- #1 Veinfall
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doca
Windows
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Mining 27.1% ★, Automation 23.2%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #2 Automation Empire
96% matchMixed66% of 2,646 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 24%, Base Building 17%, Mining 12.6% ★, Economy 9.9%, City Builder 8.5%
- #3 Factor Y
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #4 Belts of Iron
95% matchVery Positive87% of 52 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 21.2%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #5 Flow Factory
94% 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 23.8%, Mining 20.9% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #6 Islandustry
93% 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 24.4%, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #7 Infindustry
94% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Mining 19.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Crafting 9.3%
- #8 Foundland City Builders
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Furkan Yıldız
Windows
Foundland is a strategic city-building and resource management game with defense elements. Expand your lands, establish production chains, grow your population, and protect your city against rising threats.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Time Management 15.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Automation 11.6%, Economy 9.4%
- #9 Tempered Forge: Lands of Mine
91% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Sticklen Games
Windows
Mine resources, craft tools, and battle fierce underground enemies as you explore, trade, and build your way back to the stars. Level up, upgrade your gear, and automate your processes for ultimate efficiency. Play solo or team up with a friend in this 1-2 player mining and combat adventure.
Why similar: Mining 23.5% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Economy 12%
- #10 Astra Industria
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Regnum Noctis
Windows · Linux
Astra Industria is a sci-fi factory builder set on colossal player-constructed space megastructures with the addictive growth of incremental games. Extract resources, craft advanced components, and automate deep-space production through a vast tech tree.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Mining 17.2% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 11.7%, Economy 10.6%
- #11 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
90% 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 15.1%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%
- #12 Kingdom Workshop
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 15.5%, Automation 15.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 12.4%
- #13 Starward Era
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: QianMo Studio
Windows
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Mining 33.8% ★, Automation 22%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #14 Truck City
88% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Mining 17.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Economy 9.4%
- #15 Captain of Industry
87% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 20.9%, Economy 12.5%, City Builder 10.7%, Mining 10.5% ★
- #16 Copacetic
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Mining 16.6% ★, Automation 14.4%, Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #17 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,909 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 9%
- #18 Factory on a Train
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Mining 19.4% ★, Automation 17.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.9%
- #19 ReFactory
86% 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 23.1%, Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 16.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Strategy 10.5%
- #20 Bouncekraft
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 32.6% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Automation 16.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 9%
- #21 Industronaut
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #22 Fill the Sky
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 9%
- #23 Scraplings
82% 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 29.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Economy 11.3%, Mining 11.1% ★
- #24 MineMogul
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Mining 25.4% ★, Automation 23.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #25 Builderment
81% 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 26.9%, Base Building 19.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #26 FACTORY I
78% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
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 25.2%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Time Management 10.8%
- #27 Odd Realm
79% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 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: Mining 20% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Automation 15.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Crafting 10.7%
- #28 Cobalt Miner
78% matchMixed44% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 29.5% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #29 Casino Tycoon Simulator
81% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Cracked Bone Studios
Windows
Upgrade your casino and become millionaire! Manage your Slots, BlackJacks, Roullettes, and many more. Protect your casino against thieves and cheaters.Want more? jump into mining market or build your dream nightclub!
Why similar: Mining 21.8% ★, Automation 20.6%, Economy 14%, Base Building 13%, Time Management 13%
- #30 Apocalypse Factory
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Mining 18.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%, City Builder 10.9%
- #31 Eureka
80% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Coding Duck
Windows
Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!
