Games Like Little Rocket Lab

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 23.4%, Life Sim 21.1%, Crafting 20.6%, Sandbox 16.4%, RPG 9%

Why You'll Like It: A premier life-simulation game that emphasizes crafting, building, and community interaction in a desert town setting.

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 18.8%, Building 17.1%, Life Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, RPG 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxing life-sim focuses on town building and forging deep friendships, matching the cozy atmosphere of the seed game.

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 38.2%, Crafting 17%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the seed game's focus on automation and base-building within a charming, colorful, and adventurous setting.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Crafting 36.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, RPG 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the loop of 2D exploration, resource gathering, and increasingly complex automation in a cute, vibrant world.

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 25.8%, Life Sim 18.1%, RPG 13.6%, Cute 7.8%, Relaxing 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy sci-fi RPG that combines farming and crafting with an endearing cast of characters and exploration.

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 19.8%, RPG 11.2%, Relaxing 9.4%, Colorful 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy RPG that centers on crafting and community building, capturing the social and management aspects of the seed game.

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 25%, Life Sim 20%, Building 16.5%, RPG 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to Sandrock, it excels at combining crafting, building, and town-life simulation.

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 32.5%, Building 29.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Logic 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends automation mechanics with a cute, adventurous world that encourages exploration and building.

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 47.6%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 14%, Sandbox 11.5%, Cute 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features adorable aesthetics and a heavy focus on teaching robots to automate tasks, mirroring the science and building themes.

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 32.2%, Crafting 17.9%, Life Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Relaxing 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and crafting with a colorful, cartoony aesthetic that feels very similar to the seed game's vibe.

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Science 24.8%, Automation 23.7%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated automation and building game that maintains a cute, accessible aesthetic throughout the experience.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Crafting 28.8%, Building 28.3%, Sandbox 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Adventure 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a satisfying mix of automation, base-building, and exploration in a charming 2D pixel-art world.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Cute 27.5%, Sandbox 25.5%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Adventure 12.4%, Colorful 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cute creature collection with automation and base management in a vibrant, exploration-heavy environment.

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

Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Building 27.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused game that allows you to build and run your own factory with a charming, toy-like aesthetic.

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 12.7%, Cute 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, family-friendly game that focuses on building, farming, and exploration in a relaxing environment.

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 38.4%, Crafting 20.6%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Logic 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pure automation and base-building experience that focuses on efficient resource management.

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 28.8%, Building 12.9%, RPG 10.7%, Relaxing 10.2%, Life Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A wholesome adventure game that puts a heavy emphasis on crafting and puzzle-solving in a charming world.

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 36%, Building 19.8%, Crafting 18.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, RPG 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony simulation with automation and building, offering a deeper challenge for fans of production chains.

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 23%, Building 22.2%, RPG 15%, Relaxing 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy life-sim that blends RPG elements with management, perfect for those who enjoy the social side of the seed game.

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 42.2%, Crafting 22.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Cute 6.1%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Uses automation and programming mechanics to solve puzzles, appealing to the science-focused side of the seed game.

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Why similar: Building 30.1%, Crafting 20.9%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Relaxing 12.5%, Story Rich 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-focused, its crafting, building, and heartwarming social interactions make it a perfect companion for fans of cozy games.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Building 19.4%, Life Sim 17.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming life-sim that allows for extensive town building and crafting in a unique, Australian-inspired open world.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.5%, Building 21.5%, Crafting 21.4%, RPG 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and crafting in a cozy setting, perfect for players who enjoy the production-chain aspect of the seed game.

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 35.2%, Building 20.5%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 14.9%, Relaxing 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated automation game that emphasizes building and management for players who love optimizing production.

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Building 24.9%, Crafting 23.9%, Sandbox 20.6%, RPG 10.1%, Relaxing 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing game that emphasizes building, farming, and community interaction with a very cute art style.

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 26.8%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival, mining, and base-building, providing a more rugged take on the crafting and science themes.

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 23.7%, Life Sim 16.5%, RPG 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Relaxing 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG that centers on crafting and adventure, matching the science and exploration themes of the seed game.

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: Automation 22.1%, Crafting 21.5%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 8.5%, Relaxing 7.8%

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 44%, Crafting 21.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Cute 5.5%, Colorful 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle and automation game that focuses on crafting and production chains with a creative twist.

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 31.3%, Crafting 18.9%, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, RPG 7.8%

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 39.4%, Crafting 22%, Sandbox 18.7%, RPG 7.7%, Logic 3.3%

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 29.8%, Building 17.1%, Crafting 16.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, RPG 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building and strategy game that incorporates automation and exploration in a whimsical setting.

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 25.5%, Crafting 25.3%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Relaxing 10%, RPG 9.8%

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 28.3%, Building 20.2%, Crafting 19.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, RPG 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for creative building and crafting in a sandbox environment, perfect for players who enjoy engineering their own solutions.

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 22.5%, Crafting 18.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Relaxing 9.6%, Life Sim 9.4%

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 36.2%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

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 32.1%, Life Sim 22%, Relaxing 11.4%, Cute 10.4%, Story Rich 7.8%

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 43%, Building 20.2%, Crafting 17.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, Logic 1.4%

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 23.2%, Crafting 18.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 13.7%, Life Sim 10.6%

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 29.6%, Building 18.3%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, RPG 7.5%

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 27.8%, Science 18.8%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 10.2%

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 39%, Crafting 19.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 13.9%, RPG 6.2%

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 33.8%, Crafting 19.3%, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 15.6%, Colorful 4.8%

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 37.3%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 13.6%, RPG 10.3%, Sandbox 6.7%

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 29.1%, Life Sim 17.6%, Crafting 17.2%, RPG 13.6%, Adventure 6.2%

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 37.2%, Female Protagonist 19.6%, Relaxing 11.4%, Cute 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

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

Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Building 20.9%, Crafting 20.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Colorful 3.6%

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 11.2%, Cute 8.4%, 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 49.5%, Crafting 22%, RPG 6.6%, Relaxing 5%, Cute 3.7%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Building 45.2%, Sandbox 36.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Simulation 4.2%, Exploration 3.9%

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

Why similar: Crafting 27.1%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Relaxing 12.6%, Cute 10.6%, Story Rich 7.8%

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 23.4%, Cute 21.3%, RPG 18.4%, Crafting 16.4%, Colorful 12.9%

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 34.9%, Crafting 20.7%, Building 15.8%, Life Sim 12.7%, Relaxing 8.1%

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 21.6%, Life Sim 21.4%, Cute 12%, RPG 11.9%, Relaxing 9.5%

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 19.2%, Building 18.1%, Life Sim 16%, Sandbox 15.2%, RPG 10.2%

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Crafting 34.2%, Life Sim 19.7%, RPG 12.3%, Relaxing 10.4%, Cute 8.2%

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

Why similar: RPG 56.6%, Cute 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, 2D 7.9%

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 24.1%, Building 19.2%, Life Sim 16.4%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, RPG 11.4%

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 25.1%, Building 22.9%, RPG 13.8%, Relaxing 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%