- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Management 17.8%, Building 15.7%, Logic 13.2%, Strategy 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, node-based factory builder that focuses purely on the logic and flow of production without the clutter of combat.
- #2 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 44.7%, Resource Management 23.5%, Management 10.3%, Building 10%, Strategy 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that challenges you to build and optimize massive, interconnected supply chains.
- #3 Mini Motorways
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,124 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Management 17.2%, Minimalist 15%, Strategy 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a minimalist aesthetic to challenge your ability to manage traffic flow and road networks under pressure.
- #4 Dyson Sphere Program
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Building 18.1%, Resource Management 18.1%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Scales the logistics challenge to a galactic level, requiring complex planning and resource management across multiple planets.
- #5 Production Line : Car factory simulation
94% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Management 19.3%, Economy 15.6%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A deep dive into supply chain management where you must optimize every step of a car manufacturing process.
- #6 Rail Route
94% matchVery Positive89% of 2,523 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 117.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Economy 16%, Building 15.3%, Management 13.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, node-based logistics game that focuses on the intricate puzzle of scheduling and routing trains.
- #7 Mindustry
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,276 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 43.9%, Resource Management 26.3%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 9.6%, 2D 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with deep supply chain automation, requiring you to feed resources into your defenses.
- #8 Rise of Industry
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 21.6%, Management 20.9%, Resource Management 16.9%, Automation 13.5%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the macro-management of supply chains and economy in a sprawling, procedurally generated world.
- #9 Satisfactory
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 46.9%, Resource Management 22.2%, Building 22.1%, Simulation 4%, Strategy 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on factory building, emphasizing verticality and complex conveyor belt logistics.
- #10 Little Big Workshop
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 14.6%, Economy 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a charming, toy-like aesthetic while providing a robust system for managing factory production and worker logistics.
- #11 Good Company
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,782 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Economy 14.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the automation of product assembly and the management of a growing tech business.
- #12 InfraSpace
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Economy 16.4%, Building 15.8%, Management 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that forces you to manage complex transportation networks and automated supply lines to keep your city running.
- #13 Learning Factory
88% matchVery Positive86% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Automation 22.6%, Building 15.9%, Economy 15.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A quirky automation game where you optimize production lines to satisfy the demands of cats.
- #14 Blueprint Tycoon
89% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Management 30.5%, Resource Management 20.3%, Economy 17.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that relies heavily on planning and resource chains to build a successful colony.
- #15 Automation Empire
87% 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 30.1%, Resource Management 14%, Building 14%, Economy 13.3%, Management 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features massive, multi-layered logistics systems that require careful planning to move resources efficiently.
- #16 Incremental Factory
86% 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 26.6%, Resource Management 16.8%, Economy 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Minimalist 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: An idle-focused automation game that strips away complexity to focus on the pure satisfaction of growing production numbers.
- #17 Voxel Tycoon
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,774 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 19.2%, Economy 18.2%, Management 17.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A transport-focused management game where you build complex rail and road networks to connect resource nodes.
- #18 Power to the People
85% matchVery Positive81% of 553 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Economy 22.4%, Management 20.7%, Building 20.7%, Resource Management 20.1%, Simulation 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the grid-based management of power infrastructure, requiring careful planning to avoid blackouts.
- #19 Word Factori
84% matchVery Positive84% of 461 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Logic 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Management 11.4%, Abstract 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game that uses automation mechanics to construct words from individual letters.
- #20 Captain of Industry
84% 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 31.7%, Resource Management 21%, Economy 14.3%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore logistics and automation game that requires you to manage everything from mining to complex manufacturing.
- #21 Mini Settlers
83% matchVery Positive81% of 720 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Minimalist 12.9%, Management 12.6%, Building 12%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, grid-based logistics game that captures the essence of supply chain management in a compact format.
- #22 Timberborn
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 40,383 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Building 18.7%, Management 17.1%, Resource Management 15.1%, Stylized 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes water management and resource logistics in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #23 Beltmatic
81% matchVery Positive94% of 2,149 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Abstract 12%, Building 10.3%, Minimalist 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique automation game that uses mathematical operations to process resources on conveyor belts.
- #24 Potion Tycoon
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 724 reviews2024
Dev: Snowhound GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Management 17.5%, Building 16.1%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on the production and distribution of potions, requiring careful supply chain organization.
- #25 Kubifaktorium
82% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Building 17.4%, Economy 17.2%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that relies on automated transport and production chains to sustain your population.
- #26 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
79% matchVery Positive91% of 26,420 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 71.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Economy 22.2%, Building 21.2%, Management 19.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Strategy 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: The most complex logistics simulation available, requiring you to manage every aspect of a planned economy.
