- #1 Forager
97% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Farming Sim 14.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest experience to Outpath, featuring a similar addictive loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory through island unlocks.
- #2 Nova Lands
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 12%, Farming Sim 9.3%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and base-building with automation elements that mirror the satisfying progression found in Outpath.
- #3 Miniland Adventure
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on expanding your world tile by tile, perfectly matching the growth-oriented gameplay of Outpath.
- #4 shapez
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 22.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist factory-building game that strips away survival elements to focus purely on the satisfaction of automation and resource processing.
- #5 Autonauts
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 24.1%, Base Building 14%, Farming Sim 13.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colony simulation with programming, allowing you to automate tasks using cute robots to build your civilization.
- #6 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 25.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that rewards players for building complex, self-sustaining systems to manage resources.
- #7 Havendock
93% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Farming Sim 15.5%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A charming survival game where you build and manage a thriving colony on the ocean, focusing on resource management and expansion.
- #8 Core Keeper
92% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game emphasizes exploration, mining, and base-building in a mysterious underground world.
- #9 Mob Factory
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 22.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique twist on the genre that uses tower defense mechanics to automate resource gathering from defeated enemies.
- #10 Assembly Planter
91% matchVery Positive91% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Farming Sim 16.2%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines farming with automation, requiring you to build efficient systems to manage your crops and resources.
- #11 Craftopia
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Crafting 21.8%, Open World 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that incorporates farming, automation, and exploration, offering a vast sandbox to experiment in.
- #12 ASTRONEER
89% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration and base-building with a unique aesthetic and intuitive crafting mechanics.
- #13 Outpath: First Journey
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.2%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: The standalone prologue to Outpath that provides a condensed version of the core gameplay loop.
- #14 Satisfactory
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 20.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Takes the automation and base-building loop into a massive 3D open world with stunning visuals and complex logistics.
- #15 Dragon Forge
88% matchMixed50% of 113 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Idler 8.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy survival game that tasks you with building a base and managing resources to progress through a fantasy world.
- #16 Beltex
86% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Idler 10.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox automation game that focuses on belt-based logistics and efficient base design.
- #17 Slime Rancher
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Open World 28.8%, Sandbox 24%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Adventure 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a rewarding loop of exploring, gathering resources, and managing your farm in a colorful, relaxing environment.
- #18 FOUNDRY
85% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 18.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive scale and creative base design in an infinite world.
- #19 Out of Ore
84% matchVery Positive86% of 3,794 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic simulation game that focuses on the mechanics of mining and resource management.
- #20 Dinkum
82% matchVery Positive92% of 28,435 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Farming Sim 20.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An Australian-themed survival and building game that lets you develop your own town through gathering and crafting.
- #21 Pathless Woods
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game inspired by ancient Chinese culture that emphasizes building and resource gathering.
- #22 Incremental Factory
84% 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 19.9%, Idler 13.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pure idler and automation game that focuses on scaling production to massive numbers.
- #23 Terraria
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox game that offers endless crafting, building, and progression, perfect for players who enjoy gathering and expanding.
- #24 Widget Inc.
80% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 16.6%, Idler 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A clicker-focused automation game that simplifies the resource management loop into a satisfying, fast-paced experience.
- #25 Littlewood
81% matchVery Positive93% of 6,792 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing life-sim that emphasizes town building and crafting, providing a more peaceful take on the genre.
- #26 Node Farm
79% matchVery Positive82% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.3%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused simulation game that uses automation to optimize your farming and resource production.
- #27 Critter Clicker
82% matchMixed57% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: TimeWastingGames
Windows
Casual farming simulator with unique, flexible gameplay. Autoclicker is built-in and free. Gather resources, upgrade critters and buildings, sell your farm when you want a bigger one and never stop expanding.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.6%, Idler 19.6%, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A casual idler that focuses on collecting and upgrading, providing a low-stress progression experience.
- #28 Rusty's Retirement
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,403 reviews2024
Dev: Mister Morris Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 23.2 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Farming Sim 20%, Automation 18%, Idler 13.7%, Building 7.6%, Management 7.5%
- #29 Eco
79% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation game where you must build a civilization while managing the environmental impact of your resource gathering.
- #30 Garden Paws
78% matchVery Positive90% of 2,485 reviews2018
Dev: Bitten Toast Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.8%, Crafting 18.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 14.2%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy farming and crafting game that allows for significant town customization and exploration.
- #31 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
76% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Farming Sim 19%, Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #32 Prospector
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #33 Click Mage
75% matchVery Positive92% of 2,408 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Resource Management 26.2%, Crafting 23.9%, Simulation 13.8%, Relaxing 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%
- #34 The Planet Crafter
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 13.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.6%
- #35 Incremental Town RPG
75% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Farming Sim 14.9%, Idler 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Automation 12.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #36 Sixty Four
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,629 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Idler 12.7%, Management 9.7%
- #37 Atrio: The Dark Wild
74% matchVery Positive80% of 592 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 8%
- #38 Skyformer
72% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8%
- #39 Astro Colony
73% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 21.4%, Base Building 20.5%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.9%
- #40 Factory Town
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 21.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #41 Faun Town
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.7%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #42 MoteMancer
71% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #43 Mindustry
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 16.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.8%
- #44 XenoHaven
71% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Automation 10.4%
- #45 Island Robot Farm
70% matchVery Positive88% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: MoraCocoPub: Wise Games
Windows
Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.3%, Automation 21%, Idler 16.9%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.6%
- #46 Eden Crafters
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #47 MineMogul
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 19%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.1%
- #48 Village Tale
69% matchVery Positive85% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.3%, Automation 14.7%, Idler 10.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #49 Trainatic
68% matchVery Positive91% of 898 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan Forrester
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.
Why similar: Idler 35.6%, Management 23%, Strategy 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Adventure 6.6%
- #50 Hydroneer
70% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 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: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #51 Idle Colony
68% matchVery Positive83% of 544 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Idler 20%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #52 Factory Town Idle
68% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Idler 20.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Resource Management 16.7%, Management 11%
- #53 AETHUS
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,163 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: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #54 Beltmatic
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #55 Island Idle RPG
70% matchMixed67% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Automation 12.5%, Idler 12.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #56 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 21%, Building 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #57 Star Crafter
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #58 Another Farm Roguelike
69% matchVery Positive82% of 459 reviews2022
Dev: Zabbo Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.8%, Automation 15.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 9%