Games Like Modulus: Factory Automation

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 21.8%, Management 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 25%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%

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 21.1%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 9%

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 27.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 7.3%

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 24.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11%, City Builder 8.2%, Resource Management 8%

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 21.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.5%

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 29.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 9.8%, Building 9.3%

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 20.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 7.5%

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 21.6%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%

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 19.6%, City Builder 15.7%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 26.3%, Base Building 19%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 23.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, City Builder 7.8%

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 22.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 9%, City Builder 8%

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

Why similar: Automation 25%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 30.2%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 9%

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

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: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9%

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: Automation 26.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Building 17.9%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 23.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9%

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

Why similar: Automation 18.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 20.7%, Management 15.7%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 23%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.9%

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 19.2%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 26.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%

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

Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 18.9%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9%

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 25.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 18.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 9.9%, Management 9.6%

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

Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 37.4%, Building 23.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Logic 6.4%

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Why similar: Automation 38.1%, Building 17.2%, Logic 15.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Why similar: Automation 19.7%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.8%

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 19.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.4%

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 21.2%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 13%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%

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 22.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%

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

Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.7%

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Automation 58.4%, Logic 15.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 5.8%

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 22.2%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%

Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Strategy 9.3%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%

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: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10.1%

A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Why similar: Automation 39%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Logic 8.2%, Sandbox 6.6%

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 26.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 8.4%

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 22.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 31%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 6.1%

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Building 16.3%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Logic 10.1%

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 31.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%

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

Why similar: Automation 16.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9%

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 19.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.5%

uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.

Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Building 13.7%, Management 11.3%

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 26.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%

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 22.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 7.9%

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 19.7%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%

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 30.9%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 15%, Building 12%, Resource Management 10.7%, City Builder 9.9%