- #27 FOUNDRY
80% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Resource Management 22.8%, Building 22.3%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory builder that offers a vast, open world for designing complex, automated production systems.
- #28 Autonauts
81% matchVery Positive90% of 4,943 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 40.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 13%, Management 10.2%, Simulation 10%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a simple programming language to automate worker robots, making it a great bridge between logic and logistics.
- #29 Logic World
78% matchVery Positive94% of 357 reviews2021
Dev: Mouse Hat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Building 22.8%, Logic 21.1%, Puzzle 9.2%, Simulation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the fundamental logic circuits that power complex machines, perfect for players who enjoy the puzzle side of automation.
- #30 Modulus: Factory Automation
76% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.1%, Building 15.8%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Logic 9.8%
- #31 shapez
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.4%, Abstract 8%
- #32 Stationeers
78% 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 29.2%, Resource Management 18.5%, Building 18.4%, Logic 17.7%, Management 16.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-complexity simulation that requires you to build and automate life-support systems in space.
- #33 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting
Why similar: Wholesome 12.7% ★, Automation 11.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.1%
- #34 Airport CEO
76% matchVery Positive83% of 8,268 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Automation 18%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 12.8%, Building 12.6%, Economy 11.8%
- #35 Factory Town
75% 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 30%, Resource Management 18.7%, Management 15.1%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.4%
- #36 Tavern Master
74% matchVery Positive92% of 13,102 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Why similar: Management 27%, Building 23.4%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #37 Urbek City Builder
74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,880 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Economy 16.2%, Management 16%, Resource Management 15.6%, Minimalist 9.7%
- #38 Mini Metro
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,603 reviews2015
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Minimalist 20%, Management 14.4%, Mouse Only 13.4% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #39 Factory Town Idle
73% 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 29.8%, Resource Management 21.6%, Minimalist 18.7%, Management 15.8%, 2D 5%
- #40 Inn Tycoon
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 815 reviews2025
Dev: Evil Goose GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Management 18.4%, Building 18%, Resource Management 16.8%, Economy 16.3%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #41 Industry Idle
73% 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 24.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.8%, Minimalist 10.6%
- #42 Upload Labs
70% matchVery Positive92% of 7,876 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Management 13.3%, Logic 12.6%, Economy 11.4%, Simulation 10.7%
- #43 Train Valley
73% matchVery Positive90% of 3,436 reviews2015
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
Why similar: Mouse Only 24.2% ★, Resource Management 18.7%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.6%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #44 uFactory
71% matchMixed70% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Logic 13.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 11.6%
- #45 Parcel Simulator
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,569 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Economy 13.7%, Management 13.6%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #46 Inn Tycoon: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Evil Goose Games
Windows
Welcome to Inn Tycoon: Prologue! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 15.6%, Building 15.4%, Economy 14.8%, Management 13.2%, Stylized 7.4%
- #47 Mini Settlers: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Resource Management 13.5%, Minimalist 11.2%, Abstract 9.4%, Management 8.5%
- #48 Transport INC
72% matchMixed70% of 1,079 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!
Why similar: Economy 15.3%, Automation 14.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 13.7%, Building 13%
- #49 RAILGRADE
69% matchVery Positive85% of 1,228 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Resource Management 16.1%, Economy 13.8%, Building 13.4%, Management 12.2%
- #50 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Logic 11.1%, Strategy 9.4%
- #51 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 926 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Management 28.1%, Building 26.7%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Relaxing 9.7%
- #52 Block Factory
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Logic 11.3%
- #53 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 25.6%, Economy 16.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #54 Dorfromantik
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,391 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: Resource Management 20.5%, Logic 18.5%, Minimalist 17%, Relaxing 11%, Puzzle 10.6%
- #55 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
66% 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: Building 18.8%, Management 18.7%, Economy 17.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 8%
- #56 Crafting Idle Clicker
71% matchMixed49% of 919 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 42.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Abstract 13%, Management 12.6%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.7%
- #57 Microtopia
65% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Resource Management 21.8%, Management 17.9%, Building 14.5%, Strategy 5.6%
- #58 Capital Simulator
70% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: chenjd
Windows · Mac
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Why similar: Management 20.2%, Economy 14.9%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Minimalist 12.9%
- #59 Rise of Industry 2
67% matchMixed64% of 214 reviews2025
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Why similar: Resource Management 16.4%, Economy 16.2%, Logic 16.1%, Management 15.4%, Building 15%
- #60 MoteMancer
65% matchVery Positive92% of 249 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.8%, Puzzle 6.2%