- #1 Hydroneer
97% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 23.4% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core focus on physics-based mining and building custom automation setups to process raw materials.
- #2 Techtonica
96% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 27.8%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a first-person perspective set in an underground alien world, focusing heavily on mining and factory automation.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 34%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, offering the most robust systems for resource management and factory design.
- #4 Satisfactory
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 29.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a 3D, high-fidelity experience in building massive, complex factories across an alien landscape.
- #5 Stationeers
94% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 19.9% ★, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex, physics-based engineering and atmospheric management in a harsh, industrial setting.
- #6 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes building massive, interconnected factories in an infinite world.
- #7 The Crust
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim focused on underground lunar mining and automated resource processing.
- #8 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 32.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredible scale of automation as you build resource-gathering networks across multiple planets.
- #9 FortressCraft Evolved!
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Mining 10.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based game that perfectly captures the underground mining and massive-scale automation feel of MineMogul.
- #10 Captain of Industry
91% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 33.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Mining 9.8% ★, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics and resource management, requiring players to build efficient supply chains from the ground up.
- #11 shapez 2 - Factory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30.2%, Building 13%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A pure automation experience that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on factory design and optimization.
- #12 Infinifactory
90% matchVery Positive95% of 2,465 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 44.8%, Building 24.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 6.9%, First-Person 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-centric game that requires players to build physical factory lines to assemble products in a 3D space.
- #13 Factory Town
88% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 27.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics and transport networks, using automation to move goods across a growing town.
- #14 Automation Empire
89% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Mining 11.6% ★, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that emphasizes creating massive, efficient industrial networks.
- #15 Mindustry
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,625 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines factory automation with tower defense, requiring you to build supply lines to fuel your defenses.
- #16 Oxygen Not Included
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Base Building 30.2%, Building 18.1%, Resource Management 17.8%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep underground management with complex physics, gas, and liquid systems that require careful automation.
- #17 Autonauts
86% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Farming Sim 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique programming-based automation system to build and manage a colony of robots.
- #18 Astro Colony
85% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 27%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy game where you build and manage a modular base in space.
- #19 Incremental Factory
84% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Mining 16.4% ★, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, idler-focused automation game that emphasizes scaling production to massive numbers.
- #20 Final Factory
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 29.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and logistics in a space-faring setting.
- #21 Timberborn
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Building 11.6%, Farming Sim 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique water physics and building mechanics that require clever automation to survive.
- #22 Hammerting
83% matchMixed57% of 2,582 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Mining 22.7% ★, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A vertical mining game that focuses on managing a colony of dwarves in a massive underground mountain.
- #23 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Management 16.4%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game that focuses on the specific logistics of running a car manufacturing plant.
- #24 Builderment
82% matchMixed67% of 121 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 28.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A streamlined automation game focused on resource extraction and efficient production chains.
- #25 Scrap Mechanic
81% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 22.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Physics 14.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a powerful physics engine that allows for creative building and complex mechanical automation.
- #26 Little Big Workshop
81% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 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 21.5%, Building 14.5%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A charming management game that focuses on the layout and efficiency of a small-scale factory.
- #27 Alchemy Factory
77% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #28 Gold Mining Simulator
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 16,162 reviews2017
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 30.8 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 52% ★, Simulation 13%, Open World 9.7%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a more realistic, hands-on approach to the mining aspect of the industrial simulation genre.
- #29 Kubifaktorium
79% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony builder that incorporates automation and resource management in a colorful world.
- #30 Modulus: Factory Automation
75% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 25.2%, Building 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #31 Out of Ore
77% matchVery Positive86% of 3,925 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Mining 17.1% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #32 Main Assembly
78% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Building 16%, Crafting 13.6%, Physics 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep physics-based building and automation tools for creating custom machines.
- #33 Rise of Industry
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Management 19.1%, Automation 17.9%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic logistics game that focuses on building supply chains and managing market demands.
- #34 Orebound
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 22%, Mining 21.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #35 Center Station Simulator
76% matchVery Positive88% of 568 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 25.2%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Management 10.5%
- #36 Star Ores Inc.
74% matchVery Positive82% of 314 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 26.7% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 11%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #37 Outworld Station
73% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 32.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #38 Starground
74% matchVery Positive82% of 188 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 26.4% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%
- #39 Mob Factory
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 30.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.3%
- #40 shapez
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #41 GeoDepths
72% matchVery Positive87% of 299 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 28.8% ★, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #42 Outpath
70% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19%, Farming Sim 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.3%
- #43 Parcel Simulator
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,484 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Building 11.7%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #44 Recycling Center Simulator
69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,830 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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%, Management 12.5%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #45 Block Factory
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 261 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 24.9%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Management 10.1%
- #46 Moose Miners
71% matchMixed69% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 145.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 26.1% ★, Automation 21.7%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10.2%
- #47 AETHUS
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,744 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
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 24.3% ★, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%
- #48 Beer Factory
72% matchMixed42% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: MyceliumGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.5 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 31.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Physics 9.7%
- #49 MegaFactory Titan
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Mining 24% ★, Building 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #50 Tower Factory
68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,199 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 10.3%
- #51 Blacksmith Master
67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 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%, Building 17.6%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #52 MoteMancer
67% matchVery Positive93% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #53 Gunsmith
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,038 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 16%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #54 Food Processing Simulator
66% matchVery Positive89% of 294 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 44.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 7.8%
- #55 Factory Engineer
73% matchMixed46% of 132 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 18.6%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 9%
- #56 Voxel Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,756 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on 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 22.8%, Management 14.6%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #57 Particul
66% matchVery Positive81% of 579 reviews2026
Dev: MILLION PIXELS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 37.1% ★, Automation 20%, Physics 17.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Casual 6.2%
- #58 Chocolate Factory
69% matchMixed56% of 145 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 25.2%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #59 Coal LLC
64% matchVery Positive93% of 1,141 reviews2025
Dev: Bye Bye Ocean
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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% ★, Underground 23.9% ★, Management 16.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Strategy 5.4%
- #60 Chipmatic
66% matchMixed67% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Molter
Windows · Linux
Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!
Why similar: Mining 28.7% ★, Automation 25.2%, Underground 20.9% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Management 7.8%