Games Like Microtopia

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 15.2%, Moddable 14.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core ant-colony theme and focuses on managing insect swarms to expand and defend your territory.

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 25%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The programming-based automation of worker units provides a very similar experience to managing pheromone trails and robot logic.

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 18%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features cute, creature-based automation that mirrors the charming yet functional labor systems found in Microtopia.

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 26.7%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for automation, it offers the most robust systems for optimizing supply chains and resource flow.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 7.2%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: This deep colony simulator requires complex automation and resource management to keep your population alive in a hostile environment.

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 18.1%, Moddable 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 8.9%, Futuristic 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the pure, satisfying logic of factory automation and logistics.

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 25.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 10.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive scale of automation that challenges players to manage resources across multiple planets.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Automation 15.2%, City Builder 14.8%, Robots 12.1%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a charming aesthetic and focuses on building automated supply chains for a colony of robots.

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: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 19.2%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-builder emphasizes water management and resource logistics, requiring careful planning to sustain your beaver society.

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 16.1%, Robots 13.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for deep, vertical factory building in an infinite, procedurally generated world.

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 27.3%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game excels at building massive, interconnected production lines in a beautiful, alien world.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Moddable 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines automation-based manufacturing with tower-defense mechanics, perfect for those who enjoy the logistical side of base building.

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: Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 15.6%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 8.5%, Moddable 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends colony management with automation, tasking players with creating efficient production chains for their settlers.

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics of planetary transformation through massive-scale automation and resource distribution.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 14%, Moddable 13.8%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on pure automation, it is the premier colony simulator for managing complex social and resource-based systems.

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 9%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-builder adds a layer of economic management and complex societal needs that will appeal to fans of Microtopia's depth.

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 16.5%, City Builder 16%, Moddable 11.5%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that forces you to solve complex traffic and transportation logistics to keep your colony growing.

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Automation 18.8%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused automation game where you use programming to manage autonomous units in a sandbox environment.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features space-based base building with a strong emphasis on automating resource collection and processing.

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 16.7%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11%, Robots 10.2%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This management game tasks you with designing efficient production lines and managing a growing business.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 19.3%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 8.5%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: This subterranean factory-building game emphasizes resource management and exploration in a unique alien setting.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Moddable 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines large-scale automation with space exploration and base expansion.

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

Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Robots 19.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a visual programming language to automate tasks, making it a great bridge for players who enjoy logic-based colony sims.

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: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 14.8%, Moddable 13.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers highly technical automation and survival mechanics for players who want to manage every single wire and pipe in their base.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 14.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim set on a floating garbage city that requires creative resource management to survive.

Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

Why similar: Automation 14.9%, Colony Sim 13.6%, City Builder 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Robots 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed automation game where you build and manage mining colonies on asteroids.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.7%, Automation 12.1%, Moddable 11.7%, City Builder 11.2%, Robots 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A planetary-scale strategy game that requires extensive automation to terraform Mars.

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 21.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A streamlined automation game that focuses on the core loop of resource extraction and factory optimization.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 11.7%, Resource Management 8.8%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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: Colony Sim 13.9%, Automation 11.2%, Moddable 10.2%, City Builder 8.7%, Base Building 7.7%

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic colony-sim focuses on survival and base-building in a harsh, resource-starved world.

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 15.6%, Colony Sim 15%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 17.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Futuristic 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 16.9%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Robots 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building with strategy and resource management, tasking you with leading a robotic army to reclaim a world.

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 25.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Colony Sim 12%, City Builder 10.4%

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: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 23.5%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Resource Management 11.3%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, City Builder 8.9%

Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.

Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Moddable 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 20%, Sandbox 10.7%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Building 7.9%

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 23.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%

Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Robots 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8%

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 22.1%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 9.5%, City Builder 9%, Resource Management 8.9%

A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 35%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 18.8%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Futuristic 7.8%

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 16.4%, Moddable 15.2%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Crafting 7.9%

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

Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Futuristic 9.8%, Management 7.7%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 15%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.8%

Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Robots 9%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 23.4%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.1%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Moddable 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.8%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 6.3%, Management 4.6%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Automation 16.4%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 17.6%, Robots 15.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%

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

Why similar: Automation 19%, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.4%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, Management 16.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 8%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

Why similar: Automation 16.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%