- #1 Time to Morp
97% matchVery Positive84% of 231 reviews2025
Dev: Team HalfBeardPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.9%, Cozy 14.4%, Building 14%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar blend of creature-collecting, base-building, and automation within a colorful, cozy world.
- #2 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 26.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Trains 10% ★, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation experience that provides the deep logistical challenge found at the core of Oddsparks.
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 23.2%, Base Building 16%, Building 15%, Co-op 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a high-fidelity 3D automation experience that emphasizes verticality and base-building on a massive scale.
- #4 Autonauts
95% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on programming cute robots to perform repetitive tasks, mirroring the creature-labor mechanics of Oddsparks.
- #5 Nova Lands
94% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 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 26%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, open-world survival-craft game that uses drones to automate resource gathering and production.
- #6 Autonauts vs Piratebots
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 517 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Building 20.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Adds a combat and defense layer to the creature-programming automation loop found in the original Autonauts.
- #7 Techtonica
93% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 22%, Building 17.6%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent underground world.
- #8 Core Keeper
91% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Building 20.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Co-op 12.1%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration, base-building, and automation in a charming, top-down perspective that feels very similar to Oddsparks' gameplay loop.
- #9 FOUNDRY
92% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 17.4%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for extensive base-building and complex logistical systems.
- #10 Desynced
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,936 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Building 15%, City Builder 13.6%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique programming-based approach to automation that offers deep control over your units and base.
- #11 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 21.9%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and automation with a focus on terraforming and large-scale base construction.
- #12 Factory Town
90% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Trains 13.3% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics and transport chains in a colorful, grid-based world that emphasizes efficiency.
- #13 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 14.1%, Automation 13.1%, Co-op 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes exploration and base-building in a stylized, low-poly environment that feels both cozy and adventurous.
- #14 Slime Rancher
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 153,291 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.3%, Sandbox 23.5%, Exploration 22.6%, Fantasy 9.4%, Singleplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creature collection and resource management in a vibrant, relaxing environment that shares the cozy appeal of Oddsparks.
- #15 Forager
87% matchVery Positive90% of 43,424 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 22.1%, Building 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 13%
Why You'll Like It: An addictive mix of resource gathering, crafting, and light automation that keeps the player constantly engaged in a charming world.
- #16 shapez 2 - Factory
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.9%, Building 18%, Base Building 11.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Logic 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pure, satisfying automation experience that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on factory design.
- #17 RAILGRADE
86% matchVery Positive85% of 1,211 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 25.4% ★, Automation 15.6%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 11.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical challenge of transport and supply chains using trains in a stylized setting.
- #18 Kubifaktorium
86% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Trains 22.4% ★, Automation 18.9%, Building 15.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that incorporates automation and crafting mechanics to manage your population's needs.
- #19 Final Factory
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 22.3%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based automation game that scales from small outposts to massive, galaxy-spanning production lines.
- #20 Alchemy Factory
83% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Building 19.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed automation game that focuses on crafting potions and managing production lines.
- #21 Mob Factory
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 26.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.7%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A creative twist on the genre that uses tower-defense mechanics to automate resource collection from enemies.
- #22 Hydroneer
82% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22.3%, Building 16.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based mining and automation game that offers a unique, tactile approach to resource management.
- #23 Omega Crafter
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 23%, Building 14.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that allows you to program companions to automate your base and resource gathering.
- #24 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 618 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 24.7%, City Builder 19.8%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends city-building and automation with survival elements in a unique, mobile-base setting.
- #25 Outpath
80% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Building 17.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, clicker-style resource management game that features satisfying progression and building.
- #26 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 362 reviews2025
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Curve Games
Windows
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 25.6% ★, Automation 17.5%, Building 14.6%, Cozy 14.3%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, train-focused automation game that prioritizes a cozy aesthetic over complex industrial stress.
- #27 MoteMancer
79% matchVery Positive93% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Base Building 15%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-based automation game that uses creature-like mechanics to manage your base and production.
- #28 Modulus: Factory Automation
77% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 20.3%, Building 17.6%, City Builder 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #29 Tower Factory
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,199 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, RTS 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with factory building, requiring you to automate your ammunition and resource supply.
- #30 Automation Empire
81% matchMixed66% of 2,635 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 24.6%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Trains 13.1% ★, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale logistics and industrial automation across sprawling maps.
- #31 Outworld Station
76% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 16%, RTS 13.5%, Co-op 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #32 Orebound
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 913 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 17.6%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 10%, Procedural Generation 10%, Resource Management 9%
- #33 AutoForge
76% matchVery Positive87% of 457 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 20.1%, Automation 18.7%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #34 Elsewhere
75% matchVery Positive96% of 71 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 17.8%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #35 Flotsam
74% matchVery Positive81% of 4,361 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 18.1%, City Builder 14.3%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
- #36 Dragon Forge
78% 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 22.3%, Building 17.8%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed automation and survival game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering.
- #37 Odd Realm
73% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #38 Chocolate Factory
75% matchMixed56% of 145 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 21.5%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #39 Incremental Factory
74% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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 25.2%, Trains 17.8% ★, Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #40 Prospector
73% matchMostly Positive71% 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 20.4%, Building 18.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #41 Learning Factory
72% matchVery Positive86% of 515 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Building 21.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #42 Starground
73% matchVery Positive82% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
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 21.5%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Co-op 10.4%
- #43 Voidtrain
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 32.1% ★, Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.8%
- #44 Cubic Odyssey
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 7.5%
- #45 Airborne Empire
70% matchVery Positive88% of 851 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 12.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Open World 10.7%
- #46 Little Rocket Lab
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,252 reviews2025
Dev: Teenage AstronautsPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 33.6%, Building 29.2%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 13.4%, Logic 6.8%
- #47 Pathless Woods
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 16.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #48 Space Trash Scavenger
70% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 24.4%, Building 17.4%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%
- #49 MineMogul
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 27.7%, Building 22.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #50 Builderment
72% matchMixed67% of 121 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%, Building 13.9%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #51 The Magical Mixture Mill
70% matchVery Positive84% of 602 reviews2024
Dev: GlowlightPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Cozy 24.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Exploration 7.2%
- #52 Mini Settlers
68% matchVery Positive84% of 652 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 19.6%, Trains 17.9% ★, Building 13.5%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.3%
- #53 Microtopia
68% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%
- #54 TerraTech Worlds
69% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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%, Automation 14.7%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #55 shapez
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #56 Captain of Industry
68% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 34.2%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 17.5%, Building 15%, City Builder 10.3%
- #57 Dyson Sphere Program
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 27.1%, Building 17.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, City Builder 9.1%
- #58 Locomoto
66% matchVery Positive91% of 630 reviews2025
Dev: Green Tile Digital
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!
Why similar: Trains 33.3% ★, Cozy 20.4%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Character Customization 9.8%
- #59 Spells & Secrets
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 317 reviews2023
Dev: Alchemist InteractivePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this rogue-lite adventure, you free the Academy of Greifenstein from magical creatures by using your spells creatively. Explore this modern magical world alone or in local co-op mode with friends and family, customize your character, solve mysteries, and find powerful artifacts.
Why similar: Cozy 52.2%, Character Customization 17.2%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Fantasy 9.7%, 3D 6.9%
- #60 SteamWorld Build
65% matchVery Positive84% of 2,156 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Building 24.3%, Resource Management 17.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
