Games Like PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Base Building 30.4%, Strategy 15.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 10.6%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly bridges the gap between factory automation and tower defense, mirroring the strategic base-building elements of the seed.

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: Base Building 35.2%, Sandbox 20%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 8.3%, Co-op 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who love the deep automation and logistics management found in Nom Nom Galaxy.

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: Base Building 27.2%, Sandbox 20.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar 2D perspective with a heavy emphasis on automating resource gathering and base expansion in a colorful, alien environment.

Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 27.5%, Co-op 20%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the frantic, management-focused cooking gameplay of the seed game while adding roguelite elements and cooperative chaos.

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Sandbox 40.1%, Building 35.4%, Indie 14.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Great Soundtrack 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: For those who enjoy the puzzle-like aspect of designing efficient production lines, this game offers a more focused, logic-based automation experience.

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 18.4%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11.7%, Co-op 11%, Online Co-Op 10%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D mining and base-building game offers a similar sense of exploration and co-op progression in a persistent, underground world.

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: Base Building 31.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It places you in a space-based environment where you must build and automate a modular colony, directly echoing the setting and goals of the seed.

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: Base Building 33.7%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 14.1%, Co-op 13.5%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: While in 3D, it offers the ultimate factory-building experience with a focus on verticality and complex logistics that fans of the seed will appreciate.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Building 27.1%, Strategy 18%, Action 7.7%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the modular construction of space vessels, appealing to players who enjoy the building and design aspects of Nom Nom Galaxy.

Strategy co-op online multiplayer game about living on a spaceship with your roommates. You'll need to generate resources, take care of a deadly alien infestation, upgrade your appliances and build your sustainable space home. Living together is never easy, especially when you are in outer space!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 25.1%, Strategy 20.1%, Co-op 16%, Casual 11.2%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: This cooperative game focuses on base maintenance and resource management in a space setting, mirroring the 'work-life' chaos of the seed.

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: Base Building 32.6%, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 14.4%, Casual 12.8%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the quirky, lighthearted tone of Nom Nom Galaxy while focusing on programming cute robots to automate tasks.

Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 43.6%, Local Multiplayer 15.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Action 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the frantic, cooperative ship-management aspect of the seed game, requiring players to work together to survive.

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: Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 19.6%, Survival 13.3%, Building 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a satisfying 2D loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your base that feels very similar to the core gameplay of the seed.

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: Base Building 31.7%, Sandbox 21.3%, Co-op 17.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Online Co-Op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the co-op, space-based automation and simulation elements that define the core experience of the seed.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 28%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Co-op 10.5%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D space exploration game features extensive base-building and resource gathering mechanics in a vibrant, procedurally generated universe.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 39.6%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeper, more complex take on base management and automation, requiring careful resource handling in a sci-fi setting.

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 25.1%, Sandbox 19%, Co-op 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at space-based resource gathering and base construction, offering a relaxing yet productive gameplay loop.

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: Base Building 30.3%, Strategy 27.5%, Sandbox 15%, Casual 10.7%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the simulation and strategy aspects of building an efficient factory, making it a great mechanical match.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Sandbox 27.4%, Building 13.4%, Co-op 9.8%, Survival 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D sandbox game that provides endless opportunities for building, crafting, and exploring alongside friends.

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: Base Building 21.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines mining, simulation, and automation in a way that feels very familiar to fans of 2D factory-building games.

The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

Why similar: Base Building 27.8%, Co-op 18.6%, Building 16.4%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming, co-op-friendly take on colony simulation and automation that aligns well with the seed's tone.

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: Base Building 23.7%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 15.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory automation game set underground provides a unique perspective on the resource management genre.

Cosmo’s Quickstop simulates the fast-paced thrill of managing a gas station… IN SPACE! Upgrade your services, please alien customers, and complete your daily chores through simple minigames that add up to a hilariously frantic experience with solo or couch co-op play.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 29.4%, Strategy 18.9%, Co-op 14.8%, Local Multiplayer 13.7%, Casual 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the time-management and service-oriented gameplay of the seed, set within a quirky space station.

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: Base Building 42.4%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 20.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want to scale up their automation efforts to a galactic level, this game provides an unparalleled sense of scope.

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: Base Building 21.2%, Sandbox 20%, Building 15.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Co-op 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It applies automation and sandbox building mechanics to a fantasy setting, providing a fresh take on the factory-building genre.

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: Sandbox 25.1%, Building 16.8%, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends automation, crafting, and open-world exploration into a single experience, covering many of the same mechanics as the seed.

