- #1 A Simpler World
97% matchNo user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Apes of the Screen
Windows
A small, cozy building game. Tidy up and decorate a pixel-art world. No goals, just vibes.
Why similar: Decorating 33.5% ★, Cleaning 29.8% ★, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 7.3%
- #2 Dark City: Scavenge Craft Power
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GMG
Windows
Scan dumpsters for valuable recyclable materials and restore a city trapped in darkness. Craft solar infrastructure from recovered waste, automate recycling systems, and gradually bring buildings, traffic, and an entire city back to life.
Why similar: Cleaning 21.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.6%, Automation 11.7%, Building 9.4%
- #3 Jade Spring
96% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Slyllama
Windows
Relax, potter, and build in Jade Spring, a small Guild Wars 2 decorating and homesteading fan game. Clear bugs and weeds, enjoy mini-games, and build your garden with powerful design tools and interchangeable templates, all set in the Canthan region of Guild Wars 2.
Why similar: Cleaning 32.9% ★, Decorating 32.3% ★, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 4.4%
- #4 Builderment
95% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.5%
- #5 Automation Station
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #6 The Borderless
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: New Eden Games
Windows
A cozy floating island management sim where you build and expand your own island world from a small platform in the middle of the ocean. Welcome visitors, meet their needs, plan activities, hire staff, earn money, and grow your ocean paradise day by day.
Why similar: Decorating 32.8% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #7 House Flipper Remastered Collection
92% matchMixed68% of 824 reviews2026
Dev: Frozen Way
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Guess who's back – and shinier than ever! House Flipper Remastered Collection lets you become a one-person renovation crew. Clean, build, decorate, and sell for profit! Now with better graphics, voice acting, all expansions in one toolbox, and some more heartfelt addition. It’s flipping time!
Why similar: Cleaning 33.4% ★, Decorating 31.4% ★, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.2%, Base Building 5.9%
- #8 House Flipper
93% matchVery Positive94% of 111,419 reviews2018
Dev: EmpyreanPub: Frozen District
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
Why similar: Cleaning 39.8% ★, Decorating 26.1% ★, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Base Building 5.4%
- #9 Belts of Iron
91% matchPositive90% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #10 Facteroids
91% 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 17.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Robots 11.1%, Building 10.1%
- #11 Dyson Sphere Program
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 23.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #12 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 9.2%
- #13 House Flipper 2
89% matchVery Positive87% of 19,835 reviews2023
Dev: Frozen District
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.
Why similar: Cleaning 30.1% ★, Decorating 29.9% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #14 Please fix the mess
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: omidjmPub: the thinking pixel
Windows
Clean up chaotic interiors, remove trash, repaint walls, and redecorate messy spaces, sometimes with a few suspiciously bodies lying around.
Why similar: Cleaning 42.6% ★, Decorating 35.3% ★, Sandbox 8.4%, Simulation 4.8%, Building 3.6%
- #15 Sandcastle
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bubblebird StudioPub: Future Friends Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
On a sun-warmed tropical shore, quietly craft a mighty sandcastle. Carve moats, raise towers and walls, then embellish with driftwood, pebbles, shells and seaweed. Gentle tides, soft surf and a calming color palette turn every build into a peaceful, relaxing moment.
Why similar: Decorating 30.4% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 10.6%, Top-Down 7.4%
- #16 Block Block Block
86% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Aender Lara
Windows
Design your dream space! In this tiny cozy building game, stack and arrange uniquely shaped wooden blocks to craft charming dioramas. Design cozy bakeries, elegant living rooms or quirky studios, create beautiful spaces filled with warmth and personality.
Why similar: Cleaning 38.6% ★, Decorating 34.7% ★, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 3.5%
- #17 Islandustry
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 12.2%
- #18 Modulus: Factory Automation
84% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 20%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #19 Doodle Factory
85% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #20 PoliPlanet
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.3%
- #21 Technicity: Prologue
83% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Automation 17.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.8%, Open World 9.4%
- #22 Hotel Architect
80% matchVery Positive94% of 2,276 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: Decorating 36.4% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Family Friendly 5.9%
- #23 Little Gable Studio
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pancake Cat LLC
Windows
A cozy house-building sandbox where you design, customize, and decorate homes at your own pace. Build freely, explore in first-person, and bring your dream spaces to life.
Why similar: Decorating 41% ★, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, City Builder 10.6%, Simulation 8.7%
- #24 Auroria
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tianjin Wumai Technology Co., Ltd
Windows
Welcome to Auroria, an open-world, multiplayer, and cooperative sandbox game. Design the Base, survive with your pals, and start your own interstellar travel in a relaxed and fun way.
