- #1 Rise of Industry
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, Management 13.8%, Economy 11.9%, Farming 10.4% ★, Resource Management 8.4%
- #2 Node Farm
96% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!
Why similar: Farming 17.3% ★, Automation 14.7%, Farming Sim 13.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Management 8.8%
- #3 Assembly Planter
96% matchVery Positive90% of 250 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 16%, Farming Sim 12.5%, Base Building 10.1%, City Builder 10%, Economy 8.3%
- #4 Captain of Industry
95% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 24.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Economy 9.8%, City Builder 9.4%
- #5 Truck City
94% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Transportation 16.8% ★, Automation 15.4%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.6%
- #6 Industry Idle
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 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 16.3%, Transportation 14.9% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Idler 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%
- #7 Rusty's Retirement
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,660 reviews2024
Dev: Mister Morris Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 22.8 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Farming 22.1% ★, Automation 13.7%, Farming Sim 11.7%, Idler 9.4%, Management 8.5%
- #8 Farm Manager 2021
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,374 reviews2021
Dev: Cleversan GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.
Why similar: Farming 29.3% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Management 10.8%, Idler 7.3%
- #9 Builderment
91% matchMixed67% of 124 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 22.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 7.7%
- #10 NationForge
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Transportation 22.2% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Automation 20.5%, Resource Management 7%, Simulation 6.8%
- #11 Farm Manager 2018
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,799 reviews2018
Dev: Cleversan GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage your own farm in the game Farm Manager 2018! To expand your farm business, produce cheap and sell your products in high prices. Control the process of land cultivation, employ the best staff, buy the most appropriate farm equipment, raise livestock and process the harvested crops.
Why similar: Farming 27.4% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, Management 11.5%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #12 Food Factory
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mosqi Games
Windows
Food Factory is a game in which players can produce food using various machines, starting by collecting basic products.
Why similar: Transportation 17.7% ★, Automation 16.3%, Farming Sim 13.9%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #13 RoboFarm
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfiniStrategy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, automate, and decorate your dream farm! Deploy robot workers, unlock powerful upgrades, and watch your crops thrive while you relax, raising profits to your satisfaction. Save and share your creations, tune in with the music, and experience the world of RoboFarm.
Why similar: Farming 22.7% ★, Automation 17.8%, Farming Sim 14.6%, Idler 10.3%, Management 9.4%
- #14 Mini Settlers
88% matchVery Positive81% of 720 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 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: Farming 23.2% ★, Automation 15%, Transportation 13.7% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 9.7%
- #15 Spaceflight Factory
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Automation 16.6%, Transportation 16.2% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Idler 9.6%
- #16 Intergalactic Transfer Station
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build & manage your Intergalactic Transfer Hub. Receive travellers and dock ships. Help passengers transfer, but also control them. Expand hub, build shops, take care of everyone's needs. Increase profits, change taxes. But beware: dangerous diseases and asteroids may alter your plans!
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, City Builder 14.1%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Base Building 10%
- #17 VoltHaven
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ARTilleryPub: ARTillery Studio
Windows
Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layout with drag-and-drop simplicity. Simulation based on european data.
Why similar: Farming 15.4% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Management 12.2%, Automation 12.2%, Economy 11.4%
- #18 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
85% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Farming Sim 16%, Economy 14.2%, Management 13.8%, Base Building 12.9%
- #19 Doodle Factory
84% 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 21.4%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11%, Idler 8.6%
- #20 Astral Enterprises
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Management 15.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 13.3%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #21 Islandustry
83% 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 23%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10.8%, Building 8.6%
- #22 Civilize
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NCAT
Windows
From the first stone tool to the first starship. One city carries an entire civilization across eight ages. Civilize is the first CivForge: a city-builder where multiple islands and 100+ resources let you forge an arc of human history that is entirely your own.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Transportation 16% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Economy 11.1%, Building 10.3%
- #23 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Idler 17%, Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #24 Factory Town
81% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 19.9%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Transportation 11.3% ★, Management 10.7%
- #25 Ridiculous Shipping
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crowfriend
Windows · Linux
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: Transportation 19.6% ★, Automation 19.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%
- #26 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Management 14.4%, Wholesome 14.2% ★, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 10.6%
- #27 ROADS: Tangled in Traffic
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SamPub: Super Swine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The city is strangled by its own explosive growth. Identify the chokepoints, invest in infrastructure, and redesign the network. One well-placed roundabout could nurse it back to life. Can you relieve the pressure and let prosperity flow as freely as the traffic?
Why similar: Transportation 26.7% ★, Management 15.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #28 Island Idle RPG
79% matchMixed66% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: City Builder 13.7%, Farming Sim 13.5%, Automation 12.5%, Idler 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%
- #29 Airport CEO
79% matchVery Positive83% of 8,268 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 14.6% ★, Automation 14%, City Builder 11.1%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #30 Relaxing Fields
78% matchPositive85% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: LosenArc
Windows
A short, simple and relaxing idle game where you grow crops, build homes for farmers, and earn money to decorate.
