- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.3 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 22.3%, Management 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #2 shapez
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,432 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 25.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 8.5%
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,218 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 190.0 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 28.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 7.1%
- #4 Factory Town
95% 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 21.9%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,749 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 46.1 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 22.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #6 Satisfactory
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 269,956 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.5 hrsMean: 109.7 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 27.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #7 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,630 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 25.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.3%, City Builder 8.1%
- #8 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,201 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 21%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #9 Captain of Industry
91% matchVery Positive90% of 10,867 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.1 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 30.6%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 8.7%, City Builder 8.7%
- #10 Alchemy Factory
89% matchVery Positive90% of 2,280 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.0 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 30.4%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9%
- #11 InfraSpace
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,903 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 20.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #12 Automation Empire
91% 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 24.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #13 MineMogul
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,741 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 25.2%, Building 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #14 Microtopia
89% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 18.3%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #15 Outworld Station
87% matchVery Positive86% of 680 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 9.9 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 25.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.4%
- #16 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
86% matchVery Positive84% of 2,220 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 20.3%, Building 17.6%, City Builder 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #17 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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 27%, Sandbox 15%, Building 13%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.7%
- #18 Final Factory
85% 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 24.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #19 Beltmatic
84% matchVery Positive94% of 2,073 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.7%
- #20 Desynced
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,929 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 19.7%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #21 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 27%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10%
- #22 Block Factory
82% 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 19.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #23 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,472 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 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 21.4%, Management 16%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #24 Good Company
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11%, Management 9.8%, City Builder 9.5%
- #25 MoteMancer
79% matchVery Positive93% of 241 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 23.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.5%
- #26 Infinifactory
81% 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 39%, Building 22.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Logic 6.1%
- #27 Kaizen: A Factory Story
78% matchVery Positive93% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 39.5%, Building 16.5%, Logic 15%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.7%
- #28 Astro Colony
79% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.4 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 26%, Base Building 18.8%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #29 Rail Route
78% matchVery Positive89% of 2,491 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 9.6%
- #30 Builderment
80% 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 22.2%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #31 Learning Factory
77% matchVery Positive86% of 513 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.7%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #32 Outpath
77% matchVery Positive94% of 2,944 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 18.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%
- #33 Mindustry
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,521 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #34 RAILGRADE
75% matchVery Positive85% of 1,209 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.9%
- #35 Eden Crafters
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,398 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 25.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%
- #36 Kubifaktorium
76% matchVery Positive81% of 792 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 23.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 9.8%
- #37 Plan B: Terraform
72% matchVery Positive91% of 3,506 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #38 Facteroids
75% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 13.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #39 Nova Lands
73% matchVery Positive89% of 3,416 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #40 Mob Factory
73% 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 27.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8.1%
- #41 ReFactory
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
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 21.7%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Strategy 9.3%
- #42 Parcel Simulator
69% matchVery Positive94% of 2,474 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 31.7%, Management 12.2%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%
- #43 uFactory
71% matchMixed70% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
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 28%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 13.2%, Management 11.4%
- #44 Skyformer
70% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #45 Beltex
72% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
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 25.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #46 Mini Settlers
70% matchVery Positive84% of 648 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 22%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.6%
- #47 Opus Magnum
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,868 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 59.7%, Logic 14.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 7.5%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #48 Star Birds
67% matchVery Positive93% of 2,702 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 22.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, City Builder 9.6%
- #49 Chocolate Factory
71% matchMixed55% of 143 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 20.6%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 10%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.8%
- #50 Final Upgrade
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.5%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #51 Upload Labs
66% matchVery Positive92% of 7,283 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 40%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 10.6%, Logic 8.3%, Immersive Sim 6.5%
- #52 Factory Engineer
74% 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 17%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Simulation 10.5%
- #53 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
68% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 9.6%
- #54 Masterplan Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 735 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 25.3%, Building 15.7%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 13%, Logic 9.7%
- #55 Sixty Four
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,640 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Management 14.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #56 Autonauts
69% matchVery Positive90% of 4,928 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 32.1%, Base Building 14%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #57 Widget Inc.
67% matchVery Positive86% of 747 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 40.6%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 7.2%, Futuristic 6.8%
- #58 Tower Factory
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,194 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 22.4%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #59 The Crust
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,509 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 22.9 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 21.6%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #60 Little Big Workshop
68% matchVery Positive84% of 3,368 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 18.2%, Management 13.3%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 10.3%