
That's no moon. It's a giant ball of garbage. Build a factory to excavate, wash, sort, classify and disassemble the detritus of ages past.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Simulation, Singleplayer, Automation.

That's no moon. It's a giant ball of garbage. Build a factory to excavate, wash, sort, classify and disassemble the detritus of ages past.

Idle interstellar Factory 2
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.

Cartefact
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Sandbox 32%, Automation 28.6%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Simulation 11.2%
Tinker-Game is a circuit building game where you can make the circuits you always dreamed of! With 20 components and 5 layers to work with you make make small or large circuits all the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 41.1%, Simulation 25.3%, Top-Down 21.5%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Fast-paced factory builder with combat. Automate, defend, and destroy the alien mothership!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Automation 28.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Top-Down 8%
Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.2%, Automation 39.9%, Simulation 14.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Sandbox 22.6%, Simulation 18.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%
Large scale computer redstone! Taking computer redstone to the next level with 24bit color screens, keyboard inputs, powerful tools like copy pasting, saving blueprints, modifying simulation speed and more, all ready to be used.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.4%, Simulation 21.3%, Top-Down 17.5%, Automation 16.2%, 2D 8.2%
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: Sandbox 26.4%, Automation 24.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Top-Down 10.8%, Simulation 9.8%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Automation 23.6%, Simulation 20.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
Float Night is a small sandbox game that is easy to collect resources, simple to build, no craft, and sustainable.
Why similar: Sandbox 69%, Simulation 12.7%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Base Building 6.2%, Indie 3.9%
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Automation 23.4%, Top-Down 11.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Sandbox 27%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 7.5%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.7%, Automation 25.1%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Simulation 9.8%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 16.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Sci-fi 11.5%
A short automation challenge aimed at everyone from beginner to veteran. Take your time to uncover the lore of an ancient civilization without any dangers. Can you find a clever way to use logistics to overcome the scarce space available?
Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Automation 24.2%, Top-Down 15.6%, Sci-fi 9.9%, 2D 7%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Sandbox 26.4%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Sandbox 25.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
Cast into a medieval kingdom by ancient stones, you must forge, automate, and expand your workshop. Alone or in multiplayer, fulfill royal orders, harness coal, steam, electricity and uncover the secrets that could return you home.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.8%, Automation 23.3%, Top-Down 14.2%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 7.9%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.9%, Automation 28.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%
Another Game About Automation is a casual factory-building where you have to generate numbers and combine them with mathematical operations. Upgrade and unlock new mathematical operations.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.7%, Automation 32.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Sandbox 27.2%, Simulation 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Top-Down 7.5%
Haul cargo, hunt bounties, upgrade your ship and get paid in a gritty lo-fi universe. Hand painted graphics, procedural generated star systems that can be navigated, story campaign mode or huge open-world.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.5%, Sci-fi 24.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, 2D 9.4%
Assemble Ensemble is a music-themed factory-building game, that offers a variety of fun melodies, for you to recreate by cleverly placing machines and conveyors!
Why similar: Sandbox 43.9%, Automation 28.3%, Top-Down 23.1%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
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: Sandbox 29.2%, Automation 25.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 9.6%
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.3%, Automation 25.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Top-Down 11.3%, Simulation 11.1%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Sandbox 29%, Simulation 17.5%, Top-Down 10.2%, 2D 4.8%
A multiplayer 2D physics sandbox game where you can build and share creations. Features include electricity, temperature, and destructible ragdolls.
Why similar: Sandbox 41.9%, Automation 19.7%, Simulation 18.6%, 2D 10.6%, Minimalist 9.3%
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 24.4%, Sandbox 23.5%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Top-Down 10%
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Sandbox 22.9%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Top-Down 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%
Stellar Descending is a turn-based factory builder spanning multiple layers. As a scout, design vertical production lines using conveyors, assemblers, and inserters. Use strategy and automation to conquer the planet and uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 14%, Simulation 12.8%, Resource Management 11%
Bestion is a game that combines Roguelike tower defense elements with automated factory construction. Players are required to construct their own factory on a planet and protect the kernel from monster attacks.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Sandbox 18.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Top-Down 9.8%
In dependency of where in the body you are positioned, you get different boni. In general you will get Bone, Blood and Tissue with which you can create more bugs. In addition to that you will be able to research different bug types which have boni themself.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Sandbox 25.4%, Simulation 19.1%, 2D 12%, Minimalist 7.4%
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Sandbox 28.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Top-Down 7.1%
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: Sandbox 38%, Automation 27.7%, Simulation 16.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Top-Down 4.6%
With just a few sliders you can make beautiful structures from millions of little creatures following each other.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.3%, Automation 28.7%, Simulation 24.1%, 2D 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%
FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Sandbox 28.9%, Simulation 16%, Resource Management 13%, 2D 4.6%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.9%, Automation 26.5%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 9.1%
This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 12%
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 24.6%, Sandbox 23.4%, Top-Down 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Sci-fi 10.8%
Away Team is a new Oxygen Not Included game. Mistakenly shipped off to an alien world, you will need to harness the environment and master temperature, pressure, chemical reactions and more in order to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Simulation 11.3%
Elementary Sandbox is a physics-based particle simulator that allows you to create, destroy, and interact on an unimaginable scale. It merges real-time gravity, strong and weak interaction, electromagnetic and material interactions.
Why similar: Sandbox 43%, Simulation 24.6%, Top-Down 19.3%, 2D 9.3%, Indie 2.2%
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Top-Down 20.6%, Simulation 17.6%, 2D 9.6%, Resource Management 7.2%
Travel to multiple completely unique dimensions, gather their unique natural resources, build new structures and buildings, craft high-level materials, and automate everything. In doing so, you will be able to complete your ultimate goal: constructing the "Dimensional Engine".
Why similar: Sandbox 34.3%, Automation 32.5%, Simulation 13%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sci-fi 6.3%
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.8%, Automation 25.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.3%
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: Sandbox 21.1%, Automation 19.8%, Top-Down 15.4%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%
Minimalist automation puzzle game where you build physics-based machines to manipulate the flow of numbers.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.2%, Automation 29.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Minimalist 9.4%, Base Building 5.5%
Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Automation 18.2%, Top-Down 14.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Minimalist 9.1%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Sandbox 17%, Sci-fi 14%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12%
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.9%, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Top-Down 11.6%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Automation 15%, Top-Down 15%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Base Building 10.4%
You begin as a beaten Dark Lord in castle debris. Good news: you still have cute loyal servants to obey your orders and one superpower - you can teleport the whole castle with all your belongings when you want. Explore maps, mine resources, use your ingenuity to invent tricky traps.
Why similar: Sandbox 42.6%, Simulation 36.8%, Indie 11%, 2D 9.6%
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.4%, Automation 20.9%, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Top-Down 10.9%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.2%
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Sandbox 27%, Automation 25.5%, Sci-fi 15%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.2%
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 31.1%, Sandbox 21.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 32.4%, Simulation 21.8%, Top-Down 13.3%, 2D 9%, Resource Management 8.1%
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 31.6%, Sandbox 30.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 5.3%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Sandbox 22.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 10.9%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Automation 22.9%, Sci-fi 13%, Base Building 11.3%, Simulation 9.4%