60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Simulation, Base Building, Sandbox.
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Bouncekraft
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
The Last Starship
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!
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 21.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Space Sim 14.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 19.3% ★, Space Sim 18.3%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9.2%
LithoBreak is a survival factory-builder grounded in real physics and engineering. Build and automate a lunar colony, explore in first-person, and survive constant orbital threats – all while you Play with Science
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Mining 16.5% ★, Space Sim 13.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9%
A desktop idle-style game inspired by Factorio. Free from constant monster attacks, you can focus purely on construction. Start by mining resources to build bases and factories, then assemble fleets to explore more planets.
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Space Sim 24%, Base Building 22.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Top-Down 4.3%
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 30.9%, Mining 18.4% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Space Sim 22.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Sandbox 5.4%
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: Automation 20.2%, Mining 17.6% ★, Space Sim 16.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Space Sim 15.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%
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: Automation 27.6%, Mining 22.4% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Space Sim 16.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%
Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.
Why similar: Space Sim 25.9%, Automation 21.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.6%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 40.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%
A base-building and automation game about restoring a ruined planet. Mine resources, build factories, deploy AI drones, and revive a living world.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Space Sim 25.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 10.4%
Main Sequence is a space-sim factory builder where your goal is to build an interstellar industrial empire. Collect resources, automate production, and expand your fleet of ships in order to survive and leave your mark on the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Space Sim 24.7%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
Build and navigate your ship as it barrels through space. Machines, pipes, and wiring; all necessities to keep your ship running. Survive and explore.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Space Sim 20.1%, Mining 18.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7.5%
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 33.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Mining 12% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 8.2%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 43.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 15.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Strategy 7.7%
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 37%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 9.4%
You are the supreme commander who directing the construction of a galactic space base. You need to manage the living and administrative needs of the space base residents, establish the industrial chain for space docks and starship, and ultimately complete a dream starship.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Space Sim 27.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 7.4%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 11.5%
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Space Sim 15.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 7.5%
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 29.4%, Mining 26% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 5.9%
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: Automation 21.4%, Mining 19.4% ★, Space Sim 15.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Space Sim 14%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
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: Automation 27.7%, Mining 18.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Space Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Mining 21% ★, Space Sim 16.9%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Space Sim 18.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.4%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 9.2%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Simulation 7.2%
That's no moon. It's a giant ball of garbage. Build a factory to excavate, wash, sort, classify and disassemble the detritus of ages past.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Sandbox 22.9%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Top-Down 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 40.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Strategy 6.3%
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: Automation 29.7%, Mining 18.5% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 8.1%
Space Sim Tycoon – A sandbox transportation tycoon game where you can explore forbidden planets, gather resources, craft goods, and establish routes to manage your space empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.5%, Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 8.2%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Strategy 6.1%
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 31.6%, Mining 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
Welcome to this innovative sci-fi open-world! As the last survivor of humanity, build a home on a wild alien planet. Reignite civilization—from primal survival to advanced energy systems. Use the Planetary Control Module to reshape the world, uncover human secrets, and journey back to Earth.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Space Sim 22.3%, Sandbox 17%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.3%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Sandbox 13.4%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Sci-fi 7.3%
A sandbox survival game, set on life-sized voxel planets with realistic physics with the possibility to shape your own building blocks. From your custom made furniture, walls to vehicle parts. You shape the blocks which can then be used to build buildings, spacecraft and aircraft.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Space Sim 20.3%, Mining 16.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
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 32.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 6.5%
Bestion is a game that combines Roguelike tower defense elements with automated factory construction. Players are required to construct their own factory on a planet and protect the kernel from monster attacks.
Why similar: Automation 41.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Strategy 8%
A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system! Grow your base and increase production to make the ultimate factory for launching planets!
Why similar: Space Sim 27.9%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%
AstroMiner is a game about building a mining colony in an asteroid field, starting as a small space station and growing to a sprawling space port.
Why similar: Mining 29.7% ★, Space Sim 25.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Space Sim 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.3%
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 33.9%, Mining 17.1% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Space Sim 19.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10%
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 17.5%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 11%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Strategy 6.3%
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Mining 22.3% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.6%
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Space Sim 20.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%
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 36.8%, Base Building 19.7%, Sandbox 13%, Strategy 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
Another Game About Automation is a casual factory-building where you have to generate numbers and combine them with mathematical operations. Upgrade and unlock new mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 45.7%, Base Building 25.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Puzzle 0.7%
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 36.7%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Sandbox 6.9%
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Space Sim 20.8%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%
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 45.7%, Base Building 24.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Strategy 4.5%
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 36%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Simulation 6.9%
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: Automation 29.5%, Mining 25% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 9%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Simulation 7.3%
