- #1 FOUNDRY
97% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 15.7% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #2 MineMogul
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 22%, Mining 21.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #3 Satisfactory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.2%
- #4 Hydroneer
95% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 19.5% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Co-op 8.1%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #5 Alchemy Factory
94% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #6 Volcanoids
94% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 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: Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 11.9%, Co-op 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #7 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
93% matchVery Positive84% of 2,228 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.7 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: Automation 17.6%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 10%, Procedural Generation 10%, Resource Management 9%
- #8 Techtonica
92% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 10%
- #9 StarRupture
91% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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 22.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Co-op 11%, Open World 9.5%
- #10 Starground
91% matchVery Positive82% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 20.7% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #11 Out of Ore
89% matchVery Positive86% of 3,925 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Mining 19.6% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #12 Rising World
90% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 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 18.9% ★, Mining 18.1% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.1%
- #13 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
88% matchVery Positive82% of 11,900 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9.2%, Open World 5.3%
- #14 Eden Crafters
87% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #15 TerraTech Worlds
89% matchMixed63% of 2,228 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Mining 17% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 8.9%
- #16 Factorio
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #17 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
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: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%
- #18 AutoForge
85% matchVery Positive87% of 457 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Procedural Generation 19.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #19 Everwind
84% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Crafting 16.4%, Building 14.3%, Co-op 14.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 12.2%
- #20 Keep Digging
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,134 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.0 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 21.9% ★, Voxel 21.7% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Co-op 9.3%
- #21 Creativerse
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Voxel 25.8% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.9%, Co-op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #22 Core Keeper
79% matchVery Positive93% of 64,481 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Building 11%, Co-op 10.5%
- #23 Incremental Factory
82% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Mining 16.4% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #24 FortressCraft Evolved!
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 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 22.2%, Voxel 13.8% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #25 Outworld Station
79% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Co-op 12%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #26 Outerverse
81% 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 29.1% ★, Mining 16.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #27 Hammerting
81% matchMixed57% of 2,582 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: Mining 21.5% ★, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #28 Nova Lands
78% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #29 Return from Core
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,775 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #30 Omega Crafter
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.6%, Building 9.2%
- #31 Scrap Mechanic
77% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 18.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%
- #32 Crafting Block World
80% matchMixed47% of 53 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 27.3% ★, Mining 15.8% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 7.6%
- #33 Voidtrain
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,447 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Base Building 15.3%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Building 10.4%, Open World 10.2%
- #34 Super Mining Mechs
75% matchVery Positive88% of 826 reviews2024
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Why similar: Mining 30.4% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.2%
- #35 Factory Town
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #36 Stationeers
76% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 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 19.2% ★, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #37 Mining Mechs
74% matchVery Positive90% of 2,628 reviews2023
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 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 28.7% ★, Co-op 15.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #38 Star Ores Inc.
74% matchVery Positive82% of 314 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 26.3% ★, Crafting 15.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 8.9%
- #39 Necesse
72% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 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: Automation 14.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Open World 10.8%
- #40 The Planet Crafter
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 70,189 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 37.9 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 17.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.8%, Co-op 10.6%
- #41 Occupy Mars: The Game
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 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: Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #42 Survival Machine
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Crafting 24.6%, Resource Management 21.9%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Exploration 9.4%
- #43 Captain of Industry
73% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Resource Management 18.7%, Base Building 18.6%, Mining 10.3% ★, Building 8.5%
- #44 Elsewhere
71% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 16.9% ★, Automation 16.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #45 ASTRONEER
71% matchVery Positive92% of 137,959 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 13.9%, Open World 12.2%, Automation 11.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Crafting 10%
- #46 Outpath
68% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #47 Oxygen Train
67% matchVery Positive82% of 480 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Mining 15.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.5%, Co-op 10.9%
- #48 cyubeVR
70% matchVery Positive90% of 1,125 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Why similar: Mining 22.6% ★, Voxel 21.6% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #49 Shamania
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #50 Lord of Dwarves
70% 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 73.5% ★, Automation 5%, Base Building 3.7%, Procedural Generation 3.1%, Building 3%
- #51 Mob Factory
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.4%
- #52 Medieval Engineers
71% matchMixed52% of 7,297 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Building 22.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.5%
- #53 Automation Empire
70% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Mining 12.4% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.9%
- #54 Chocolate Factory
69% matchMixed56% of 145 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 10.3%
- #55 Cubic Odyssey
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,584 reviews2025
Dev: Atypical GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Co-op 16.2%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Action-Adventure 9.7%
- #56 Evospace
69% matchVery Positive83% of 388 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 15.8%, Voxel 14.6% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.8%
- #57 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Voxel 20.2% ★, Crafting 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.9%
- #58 Soulmask
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.1 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: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 10.1%
- #59 AETHUS
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,744 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Mining 19.7% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #60 Space Trash Scavenger
66% matchVery Positive84% of 518 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.8%