- #1 shapez
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9%
- #2 ChromaFlow
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 14%, Logic 12.7%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #3 Atom By Atom
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inner Core Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a factory around a black hole. Extract elements, route atoms through Matter Tubes, bond them using valence-driven chemistry, and scale precise molecular production lines atom by atom.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #4 Another Game About Automation
95% matchMixed63% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: myownyose
Windows
Another Game About Automation is a casual factory-building where you have to generate numbers and combine them with mathematical operations. Upgrade and unlock new mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Base Building 22%, Logic 19.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Simulation 5.7%
- #5 Cartefact
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #6 TowerLine
94% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #7 Poop Right Now
93% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: 晓猫
Windows
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10%
- #8 Builderment
92% 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 28.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Logic 9.6%
- #9 Holon
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Logic 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #10 Automation Station
91% 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 26.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 9.5%
- #11 Node Math
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%
- #12 Rocket Automashapes
90% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Logic 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #13 Kardaviik
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 8.4%
- #14 Chocolatio
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RawEgg
Windows
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Logic 15.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #15 Flow Factory
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.9%
- #16 Stella Astrum
86% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #17 Beltmatic
86% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 8.8%
- #18 Plantile
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%
- #19 Ascend Factory
84% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Matlyce Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Logic 14.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #20 Block Factory
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 266 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Logic 11.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #21 Factorio
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 23%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%
- #22 CosmoFab
82% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Strategy 5.6%
- #23 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Logic 10.7%, Crafting 8%
- #24 Rafting Factory
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #25 Infinite Number Factory
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 34%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 16.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 5.7%
- #26 Amicraft Factory™
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #27 Fabricatio
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 23.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Logic 11.7%, Crafting 6.5%
- #28 Proto Garden
79% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Logic 14.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10%
- #29 Shape Together
78% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 10.8%
- #30 Scraplings
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #31 ASTERSTEAD
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Base Building 24.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 4.4%
- #32 Outer Factory
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%
- #33 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 31.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #34 Manaftory
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 18%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8%
- #35 Idle interstellar Factory 2
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #36 Automatica
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strawberry Dev
Windows
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Resource Management 18.1%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.9%, Logic 7%
- #37 Attrition Line
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 15.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Strategy 6.2%
- #38 Mito
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #39 Factories in Factories in Factories
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Abe Wits
Windows · Linux
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 22.1%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 8.4%, Strategy 4.5%
- #40 Alchemy Factory
70% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 36.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #41 MoteMancer
71% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 9.4%
- #42 FACTO
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Resource Management 18.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 6.3%
- #43 Away Team
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows
Away Team is a new Oxygen Not Included game. Mistakenly shipped off to an alien world, you will need to harness the environment and master temperature, pressure, chemical reactions and more in order to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 20%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
- #44 Beltex
73% matchVery Positive86% of 234 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 8.7%
- #45 Cubactory
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quim GarrigósPub: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cubactory is the only factory game where you truly build objects freely, transforming, blending, carving and compacting colored cubes into intricate voxel figures while automating your modular factory to meet increasingly complex orders.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Logic 12.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 9.8%
- #46 AutoForge
71% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Logic 12%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #47 ReFactory
72% 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: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 23.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #48 plexum
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 16.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #49 Pistonica
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
- #50 Reprocessed
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #51 Kimbap Factory
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Remi Song
Windows · Mac
Automate the ultimate Korean kitchen. Route belts, watch ingredients transform, and physically assemble each kimbap roll step by step. Discover new recipes, fulfill requests, and expand your kitchen at your own pace. No pressure, no timers, just a satisfying and unique casual factory experience.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%, Logic 7.4%
- #52 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
67% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #53 GridCraft
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #54 新星下行
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: abys
Windows
Stellar Descending is a turn-based factory builder spanning multiple layers. As a scout, design vertical production lines using conveyors, assemblers, and inserters. Use strategy and automation to conquer the planet and uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Base Building 22.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Sandbox 7.1%, Simulation 5.2%
- #55 Industrial Garbage
66% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: LMT
Windows
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 38.1%, Resource Management 16%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 7.1%
- #56 Laplana
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%
- #57 Modulus: Factory Automation
65% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 28.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Logic 9.8%
- #58 CircuitVeil
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%