- #1 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 613 reviews2024
Dev: MiradilPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!
Why similar: Management 19%, Building 15.5%, City Builder 14.5%, Sandbox 13%, Trading 9.7%
- #2 Havendock
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,924 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Agriculture 14.9% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Automation 11.8%, Life Sim 8.6%, Building 8.6%
- #3 Latte Stand Tycoon +
96% matchMixed40% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Inner Realm StudiosPub: TheGamesFortress
Windows
Use your barista and math skills to mix the perfect latte and rebuild your family home and cafe to their former glory.
Why similar: Agriculture 17.1% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Life Sim 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.9%
- #4 Oceanarium World
95% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Mazemind
Windows · Mac
Build your ultimate aquarium and water park! Manage marine park and make it successful by building aquariums and attractions. Display beautiful, rare or monstrous fishes that your visitors demand and make them satisfied.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Creature Collector 16%, Time Management 12.5%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #5 Islandustry
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 10.1%
- #6 Food Industry
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Evolugame
Windows
Build and expand in agriculture, industry and commerce. Evolve in the food industry sector, and weather the storms by helping your people build the new world.
Why similar: Agriculture 18.2% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Automation 15.3%, Trading 12.2%, Building 8.8%
- #7 Entertainment Simulator
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 199 reviews2026
Dev: Grizzbera StudioPub: INDIECN
Windows
"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.
Why similar: City Builder 15.2%, Building 12.9%, Trading 11.8%, Management 11.5%, Life Sim 11.5%
- #8 Lifecraft
92% matchVery Positive81% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Automation 19%, Science 16.1%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Management 10.8%
- #9 StarScraper
91% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mitchell GarrettPub: Rosae Ex Ludis
Windows
So, you’re the new Boss? Seems like every year I get a new entrepreneur to babysit. It takes more than dreams to build a skyscraper! You need to track stocks, utilities, prestige—ah who am I kidding? You're rich, you can do whatever you want. Go on, build rockets into it like the last clown did.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Building 12.4%, Trading 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Time Management 10.2%
- #10 Modulus: Factory Automation
89% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 19.7%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 11.3%
- #11 Shuttle World
91% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Life Sim 11.4%, Base Building 10.9%
- #12 Automation Station
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, City Builder 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #13 Roller Coaster Park Simulator
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Panda Studio
Windows
Switch between first- and third-person as you build your park, ride your coasters, and serve your guests. Design rides, manage staff, and keep the chaos under control in your very own roller coaster park!
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Building 16.9%, Management 16.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.9%
- #14 Let's Build a Zoo
87% matchVery Positive89% of 4,085 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Creature Collector 16.1%, Management 13.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 13.4%
- #15 Automation Empire
88% matchMixed66% of 2,639 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 22.7%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.1%
- #16 FACTORY I
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, City Builder 15.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%
- #17 Assembly Planter
86% matchVery Positive90% of 250 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Agriculture 18.1% ★, Automation 17.7%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #18 Tea Garden Simulator
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: Flying Robot StudiosPub: SYV Games LLP
Windows
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Agriculture 20.1% ★, Science 18.5%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 10.5%
- #19 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HatchStudio
Windows
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Time Management 13.8%, Automation 13.7%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.7%
- #20 Dyson Sphere Program
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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 25.2%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Open World 9.9%
- #21 Industrial Petting
84% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Another Yeti
Windows · Mac
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
Why similar: Agriculture 20.9% ★, Automation 18.4%, Creature Collector 15.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 11.2%
- #22 F.E.A.S.T
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Before40
Windows
Congratulations! You've been hired by an elite organization that cooks for gods. Farm, automate, and cook gourmet meals to appease divine beings.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Agriculture 17% ★, Time Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11.1%
- #23 Exhibitors
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: Suncats
Windows · Mac
Deep within the clouds of a gas giant, supermassive creatures occupy the sky, each exhibiting an ecosystem. Exhibitors is a Factory building game with elements of farming and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Agriculture 13.7% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.9%, Creature Collector 9.9%
- #24 Chaos Express: Delivery Simulator
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Deliver goods with your friends in open-world city. Manage and upgrade your delivery point, acquire new ways of delivery and become the best.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Trading 16.6%, Time Management 15.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 12.4%
- #25 Wheat and Wrath
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Past Imperfect Games
Windows
Wheat and Wrath is a fantasy city-builder about straw people transitioning from nomadic wheat gathering to a settled farming village with a patron god. To survive, players must sustain and grow the community, manage wrathful gods, trade for technology, and defend the village from raiders.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Agriculture 14% ★, Trading 12.4%, Simulation 7.9%
- #26 419
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AVALON_STUDIOS
Windows
Start as a small-time filler and work your way up to kingpin. Buy CC info, print blanks, card online and launder your money through crypto. But watch out: the more you scam, the more heat you get. Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 17.2%, Management 13%, Life Sim 10.6%
- #27 Project AURA
81% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Trading 11%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #28 The Resonance Initiative
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, Automation 15.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #29 Quartermaster
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quartermaster Team
Windows
Quartermaster is a management strategy simulation in which you will build a top-secret agency to prepare elite spies for their missions! Research high-tech spy gadgets and run specialized training programs. Manage your staff and stay alert for double agents looking to sabotage your operation.
