- #1 Planetary Life
97% matchVery Positive94% of 867 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Why similar: God Game 27.9% ★, Science 24.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Life Sim 10.1%, Management 9.7%
- #2 Incremental Factory
96% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12%, Base Building 10.2%
- #3 Sapiens
95% matchVery Positive83% of 2,139 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10%
- #4 Vilmonic
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: Bludgeonsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
Why similar: God Game 26% ★, Science 24.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Management 7.4%
- #5 Ecosystem
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Tom JohnsonPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, God Game 20.3% ★, Science 17.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Life Sim 9.8%
- #6 Microtopia
94% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 24%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 10.5%
- #7 Atrio: The Dark Wild
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 600 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 13%, Isometric 8.1%
- #8 Odd Realm
92% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 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: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Management 11.5%
- #9 Forage Wizard
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,220 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Automation 20%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.5%
- #10 MoteMancer
90% matchVery Positive92% of 249 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 27.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.1%
- #11 Outpath
89% matchVery Positive93% of 3,073 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 11.7%
- #12 Multicellular
91% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?
Why similar: Science 52.3%, Sandbox 30.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Colorful 4.8%, Resource Management 3.4%
- #13 Kubifaktorium
89% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Building 15%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 11.8%
- #14 Gridworld
88% matchVery Positive86% of 243 reviews2015
Dev: DopplerFrog
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.
Why similar: Science 25.7%, God Game 23.6% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Management 11.3%, Life Sim 9.3%
- #15 Genesis of a Small God
86% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #16 Factorio
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 34.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 6.9%
- #17 ReFactory
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 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 26.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 10.1%
- #18 Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
87% matchMixed45% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 26%
A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?
Why similar: Science 23.4%, God Game 21.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11.8%
- #19 Revive & Prosper
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: God Game 22.6% ★, Automation 22.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13%
- #20 Sandboxels
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,035 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Science 27.2%, God Game 26.3% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 12%
- #21 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
84% matchMixed66% of 6,003 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Building 32.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Simulation 8.9%
- #22 Tea Garden Simulator
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: Flying Robot StudiosPub: SYV Games LLP
Windows
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Science 25.5%, Automation 23.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Management 10.5%
- #23 Surviving Ceres
81% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Crafting 24.5%, Building 23.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Management 17%, Simulation 6.5%
- #24 Little Big Workshop
81% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Management 16%, Building 16%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 10%
- #25 Terra Firma 2
79% matchVery Positive92% of 155 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
Why similar: God Game 35.1% ★, Science 22.5%, Sandbox 20%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 5.2%
- #26 Evospace
82% matchVery Positive83% of 391 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Crafting 17.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 14.5%
- #27 Miniland Adventure
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 22.3%, God Game 18.2% ★, Crafting 17.2%, Building 17%, Base Building 15.9%
- #28 AutoForge
78% matchVery Positive87% of 462 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
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 24.3%, Procedural Generation 14.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%
- #29 Adaptory
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Science 13.9%, Building 10.4%, Management 10%
- #30 The Sapling
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,934 reviews2019
Dev: Wessel Stoop
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Why similar: God Game 28.5% ★, Science 28.3%, Life Sim 16.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
- #31 The Universim
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,595 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 33.7% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 16.2%, Management 11.2%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
- #32 Common'hood
79% matchMixed51% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Building 17%, Automation 16.8%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 13.4%
- #33 The Last Starship
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,617 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Science 17.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 14.3%
- #34 Gnomoria
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Building 18.9%, Crafting 16.9%, Isometric 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%
- #35 Craft Hero
75% matchVery Positive84% of 402 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Crafting 22.3%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 19.8%, Strategy 6.5%
- #36 Creo God Simulator
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 39.4% ★, Management 15.8%, Isometric 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #37 Voxel Eras
73% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 13.2%
- #38 Alchemy Factory
71% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%
- #39 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,258 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 12%, Management 10.2%
- #40 Survival Vacancy
76% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #41 Deisim
73% matchVery Positive93% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 30.5% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Life Sim 13.9%
- #42 shapez
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 28.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 9.1%
- #43 FOUNDRY
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 25.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.6%
- #44 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
70% matchVery Positive85% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: God Game 18% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Building 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.1%
- #45 Reus 2
70% matchVery Positive95% of 2,271 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 31.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12%, Management 11.9%, Life Sim 9.1%
- #46 Rebirth evolution
72% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Base Building 39.1%, Building 27.8%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 4.5%
- #47 Star Crafter
70% matchMixed70% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Crafting 19.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.3%
- #48 Deep Crafter
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Sandbox 18.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 15.7%, Strategy 3.4%
- #49 Monster Lab Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 552 reviews2026
Dev: Round 3 Studios
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Ready to become a mad scientist? Synthesize, evolve, and command an army of unique creatures in your own lab. Manage your laboratory, master genetic essences, and dominate the battle arena in this deep creature collection simulator!
Why similar: Science 36.1%, Management 17.1%, Life Sim 17%, Crafting 14.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #50 Life in Bunker
73% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 29.2%, Sandbox 26.1%, Management 15.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 8.9%
- #51 The Last Caretaker
66% matchVery Positive86% of 12,107 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Management 13.5%
- #52 Plan B: Terraform
66% matchVery Positive91% of 3,542 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 10%
- #53 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 13.5%
- #54 Nova Lands
67% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.2%
- #55 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
67% matchVery Positive85% of 630 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Sandbox 19.2%, Crafting 17.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Strategy 5.3%
- #56 Farlight Explorers
71% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Building 36%, Sandbox 33.9%, Crafting 12%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 7.2%
- #57 Automation Empire
69% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.2%, Management 9.2%
- #58 Thrive
67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,684 reviews2021
Dev: Revolutionary Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
Why similar: Science 46.9%, Sandbox 24.6%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Simulation 7%, Management 6%
- #59 City idle
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 225 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Building 23%, Crafting 20.4%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 8.8%
- #60 Crafting Town
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Crafting 26.5%, Life Sim 21.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 5.9%