- #1 Hydroneer
97% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 23.3% ★, Automation 21%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact same hands-on, physics-based mining and resource processing loop.
- #2 Factorio
96% 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 33.7%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate automation standard, matching the complex supply chain and base-building mechanics.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 29.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Translates the factory-building genre into a rich 3D environment similar to MineMogul's scale.
- #4 Stationeers
95% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 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: Mining 19.8% ★, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep physics-driven systems and complex mechanical engineering reminiscent of underground setups.
- #5 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 27.5%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a subterranean factory-building experience focused on mining and resource automation deep underground.
- #6 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 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 32.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9%, Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines vast resource automation with large-scale engineering and building mechanics.
- #7 Captain of Industry
93% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 33.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Mining 9.8% ★, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes heavy industrial management, complex supply chains, and resource extraction.
- #8 Out of Ore
92% matchVery Positive85% of 4,211 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
Why similar: Mining 17.6% ★, Farming Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses directly on heavy mining simulation, excavation, and resource management operations.
- #9 FOUNDRY
91% 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 25%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a block-based 3D automation and building experience akin to underground factory design.
- #10 Sandustry
89% 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 25.4%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive open-world sandbox centered around survival, crafting, and automation.
- #11 Infinifactory
91% matchVery Positive95% of 2,485 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Automation 44.1%, Building 24.5%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 6.8%, First-Person 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on physics-based puzzle automation and constructing assembly lines in industrial environments.
- #12 AutoForge
90% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends automation and exploration with heavy resource gathering and crafting.
- #13 Automation Empire
89% 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 25.9%, Base Building 13%, Mining 11.6% ★, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on creating complex logistics networks and fully automated transport and production systems.
- #14 Factory Town
88% 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 27.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics, transportation, and building efficient supply chains for a growing settlement.
- #15 Modulus: Factory Automation
86% 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 25%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A direct automation sandbox focused on optimizing production lines and resource management.
- #16 Incremental Factory
87% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 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 25.7%, Mining 16.3% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines idle mechanics with traditional factory-building optimization loops.
- #17 shapez
86% 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 28.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Strips automation down to pure geometry, emphasizing spatial design and continuous manufacturing growth.
- #18 Alchemy Factory
84% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Implements industrial automation mechanics within a themed, magical crafting environment.
- #19 Final Factory
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 29.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automated factory construction with space exploration and resource management.
- #20 Starground
84% matchVery Positive82% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 26.3% ★, Automation 21%, Base Building 11%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative automation and mining experience with deep base-building loops.
- #21 Center Station Simulator
82% matchVery Positive88% of 577 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Explores operational management and sandbox building in an isolated sci-fi station.
- #22 Little Big Workshop
83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
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 21.7%, Building 14.8%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Resource Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Manages a miniature factory floor with complex production lines and worker logistics.
- #23 Orebound
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Resource Management 17.5%, Mining 15.3% ★, Building 12.1%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dwarf-themed survival with resource management and deep underground mining.
- #24 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 31.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Farming Sim 9.2%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Teaches programming and automation concepts through colonizing worlds with robotic helpers.
- #25 Star Ores Inc.
79% matchVery Positive82% of 341 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 26.6% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features planetary mining and resource processing with a heavy emphasis on sandbox crafting.
- #26 Swarmdustry
79% 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 28.5%, Mining 15.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Mixes survival mechanics with automated factory optimization and strategy.
- #27 Production Line : Car factory simulation
81% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 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 26.1%, Management 16%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to design and optimize the ultimate manufacturing and assembly plant.
- #28 Mob Factory
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 29.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates tower defense mechanics directly into an aggressive automation and resource loop.
- #29 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,909 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 27.7% ★, Automation 23%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 7%
- #30 shapez 2 - Factory
76% 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 30.3%, Building 13.3%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%
- #31 Belts of Iron
78% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers an open-world automation experience centered around sprawling logistics and crafting.
- #32 Lightyear Frontier
77% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Automation 16.7%, Farming Sim 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #33 Astro Colony
75% 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: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #34 Mineral Mining Simulator
76% matchVery Positive82% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Mining 23.9% ★, Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 15%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 10.5%
- #35 MoteMancer
74% matchVery Positive92% of 260 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 26.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #36 GeoDepths
75% matchVery Positive87% of 308 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10%
- #37 Factory Engineer
78% matchMixed45% of 134 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers classic factory planning and optimization puzzles.
- #38 Builderment
74% 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 28.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #39 Outpath
72% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9%
- #40 Voxel Tycoon
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 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 29.8%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 11.5%
- #41 Nightwater
71% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Mining 13% ★, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%
- #42 Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
71% matchMixed62% of 156 reviews2026
Dev: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 10%
- #43 Blacksmith Master
70% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Building 17.8%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 12.8%
- #44 Food Processing Simulator
69% matchVery Positive88% of 341 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
Why similar: Automation 44.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 7.9%
- #45 Gold Mining Simulator
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 16,414 reviews2017
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 31.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
Why similar: Mining 51.3% ★, Simulation 13%, Open World 9.9%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #46 Gunsmith
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,058 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #47 Beer Factory
73% matchMixed41% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: MyceliumGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Beer Factory 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 31.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Physics 9.9%
- #48 AETHUS
68% matchVery Positive95% of 2,081 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 24.8% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%
- #49 Recycling Center Simulator
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,974 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Building 12.6%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #50 Particul
68% matchVery Positive80% of 781 reviews2026
Dev: MILLION PIXELS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Click to mine particles and watch your pile grow. Turn resources into profit, automate extraction, research new technologies and trade. Can you mine the rarest particle and ascend? There is just one way to find out.
Why similar: Mining 36.5% ★, Automation 20.5%, Physics 17.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Casual 6.4%
- #51 Moose Miners
70% matchMixed69% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 144.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 26.2% ★, Automation 21.6%, Building 12%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 10.1%
- #52 FluxWerks
67% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 15%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #53 Chocolate Factory
70% matchMixed56% of 152 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!
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #54 Coal LLC
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,364 reviews2025
Dev: Bye Bye Ocean
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Why similar: Mining 40.4% ★, Underground 23.9% ★, Management 16.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 5.3%
- #55 Beltmatic
67% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #56 Block Factory
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 266 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 24.6%, Building 13%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Management 9.9%
- #57 Coal Mining Simulator
71% matchMostly Negative34% of 183 reviews2023
Dev: GamePlanet
Windows
Welcome to the world of Coal Mining! Start with almost nothing and get to the top - develop your mine, sell coal, buy new machines and avoid dangers in this sandbox simulator. Take control of numerous mining machines. Destroy, mine, drill, transport and blow things up.
Why similar: Mining 37.6% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Physics 12.3%, Management 10.6%, Open World 7.1%
- #58 Starminer
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,894 reviews2026
Dev: CoolAndGoodGames
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
Why similar: Mining 32% ★, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 15.7%, Physics 14%, Management 12.4%
- #59 Dirty Business
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,072 reviews2026
Dev: Plan Dirty Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Underground 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 13%, Management 12.1%
- #60 Parcel Simulator
65% matchVery Positive93% of 2,861 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 35.8%, Building 12%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8%