- #1 Captain of Industry
97% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Economy 8.4%
- #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 15.4%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Agriculture 12.4% ★, Resource Management 8.9%, Capitalism 8.8%
- #3 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 20.4%, Idler 14.5%, Mining 12.3% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.1%
- #4 Moose Miners
95% matchMixed69% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 145.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 15.1% ★, Automation 13.2%, Colony Sim 13%, Idler 10.9%, Capitalism 8.9%
- #5 Resourcer
94% 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 17%, Idler 14.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%
- #6 Incremental Town RPG
94% 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 15.6%, Idler 14.1%, Mining 13.1% ★, Automation 13%, Base Building 11.2%
- #7 Odd Realm
92% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Mining 14.5% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #8 Common'hood
93% matchMixed52% 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%, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Management 8.3%
- #9 Hammerting
91% matchMixed57% of 2,582 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 16.6%, Mining 16.1% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #10 Illuminaria
91% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 17.5% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 14%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #11 Eureka
90% 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 16.9% ★, Automation 14.3%, Agriculture 13.4% ★, Economy 10%, Management 9.4%
- #12 Infinite Ruins
89% 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 20.2%, Idler 15.4%, Capitalism 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #13 Automation Empire
89% matchMixed66% of 2,635 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 24.1%, Base Building 15%, Mining 10.2% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Economy 7.9%
- #14 Terminal Descent
87% 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 18% ★, Automation 16.4%, Idler 15.8%, Economy 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #15 Dinky Guardians
88% 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 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #16 Raccateer
86% 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 24.2%, Automation 22.3%, Idler 20.5%, Capitalism 14.8%, Management 8.5%
- #17 Wanderers' Outpost
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Capitalism 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #18 Timberworks
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pretoriano_devPub: Coliseum Studio
Windows
Timberworks is an incremental factory management game where you gather resources across different biomes and produce everything from planks to gears. Expand your production and sell through a vast railway network to become an industrial tycoon.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Idler 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 9.4%
- #19 Resource chill
84% 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 19.5%, Automation 18%, Idler 15.7%, Capitalism 10.3%, Base Building 8.4%
- #20 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
82% matchVery Positive90% of 1,300 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 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 18.9%, Capitalism 13.3%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #21 Resources Assemble!
82% 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 26.4%, Idler 19.8%, Crafting 12.6%, Mining 11.1% ★, Resource Management 11.1%
- #22 Survival Vacancy
84% 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 20.5%, Automation 17.3%, Mining 12.3% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%
- #23 Starvester
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
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 20.7%, Mining 19.5% ★, Idler 15.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 8.8%
- #24 Assembly Planter
83% matchVery Positive91% of 248 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 19.5%, Agriculture 14.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #25 Factory Town Idle
81% matchVery Positive91% of 1,215 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 73.6 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 18.1%, Colony Sim 17%, Idler 15.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%
- #26 Fuel Harvest Together
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 12.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%
- #27 Factor Y
80% 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 21.6%, Mining 20.9% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Crafting 9.6%
- #28 Factoriant
79% 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 27.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Colony Sim 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #29 MegaFactory Tycoon
78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 10.3%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #30 Dig a Little Deeper
78% 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 22.2%, Mining 15.8% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #31 Fracture Field
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 872 reviews2026
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.4% ★, Automation 21.8%, Idler 17.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 6.5%
- #32 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
77% 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 24.8% ★, Automation 20%, Capitalism 7.5%, Base Building 7%, Colony Sim 7%
- #33 Upgrade! Inc.
76% 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 22.3%, Automation 15.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Simulation 8.7%
- #34 Kingdom Workshop
77% 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 16.7%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #35 EvoCell BioClicker
75% 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 19.7%, Automation 17.2%, Idler 15.3%, Mining 14.9% ★, Crafting 9.8%
- #36 Biztopia: Prologue
75% 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 16.7%, Capitalism 11.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #37 Copacetic
74% 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 19.8%, Automation 14.2%, Management 13.5%, Mining 13.3% ★, Resource Management 9.8%
- #38 Flow Factory
74% 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 25.1%, Mining 17.8% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%
- #39 Terminal Colony Deep Core
73% 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 17.7%, Mining 14.4% ★, Idler 13.3%, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 9.6%
- #40 Space Architect
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 288 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 20.2%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Mining 12.5% ★, Resource Management 8.8%
- #41 Military Incremental Complex
71% matchVery Positive85% of 672 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 18.1%, Job Simulator 13.8% ★, Idler 13.5%, Capitalism 12.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #42 Biofactory
73% 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 24.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Capitalism 9.7%
- #43 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 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 31.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Idler 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Simulation 9%
- #44 Astra Nauta
71% 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%, Automation 20.3%, Idler 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #45 Dig Inc.
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: TematusPub: ARC51
Windows
Fill the quota, pay the workers. Keep the profits, progress your company. Deploy miners to the richest veins, carriers to haul the goods, and merchants to turn ore into cash.
Why similar: Mining 21.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Idler 14.4%, Capitalism 11.3%, Management 9.7%
- #46 Industry Idle
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 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 19.5%, Idler 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 7.6%
- #47 Factory Town
72% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%
- #48 HavenCraft
70% 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 27.3%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Management 8.1%
- #49 My Shelter
69% matchMixed50% of 34 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 20.9%, Idler 16.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Agriculture 10.4% ★, Resource Management 9.4%
- #50 iCorp
69% 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 22%, Mining 18.2% ★, Capitalism 12.7%, Economy 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #51 Truck City
68% 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 19.1%, Mining 14.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #52 Chip Crafters
68% 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 24.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Economy 10.7%, Capitalism 9.8%
- #53 Idle Colony
68% matchVery Positive83% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 22.9%, Colony Sim 18%, Idler 15.3%, Economy 10.8%, Management 8.2%
- #54 Stationeers
72% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Mining 15.4% ★, Agriculture 12.7% ★, Base Building 11%
- #55 Chipmatic
66% matchMixed67% of 159 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 21.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Management 7.2%
- #56 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 26.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #57 Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
67% 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 25.2%, Job Simulator 15.7% ★, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 9.3%
- #58 Paragon Pioneers
69% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Idler 16.7%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Economy 9.6%
- #59 Outer Factory
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 9.6%
- #60 MR FARMBOY
64% matchVery Positive84% of 420 reviews2026
Dev: mrdboy
Windows · Mac · Linux
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Agriculture 16.3% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Idler 7.4%