- #1 Captain of Industry
97% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 24.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Economy 8.3%
- #2 My Drug Cartel
96% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Agriculture 12.5% ★, Resource Management 8.9%, Capitalism 8.8%
- #3 Paystreak
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northwright Games
Windows
A gold mining tycoon built on real operations. Clear overburden, Dig, haul, wash, and pan your way from hand tools to a living operation. Manage wages, fuel, repairs, landlord cuts, and loans, time your sales to a living gold market, and survive season after season.
Why similar: Mining 23.8% ★, Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 12%, Economy 9.7%, Capitalism 9.5%
- #4 Incremental Factory
95% 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 20.3%, Idler 14.4%, Mining 12.3% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%
- #5 Moose Miners
94% matchMixed69% of 523 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 146.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 15% ★, Colony Sim 13.1%, Automation 13.1%, Idler 10.8%, Capitalism 8.9%
- #6 BOREWORKS
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Mining 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10%
- #7 Incremental Town RPG
93% matchMixed60% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.7%, Idler 14%, Mining 13.1% ★, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%
- #8 Resourcer
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Wings Ltd
Windows
Dig deep into diverse biomes, uncover ancient treasures and mine various resources. Craft new tools and build various production structures. Improve your character’s skills and unlock new features as you progress through the game. Manage the resources and create an efficient production chain.
Why similar: Mining 20.4% ★, Automation 16.9%, Idler 14.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #9 Odd Realm
91% 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: Colony Sim 18.9%, Mining 14.4% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #10 Common'hood
91% 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: Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 8.4%
- #11 Hammerting
90% matchMixed57% of 2,592 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7%, Mining 16% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.3%
- #12 Illuminaria
89% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Mining 17.4% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #13 Eureka
89% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Coding Duck
Windows
Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!
Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Automation 14.2%, Agriculture 13.5% ★, Economy 10%, Management 9.4%
- #14 Infinite Ruins
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kileka Games
Windows
An incremental mining game where you manage golems, destroy blocks, unlock upgrades, and descend infinitely in search of ever more valuable resources.
Why similar: Mining 21.9% ★, Automation 20.1%, Idler 15.4%, Capitalism 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #15 Dinky Guardians
87% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 22%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #16 Terminal Descent
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roxicaro
Windows
Terminal Descent is a terminal-based mining incremental game. Upgrade drills, automate operations, smelt metals, and descend deeper. ASCII graphics with active/idle hybrid gameplay in your terminal.
Why similar: Mining 17.9% ★, Automation 16.3%, Idler 15.7%, Economy 9.8%, Crafting 9%
- #17 Automation Empire
88% 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 23.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Mining 10.2% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Economy 7.8%
- #18 FACTORY I
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 11.1%, Capitalism 11%
- #19 Raccateer
84% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Nathan LairdPub: 3StandardYardSticks
Windows · Mac
Raccateer is a colony sim idle game. Recruit and upgrade raccoons each with unique personalities and stats, manage their equipment and synergize your team to become a Trashilionaire. Go from trash to riches in this tight, narrative-focused idler
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Automation 22.1%, Idler 20.4%, Capitalism 14.8%, Management 8.5%
- #20 Timberworks
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pretoriano_devPub: Coliseum Studio
Windows
Timberworks is an incremental factory automation and management game. Start with a small sawmill, automate production, expand your railway network, and build a vast industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Idler 12.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Management 9.4%
- #21 Resource chill
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Automation 17.9%, Idler 15.6%, Capitalism 10.3%, Base Building 8.4%
- #22 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,330 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Capitalism 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 9.5%
- #23 Resources Assemble!
