Games Like Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

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 25.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Trains 10.2% ★, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of automation games, sharing the same top-down logistical complexity and expansion-focused gameplay found in Oddsparks.

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 22.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 15.2%, Co-op 9.1%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Brings the addictive factory-building and resource management loop into a gorgeous, immersive 3D open world.

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%, Building 18%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Resource Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features underground factory building and resource automation in a mysterious subterranean alien environment.

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 24.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the joy of scaling up abstract automation pipelines and solving increasingly complex logistical puzzles.

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%, Building 18.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, City Builder 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an epic scale of automation and resource management as you build interstellar factories across distant star systems.

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 18.1%, Building 15.3%, City Builder 14%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses fully customizable autonomous units and logic systems to automate logistics and survival in a sci-fi 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 36.5%, Building 17.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cute, stylized visuals and programmable worker bots to automate your settlement, mirroring the Sparks mechanic.

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 16.5%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based first-person factory builder that emphasizes exploration and resource optimization in a procedurally generated world.

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 21.3%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world space exploration with complex industrial automation and base management.

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 24.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends automation, space exploration, and base building with automated worker bots reminiscent of Oddsparks' companions.

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 13.5%, Trains 13.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming village-builder that relies heavily on intricate conveyor belts and transport logistics to keep your economy running.

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 24.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: An island-hopping exploration game that utilizes helper droids to automate crafting, building, and resource gathering.

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 22.6% ★, Automation 17.9%, Building 15.7%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features colony simulation and automation mechanics in a blocky, whimsical world with cute stylized characters.

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

Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Building 16.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Cozy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An idle-clicker base builder that lets you rapidly expand your territory and optimize simple resource automation loops.

Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.

Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Cozy 13.5%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends factory building, cat science, and resource management into a lighthearted and cozy automation experience.

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%, Building 17.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Co-op 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building massive mechanical setups and automated mining systems using physical pipes and conveyors.

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 21.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Building 15.8%, Co-op 11.4%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival craft game where programmable companion characters help you automate base building and production.

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 26% ★, Automation 14.7%, Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.6%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistical optimization and train-based automation to revive a struggling planetary economy.

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 21.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Building 15.2%, Cozy 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing railway management game that lets you solve cute logistics and transport puzzles.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 17.1%, RTS 16.5%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense mechanics with deep logistical automation and resource transport networks.

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 31.9% ★, Building 14.2%, Co-op 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines crafting, survival, and exploration aboard a customizable supernatural train speeding through the void.

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 18.3%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Cozy 12.5%, City Builder 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features creature collection, base building, and automation elements alongside charming cooperative gameplay.

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Building 35.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Logic 8.8%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 3D puzzle game about constructing assembly lines to manufacture products for alien overlords.

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 21%, Building 19.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%

Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Why similar: Trains 28.7% ★, Building 16.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder where the entire economy and citizen growth depend on complex railway logistics networks.

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

Why similar: Building 28.3%, Automation 23.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Manages a bustling miniature factory floor, focusing on layout optimization and worker task scheduling.

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 19.3%, Building 17.9%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Building 33.3%, Base Building 24.7%, Procedural Generation 24.6%, Sandbox 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon manager that lets you command minions and build up an automated base of operations against invaders.

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 23.2%, Base Building 15.1%, RTS 13%, Co-op 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Logic 42.4%, Automation 31.3%, Singleplayer 26.3%

Why You'll Like It: Employs visual programming logic to build and automate squads of combat robots, appealing to the logic-building side of Oddsparks.

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 16.7%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Logic 8.8%

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 20.8%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.

Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Building 20.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Building 20.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to design assembly lines for medical manufacturing, balancing spatial layout with profit.

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 17.3%, Trains 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 8.5%

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Building 16.9%, Open World 12.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%

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 24.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

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 17.8%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13%, Cozy 12%, Co-op 11.2%

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 24.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Open World 9.2%

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 16.9%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.

Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Building 19.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.1%

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 19.4%, Building 17.7%, Automation 15.2%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Base Building 9.9%

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 17.2%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.5%

Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!

Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Building 16.5%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 10%

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 24.2%, Trains 18.1% ★, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 10.9%

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: Building 15.8%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11%

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%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%

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 24.1%, Building 18.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Logic 9.6%

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 19.4%, Building 19.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: Trains 22.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, Building 15.4%, City Builder 12%, Cozy 8.9%

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 23.5%, Building 16%, Base Building 14.3%, Trains 13.3% ★, Sandbox 9%

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 19.1%, Building 14.5%, RTS 12.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Open World 11%

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 20.6%, Building 17.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11%, Co-op 10.6%

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 19.9%, Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 19.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.7%

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 31.9%, Building 30.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Logic 7%

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 18.7%, Co-op 15.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Action-Adventure 7.7%

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 21.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Exploration 7.7%

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 21.2%, Building 18.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Open World 10.1%

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 23.5%, City Builder 20.4%, Procedural Generation 14%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%