- #1 Satisfactory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.7%
- #2 Factory Trashcension
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.6%, Open World 8.4%
- #3 Factorio
95% 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 26.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #4 Substructure
95% 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 20.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 7.5%
- #5 Alien Planet Survival
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 10%, Open World 9.8%
- #6 Automation Station
93% 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 21.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.5%, Open World 8.7%
- #7 The Resonance Initiative
93% 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: Automation 24%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 7.9%
- #8 DRUG Schedule
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CrimsonRoute Games
Windows
Build your empire! Cook and make illegal drugs, expand your cartel, and outsmart rivals and law enforcement. Play solo or team up in co-op to dominate the underworld! Your empire, your rules. Rise to power! Don't get high on your own dope!
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #9 Pistonica
91% 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 25.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.9%
- #10 plexum
91% 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 25.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #11 Drug Dealer Schedule
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MindBrew Studio
Windows
Get your hands dirty in an immersive open-world crime simulator. Mix, grind, dissolve, and package every product yourself, build hidden labs, outsmart the police, smuggle shipments through checkpoints, and grow from a small-time dealer into an underground kingpin.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.8%, Co-op 9.3%
- #12 Alchemy Factory
88% 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 27.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #13 GridCraft
88% 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 25.6%, Crafting 18.6%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #14 shapez
89% 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 25.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #15 Stella Astrum
87% 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 25.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 7.6%
- #16 TowerLine
86% 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 25.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 16%, Resource Management 9.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #17 PoliPlanet
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.2%, Open World 9.8%
- #18 Potion Pipeline
85% 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 24.6%, Base Building 16%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Strategy 8.5%
- #19 Modulus: Factory Automation
84% 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 21.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #20 Reprocessed
84% 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 20.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #21 Techtonica
82% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #22 Chocolate Factory
82% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 10.1%, Open World 8.6%
- #23 Hydroneer
83% 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: Automation 21%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Co-op 8.5%
- #24 Skyformer
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 8.1%
- #25 Laplana
81% 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 25.7%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 18.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #26 Mob Factory
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #27 Schedule I
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 317,746 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Automation 14.6%, Open World 11.5%, Co-op 10.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #28 MoteMancer
79% 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 23.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 9%, Open World 8.7%
- #29 Outer Factory
79% 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 23.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #30 CosmoFab
77% 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 30.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #31 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #32 Amicraft Factory™
77% 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 27.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7%
- #33 Belts of Iron
75% 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 22.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 11.1%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #34 Sandustry
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Open World 10.6%
- #35 Moonshiner Simulator
74% matchVery Positive87% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: Goosix Games
Windows
Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Co-op 11.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 10%
- #36 Kardaviik
75% 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 30.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #37 Dinky Guardians
76% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.3%
- #38 Industronaut
74% 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: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #39 LithoBreak
76% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 10%, Building 10%
- #40 Galaxy Scavengers
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.1%
- #41 FOUNDRY
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.9%, Open World 9.4%
- #42 Eden Crafters
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.4%, Building 9.3%
- #43 Islandustry
72% 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 25.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #44 Candy Factory TD
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #45 Cartefact
71% 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 33.5%, Crafting 20.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #46 Builderment
72% 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 25.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #47 DepthWake
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reversed InteractivePub: Ultimate Games
Windows
Return to an Earth abandoned for over 500 years and explore its transformed oceans in search of vital resources. With supplies on humanity's new home world running dry, you must gather materials, build automated underwater operations, and uncover the secrets that now lie beneath the waves.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #48 Moose Builders
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11%, Building 8.4%, Open World 7.3%
- #49 The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire
69% matchVery Positive83% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: BEF GAMESPub: Tripwire Presents
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a criminal empire from the streets up. Commit crimes in third-person, run and automate illegal businesses, recruit your own crime family, fight rival organizations, and take control of a seamless open-world city.
Why similar: Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.7%
- #50 Flow Factory
70% 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 25%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #51 Untitled Automation Game
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #52 Space
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #53 Astro Colony
66% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #54 Production Zero
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alloi Games
Windows
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 9.6%
- #55 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #56 Dirty Business
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,072 reviews2026
Dev: Plan Dirty Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Co-op 9.8%, Building 9.2%
- #57 Holon
67% 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 23.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 13%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #58 Proto Garden
67% 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 24.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 11.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #59 Factory Survival
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roman Software
Windows
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 8.7%, Building 8.4%
- #60 Dyson Sphere Program
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 28.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Building 11.7%, Open World 10.3%, Resource Management 8.3%