Games Like Little Rocket Lab

Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.

Why similar: Science 27.3%, Automation 25.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines cute visuals and feline companions with intricate factory building and automation mechanics.

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 31.5%, Crafting 19.1%, Building 19%, Sandbox 15.3%, Logic 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that blends automation and crafting with side-scrolling adventure elements.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Building 23.3%, Life Sim 21%, Crafting 20.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, RPG 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same focus on rebuilding a struggling town through hands-on crafting, building, and forming relationships.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 18.7%, Building 17.1%, Life Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the relaxing, cozy community-building feel of restoring a small town with a charming cast of characters.

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 37.8%, Crafting 20.8%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Logic 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers pure, satisfying factory building and resource management in a clean sandbox environment.

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Crafting 24.9%, Life Sim 20%, Building 16.5%, RPG 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on gathering materials, fulfilling commissions, and crafting to revitalize a cozy community.

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 37.5%, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, exploration, and automation on colorful alien islands very reminiscent of Little Rocket Lab's vibe.

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Building 30.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Logic 7%

Why You'll Like It: A delightful blend of automation and exploration featuring quirky creatures to help build your production lines.

Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.

Why similar: Crafting 25.7%, Life Sim 18%, RPG 13.7%, Cute 7.8%, Relaxing 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends a sci-fi setting with cozy farming, crafting, and relationship-building elements aboard a spaceship.

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 35.3%, Building 19.9%, Crafting 18.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features colony simulation and automation mechanics centered around building up a thriving settlement from scratch.

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Why similar: Building 24.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Life Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Cute 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a cute, colorful aesthetic focused on building and farming in a relaxed, family-friendly world.

Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

Why similar: Automation 41.5%, Crafting 22.9%, Sandbox 20.4%, Cute 6.2%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Uses simple programming logic to automate crafting tasks in a charming and accessible sandbox environment.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 24.9%, Life Sim 19.7%, RPG 11.3%, Relaxing 9.3%, Colorful 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines light RPG elements, material gathering, and crafting to help improve the lives of a small-town community.

Another sun-filled day begins in this cozy pixel-art adventure. Gather, craft, upgrade, and help the villagers revive the land. Can you rebuild the grand Sunspire and bring the village back to its golden days?

Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Automation 21.6%, Building 18%, Sandbox 8.4%, Relaxing 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a relaxing, casual take on crafting and incremental resource management in a bright setting.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Building 27.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on managing a tabletop factory, optimizing production lines, and crafting a variety of fun products.

Reforge a blacksmith’s village on an isle of the land’s finest artisans! Step into the boots of an expert smith for a crafty adventure filled with mystery and charm. Explore the land of Ellian, and prove that a hammer, anvil, and your wits can overcome any challenge.

Why similar: Crafting 28.7%, Building 12.9%, RPG 10.8%, Relaxing 10.1%, Life Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game deeply centered around clever crafting, puzzle-solving, and breathing life back into a workshop.

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Crafting 23.9%, Building 19.2%, Life Sim 16.3%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, RPG 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A heartwarming farming and crafting sim where you clean up a post-apocalyptic Earth to rebuild a cozy homestead.

Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!

Why similar: Life Sim 22.9%, Building 22.2%, RPG 15.1%, Relaxing 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cozy village life, relationship building, and running a specialized business to help local spirits.

Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.

Why similar: Automation 43.4%, Crafting 22.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Cute 5.7%, Colorful 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-driven automation game that focuses on the delightful logistics of mixing and producing colors.

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 34.6%, Building 20.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 15%, Relaxing 7%

Why You'll Like It: Presents strategic factory building and resource management challenges for players who enjoy logistical optimization.

A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.

Why similar: Science 39.5%, Crafting 21.9%, Sandbox 18.6%, RPG 7.8%, Logic 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A science-themed sandbox crafting and survival game focused on building out advanced technical systems.

Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.

Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Crafting 18.1%, Life Sim 14.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Relaxing 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines shop management, crafting, and light automation as you brew and sell magical potions.

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 31.2%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, RPG 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world automation and crafting experience set in a vast sandbox waiting to be industrialized.

Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.

Why similar: Building 25.4%, Crafting 25.2%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Relaxing 9.9%, RPG 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, pixel-art farming and town-building game set in a post-apocalyptic yet charming world.

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 13.7%, RPG 10.5%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends traditional RPG and town exploration elements with the core fundamentals of building an automation empire.

Garlic Builder is a unique building game. As the new builder of the Garlic Family, can you inherit your father's building hammer, take various orders, follow the blueprint, or use your imagination to fulfill the strange needs of your customers?

Why similar: Building 22.4%, Crafting 18.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Relaxing 9.6%, RPG 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, pixel-art building game that offers a laid-back and relaxing creative experience.

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Automation 29%, Building 18.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Sandbox 15.3%, RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on open-world resource management and base building for players who love expanding operations.

Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!

Why similar: Crafting 32%, Life Sim 21.9%, Relaxing 11.3%, Cute 10.5%, Story Rich 7.8%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Crafting 18.9%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Female Protagonist 11.2%

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 16%, Crafting 15%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Building 17.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, RPG 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, exploration, and automation within a whimsical sandbox environment.

Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.

Why similar: Science 28.4%, Building 20.1%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, RPG 5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox building game where you use mechanical parts and crafting to engineer creative solutions and contraptions.

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 22.7%, Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Life Sim 10.6%

Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & 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: Automation 27.2%, Science 19%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10.3%

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 41.3%, Crafting 21.8%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 14.9%, Simulation 2%

Potions: A Curious Tale is an adventure & crafting game where wit is your greatest weapon and combat is not always the answer. Play as Luna, a young witch who overcomes obstacles with the potions she brews, as she gathers items from enchanted lands and conquers devious puzzles on her quest.

Why similar: Crafting 23.5%, Life Sim 16.4%, RPG 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Relaxing 8.6%

Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 16%, Building 14%, RPG 6.3%

Get settled into Gear Springs! Gather materials, craft items, go fishing, and battle it out with punch cards in the ruined facility. Don't get distracted though, you've still got to stop the last Craftsman and save the town!

Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Life Sim 17.7%, Crafting 17.3%, RPG 13.8%, Adventure 6.4%

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

Why similar: Building 37%, Female Protagonist 19.9%, Relaxing 11.3%, Cute 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Why similar: Crafting 26.9%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Relaxing 12.4%, Cute 10.7%, Story Rich 7.8%

A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.

Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Building 21.1%, Crafting 21%, Sandbox 13.1%, Colorful 3.6%

It's time to open shop! Inherit your family's repair shop, and roll up your sleeves. Fix up the prized possessions of the forest folk, paint yourself a masterpiece to sell and make your family shop all your own with decorations, furniture and cookies!

Why similar: Relaxing 23.3%, Cute 21.5%, RPG 18.5%, Crafting 16.3%, Colorful 12.9%

Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.

Why similar: Building 34.2%, Sandbox 27.9%, Relaxing 11.1%, Cute 8.5%, Colorful 5.5%

Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!

Why similar: Automation 48.8%, Crafting 22.3%, RPG 6.8%, Relaxing 5%, Cute 3.8%

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Building 18.5%, Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Relaxing 5.6%

Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.

Why similar: Science 35%, Crafting 20.6%, Building 15.8%, Life Sim 12.6%, Relaxing 8.1%

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 43.2%, Building 20.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Logic 1.4%

Unleash your inner gardener and immerse yourself in the serene world of Garden Buddies, cultivating a vibrant flower garden alongside your new friend Mutsy. Discover an enchanting and fulfilling experience to release your stress.

Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Building 18.1%, Life Sim 16%, Sandbox 15.2%, RPG 10.3%

Customize your airship and explore the world above the clouds in this sim RPG

Why similar: RPG 56.8%, Cute 12.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, 2D 7.8%

A cozy exploration-and-crafting adventure: fly your seaplane between tropical islands, collect resources with the Swirler, rebuild storm damaged communities, and unravel the mystery surrounding Uncle Lou’s disappearance.

Why similar: Crafting 24%, Life Sim 18.2%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Relaxing 7.9%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 46.9%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Cute 5.1%

Helle's Undersea City Project - Bringing Air to The Garden - Grow and expand the land with air, aiming to rebuild the undersea city with a lone girl, Hele! A new type of undersea city-building simulation game!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.7%, Building 23.4%, Cute 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Simulation 6%

Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.

Why similar: Crafting 21.5%, Life Sim 21.3%, Cute 12%, RPG 12%, Relaxing 9.4%

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 39.3%, Building 21.8%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 14.1%, Colorful 3.6%

Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!

Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Cute 6.3%

Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

Why similar: Building 21%, Life Sim 20.7%, Crafting 19.3%, RPG 10.9%, Relaxing 8.1%

Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?

Why similar: Life Sim 25%, Building 22.9%, RPG 14%, Relaxing 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Can you transform a dilapidated old manor into a 5-star inn while solving the mysteries lurking behind its doors? Meet amusing guests, discover new areas and upgrades, complete mini-quests, and find items and beautiful paintings that will help you achieve your goals!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.7%, Relaxing 16.8%, Cute 15.1%, Story Rich 11.1%, 2D 9.1%

Welcome to Little London! Little Sim World is a cosy 2D life sim set in the heart of a little city full of charm, dreams, and surprises. Design your perfect home, meet quirky locals, build your routine, and live life at your own pace. A gentle world, a fresh start, and a story only you can write!

Why similar: Life Sim 33.1%, RPG 18.5%, Relaxing 13.7%, Cute 11.7%, 2D 6.9%