- #1 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 277,932 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.1 hrsMean: 112.3 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 31.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Co-op 11.6%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive first-person factory-building game that perfectly captures the scale and satisfaction of automating resource production.
- #2 Hydroneer
97% matchVery Positive86% of 28,368 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.2 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: Mining 29.4% ★, Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Co-op 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the physical act of mining and building automated machinery to process resources, matching the seed game's core gameplay loop.
- #3 Techtonica
96% matchMixed65% of 3,248 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 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 22.3%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory automation game set in a beautiful, bioluminescent underground world that emphasizes mining and base-building.
- #4 Factorio
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,473 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 192.6 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 38.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 7.1%, Crafting 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, offering deep logistical challenges and complex production chains that mirror the core loop of Ore Factory Squad.
- #5 FOUNDRY
94% matchVery Positive81% of 3,914 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.3 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 22.3%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Co-op 10.8%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based factory-building game that allows for massive, open-world automation and complex logistical networks.
- #6 Starground
94% matchVery Positive82% of 191 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: Mining 28.4% ★, Automation 17.4%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Co-op 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines mining, automation, and cooperative play in a way that directly aligns with the multiplayer focus of the seed game.
- #7 Eden Crafters
92% matchVery Positive85% of 2,614 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 27.7%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 10%, Co-op 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features open-world survival and automation mechanics that require players to manage resources and build complex production lines.
- #8 Captain of Industry
93% matchVery Positive90% of 11,435 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.6 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 32.2%, Mining 12.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game focused on resource management, supply chains, and industrial automation on a sprawling island.
- #9 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,483 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.7 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 38.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.2%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an expansive take on automation and resource management on a galactic scale, perfect for players who enjoy scaling up their industrial operations.
- #10 Mining Mechs
91% matchVery Positive90% of 2,721 reviews2023
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Why similar: Mining 37.7% ★, Online Co-Op 19.9%, Co-op 16.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the cooperative mining experience, emphasizing the fun of digging deep and upgrading equipment with friends.
- #11 Out of Ore
90% matchVery Positive86% of 4,116 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
Why similar: Mining 25.6% ★, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic mining simulation that captures the grit and mechanical complexity of extracting valuable resources from the earth.
- #12 Keep Digging
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,232 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
Why similar: Mining 29.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Co-op 10%, Economy 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the exploration and mining aspects of the genre with a focus on cooperative play and procedural environments.
- #13 Gold Mining Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 16,339 reviews2017
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 31.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
Why similar: Mining 52.9% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Economy 6.4%, Building 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a grounded, realistic look at the mining process, focusing on the equipment and patience required to find success.
- #14 Fuel Harvest Together
87% matchMixed69% of 978 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Mining 23.2% ★, Automation 12.1%, Economy 8.2%, Transportation 6.5% ★, Online Co-Op 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused simulation that tasks players with managing resources and building infrastructure in a challenging environment.
- #15 Stationeers
88% matchVery Positive88% of 9,212 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 84.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Mining 26.5% ★, Automation 19.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Co-op 8.8%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly technical approach to automation and resource management, ideal for players who enjoy complex systems and survival mechanics.
- #16 MineMogul
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,213 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.2 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: Mining 28.4% ★, Automation 23%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.1%, Management 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early-access experience of building and automating a mining operation with physics-based mechanics.
- #17 Orebound
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 969 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.6 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: Mining 21.9% ★, Automation 20%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dwarven-themed mining and management game that captures the spirit of digging deep and building a functional base.
- #18 ASTRONEER
86% matchVery Positive92% of 138,948 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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: Sandbox 19.2%, Automation 18.1%, Co-op 16.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a sandbox experience centered on exploration, mining, and base-building with a strong emphasis on cooperative play.
- #19 Alchemy Factory
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,500 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Applies automation and factory-building principles to a fantasy setting, offering a unique twist on the genre.
- #20 Deep Rock Galactic
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 379,095 reviews2020
Dev: Ghost Ship GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 76.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Why similar: Co-op 61.6%, Exploration 16.4%, First-Person 13.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While an action game, its core loop of cooperative mining and procedural cave exploration is a perfect thematic match for the seed game.
- #21 Automation Empire
84% matchMixed66% of 2,641 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.7%, Mining 15% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creating massive, interconnected logistics networks to transport and process resources across a large map.
- #22 shapez
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,794 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 35.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.6%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that strips away survival elements to focus entirely on the logic and efficiency of factory design.
- #23 Parcel Simulator
80% matchVery Positive93% of 2,778 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features automation and management mechanics centered around logistics and delivery, appealing to fans of factory efficiency.
- #24 Autonauts
82% matchVery Positive90% of 4,952 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 40.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 11%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automating tasks through a unique programming system, allowing players to build a self-sustaining industrial colony.
- #25 Good Company
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,791 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 9.6%, Co-op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A management and building game that tasks players with creating efficient production lines to build and sell high-tech products.
- #26 Junkyard Builder
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 251 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Economy 10.7%, Management 10.4%, Capitalism 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and building aspects of resource reclamation, providing a satisfying loop of gathering and repurposing materials.
- #27 Beer Factory
81% matchMixed42% of 1,474 reviews2024
Dev: MyceliumGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A management and automation game that focuses on the production line process, similar to the contract-based systems in the seed game.
