- #1 shapez 2
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 26.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a pure, highly polished automation experience that emphasizes spatial puzzle-solving and factory optimization.
- #2 Scorchlands
96% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Hex Grid 18.8% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the hex-grid layout and focuses on complex resource management within a stylized fantasy setting.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 31.7%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive automation game, it offers the most robust logistical challenge for players who enjoy scaling complex production systems.
- #4 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
95% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 25.6%, Base Building 15%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines automation mechanics with a charming fantasy world, perfect for those who enjoy the thematic side of MoteMancer.
- #5 Against the Storm
94% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 17.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Management 12.3%, Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features a deep fantasy atmosphere and complex logistical chains that mirror the strategic depth of MoteMancer.
- #6 Mindustry
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 17.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends factory automation with tower defense mechanics, requiring both logistical planning and strategic combat defense.
- #7 The Magical Mixture Mill
93% matchVery Positive84% of 601 reviews2024
Dev: GlowlightPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Management 16.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Magic 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the alchemical theme of MoteMancer, focusing on managing production lines for magical potions.
- #8 Dyson Sphere Program
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 31.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It scales the automation experience to a galactic level, offering immense logistical puzzles and resource management.
- #9 Alchemy Factory
91% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 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 33%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It directly mirrors the alchemical automation theme, focusing on building efficient production lines for magical goods.
- #10 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the automation genre into a beautiful 3D space, focusing on verticality and massive factory construction.
- #11 Desynced
90% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.3 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 27.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique take on automation by using programmable units and logic-based systems in a sci-fi setting.
- #12 Plan B: Terraform
89% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 24.5%, Hex Grid 13.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the logistical transportation of resources across a sandbox environment to achieve planetary transformation.
- #13 Beltmatic
89% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the mathematical and puzzle-like aspects of automation, requiring players to solve complex production equations.
- #14 shapez
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 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 26.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The original title offers a minimalist, puzzle-focused approach to automation that is perfect for those who enjoy the logic of MoteMancer.
- #15 Tower Factory
87% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 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 27.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title merges automation with tower defense, forcing players to build efficient factories to supply their defensive structures.
- #16 Captain of Industry
86% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 35.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 18.5%, Management 7.9%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly complex logistics and production simulation that rewards careful planning and resource efficiency.
- #17 Autonauts
86% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 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 34.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces a programming-based automation system that rewards players for teaching robots to perform complex tasks.
- #18 Factory Town
85% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 26.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the logistical challenge of moving goods across a map, emphasizing transportation networks and resource flow.
- #19 Timberborn
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 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 31.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features unique water-management logistics and vertical building, providing a fresh take on resource-management strategy.
- #20 Astro Colony
84% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 20.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines automation with space exploration, requiring players to build and manage interconnected colonies.
- #21 Kubifaktorium
84% matchVery Positive81% of 786 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 28.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It uses a grid-based system to manage production chains and colonist needs in a colorful, stylized environment.
- #22 Techtonica
83% matchMixed65% of 3,183 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 28%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game focuses on base building and resource extraction in a beautiful, subterranean alien world.
- #23 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
81% matchVery Positive93% of 42,947 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Why similar: Crafting 27.6%, Resource Management 18.3%, Management 15.5%, Sandbox 15%, Relaxing 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on automation, it captures the core alchemical puzzle-solving and experimentation found in MoteMancer.
- #24 Builderment
82% matchMixed66% of 119 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 28.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a streamlined, accessible automation experience that focuses on crafting and resource management.
- #25 Masterplan Tycoon
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 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 28.4%, Resource Management 17.4%, Management 12%, Building 11.3%, Puzzle 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the pure logistics of resource management, stripping away the fluff to highlight the flow of materials.
- #26 Forager
80% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a fast-paced mix of resource gathering, crafting, and base expansion that feels satisfyingly addictive.
- #27 Settlement Survival
79% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Building 18.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Management 17.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Resource Management 15.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and logistical challenges of growing a settlement, emphasizing resource production and trade.
- #28 Outpath
78% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #29 Craftopia
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Crafting 28.2%, Open World 24%, Sandbox 18.2%, Automation 16.5%, Building 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends automation, fantasy, and survival, allowing players to build complex factories in a massive open world.
- #30 AutoForge
77% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
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 22.6%, Magic 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10%
- #31 FOUNDRY
77% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%
- #32 Eco
78% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Sandbox 17.3%, Resource Management 16.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation of resource management and environmental impact, requiring players to build sustainable production chains.
- #33 MineMogul
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #34 Orb of Creation
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,469 reviews2022
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is an active incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
Why similar: Resource Management 31.5%, Magic 25.9%, Crafting 13.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #35 Mob Factory
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 27.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #36 Eden Crafters
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #37 Incremental Factory
75% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 28.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10%
- #38 Sixty Four
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,629 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Resource Management 16%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #39 Beltex
75% 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 24.1%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 7.9%
- #40 Opus Magnum
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,719 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 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 58.7%, Puzzle 16.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Sandbox 5.3%, Hex Grid 4.8% ★
- #41 Nova Lands
73% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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 27.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.2%
- #42 Learning Factory
72% matchVery Positive86% of 511 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 22.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%
- #43 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
71% 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 34.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 8.1%
- #44 Industry Idle
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #45 Outworld Station
70% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 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 30.6%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #46 Factory Planner
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 36.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #47 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 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 30.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #48 Prospector
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #49 Skyformer
70% matchVery Positive90% of 59 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 30.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 9.6%
- #50 Microtopia
69% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 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 26.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%
- #51 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
69% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Puzzle 6.1%
- #52 Widget Inc.
68% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 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 42.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 21.2%, Simulation 5.1%, Strategy 3.4%
- #53 Factory Town Idle
68% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Resource Management 18.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 10.7%, Magic 9.3%
- #54 Parcel Simulator
66% matchVery Positive94% of 2,396 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 17.3 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 38.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 11.4%, Building 8.5%
- #55 Star Birds
65% matchVery Positive93% of 2,628 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 27.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 16.1%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.2%
- #56 Click Mage
66% matchVery Positive92% of 2,408 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Resource Management 27.8%, Crafting 17.8%, Magic 11.8%, Fantasy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%
- #57 Block Factory
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 255 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 22.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 9%
- #58 Potion Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 712 reviews2024
Dev: Snowhound GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Management 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 10.3%
- #59 Idle Awakening: Mages Path
66% matchVery Positive80% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Matter Gaming
Windows
Embark on a journey of a fledgling mage. Start with nothing. Improve yourself, develop your skills through a vast tree, unlock upgrades, learn spells, gather resources, and craft unique items. Your progress never stops – it continues even while you're offline.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Magic 11.6%, Management 11%
- #60 ReFactory
69% 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 26.6%, Base Building 21.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 9%