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Games Like Life, the Universe, and Restaurants

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

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Run your own restaurant in a bizarre universe! Cook for the gods; deploy robot and build automated production lines. Experiment with different builds to win over divine appetites. Earn massive profits and create the #1 restaurant in the universe! Tip: Your chef's knife isn't just for cooking…

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026
Developer: GARRY
Publisher: Gamersky Games
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Team K6Pub: gamegine
    Windows

    Build and automate your own pizza factory to feed waves of hungry aliens! Manage resources, optimize machinery, and design the ultimate production line in this delightfully chaotic cooking and automation simulator packed with cheese, conveyor belts, and cosmic mayhem. Sign Up for Playtest

    Why similar: Cooking 28.2%, Automation 21.9%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 6%

  2. #2 What's On The Menu?
    96% matchMixed65% of 22 reviews2025
    Dev: Deltacraft Games
    Windows

    In What's on the Menu?, step into the shoes of a restaurant manager. From selecting ingredients and crafting menus to hiring staff and customizing your restaurant, every decision counts. Face random events, unlock new recipes, and rise through the ranks to become the ultimate restaurateur!

    Why similar: Cooking 31.3%, Automation 17.5%, Management 17.4%, Building 14%, Strategy 5.2%

  3. #3 Captain of Industry
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 26.7%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 11.5%, Building 9.6%

  4. #4 Bone's Cafe
    95% matchVery Positive96% of 359 reviews2022
    Dev: Acute Owl Studio
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

    Why similar: Cooking 25.9%, Automation 17.1%, Management 12.8%, Dark Humor 9.1%, Building 8.7%

  5. #5 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MadJones
    Windows

    Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.

    Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 14.2%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.4%

  6. #6 Pumpkin Restaurant
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pumpkin Game
    Windows

    Let pumpkins and cats run the restaurant for you, serving hearty food to adventurers. This is a casual business simulation game at the bottom of the screen that doesn't interfere with you doing other things.

    Why similar: Cooking 30.3%, Automation 21.9%, Building 14.5%, Idler 7.2%, Cute 6.3%

  7. #7 Chocolatio
    93% 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 30.4%, Cooking 17.6%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%

  8. #8 Potion Pipeline
    92% 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 18.7%, Base Building 18%, Management 11%, Strategy 10.2%

  9. #9 Cater Co. 🍓
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ReclinerBoss
    Windows

    Cater Co. is a kitchen management game where you make food and fulfill your customers' orders. Sit back, earn $$$, buy upgrades and optimize your kitchen.

    Why similar: Cooking 37%, Management 17.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Deckbuilding 9.4%, Strategy 5.5%

  10. #10 Spice & Grill
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: DevShark
    Windows

    Welcome to Spice & Grill, a cozy restaurant that lives at the bottom of your screen. Build and decorate your own dining space, set up the best kitchen, and train the best chefs to serve customers all year round.

    Why similar: Cooking 23.8%, Automation 15.6%, Building 11%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%

  11. #11 Sweets Inc.
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Road Turtle Games
    Windows

    Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!

    Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Management 18.9%, Building 17.8%, Cooking 15.6%, Base Building 6.2%

  12. #12 We Need More Steam!
    89% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
    Dev: Mars On Fire
    Windows · Linux

    We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!

    Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Management 19.1%, Building 15.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 11%

  13. #13 Deep Space Directive
    88% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
    Dev: One Wheel Studio
    Windows

    Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!

    Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Automation 16.7%, Management 15.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Colony Sim 10.3%

  14. #14 Snacktorio
    87% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: ellraiserPub: TNgineers
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game where you build and scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what’s stirring their growing appetites...

    Why similar: Cooking 24.2%, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 10%

  15. #15 Islandustry
    86% 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 23.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 14.4%, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 8.7%

  16. #16 SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
    85% matchMostly Positive76% of 560 reviews2025
    Dev: ATRIC Games
    Windows

    Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.

