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%

    Lead a party of Cave Heroes to explore dungeons, battle monsters and defeat tough archdemons. Build your village, collect loot, rescue pets and much more in this idle RPG.

    Why similar: Strategy 23.6%, Management 17.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Cute 12.7%

  55. #55 Nova Lands
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 21.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Robots 14%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%

  56. #56 Odd Realm
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5%, Mining 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 11%, Resource Management 9.6%

  57. #57 Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
    64% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,052 reviews2025
    Dev: Rockbee TeamPub: Polden Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Tower Defense 28.2%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Fantasy 7.6%

  58. #58 The Crust
    65% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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 19.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Automation 19.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 10.8%

  59. #59 ReFactory
    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
    Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
    Windows

    Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

    Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Automation 21.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 9.4%

  60. #60 Founders' Fortune
    68% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 21.6%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 6.6%

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