Why similar: Mining 23% ★, Automation 15.7%, Economy 14%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 8.9%
- #32 Automation Station
77% 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 25.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9.1%
- #33 Mountainhall
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Deepmountain Studios
Windows · Linux
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Mining 19.8% ★, Automation 14.1%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%
- #34 Factory Town 2: Paradise
73% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 22%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Economy 12.2%
- #35 Elsewhere
74% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #36 The Last Seed
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
The Last Seed is a 2D automation strategy game where factory efficiency is hard-linked to environmental control. Construct complex logistics networks, process resource chains, and balance closed-loop humidity systems—because if the ecosystem crashes, your entire automated infrastructure halts.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Time Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #37 Calmaria: Wild Growth
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ryzo Harbor
Windows
Build and automate your settlement in this island survival game, play solo or with friends, but it’s better with friends! Start by tilling the soil and planting your first crops, delegate tasks to your settlers. Sail to new islands, loot dungeons, and prepare your defenses for the next wave.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Economy 8.4%
- #38 FluxWerks
72% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 17%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #39 Furia Rising
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aesper
Windows
Start your own base in the Furia mine, unlocking up to 19 characters with special roles and aspects. Defend against attacking golems, craft weapons, and acquire resources! Players can spend skill points to make a unique build and strategy. Test your strategy in this fun, mysterious underworld.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Mining 19.7% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13%, City Builder 12.9%
- #40 Biofactory
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 10%, Economy 9.4%
- #41 Assembly Planter
76% matchVery Positive90% of 251 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: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.2%, City Builder 11.8%, Economy 11.4%
- #42 NodeLord
74% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: HowDeerYou
Windows
Automate a settlement of alcoholic dwarves, build towers, craft ammunition, and fend off those stupid trolls!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 14.5%, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #43 Medieval Lord Tycoon
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HayatePub: Onigokko
Windows
A pixel art medieval lord simulator! Farm, chop wood, hunt yourself—or delegate to townsfolk. No meddling in daily lives; govern via taxes & laws. When enemies attack, higher prestige means more peasants rally to fight. Balance survival & strategic rule—build your medieval realm, forge your legacy!
Why similar: Mining 19.1% ★, Automation 15.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 10%
- #44 Tsushima Incremental
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zouzou
Windows · Mac
Tsushima Incremental lets you build and manage a thriving village, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing idle experience. Master your resources, upgrade your settlement, and equip your clan to conquer new lands.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Mining 15.1% ★, Economy 8.6%
- #45 Corposlop
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andreasintech
Windows
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Crafting 17.3%, Mining 14.3% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Management 9.4%
- #46 Auto-Astra
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gerrit Schimpf
Windows
Auto-Astra blends voxel-based construction with deep 4X automation. Design ships and stations, then write or use pre-made LUA scripts to automate your galactic empire. Strip asteroid belts, manage trade routes, and program tactical responses to enemy threats. Your logic, your empire.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Mining 18.8% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Economy 11.1%
- #47 Factory Town
71% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #48 Agromatic
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, City Builder 16.8%, Mining 14.3% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Economy 12.2%
- #49 Hydroneer
71% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 30.6% ★, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.7%
- #50 Beneath the Mountain
70% matchMixed66% of 217 reviews2024
Dev: Omnis Rector StudiosPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Crafting 12.3%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 9.5%
- #51 BOREWORKS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Mining 16.8% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Management 9.3%
- #52 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% 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 24.4%, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 15%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #53 Deep Space Delivery
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SureAI
Windows
Deep Space Delivery is a fantasy space ship builder. You are the captain of a small vessel, eager of growing your ship while you are traversing the deep, unknown edges of space.
Why similar: Mining 26% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 16.8%, Economy 11.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #54 Factorio
69% 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 33.9%, Base Building 24.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, City Builder 6.8%
- #55 Proto Garden
68% 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 25.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 14.5%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #56 Epochs of Fire
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verde
Windows
Guide humanity's progress from the Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution in this logistics strategy game. Manage resources, craft tools, and build production chains to shape the story of human innovation.
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Time Management 19.1%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Economy 9.2%
- #57 DigScape
67% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Pixellow Official
Windows
Build, mine, and manage your own industrial zone in this relaxing 3D simulation game. Plan production, automate systems, and expand your operations step by step as you create a thriving environment.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Automation 17.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 12%
- #58 Ghostorio
67% matchNo user reviews2030
Dev: REGENER
Windows
Build automated factories in a bright afterlife. Mine, belt, power, and produce at massive scale, then defend your work from the spirits it attracts. A third-person factory game of automation, base building, and tower defense.
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Automation 21.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 7.7%
- #59 Rejuvan
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Papergod
Windows
Build, make money, create, repeat. Rejuvan is a game about making the most efficient factories on your own little island. Use everything you can think of to maximize profits and keep the narrative on track. Keep in mind that, at certain money thresholds, your experience may unexpectedly change.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Time Management 18.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 13.6%, Crafting 11.9%
- #60 MoteMancer
66% 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 26.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 7.4%