    Why similar: Cooking 28.8%, Base Building 17%, Building 15.7%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

  17. #17 Coffee Shop Tycoon
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 598 reviews2022
    Dev: Riff Studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.

    Why similar: Cooking 30.7%, Management 22.9%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 6.6%

  18. #18 Mini Sushi Factory
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ViniMiniGamisPub: Dream Outpost
    Windows · Mac

    Automate your way to the sushi of your dreams in this sushi contraption building toy. Wait until you try YOUR OWN signature Dragon Meat Sashimi…

    Why similar: Cooking 32.1%, Automation 25.9%, Management 12.7%, Idler 5.5%, Cute 5.4%

  19. #19 Copacetic
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BuhDan
    Windows · Linux

    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 22.6%, Management 21.6%, Automation 13.7%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.3%

  20. #20 Little Big Workshop
    84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
    Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.3 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: Management 19.9%, Automation 17.9%, Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 10.6%

  21. #21 Astral Bloom
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: YYZ Studio
    Windows

    Grow a living alien world in this incremental base-builder. Cultivate strange plants, command loyal wisps, and reshape the sky with powerful wishes. Automate and expand your ecosystem as you uncover lost memories. As your sanctuary grows, will you stay... or leave in search of something more?

    Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Building 16.9%, Management 15%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.4%

  22. #22 Galaxy Scavengers
    82% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Team Asterisk
    Windows

    Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.

    Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Automation 11.5%, Building 11.4%

  23. #23 Doodle Factory
    81% 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 22.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, City Builder 9%

  24. #24 Factory Magnate
    80% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2026
    Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
    Windows · Linux

    A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.

    Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 15.3%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 13%

  25. #25 Astral Enterprises
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
    Windows · Mac

    As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.

    Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Management 19.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 13.5%

  26. #26 Builderment
    79% matchMixed67% of 121 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 25.6%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, City Builder 8.6%

  27. #27 Kitchen Madness
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Nurt Studios
    Windows · Linux

    Kitchen Madness is a frantic deck-building kitchen management game for the strategic solo player. As the head chef, you must assemble recipes, juggle ingredients, and manage unexpected events to whip up delicious dishes before the ticking clock sends your customers away hungry.

    Why similar: Cooking 44.5%, Deckbuilding 20%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 6.7%, Casual 5.5%

  28. #28 Musgro Farm
    78% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Metal Games LLC
    Windows

    Start a farming empire in this incremental factory builder. Plant crops, combine them into recipes, and distribute them for sale. Optimize your layouts and reinvest in your infrastructure to maximize your output. Gain experience to unlock new technologies and expand your ever-growing automated farm.

    Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Management 15.1%, Cooking 13.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.6%

  29. #29 The Sushi Spinnery
    78% matchVery Positive93% of 410 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

    Why similar: Cooking 38.5%, Colony Sim 11%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.1%, City Builder 6.1%

  30. #30 Biofactory
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    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 23.7%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 10.5%

  31. #31 Greedy Little Kingdoms
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: zlorky
    Windows · Mac

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

    Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 15.3%, Management 13.1%, City Builder 9.5%

  32. #32 Automation Station
    76% 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 24.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 16.5%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 11%

  33. #33 Node Farm
    76% matchVery Positive83% of 75 reviews2024
    Dev: ByerN
    Windows

    Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!

    Why similar: Cooking 18.8%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

  34. #34 The Crust
    75% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 11.8%, Management 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.4%

  35. #35 plexum
    75% matchNo user reviews
    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 28.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 17.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 8.9%

  36. #36 Mito
    74% 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 29.7%, Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 9.6%

  37. #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: Base Building 16.5%, Automation 15.7%, Management 13.7%, Building 13%, Colony Sim 11.3%

  38. #38 MegaFactory Tycoon
    73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
    Windows · Mac

    In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.

    Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Building 19.8%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9%

  39. #39 Kingdom Workshop
    73% 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: Building 16.7%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 15%, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 10%

  40. #40 F.E.A.S.T
    73% 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 or be ready to throw hands with the gods themselves.

