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Games Like Illuminaria

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

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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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    97% 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 18%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 12.3%, Building 11.7%

  2. #2 Autonauts vs Piratebots
    96% 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11%, Robots 7.8%

  3. #3 Mob Factory
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
    Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    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 21%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 8.3%

  4. #4 Microtopia
    95% 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 16.6%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Robots 12%, Resource Management 11.4%

  5. #5 Islets Defense
    94% matchVery Positive95% of 167 reviews2025
    Dev: MiniGoofPub: Nuntius Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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 25.5%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 18%, Building 15.5%, Strategy 8.3%

  6. #6 ShapeHero Factory
    93% matchVery Positive89% of 972 reviews2025
    Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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 19.9%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 10%

  7. #7 Autonauts
    94% 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: Automation 23.3%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Crafting 8.1%

  8. #8 Dinky Guardians
    92% matchVery Positive81% of 107 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 19.5%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%

  9. #9 Guardians of the Sanctree
    91% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 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%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Automation 14%, Resource Management 10.8%

  10. #10 Tower Factory
    89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 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 17.5%, Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 9.4%

  11. #11 Automation Empire
    91% 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 20.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Mining 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 10%

  12. #12 Builderment
    90% 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 24.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.1%

  13. #13 Hammerting
    89% matchMixed57% of 2,576 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 17.7%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 8.9%

  14. #14 Mindustry
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
    Dev: AnukenDev
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

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

    Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Automation 21.4%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Resource Management 15.8%, Building 9.1%

  15. #15 Microtopia: Prologue
    86% 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: Automation 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.4%

  16. #16 Bish Bash Bots
    87% matchMostly Positive77% of 207 reviews2023
    Dev: CATASTROPHIC_OVERLOADPub: Balor Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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%, Cute 13.6%, Strategy 11%, Casual 2.4%

  17. #17 Gridkeeper
    85% 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 20.8%, Building 18.4%, Automation 17.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Robots 10.1%

  18. #18 Buggos
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 1,349 reviews2022
    Dev: Intrepid Marmot
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.9 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!

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  19. #19 Learning Factory
    82% matchVery Positive86% of 511 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 18.2%, Automation 18%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%

  20. #20 Lumencraft
    84% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,264 reviews2023
    Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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 41.2%, Base Building 39.5%, Strategy 13.1%, 2D 3.2%, Indie 3%

  21. #21 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 16.6%, Automation 14%, Mining 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.6%

  22. #22 Icaria
    81% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
    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 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11%

  23. #23 BARRICADEZ
    83% 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.

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  24. #24 Zombie Cure Lab
    81% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
    Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 12.3%

  25. #25 FOUNDRY
    80% 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 19.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Robots 14.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 12.7%

  26. #26 Kubifaktorium
    82% 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.

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  27. #27 Town Keeper
    78% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
    Dev: Cuddle Code
    Windows · Mac

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 21.5%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.9%

  28. #28 Vectorio
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 388 reviews2023
    Dev: BN Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build. Automate. Defend.

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  29. #29 Little Kingdom RTS
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 65 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.

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  30. #30 Mashina
    76% matchVery Positive98% of 178 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.

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  31. #31 Prospector
    77% 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!

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  32. #32 Island Idle RPG
    79% matchMixed67% of 94 reviews2022
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    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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  33. #33 Factorio
    75% 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.

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  34. #34 Here Comes The Swarm
    74% matchVery Positive88% of 161 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?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Action RTS 11.1%

  35. #35 Starground
    76% matchVery Positive82% of 187 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!

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  36. #36 Mineral Defense
    75% matchVery Positive91% of 236 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.

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  37. #37 Idle Monster TD
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 841 reviews2021
    Dev: Swell Games LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 164.6 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.

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  38. #38 Hold The Mine
    73% matchVery Positive85% of 254 reviews2026
    Dev: Hookaria GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.

    Why similar: Mining 34%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Base Building 19%, Building 8.1%, Resource Management 8.1%

  39. #39 Mistward
    74% matchMixed61% of 85 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!

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  40. #40 Bee Island
    72% matchVery Positive86% of 1,584 reviews2023
    Dev: Lemma Arts
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Resource Management 20.2%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 7.6%

  41. #41 Faun Town
    72% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 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.

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  42. #42 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!

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  43. #43 The Crust
    70% 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.

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  44. #44 The Monarch: First Light
    71% 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.

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  45. #45 Territory: Farming and Warfare
    66% matchVery Positive86% of 690 reviews2026
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  46. #46 Nova Lands
    68% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
    Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  47. #47 Holo vs Robo
    65% matchVery Positive97% of 473 reviews2026
    Dev: Pompmaker1Pub: holo Indie
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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  48. #48 ReFactory
    71% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
    Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
    Windows

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  49. #49 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
    68% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
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    66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
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    73% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2016
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  52. #52 Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
    65% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,633 reviews2025
    Dev: Rockbee TeamPub: Polden Publishing
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  53. #53 Little Big Workshop
    70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
    Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
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  54. #54 Keep Keepers
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    69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
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  56. #56 Phoenix Hope
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  57. #57 Machine Mind
    65% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2026
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    Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

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  58. #58 Incremental Town RPG
    68% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
    Dev: Overaction Game Studio
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    Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

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  59. #59 Becastled
    63% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
    Dev: Mana Potion Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

    Why similar: Base Building 37.6%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Building 17%, Strategy 11.7%, Tower Defense 5.4%

  60. #60 Gnomoria
    70% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.9%

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