- #1 Microtopia
97% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Colony Sim 13.9%, Automation 11.2%, Moddable 10.2%, City Builder 8.7%, Base Building 7.7%
- #2 Mini Settlers: Prologue
96% 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: Colony Sim 21.5%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #3 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
96% matchMixed63% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue is a free simulation game in which you begin your journey as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing and research stuff. Create best game on the planet!
Why similar: Building 25.4%, Sandbox 21.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 9.9%
- #4 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
Windows
Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Sandbox 20.5%, Building 14.9%, Simulation 10%, Exploration 8.9%
- #5 Swarmdustry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
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 20.9%, Moddable 17.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 8.2%, Crafting 8%
- #6 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 248 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: Automation 28.8%, Resource Management 23.6%, Building 22.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.1%
- #7 Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue
93% matchVery Positive93% of 405 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue is a free business simulator game in which you make money from garbage. Collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improving your factory.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 10%
- #8 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
92% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 10%
- #9 Kubifaktorium
91% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 18.7%, Automation 16.1%, City Builder 12.9%, Moddable 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%
- #10 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
90% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free 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. Try it yourself for free!
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Building 16.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Procedural Generation 11.6%
- #11 Dungeon Tycoon: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive97% of 373 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: Base Building 30%, Sandbox 24.7%, Building 24.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #12 Oxygen: First Breath
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.2%
- #13 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #14 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 20.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.2%
- #15 Icaria
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
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 16.3%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Resource Management 8%
- #16 Automation Empire
88% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 23.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #17 Mountaincore
85% matchMixed65% of 268 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Moddable 18.2%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Crafting 8.5%
- #18 Factory Town
86% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #19 Car Manufacture: Prologue
84% matchVery Positive86% of 319 reviews2023
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.
Why similar: Building 23%, Resource Management 19.3%, Sandbox 17.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 10%
- #20 Modulus: Factory Automation
79% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.1%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #21 Prospector
81% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
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 17.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Robots 11.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%
- #22 Astro Colony
78% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21.2%, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.3%
- #23 Autonauts
82% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 25.1%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7%
- #24 InfraSpace
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 17.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Moddable 14.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #25 The Colonists
82% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.8%, Automation 16%, City Builder 14%, Robots 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #26 Facteroids
81% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
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 16.5%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #27 Builderment
79% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
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%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #28 Beer Factory - Prologue
78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,022 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Resource Management 21.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 10.6%
- #29 The Crust
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 20.1%, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #30 Ratopia
75% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #31 Sandustry
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 19.4%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.6%
- #32 FOUNDRY
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 17.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 11.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.6%
- #33 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
77% matchMixed68% of 439 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Strategy 12.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 5%
- #34 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
71% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 25.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Robots 15.4%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.8%
- #35 Illuminaria
76% 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: Colony Sim 17.2%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.7%
- #36 shapez
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 23.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Moddable 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%
- #37 Mini Settlers
72% matchVery Positive81% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 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: Colony Sim 20.4%, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #38 Gnomoria
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 18.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #39 Empires of the Undergrowth
69% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 18.9%, Moddable 16.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.8%
- #40 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 506 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 20.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Automation 10.9%, Building 10.2%
- #41 Good Company
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #42 FEED THE QUEEN
67% matchMixed69% of 586 reviews2026
Dev: Quiétude
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gather food to grow your colony. Evolve and upgrade specialized worker types. Discover and combine interesting synergies. Optimize your production, customize your strategy and feed the Queen ever-increasing amounts of food!
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.7%, Automation 20.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Colorful 5.4%
- #43 RimWorld
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.2%, Moddable 16.2%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #44 World Crafter TD: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 15%, Survival 8.7%
- #45 Farlanders: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive93% of 289 reviews2021
Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
- #46 After the Collapse
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
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 21%, Moddable 14.6%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #47 Rebots
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPonies
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Automation 16%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Robots 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #48 Factory Town 2: Paradise
63% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
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 17.8%, Colony Sim 15.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.1%
- #49 Havendock
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Automation 15%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #50 Factorio
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 25.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #51 Colony Simulator
70% matchMixed66% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 14.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #52 Little Incrementisle
62% matchVery Positive82% of 976 reviews2026
Dev: AM TEAMPub: Unexpected
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Little Incrementisle is an incremental colony-building game where you land on one wild island after another. On each island, you gather resources, construct buildings, recruit villagers, and develop your colony, until you’re ready to set sail for the next one.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, City Builder 36.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Indie 3.2%
- #53 Brave New Wonders
62% matchVery Positive87% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: City From Naught Inc.
Windows
Automate, optimize, and build vast factories in a post-apocalyptic automation game for those who have evolved beyond conveyor belts. Command intelligent robots that obey your plain-text commands in any language, explore the ruins of a lost civilization, and rebuild humanity one machine at a time.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Robots 13.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #54 shapez 2 - Factory
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 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 20.7%, Moddable 14.9%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #55 Space Architect
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 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 23.7%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.7%