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, Building 13.9%, Science 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Management 11.8%
- #30 Rulegement
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grearuler
Windows
Can you run a big business from scratch? What if you sink, can you come out again? Own a big business and turn every part of the city into money.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Life Sim 15.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Time Management 13.2%, Building 9.7%
- #31 Farmington County: The Ultimate Farming Tycoon Simulator
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: Grenoble Interactive, LLC
Windows · Mac
Farming & town living sim. Develop the farm of your dreams using tools, tractors, trucks & other vehicles. Build cabins, sheds, barns, and more! Hire workers to help out in your farm. Grow thousands of crops, raise hundreds of livestock and explore the world of Farmington County!
Why similar: Agriculture 24.2% ★, Life Sim 14.2%, Building 13.6%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%
- #32 Substructure
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10.2%
- #33 Sumerians
76% matchVery Positive88% of 324 reviews2023
Dev: Decumanus Games
Windows
Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Agriculture 13.2% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Trading 9.2%
- #34 Smart Factory Tycoon
77% matchMixed61% of 909 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%
- #35 Potion Pipeline
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Building 18.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%
- #36 FluxWerks
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #37 Beyond These Stars
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Automation 14.7%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 10.8%
- #38 Subway Builder
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Building 16.2%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 11.2%
- #39 Metro Architect
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Northern21 Studio
Windows · Mac
In Metro Architect, you will design, expand, and optimize metro and subway networks in a metro simulator inspired by real-world transit systems. Build stations, manage trains, reduce congestion, and keep your city moving.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Time Management 14.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 9.9%
- #40 MuMu get to Work
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 青涩柠檬工作室
Windows
This is a simulation management and home-building game where you can raise all sorts of slimes. These slimes will cultivate farmland, bake bread, and produce various unique goods. Plan your shops to sell goods to customers and earn plenty of coins. As your wealth accumulates, build your own town.
Why similar: Creature Collector 16.9%, Agriculture 15.2% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Life Sim 11.2%, Simulation 8.4%
- #41 Property Pro
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build or purchase a property and manage it effectively. Make strategic decisions to maintain and improve the property, and address any issues that arise.
Why similar: Building 14.4%, Automation 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #42 Autonauts vs Piratebots
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 520 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%, Agriculture 16% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.1%
- #43 Global Rescue
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,568 reviews2026
Dev: PeDePe GbR Pub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Build your own base and take command of firefighting, police, EMS, and SWAT operations. Thanks to real map data, you can play right in your hometown - or anywhere in the world! Manage your fleet, hire staff, and take on a variety of authentic operations. In which city are you taking command?
Why similar: Building 16.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Management 14.8%, Time Management 13.1%, Open World 10.9%
- #44 Market Hours
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: ACB Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow a trading firm from your apartment to a global institution. Hire traders and engineers, research new strategies, negotiate with your competitors, optimize your infrastructure, and build the most successful proprietary trading firm on Wall Street!
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Time Management 12%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 10.2%
- #45 Builderment
71% matchMixed67% of 124 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 24.6%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #46 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
72% matchVery Positive87% of 2,908 reviews2020
Dev: Frontier DevelopmentsPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Management 20.3%, Building 20.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #47 Doodle Factory
71% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, City Builder 21.2%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 11.4%
- #48 Belts of Iron
68% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
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 21.4%, City Builder 16.6%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%
- #49 Halloween Store Simulator
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Life Sim 13%, Automation 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Management 9.1%
- #50 Two Point Museum
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,692 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Building 17.9%, Life Sim 14.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Management 11.4%
- #51 California Escapades
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: NUTS POWER ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
Windows
In this simulation and adventure game, explore 19th-century Gold Rush California. Join Jim and Emma to build and manage your farm and city. Plant crops, raise animals, construct buildings, complete missions, uncover secrets, and collect treasures. Start your adventure now!
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 9.1%
- #52 Shopping Center Tycoon
69% matchPositive80% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Management 19.4%, Building 18.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #53 Meu Mundo
71% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Tiago PortellaPub: DuPortella
Windows
More than a game, a new way of seeing the world
Why similar: Agriculture 18.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Life Sim 12.8%, Time Management 12.2%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #54 Little Big Workshop
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Management 16.6%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 12.5%
- #55 Pistonica
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Building 14.7%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #56 The Last Seed
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Management 12.9%, Building 12.7%, Time Management 12.1%
- #57 Junk Rise
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bario
Windows
Build your recycling empire from junk! Collect, process, and craft valuable products in a chill, satisfying simulator where garbage becomes gold ♻️ .
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #58 Mini Mayor: 12 Years
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Symbolic
Windows
Build your city and survive elections in this city-building management sandbox. Choose campaign promises, manage approval, and aim for three terms. Your choices shape the story and outcome. Will you develop the city or use your power to build your personal fortune?
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Life Sim 13.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 11.2%
- #59 River Town Factory: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive85% of 125 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, City Builder 15.8%, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.4%
- #60 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, City Builder 18.5%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Time Management 9.7%