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Idler 19.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Mining 11.1% ★, Resource Management 11%
- #24 Survival Vacancy
83% 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: Colony Sim 20.6%, Automation 17.1%, Mining 12.2% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%
- #25 Starvester
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 734 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Mining 19.5% ★, Idler 15.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 8.7%
- #26 Factory Town Idle
80% matchVery Positive91% of 1,227 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 18%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Idler 15%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 9.2%
- #27 Assembly Planter
82% matchVery Positive90% of 250 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #28 Skyberry Garden
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Management 10.5%
- #29 Factor Y
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Mining 20.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Colony Sim 14%, Crafting 9.6%
- #30 Fuel Harvest Together
78% matchMixed70% of 973 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Mining 17.7% ★, Job Simulator 17.4% ★, Automation 12.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%
- #31 Terminal Colony Deep Core
77% matchMostly Negative29% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Martin Edmaier
Windows · Mac
Dig deep, manage workers, research tech, and face quantum mysteries in this terminal style incremental mining game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, Mining 14.3% ★, Idler 13.2%, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 9.6%
- #32 Factoriant
77% 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 27.1%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13%, Colony Sim 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #33 Dig a Little Deeper
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Mining 15.7% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #34 MegaFactory Tycoon
76% 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 28.5%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #35 Fracture Field
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,014 reviews2026
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Median: 22.2 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Mining 24.5% ★, Automation 21.8%, Idler 17.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 6.4%
- #36 Kingdom Workshop
75% 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: Colony Sim 16.8%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #37 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Automation 20.1%, Capitalism 7.5%, Base Building 7.1%, Colony Sim 7%
- #38 Upgrade! Inc.
74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: rexty
Windows · Linux
Upgrade! Inc. is a satisfying text-based idle game about unlock and upgrade a series of production lines, hire employeesa nd researching for powerful bonuses. Simple, cozy, addictive, and endlessly engaging. Start your empire today!
Why similar: Idler 22.1%, Automation 15.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Simulation 8.8%
- #39 EvoCell BioClicker
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: furiousDevPhoenix
Windows
Evo-Cell is the next level of an organic cell automaton simulator, inspired by the classic 'Game of Life' by Conway. Embark on an incremental ‘Idle’ adventure where the goal is to colonize and evolve a new species.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Automation 17.1%, Idler 15.2%, Mining 14.9% ★, Crafting 9.9%
- #40 Biztopia: Prologue
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lymo Games
Windows
Welcome to Biztopia: Prologue! Step into the city, start with a small order, build your own trading world, and team up with friends or go solo! An extraordinary journey full of business and opportunities awaits you.
Why similar: Job Simulator 24.8% ★, Automation 16.6%, Capitalism 11.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #41 Copacetic
73% 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 20%, Automation 14.1%, Management 13.5%, Mining 13.3% ★, Resource Management 9.8%
- #42 Cobalt Miner
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Capitalism 12%, Crafting 11.1%
- #43 Flow Factory
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Mining 17.8% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%
- #44 Space Architect
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 290 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Mining 12.4% ★, Resource Management 8.8%
- #45 Military Incremental Complex
70% matchVery Positive83% of 695 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Why similar: Automation 18%, Job Simulator 13.8% ★, Idler 13.5%, Capitalism 12.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #46 Biofactory
71% 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Capitalism 9.7%
- #47 Astra Nauta
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MochaSalmon
Windows
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Automation 20.1%, Idler 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #48 HavenCraft
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.7%, Management 8.1%
- #49 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Idler 10.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Simulation 9%
- #50 Factory Town
71% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 21.7%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%
- #51 My Shelter
68% matchMixed49% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Tree
Windows
A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study. Research tech, farm crops, raise animals, recruit survivors, unlock mines, hunt mutants, fend off aberrations, gear up your squad, craft with machinery, repair the rocket, build your shelter—and conquer the apocalypse!
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Idler 16.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Agriculture 10.5% ★, Resource Management 9.4%
- #52 Industry Idle
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Idler 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 7.5%
- #53 iCorp
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Mining 18.1% ★, Capitalism 12.8%, Economy 10.9%, Crafting 9.6%
- #54 Truck City
67% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Mining 14.3% ★, Colony Sim 12.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #55 Chip Crafters
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nullable Pandas
Windows
Factory Automation game that takes simulation to new heights! Dive into a world where you have the power to turn your small CPU factory into a world-leading factory, becoming a pillar in the global economy.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 10.6%, Capitalism 9.8%
- #56 Idle Colony
67% matchVery Positive82% of 570 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Idler 15.2%, Economy 10.7%, Management 8.2%
- #57 Islandustry
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.3%
- #58 Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Join the early 20th century oil boom! In this game you will hire people, build your own oil field, extract crude oil, fight obstacles and crises what eventually will bring you fortune you’ve never dreamed of!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Job Simulator 15.7% ★, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 12%, Building 9.3%
- #59 Chipmatic
65% matchMixed66% of 167 reviews2026
Dev: Molter
Windows · Linux
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: Job Simulator 29.6% ★, Mining 23.2% ★, Automation 21.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Management 7.2%
- #60 Stationeers
70% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Mining 15.3% ★, Agriculture 12.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%