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Driving 12.9%, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #25 Diorama Worlds
84% matchPositive93% of 40 reviews2017
Dev: Mixed Reality Worlds
Windows
Build and Explore worlds with a growing library of tiles and objects. Simple to use, easy to learn, fast to build.
Why similar: Level Editor 21.9%, City Builder 20.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13%
- #26 Pistonica
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.3%, Open World 11.8%
- #27 Mycelium Conquest
77% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #28 The Colonists
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,240 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Automation 17.9%, Robots 15.1%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%
- #29 Nova Lands
78% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 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 21%, Base Building 15.8%, Robots 15%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #30 Deep Crafter
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.2%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #31 Tiny Shop: make it cozy
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ScoreboardGamesPub: Spaghetti Cat
Windows
Leave the hustle and bustle behind and bring your dream of a cozy little shop to life! Create, decorate, and watch visitors fall in love. Let your imagination run wild and craft a beautiful, inviting space they'll want to return to again and again.
Why similar: Decorating 36.4% ★, Cleaning 27.6% ★, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.8%, Family Friendly 5.8%
- #32 GlowCore
76% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: CNDY StudiosPub: Nat Games
Windows · Linux
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.1%
- #33 Smart Factory Tycoon
79% matchMixed60% of 927 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.2%
- #34 Go-Go Town!
74% matchVery Positive93% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: Decorating 37.5% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Automation 10%
- #35 Factory Magnate
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #36 Substructure
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #37 Infinite Number Factory
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #38 Chocolate Factory
75% matchMixed57% of 150 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 15.9%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #39 FACTORY I
73% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #40 plexum
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #41 Microtopia: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 17.7%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Robots 12%, Building 10.7%
- #42 Factory Town
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #43 Microtopia
70% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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%, City Builder 16.4%, Robots 15.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #44 Automation Empire
74% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, City Builder 10.9%
- #45 CivDle
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Star Software
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Automation 19%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #46 Sole Duty
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Siar Games
Windows
Run a museum by keeping the floors spotless. Scrub with slippers, chase off bugs, collect relics, and unlock new rooms and furniture.
Why similar: Cleaning 43.6% ★, Decorating 29.4% ★, Sandbox 7.5%, Family Friendly 4.9%, Simulation 4.7%
- #47 Factorio
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 29.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, City Builder 7.6%
- #48 Prospector
70% matchMixed70% of 152 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 17.5%, Robots 16.7%, Base Building 15%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #49 FluxWerks
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 23%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #50 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 207 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! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #51 Hell Cleaners
67% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: WFP Entertainment
Windows
A first-person automation game set in hell. Suck up demon bodies, feed them into the Grinder, fuel your Purifier, and deploy a swarm of Doombas to build a cleaning operation that runs itself and takes the rot back one zone at a time.
Why similar: Cleaning 46% ★, Automation 20.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 6.9%
- #52 Happy Pet Island
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cats & Bites Studio
Windows
Happy Pet Island is a virtual pet game where you can create and care for your pet, decorate your home, explore an island full of activities, play mini-games, dress up your pet in different styles, and meet other players in a colorful social community.
Why similar: Decorating 54.6% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Resource Management 6.7%, Casual 5.5%
- #53 Krasnaya Factory
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 13.4%, Open World 11.6%, Driving 10.9%
- #54 WC Dream
69% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Home
Windows
You are the KING of your own throne, capable of creating anything you desire. YOU are the KING!🏰
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.1%, Third Person 7.6%
- #55 Mycelium Conquest: Mitosis
66% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #56 Infindustry
70% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.4%
- #57 Geopogo Cities
67% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Geopogo
Windows
Geopogo Cities: Explore real cities—SF, NY, London, Miami—in 3D. Place buildings, tweak layouts, and roam urban icons in early access. Roads, systems, and expanded tools coming to build a full city sim. Shape the future with us!
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Simulation 13.2%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Third Person 7.9%
- #58 Satisfactory
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Building 12.4%, Open World 11.7%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #59 Beltex
68% matchVery Positive86% of 233 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 22.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 11.5%
- #60 Ascend Factory
67% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Matlyce Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ascend Factory, a factory simulation game that challenges your ingenuity and resource management skills. Immerse yourself in a world of automation and strategic planning as you progress through levels of increasing complexity!
Why similar: Automation 24%, Level Editor 16.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 15.4%, Resource Management 9.3%