- #1 Fuel Harvest Together
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 905 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.1 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 24.1% ★, Automation 12%, Economy 8%, Transportation 6.6% ★, Immersive Sim 6.4%
- #2 iCorp
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Mining 23.8% ★, Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Economy 9.4%, Capitalism 9%
- #3 Starground
72% matchVery Positive82% of 187 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 29.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Co-op 7.1%
- #4 Factor Y
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 29.3% ★, Automation 21.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 7.2%, Building 7%
- #5 Truck City
71% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Mining 19.8% ★, Automation 18.4%, Transportation 11% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Economy 6.9%
- #6 Hydroneer
74% matchVery Positive86% of 27,061 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.4 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: Mining 31.1% ★, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Co-op 8.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #7 Shop Simulator: Supermarket
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
DESIGN, SELL & EXPAND – YOUR SUCCESS IS IN YOUR HANDS. Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in Shop Simulator: Supermarket. Immerse yourself in the world of retail and start your own business today!
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Economy 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Capitalism 8.6%
- #8 Eureka
73% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Coding Duck
Windows
Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Economy 9.6%, Management 8.2%
- #9 Techtonica
70% matchMixed65% of 3,182 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 24.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Base Building 7.7%
- #10 MineMogul
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,353 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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: Mining 29.4% ★, Automation 23%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.9%, Management 6.9%
- #11 Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive93% of 376 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue is a free business simulator game in which you make money from garbage. Collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improving your factory.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Design & Illustration 9.5% ★, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%, Economy 8.8%
- #12 Bouncekraft
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jordan Davis Graphics Adapter
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 38.3% ★, Automation 17%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Simulation 8.5%
- #13 Factory Trashcension
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #14 Infindustry
70% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Mining 23.9% ★, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Transportation 10.6% ★, Building 7.7%
- #15 CapitalCraft
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChronicAnarchy
Windows
A hands on sci-fi industrial management simulation where you pilot a mining drone refine resources, negotiate contracts, and survive economic pressure with action driven challenges.
Why similar: Mining 28.5% ★, Automation 22.8%, Capitalism 11.5%, Economy 9.8%, Immersive Sim 9.7%
- #16 Tempered Forge: Lands of Mine
66% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Sticklen Games
Windows
Mine resources, craft tools, and battle fierce underground enemies as you explore, trade, and build your way back to the stars. Level up, upgrade your gear, and automate your processes for ultimate efficiency. Play solo or team up with a friend in this 1-2 player mining and combat adventure.
Why similar: Mining 29.5% ★, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9%
- #17 Automation Empire
69% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 26.2%, Mining 15.9% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 8%
- #18 Moose Miners
65% matchMixed68% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 145.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 29.6% ★, Automation 16.4%, Economy 8.6%, Capitalism 8.3%, Management 7.8%
- #19 Captain of Industry
66% matchVery Positive91% of 10,318 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 79.7 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 31.5%, Mining 12.5% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.7%, Management 7.1%
- #20 Stellar Shipyard
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 26.7% ★, Automation 17.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 7.3%, Colony Sim 7.1% ★
- #21 Star Ores Inc.
63% matchVery Positive83% of 292 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 34.7% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 9.2%, Crafting 7.3%, Simulation 7%
- #22 Property Pro
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build or purchase a property and manage it effectively. Make strategic decisions to maintain and improve the property, and address any issues that arise.
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Economy 10.7%, Building 9.9%, Capitalism 9.3%
- #23 Elsewhere
62% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 31.6% ★, Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 16.7%, Building 9.7%, Immersive Sim 7.1%
- #24 Astrocraft
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Flowcraft Games
Windows
Astrocraft is a simulation game about building and managing your own space station. You mine resources, construct buildings, install machinery and equipment, sell goods to space travelers, and hire workers to automate all the operations.
Why similar: Mining 20.3% ★, Economy 12%, Management 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Building 8.7%
- #25 Kastle Kraft
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite and Unbound Studios
Windows
Gather, craft, and then automate resources to build fabulous Kastles. Beware the locals don't like you destroying their land. Defend your Kastles through combat and defenses. Explore the land to find additional recipes, resources, and items to help you defend and build your Kingdom!
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Automation 22%, Sandbox 9.9%, Economy 9%, Base Building 8%
- #26 Resourcer
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Wings Ltd
Windows
Dig deep into diverse biomes, uncover ancient treasures and mine various resources. Craft new tools and build various production structures. Improve your character’s skills and unlock new features as you progress through the game. Manage the resources and create an efficient production chain.
Why similar: Mining 35.2% ★, Automation 20.5%, Building 8.4%, Economy 7.6%, Management 6.7%
- #27 Good Company
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,759 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 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 20%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Economy 9.9%, Building 8.7%
- #28 Digging Out
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Logic Liminal
Windows
Digging Out is a realistic co-op digging game for up to 8 players. Work together to dig a tunnel, upgrade your tools, and break into the bank. Every shovel counts plan smart, dig deep, and pull off the perfect underground heist.
