- #1 Outpath
97% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 17%, Incremental 11%, Resource Management 9.5%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #2 Forage Wizard
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,591 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Automation 15.6%, Incremental 13.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #3 Sandustry
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #4 Nova Lands
95% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 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 25.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%
- #6 Widget Inc.
94% matchVery Positive85% of 779 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.4 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 28.7%, Incremental 23%, Resource Management 15.4%, Idler 13.2%, Base Building 12.6%
- #7 Incremental Factory
93% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 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 21.2%, Idler 14.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Mining 8.7% ★
- #8 Sixty Four
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,665 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 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 21%, Incremental 18.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Idler 11.5%, Crafting 9.5%
- #9 Fracture Field
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,264 reviews2026
Dev: Type Ten
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Incremental 16.1%, Idler 15.8%, Mining 15.7% ★, Resource Management 11.4%
- #10 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
91% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 23.8%, Building 16.9%, Open World 12.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%
- #11 Modulus: Factory Automation
90% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 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 22.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #12 AutoForge
89% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 22.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #13 MineMogul
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.1%, Mining 13% ★, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%
- #14 Hydroneer
89% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Mining 15.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #15 Outpath: First Journey
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Incremental 13.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Idler 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%
- #16 Idle Deepcore
86% matchVery Positive86% of 399 reviews2026
Dev: Bluehood Games
Windows
Idle Deepcore is an incremental mining game where you dig ever deeper, smelt ore into ingots, upgrade your pickaxe and machines, and grow several mines in parallel to build a vast underground industry.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Incremental 19.7%, Idler 18.7%, Mining 17.1% ★, Crafting 6.2%
- #17 Elsewhere
86% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Farming 14.2% ★, Mining 10.8% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.2%
- #18 shapez
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #19 Belts of Iron
84% matchVery Positive87% of 52 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 22.3%, Open World 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #20 Techtonica
84% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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 26.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10%
- #21 Prospector
83% 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 20.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11%
- #22 Rock Island
82% matchMixed68% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Silence Moon
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Lead your stone villagers to build an ever-growing tribe around a mysterious cube. Gather resources, create powerful builds, and maintain the cycle of growth as the entire system spirals into overwhelming floods of effects and numbers.
Why similar: Incremental 24.5%, Idler 22.6%, Mining 21.7% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Automation 10.4%
- #23 Suncraft
80% matchVery Positive93% of 585 reviews2026
Dev: Spicy Tuna Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Another sun-filled day begins in this cozy pixel-art adventure. Gather, craft, upgrade, and help the villagers revive the land. Can you rebuild the grand Sunspire and bring the village back to its golden days?
Why similar: Incremental 16.7%, Automation 15.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Idler 9.9%
- #24 Orebound
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.9%, Automation 17.1%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #25 Lightyear Frontier
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Mining 12.4% ★, Open World 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #26 Dragon Forge
82% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Idler 11%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #27 Starvester
79% matchMixed70% of 810 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Incremental 15.5%, Idler 14.5%, Mining 12.8% ★, Resource Management 11.5%
- #28 MoteMancer
78% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 9.4%
- #29 Mob Factory
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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%, Resource Management 13.2%, Open World 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.3%
- #30 Forager
78% matchVery Positive89% of 44,137 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 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 25%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Open World 10.7%
- #31 Captain of Industry
77% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 33.5%, Resource Management 18.4%, Base Building 16%, Building 8%, Management 6.4%
- #32 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 28.6%, Open World 17.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #33 Feed the Reactor
75% matchVery Positive82% of 665 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Why similar: Incremental 41.3%, Idler 25.3%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Relaxing 6.9%
- #34 Sludgineers
74% matchVery Positive88% of 1,818 reviews2026
Dev: Snickerdoodle GamesPub: Funk Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.
Why similar: Incremental 25.1%, Mining 22.7% ★, Resource Management 17.3%, Idler 11.7%, Relaxing 10%
- #35 GeoDepths
76% matchVery Positive87% of 308 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Farming 20.2% ★, Automation 17.2%, Mining 15.1% ★, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 11.3%
- #36 Satisfactory
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 26.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #37 The Last Caretaker
73% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 12.1%
- #38 Fantasy Miner: Idle Depths
75% matchMixed65% of 103 reviews2026
Dev: SuperioritaPub: Kai
Windows
Dig for ore, discover new resources, smelt ingots, and unlock hundreds of upgrades in this fantasy mining idle game. Mine faster, dig deeper, and watch your progress grow.
Why similar: Incremental 20.5%, Automation 18.9%, Idler 17.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%
- #39 Chocolate Factory
76% matchMixed56% of 152 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 22.4%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.1%
- #40 Faun Town
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #41 Tiny Isle
71% matchVery Positive91% of 162 reviews2026
Dev: Nature Rituals StudioPub: Etherous Games Limited
Windows
Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.
Why similar: Incremental 16.9%, Resource Management 15.9%, Idler 14.7%, Building 13.1%, Automation 8.8%
- #42 Swarmdustry
71% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Mining 10% ★, Crafting 9.9%
- #43 Tribe: Primitive Builder
73% matchVery Positive81% of 805 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 12%
- #44 Artillery Miner
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 246 reviews2026
Dev: Alextgr8
Windows
An incremental mining game, where you mine through massive blocks using guns, fire, lasers and nuclear missiles. Discover new ores, unlock new worlds and weapons as you progress through the upgrades tree and become the ultimate Artillery Miner!
Why similar: Incremental 19.4%, Mining 19.2% ★, Idler 16.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 8.3%
- #45 Astro Colony
69% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 24.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Open World 9%, Building 8.8%
- #46 Mine Empire
70% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Forge Games
Windows
In Mine Empire, start with basic mining and expand by gathering resources, upgrading equipment, and deploying machines for full automation. Blast through deep mineral veins with explosives, unlock rebirth upgrades and advanced technology, and build your own powerful mine empire.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Idler 17.8%, Mining 17% ★, Incremental 16.7%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #47 Factory Town
71% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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 26.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #48 Click Mage
69% matchVery Positive92% of 2,593 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Incremental 24.5%, Resource Management 19.7%, Mining 18.8% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #49 Crafting Idle Clicker
74% matchMixed49% of 934 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Incremental 17.9%, Idler 16.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 7.3%
- #50 Builderment
72% 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 26.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #51 Solarpunk™
67% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Farming 17.7% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Open World 11%, Crafting 11%
- #52 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
68% matchVery Positive84% of 4,696 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Open World 17.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12.9%
- #53 Grow: Song of the Evertree
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,572 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Open World 29.7%, Sandbox 23.9%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Exploration 9.3%
- #54 Chop Chains
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 261 reviews2026
Dev: Blasted Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Chop Chains is a relaxing incremental game where you chop, gather, and upgrade to become the ultimate lumberjack through trees, axes, and skills.
Why similar: Idler 31.2%, Crafting 15.6%, Relaxing 11.9%, Management 11%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #55 Factorio
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 31.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #56 Kin and Quarry
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 483 reviews2026
Dev: The Fox Knocks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig. Upgrade. Repeat.
Why similar: Incremental 30.1%, Idler 25.3%, Mining 25.2% ★, Automation 17.4%, Indie 2%
- #57 The Magical Mixture Mill
68% matchVery Positive84% of 612 reviews2024
Dev: GlowlightPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 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 31.6%, Crafting 15.7%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Relaxing 9.3%
- #58 Incremental Town RPG
69% matchMixed60% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Idler 15.4%, Incremental 14.8%, Automation 13.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #59 Havendock
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Open World 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%
- #60 Flotsam
65% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 12.4%