    Why similar: Cooking 22.2%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.2%, Management 12.1%

  41. #41 Terra-7
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Gamyeon
    Windows · Mac

    A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.

    Why similar: Management 18.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Strategy 11.4%

  42. #42 Feastopia
    70% matchVery Positive80% of 259 reviews2026
    Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
    Windows

    Feastopia is a Rogue-lite culinary city-builder, inspired by Against the Storm. Forge a pact with an adorable deity and build a thriving foodie metropolis in a bountiful land. With randomized maps and events, unlock hundreds of wondrous abilities, experience a unique adventure every time you play.

    Why similar: Cooking 25.8%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 11%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.5%

  43. #43 The Diner at the End of the Galaxy: Free Appetiser
    71% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
    Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Open a diner on a desert planet, grow exotic ingredients, create a menu for intergalactic palates and deal with powerful factions. Free Appetiser is the prologue to Diner at the End of the Galaxy, where you cook and manage your way to intergalactic riches and glory.

    Why similar: Cooking 31.4%, Base Building 20.6%, Management 17.7%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 10%

  44. #44 Modulus: Factory Automation
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
    Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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 22.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 16%, Management 15.4%, Resource Management 9.7%

  45. #45 Let's Cook It!
    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Badgeristic
    Windows

    Scavenge for ingredients and cook them into tasty dishes with up to four players. Work together as a team to manage your restaurant and get out of debt. Build your own restaurant, unlock upgrades, and recruit NPCs!

    Why similar: Cooking 38.6%, Building 19.1%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Cute 7.4%

  46. #46 Dyson Sphere Program
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 27.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Building 14.9%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 11%

  47. #47 Gimbap Heaven
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: HS Solution
    Windows · Mac

    Toss cards, roll kimbap, serve customers! Gimbap Heaven is a card-based restaurant management sim. Survive 30 days without going bankrupt, unlock new recipes, react to daily news events, and discover hidden endings.

    Why similar: Cooking 46.2%, Management 20%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Casual 4.9%

  48. #48 Crowded Blue Dot
    72% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
    Dev: cys20 studio
    Windows · Linux

    Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

    Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Management 17.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 12.7%, City Builder 11.4%

  49. #49 Odd Realm
    68% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

    Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Automation 15.6%, Management 14.4%, Building 12.2%, Colony Sim 11.5%

  50. #50 Animal Diner
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: VaragtP
    Windows

    Run a Diner while preparing, cooking and serving various animals their favorite dish. Design, decorate and expand your Diner as you attract new kinds of animal customers with new unlocks, items and dishes. Manage the Diner all by yourself or take help of your friends in up to 4 player local co-op!

    Why similar: Cooking 33.9%, Automation 21.2%, Management 17%, Building 16.2%, Cute 6.3%

  51. #51 Dystopians
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!

    Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Management 16.3%, Building 13.6%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Dystopian 12.1%

  52. #52 Production Line : Car factory simulation
    70% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
    Dev: Positech Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

    Why similar: Management 23%, Automation 20.4%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.5%

  53. #53 Factory Town
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 22.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 14%, Resource Management 11.5%, Colony Sim 9.7%

  54. #54 Illuminaria
    68% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
    Dev: Selva Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Automation 17.3%, Building 14.9%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 11.6%

  55. #55 Factoriant
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Marudice
    Windows

    Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.

    Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 11.9%, Building 8%

  56. #56 Avian Colony
    66% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Management 17%, Colony Sim 14%, Automation 13.9%, Resource Management 10.8%

  57. #57 Outer Factory
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kescoding
    Windows

    Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.

    Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 12.5%

  58. #58 Clipper
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Adequate Games
    Windows · Linux

    An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

    Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Management 19.1%, Building 14.9%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%

  59. #59 CLOUD DWELLERS
    64% matchVery Positive92% of 71 reviews2026
    Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
    Windows

    CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

    Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Building 18.9%, Management 18.6%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Resource Management 10%

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