- #1 FOUNDRY
97% matchVery Positive81% of 3,910 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.2 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: Resource Management 18.4%, Voxel 14.8% ★, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9.4%
- #2 MineMogul
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,193 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: Automation 18.1%, Resource Management 18.1%, Mining 15.4% ★, Building 11.8%, Crafting 10%
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 277,412 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.0 hrsMean: 112.0 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: Resource Management 20.9%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.8%
- #4 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
95% matchVery Positive91% of 1,325 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Automation 19.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 7.3%
- #5 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,246 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: Resource Management 21.3%, Automation 19.4%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #6 Astro Colony
94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,687 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Resource Management 20.7%, Automation 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.8%
- #7 StarRupture
93% matchVery Positive81% of 13,161 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 25.7 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 20.4%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11.8%
- #8 Hydroneer
92% matchVery Positive86% of 28,342 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.2 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: Resource Management 18.5%, Automation 16.5%, Mining 16.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.2%
- #9 Alchemy Factory
91% matchVery Positive90% of 2,481 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.1 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 26.4%, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%
- #10 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,323 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Crafting 19.7%, Base Building 19%, Building 18.8%, Open World 14.4%, First-Person 9.6%
- #11 Out of Ore
90% matchVery Positive86% of 4,101 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 15.5% ★, Building 15%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%
- #12 Factory Town
89% matchVery Positive91% of 4,472 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: Resource Management 25.4%, Automation 19%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%
- #13 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
89% matchVery Positive84% of 2,267 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Resource Management 19.9%, Building 17.4%, Automation 15.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%
- #14 Hammerting
88% matchMixed57% of 2,598 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Resource Management 17.5%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Automation 12.8%, Mining 12.7% ★, Base Building 9.5%
- #15 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
86% matchVery Positive81% of 12,298 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Dwarves 62.8% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.1%, Open World 4.6%
- #16 Starground
86% 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: Resource Management 20.5%, Mining 18.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%
- #17 Lord of Dwarves
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2020
Dev: Stellar Sage Games
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
Why similar: Dwarves 81.9% ★, Resource Management 3.2%, Colony Sim 2.6%, Automation 2.3%, Building 1.9%
- #18 Star Ores Inc.
85% 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: Resource Management 24.2%, Mining 17.8% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.8%
- #19 Factorio
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,161 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.3 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: Resource Management 29.6%, Automation 26.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 6.6%
- #20 Everwind
82% matchVery Positive81% of 3,709 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Building 24.3%, Crafting 23.7%, Open World 20.4%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Exploration 6.9%
- #21 Incremental Factory
83% 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: Resource Management 28.3%, Automation 20.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Mining 11.9% ★, Building 10.3%
- #22 Outerverse
84% matchMixed50% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: Tbjbu2Pub: indie.io
Windows
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Why similar: Voxel 22.6% ★, Resource Management 16.3%, Automation 12.2%, Mining 11.3% ★, Crafting 8.3%
- #23 Kubifaktorium
82% matchVery Positive81% of 799 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 17.8%, Voxel 13.9% ★, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.9%
- #24 AutoForge
81% matchVery Positive87% of 463 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Resource Management 22.6%, Procedural Generation 19.2%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%
- #25 Captain of Industry
81% matchVery Positive90% of 11,385 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 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: Resource Management 31%, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Building 8.2%
- #26 Eden Crafters
79% matchVery Positive85% of 2,606 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 19.4%, Resource Management 16.9%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 11%
- #27 Nova Lands
80% matchVery Positive89% of 3,503 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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: Resource Management 23.5%, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11%, Building 9.6%
- #28 Evospace
79% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 14.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Voxel 12.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.2%
- #29 Occupy Mars: The Game
76% matchMixed70% of 3,125 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 34.2 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: Resource Management 23.2%, Mining 14.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Building 11%
- #30 Chocolate Factory
78% matchMixed56% of 148 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: Resource Management 24.1%, Automation 18%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.1%
- #31 Outworld Station
75% matchVery Positive85% of 833 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 29.2%, Resource Management 25.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 15.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #32 GeoDepths
77% matchVery Positive87% of 304 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Resource Management 26.4%, Mining 17.1% ★, Automation 14%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #33 Stationeers
77% matchVery Positive88% of 9,200 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 84.4 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: Resource Management 21.1%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Automation 15.5%, Mining 14.2% ★, Base Building 11.1%
- #34 Rising World
78% matchVery Positive86% of 5,964 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Voxel 21.5% ★, Mining 18.3% ★, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.5%
- #35 Outpath
75% matchVery Positive93% of 3,093 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Resource Management 23.6%, Automation 16.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.5%
- #36 Mountaincore
76% matchMixed65% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Dwarves 56.5% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 7.3%, Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.9%
- #37 Modulus: Factory Automation
73% matchVery Positive91% of 834 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Resource Management 21.9%, Automation 19.8%, Building 14%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.9%
- #38 First Dwarf
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.