Why similar: Mining 48% ★, Sandbox 22.1%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Co-op 7.8%, Simulation 6.8%
- #29 Outer Factory
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Transportation 9.3% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Management 8.7%
- #30 Alchemy Factory
61% matchVery Positive90% of 2,046 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 21.2 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 32.4%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 8%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
- #31 Incremental Factory
64% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 25.7%, Mining 22.1% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Economy 7.9%, Building 7.5%
- #32 Space Architect
62% matchMostly Positive76% of 282 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Mining 19.8% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Colony Sim 8.6% ★, Management 8.2%
- #33 Keep Digging
60% matchVery Positive81% of 2,903 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Keep Digging is a laid-back co-op digging game for up to 8 players. Dig 1000 meters, sell what you find, and keep upgrading your gear. Keep digging. Dig to your heart’s content.
Why similar: Mining 31.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Economy 8.9%, Co-op 8.9%
- #34 Tremble of Towers
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Missing Bracket
Windows
Tremble of Towers combines resource management, strategic building, and CO-OP team-based action into an exciting free-to-play tower defense experience. Join the fight, mine your way to victory, and defend your precious gold!
Why similar: Mining 31.1% ★, Automation 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9%
- #35 Survival Vacancy
66% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Mining 19.1% ★, Automation 18.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Colony Sim 8.6% ★, Building 8.3%
- #36 Orebound
62% matchMostly Positive78% of 841 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Mining 26.6% ★, Automation 19.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Co-op 8.3%, Building 7.6%
- #37 Sweets Inc.
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Road Turtle Games
Windows
Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 12.6%, Management 11.7%, Economy 11.1%
- #38 Technicity: Prologue
64% matchVery Positive83% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Building 10.1%, Transportation 7.2% ★
- #39 Common'hood
64% matchMixed52% of 337 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Automation 14.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%
- #40 The Last Starship
59% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,402 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 32% ★, Automation 15.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #41 Fronimus
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Mining 12.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Building 10.8%
- #42 Moonshiner Simulator
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goosix Games
Windows
Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Co-op 13.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
- #43 Flow Factory
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Mining 22.2% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.1%
- #44 Hardware Store Simulator
60% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Stellar Fusion StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Compete with up to 4 players to build the most successful hardware store! Design your shop, manage inventory, hire employees, and influence market prices in this detailed business simulator. Master retail management as you expand your store empire.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Economy 10.3%, Co-op 9.7%, Building 9.3%
- #45 Hammerting
64% matchMixed57% of 2,576 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Mining 27.3% ★, Automation 18.3%, Economy 8.6%, Building 7.7%, Colony Sim 7.5% ★
- #46 Biofactory
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Capitalism 8.4%, Management 8.1%
- #47 Islandustry
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 8.2%
- #48 Software CEO
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Economy 14.3%, Management 12%, Building 10.3%
- #49 Citizen Life
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GigicomPub: PixelCom Studios
Windows
Citizen Life is an immersive open-world city life simulator. Choose from over 30 jobs, engage with intelligent NPCs, and see how your actions impact the town. Build businesses, develop skills or dive into crime. Influence politics, buy a house and gather resources in a dynamic, interactive world.
Why similar: Mining 21.9% ★, Automation 16.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Transportation 10.1% ★, Capitalism 9.8%
- #50 Dinky Guardians
61% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.5% ★, Building 9%, Online Co-Op 8.9%
- #51 Recycling Center Simulator
59% matchVery Positive87% of 2,764 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.4 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 12.1%, Management 9.9%, Economy 9.8%, Capitalism 9.5%
- #52 Engineer Alpha
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Aaron Worcester
Windows
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
Why similar: Mining 22.7% ★, Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 8.3%
- #53 Star Crafter
58% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 33.9% ★, Automation 19.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 6.6%
- #54 Deep Pockets
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Mining 44.9% ★, Automation 15.1%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 7.7%
- #55 Boppio
63% matchMixed51% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Boppy Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Boppio is a game about obtaining materials, constructing buildings, and assembling a spaceship to return home. In order to succeed you will need to automate and optimize your base. Mine minerals and combine them into new items that will help you build your return vessel.
Why similar: Mining 38.1% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Simulation 8.2%
- #56 Nightwater
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
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 26.8%, Mining 16.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 6.8%
- #57 Roody:2d
60% matchPositive98% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: redinator2000
Windows
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
Why similar: Mining 23.3% ★, Automation 22.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Transportation 9.6% ★, Building 9.5%
- #58 Steam & Stones
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Mining 20.7% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Colony Sim 8.4% ★, Economy 7.2%
- #59 Exovia
59% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Free your mind as you mine an asteroid in zero gravity, creating floaters that drift through the oddly satisfying physics-driven supply chains YOU design to pave humanity's road to the stars.
Why similar: Mining 34% ★, Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Management 8.1%, Base Building 7%
- #60 Manufactur’ inc.
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?
Why similar: Mining 24.2% ★, Automation 22.4%, Capitalism 8.1%, Base Building 7.6%, Simulation 7.2%