- #28 Star Ores Inc.
77% matchVery Positive82% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 33.2% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Management 9.3%, Crafting 7.3%, Simulation 7.1%
- #29 Rest Area Simulator
76% matchVery Positive86% of 621 reviews2026
Dev: Oriseus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.2%, Sandbox 15%, Co-op 13.5%, Economy 12%, Management 10.1%
- #30 Occupy Mars: The Game
77% matchMixed70% of 3,128 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mining 26.4% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Co-op 9%, Base Building 8.2%
- #31 Mineral Mining Simulator
76% matchVery Positive86% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into fragments, refine it, and scale your operation with better machines and smarter workflow. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Automation 19%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Building 7.8%
- #32 Rise of Industry
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,191 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 16.3%, Management 14.6%, Automation 14.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines economic strategy with industrial automation, challenging players to build a thriving business empire.
- #33 Waterpark Simulator
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 12,933 reviews2026
Dev: CayPlay
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Why similar: Sandbox 14.8%, Co-op 12.5%, Economy 12.1%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.9%
- #34 Outworld Station
75% matchVery Positive85% of 836 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 28.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Co-op 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.3%
- #35 Grocery Store Simulator
74% matchVery Positive91% of 6,167 reviews2024
Dev: EXPERIMENT ONE
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 20%, Sandbox 15%, Co-op 14.3%, Economy 12.6%, Management 11%
- #36 Center Station Simulator
75% matchVery Positive88% of 575 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 9.9%
- #37 The Planet Crafter
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 72,948 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10%
- #38 FortressCraft Evolved!
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,060 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Sandbox 18.1%, Mining 15.9% ★, Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A long-standing mining and automation title that offers immense depth in base-building and resource processing.
- #39 Supermarket Together
72% matchVery Positive94% of 97,609 reviews2024
Dev: DeadDevsTellNoLies
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.3%, Simulation 14%, Economy 12.7%, Management 12%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #40 shapez 2 - Factory
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,072 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.7%, Sandbox 13%, Transportation 12.9% ★, Management 11%, Building 10.2%
- #41 Wrap House Simulator🌯
72% matchVery Positive88% of 3,313 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Lyre EntertainmentPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.7%, Co-op 13.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Capitalism 9.2%, Economy 9%
- #42 Factory Town
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,473 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 26.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 8.6%, Transportation 8.1% ★
- #43 Tobacco Shop Simulator
71% matchVery Positive90% of 949 reviews2025
Dev: Business Tycoon
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Run your tobacco shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Design & Illustration 11.9% ★, Economy 11.7%, Co-op 10.1%
- #44 Incremental Factory
74% matchMixed68% of 246 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 25.4%, Mining 21% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Economy 7.9%, Building 7.6%
- #45 Recycling Center Simulator
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,929 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10%, Economy 9.9%, Capitalism 9.3%
- #46 My Supermarket
70% matchVery Positive87% of 274 reviews2024
Dev: NeroForge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage your own supermarket, serving different types of customers and making the most profit you can! 🛒 Order products, restock shelves, play with your friends in co-op mode, chase thieves, hire employees, and grow your empire!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Capitalism 12.1%, Economy 11.5%, Building 10.6%
- #47 MegaFactory Titan
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Automation 21.4%, Building 9.8%, Capitalism 9.1%, Economy 8.4%
- #48 Moose Miners
71% matchMixed69% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 144.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 28.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Economy 9.5%, Capitalism 9.3%, Building 8.2%
- #49 Block Factory
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #50 Voxel Eras
69% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Building 10.5%, Co-op 8.9%
- #51 Dirty Business
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 840 reviews2026
Dev: Plan Dirty Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Co-op 15.6%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Management 11.5%, Building 9.4%
- #52 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 13,200 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Co-op 12.7%, Base Building 10%
- #53 Food Processing Simulator
67% matchVery Positive88% of 332 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Sandbox 18.3%, Management 9.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Immersive Sim 9.3%
- #54 Bakery Cafe Simulator
69% matchMixed69% of 414 reviews2025
Dev: Meerkatt Studio
Windows
Bake, build, and grow your dream bakery cafe! Create delicious pastries, design your space, and serve customers. Play solo or with friends in online co-op to expand your business and experience the excitement of running a bustling cafe!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 11.9%, Capitalism 11.5%, Building 8.5%
- #55 Old Market Simulator
67% matchVery Positive88% of 5,308 reviews2024
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.4%, Management 14%, Co-op 11.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 10.5%
- #56 Modulus: Factory Automation
65% matchVery Positive92% of 839 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 28.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #57 Dig Island
66% matchVery Positive87% of 305 reviews2026
Dev: FiftyEight Studios
Windows
Dig Island is a 4-player co-op digging game. As you dig deeper, discover new resources, upgrade your equipment, and work with your friends to repair the plane and escape the island.
Why similar: Mining 50.5% ★, Simulation 16.9%, Crafting 13%, Exploration 11%, First-Person 8.6%
- #58 Sandustry
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,988 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 28.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
- #59 Dig Deep
68% matchMixed70% of 143 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyLabsPub: QubicGames
Windows
Grab a shovel and let's get digging! Join the adventure, hire miners and dig for a treasure
Why similar: Mining 50.9% ★, Automation 27.4%, Co-op 6.5%, Simulation 6.4%, Exploration 4.5%