Why similar: Farming 26.5% ★, Farming Sim 15.3%, Automation 14.8%, Idler 13.7%, Building 8.8%
- #31 Idyll Isle
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Future Soil Media
Windows
A cozy idle island sim that lives quietly above your taskbar. Five islanders — a farmer, woodcutter, fisherman, miner, and chef — farm, fish, mine, cook, and craft on their own. Build a self-sustaining isle while you work or browse.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.5%, Automation 17%, Idler 16.9%, City Builder 7.7%, Cooking 6.8%
- #32 MegaFactory Tycoon
77% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Building 11.5%, Economy 11.4%, Management 11%, Simulation 10.6%
- #33 Grandpa's Bee Haven
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kickstart Now
Windows · Mac
A cozy 2D idle beekeeping sim that sits at the bottom of your screen. Help Grandpa build his bee haven by setting up beehives, upgrading them, unlocking new hive types, bee species, beekeeping equipment and more land. You can also hire cute helpers and decorate the place in creative ways.
Why similar: Farming 22% ★, Automation 17.1%, Farming Sim 14.3%, Idler 11.8%, Management 8.8%
- #34 Infindustry
76% 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 20.3%, Transportation 17.5% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #35 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 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 29.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Idler 9.4%, Simulation 9.1%
- #36 Little Big Workshop
76% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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 17.3%, Management 16.6%, Simulation 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 11.1%
- #37 Outer Factory
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Transportation 14.5% ★, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #38 Exhibitors
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: Suncats
Windows · Mac
Deep within the clouds of a gas giant, supermassive creatures occupy the sky, each exhibiting an ecosystem. Exhibitors is a Factory building game with elements of farming and exploration.
Why similar: Farming 25.1% ★, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Farming Sim 10.2%, Management 9.2%
- #39 Production Line : Car factory simulation
75% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 19%, Management 18.3%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.6%
- #40 Harvest Bliss
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pandazole
Windows
Chop, mine, collect, build, and harvest! Raise animals, catch fish, and uncover hidden treasures. Harvest Bliss is a relaxing farming and building game where friends can join you too!
Why similar: Farming 24.7% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, Automation 13.9%, Idler 12%, Base Building 11%
- #41 Subway Builder
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Management 13.9%, Automation 11%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #42 Factory Town 2: Paradise
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 10.4%, Management 9.9%
- #43 Astral Bloom
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
Grow a living alien world in this incremental base-builder. Cultivate strange plants, command loyal wisps, and reshape the sky with powerful wishes. Automate and expand your ecosystem as you uncover lost memories. As your sanctuary grows, will you stay... or leave in search of something more?
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Idler 16.5%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.5%
- #44 简单模拟 SimpleSimulation
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FENG LEIPub: FENG ELI
Windows
This is a simulated business game in the form of cards
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.2%, Automation 20%, City Builder 15.1%, Idler 10.5%, Simulation 10%
- #45 Chocolatio
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RawEgg
Windows
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Logic 12%, Strategy 10.6%
- #46 RABAUKEN - Spirit Resort
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1000 Orks
Windows
Build a spirit resort. Research. Expand. Idle. Crowd-control spirits. Repeat. An automation game designed to be played on the side.
Why similar: Farming 20.9% ★, Idler 18.1%, Management 14.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.1%
- #47 FLOWORKS
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QUENCH FORGE
Windows
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Transportation 17.9% ★, Idler 13.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 9.3%
- #48 Copacetic
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Management 18.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Automation 13.7%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 9%
- #49 Hearth and Hamlet
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a cozy incremental medieval citybuilder that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 12.8%, Idler 10.4%, Economy 10.1%
- #50 Automation Empire
71% matchMixed66% of 2,639 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 24.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 10%, City Builder 9.7%, Economy 9.6%
- #51 Deep Space Directive
68% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 12.8%
- #52 Feed The Forest
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indoor Sunglasses
Windows · Linux
A short, innocent incremental forest-builder. Unlock snail powers to spread life in a barren desert. Feed the mysterious Forest with juice. And remember: Blood is a type of juice.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Idler 15.7%, Farming Sim 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.5%
- #53 Container Terminal Simulator
67% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Tikam Studio
Windows
Build and manage your own rail container terminal. Operate specialized vehicles, unload trains, handle container operations, expand infrastructure, optimize logistics flows, and prove yourself as a true logistics tycoon.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Farming Sim 18.7%, Transportation 17.1% ★, Automation 13%, Management 10.9%
- #54 Mini Settlers: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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 19.1%, Transportation 16.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #55 Hamster City
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doonutsaur
Windows
Hamster City is a relaxing idle-building simulator where roads and buildings fuel your food-gathering empire! Build, unlock, and let your city grow in the background as you climb the leaderboard to become the top Chief!
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Idler 20.4%, Management 14.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.4%
- #56 Infinite Construction
70% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: BackSnow Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is an infinite sandbox construction game with no boundaries. The game is simulating the reconstruction of a post-war town; there are 18 kinds of resources in the game, and the construction strategy is to increase the resources and maintain the dynamic balance of different resources.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.4%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #57 Modulus: Factory Automation
65% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21.8%, City Builder 15%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.7%
- #58 Greedy Little Kingdoms
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 14%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.4%
- #59 Island Robot Farm
65% matchVery Positive87% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: MoraCocoPub: Wise Games
Windows
Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Farming Sim 19.8%, Idler 17.6%, Management 12.3%, Economy 10.4%
- #60 Dairy Farm Simulator
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: PVDM Games NZ
Windows
A 2D RPG simulation game that you can build a dairy farm, build a town, and to create and enjoy your own life by living by your rules.
Why similar: Farming 30.3% ★, Farming Sim 16.1%, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 8.5%, Base Building 6.1%