Why similar: Dwarves 54.8% ★, Colony Sim 12%, Building 8.4%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.8%
- #39 Elsewhere
73% matchVery Positive96% of 78 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: Resource Management 17.2%, Automation 13.2%, Mining 11.7% ★, Crafting 10%, Building 9.3%
- #40 Craft The World
74% matchVery Positive88% of 17,033 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Dwarves 59.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #41 The Planet Crafter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 72,769 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.4 hrsMean: 38.2 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: Resource Management 19.7%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.9%
- #42 Dwarf Fortress
70% matchVery Positive95% of 31,376 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Dwarves 58.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.9%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Simulation 3.3%
- #43 Automation Empire
73% 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: Resource Management 22.8%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 11.9%, Mining 9.2% ★
- #44 OREBLAZE
71% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Ludiminal Games
Windows · Linux
Dig up the Adamant Core from a procedurally generated mine, extract ores, sell them for profit, upgrade your equipment, and keep the King happy by sending him tributes before he loses his temper!
Why similar: Dwarves 70.2% ★, Mining 15.6% ★, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #45 TerraTech Worlds
71% matchMixed63% of 2,280 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Mining 17.7% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 15%, Automation 14.4%
- #46 Necesse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 28,496 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Crafting 19.5%, Automation 18.5%, Open World 18.5%, Building 17.4%, Base Building 15.3%
- #47 Builderment
72% matchMixed68% of 127 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: Resource Management 25.6%, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13%, Building 11%
- #48 Blacksmith Master
68% matchVery Positive84% of 2,711 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Resource Management 28.1%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 10.9%
- #49 The Last Caretaker
67% matchVery Positive86% of 12,849 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Resource Management 23%, Automation 17%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 9.9%
- #50 Star Crafter
69% matchMixed70% of 106 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: Resource Management 19.2%, Mining 13.6% ★, Voxel 12.1% ★, Automation 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #51 Mob Factory
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Resource Management 27.9%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.3%
- #52 Crafting Block World
72% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Voxel 26.1% ★, Mining 13.4% ★, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #53 FortressCraft Evolved!
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,059 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 22.7%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 14.4%, Voxel 13.8% ★, Base Building 10.1%
- #54 Facteroids
69% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Resource Management 20.6%, Automation 15.1%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Mining 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%
- #55 Keep Digging
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,227 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 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: Voxel 24.8% ★, Mining 22.2% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, First-Person 7.3%
- #56 Colony Survival
69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,963 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 16.4%, Open World 10.2%, Voxel 9.2% ★
- #57 Dwarf Eats Mountain
66% matchVery Positive81% of 1,035 reviews2026
Dev: Green Wizard
Windows · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Why similar: Dwarves 56.1% ★, Resource Management 15.6%, Mining 11.4% ★, Building 7.2%, Base Building 5.4%
- #58 Voxel Eras
67% matchVery Positive96% of 52 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: Voxel 21% ★, Automation 20.3%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%
- #59 Regions of Ruin: Runegate
66% matchVery Positive87% of 390 reviews2026
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.
Why similar: Dwarves 57% ★, Resource Management 13%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Building 7.7%, Base Building 7.6%
- #60 Soulmask
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,149 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.3%, Automation 16%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%