Games Like Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

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 25.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines 2D exploration and base-building with an automation system that feels intuitive and rewarding.

Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!

Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Cozy 14.2%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar loop of creature-collecting and automation in a colorful, accessible world.

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 23%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 15%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a premier 3D automation experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and vertical base-building.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Building 17.7%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person automation experience set in a mysterious, bioluminescent underground world.

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 17.2%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes large-scale factory construction in an infinite, procedurally generated world.

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 37.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on programming cute bots to perform repetitive tasks, mirroring the spark-based automation of the seed game.

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 26.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Trains 10% ★, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential automation game that provides the depth and logic systems that inspired the genre.

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 18.8%, Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.7%, RTS 13%, Base Building 12%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS-style automation game that uses logic-based units to manage complex production chains.

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 20.7%, Trains 13.3% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends town-building with complex logistics and transport systems in a charming, stylized environment.

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: City Builder 23.1%, Automation 21.6%, Building 19.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that requires advanced automation and water management to survive and thrive.

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: Open World 21.7%, Building 20.9%, Crafting 20.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Automation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates automation with creature-collecting and open-world survival, capturing the multi-faceted gameplay of the seed.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Building 17.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Open World 14.2%, Automation 12.9%, Co-op 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and base-building with modular automation systems in a vibrant, low-poly space setting.

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 22%, Building 16.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Uses physics-based mining and machinery to create satisfying, manual-to-automated production lines.

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Building 15.7%, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game where you use programmable companions to automate your base and gathering tasks.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming and survival-crafting with a strong emphasis on building automated production lines.

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Why similar: Trains 25.5% ★, Automation 15.4%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 11.7%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics of train-based transport and resource management in a strategic, mission-based format.

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: Trains 22.4% ★, Automation 18.7%, Building 15.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that leans heavily into automation and crafting within a voxel-based fantasy world.

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 26.8%, Building 17.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 10%, City Builder 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Scales up the automation experience to an interstellar level while maintaining a focus on exploration and logistics.

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 28.1%, Building 20.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed automation game that focuses on crafting and production chains in a sandbox setting.

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 25.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of tower defense and automation where you harvest resources from defeated enemies to power your factory.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines massive-scale factory automation with space exploration and combat elements.

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 26.1%, Base Building 16.2%, RTS 13.6%, Co-op 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op space station builder that requires careful automation and resource management to survive.

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 22.1%, Building 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features an addictive progression loop of resource gathering and automation that keeps the player constantly engaged.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Building 27.7%, Automation 24%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, City Builder 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, management-focused production game that emphasizes the layout and efficiency of a workshop.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 37.4%, Sandbox 23.5%, Exploration 22.5%, Fantasy 9.4%, Singleplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creature-collecting and resource management in a colorful, relaxing, and exploration-heavy environment.

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 20.1%, Building 17.6%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.5%

Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.

Why similar: Trains 25.7% ★, Automation 17.3%, Building 14.7%, Cozy 14.1%, Procedural Generation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, train-focused automation game that emphasizes cozy vibes and simple logistics.

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 26%, Resource Management 21.1%, Crafting 19.2%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 16.5%

Why You'll Like It: Encourages collaborative resource management and base-building within a complex, simulated ecosystem.

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 24.3%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Trains 13.1% ★, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep industrial logistics experience with a focus on building massive, interconnected transport networks.

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: Automation 19%, Building 15.5%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 25%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 10.3%

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: Building 17.4%, Automation 15.6%, Cozy 13.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Co-op 10.8%

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: Procedural Generation 20.1%, Automation 18.5%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 17.6%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 22%, Building 17.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines fantasy exploration and survival with automation mechanics to build a thriving base.

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 17.9%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Building 19.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.4%

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 21.2%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Trains 32% ★, Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.8%

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 21.6%, Building 21.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.7%

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 20.2%, Building 18.8%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 10.3%

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 24.9%, Trains 17.8% ★, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.7%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Procedural Generation 11%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Building 18.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 11.8%

Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!

Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Building 16.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Co-op 10.4%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Building 24.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Co-op 15.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Action-Adventure 7.6%

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 20.7%, Building 13.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Automation 18.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Building 14.5%, RTS 12.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Open World 10.8%

Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!

Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Building 29.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Logic 6.9%

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 27.6%, Building 22.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%

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 24.8%, Building 18.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Logic 9.5%

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 31.1%, Cozy 24%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Exploration 7.2%

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: Automation 24.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Procedural Generation 14%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Building 17.5%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 24.1%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, City Builder 10.4%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Trains 24.4% ★, Building 16.2%, Automation 15.4%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 10.4%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Building 18.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Automation 14.5%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Trains 17.9% ★, Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.3%