Space Food Truck is a cooperative, culinary scifi adventure. 1-4 players take on unique roles aboard the Galaxy Gourmet. Their mission: explore a vast, procedurally-generated galaxy in search of exotic ingredients, craft delicious recipes, and withstand the untold dangers of deep space.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 60.1%, Strategy 19.9%, Co-op 8.5%, Indie 7.8%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the space-themed cooking and management premise of the seed, albeit through a card-based strategy lens.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 13%, Local Multiplayer 12.2%, Co-op 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more strategy-focused, it shares the 2D side-scrolling base-building and management feel that makes the seed game so engaging.

Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Building 15%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that emphasizes exploration and crafting, perfect for players who enjoy the building side of the seed.

Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!

Why similar: Sandbox 40.9%, Building 28.9%, Casual 15.9%, Indie 10.1%, Survival 4.3%

No Heroes Here is a frantic co-op game for 1 to 4 players, available in local and online modes. Craft and use several items effectively whilst coordinating your ragtag band of non-heroes to defend castles and survive! ...Oh, as well as saving the Kingdom in the meantime!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 24.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Local Multiplayer 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Co-op 8.2%

A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.

Why similar: Co-op 42.1%, Great Soundtrack 26.3%, Action 14.6%, Indie 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 2.7%

Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.

Why similar: Strategy 19.9%, Local Co-Op 19.9%, Local Multiplayer 12.2%, Co-op 11.9%, Action 10.7%

Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 19.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 10.8%, Local Multiplayer 9.7%

Build and brawl in this fast and frantic mash-up! Race your opponents to build the most powerful towers in Slam Bolt City while defending against deceptively adorable baddies and hugely epic bosses. Create weapons that shoot lasers, drills, missiles, and more to annihilate your adversary.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.9%, Strategy 19.7%, Building 17.9%, Local Multiplayer 15.6%, Action 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines action and strategy with building mechanics, offering a fast-paced experience similar to the seed's combat-factory hybrid.

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

Why similar: Strategy 30.8%, Building 30.3%, Indie 14.3%, Casual 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Iron Armada is a multiplayer, space-faring combat game where players must team up to build a fleet of ships in order to survive the perils of space and defeat the opposing player faction. Build ships of all shapes and sizes, mine resources, and scavenge parts with friends to conquer the universe!

Why similar: Strategy 45.6%, Casual 24.2%, Action 22.1%, Indie 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.6%

An absurd couch co-op gas station builder for 1-4 players! Manage a servo (that's Aussie for "gas station") as impatient space travellers demand service. Wrangle wobbly pipes, set up refineries, and mix the right fuels to build space gas stations with peak efficiency.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 34%, Local Multiplayer 20.1%, Co-op 19.3%, Casual 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%

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: Building 28.9%, Base Building 27%, Sandbox 21.2%, Co-op 17.9%, Exploration 5%

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: Base Building 24.7%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Co-op 10.5%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.9%, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Building 9.2%

ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 22.7%, Local Multiplayer 17.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Indie 10.8%, Action 10.4%

Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 23.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Co-op 10.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Strategy 9%

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: Strategy 31.6%, Base Building 30.1%, Sandbox 23.8%, Indie 6.4%, 2D 5.2%

Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.

Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 13.2%, Action 8.1%

Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.

Why similar: Base Building 63.7%, Survival 21.8%, Exploration 14.5%

It's the ultimate, strategic SHMUP ReMix! Control TWO combat wings, flick between THREE different formations, and BLAST your way through overwhelming enemy fleets! Liberate planets, build colonies, research tech and skills, craft items, or even play 2p co-op in this unique new indie game.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 26.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Action 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Indie 10.2%

A tiny, naked cosmonaut with a jetpack & laser blaster must revive a dying galaxy by planting one seed at a time. An innovative and addictive arcade adventure experience with mystery and intrigue in all the right places.

Why similar: Strategy 40.8%, Action 29%, Indie 24%, Casual 6.2%

Using Critter Crunch's 'Food Chain' mechanic, players will eat their way through a smorgasbord of levels and gorge on a feast of modes, including Co-op and Versus multiplayer.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 27.3%, Local Multiplayer 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Casual 8.6%, Indie 7.9%

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: Base Building 34.1%, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 17%, Strategy 10.8%, Casual 7.1%

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Sandbox 17.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%

🌴👩‍🍳🍔 A stress-free cooking game that lets you relax! Cook up burgers for mecha cats and aliens. Play solo or with up to 7 friends!

Why similar: Co-op 26%, Online Co-Op 22.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Casual 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.6%

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: Base Building 33.2%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Survival 7.3%

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Sandbox 26.9%, Building 15.4%, Co-op 13%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Platformer 7.9%

Grow bigger and bigger as you eat everything in the world! Play through six wildly different end-of-the-world scenarios in this chaotic eat ’em up.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 28.2%, Platformer 16.8%, Local Multiplayer 14.2%, Action 10.2%, Casual 9.7%

Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

Why similar: Casual 36.5%, Exploration 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, 2D 12.2%, Building 11.6%

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: Sandbox 34.2%, Online Co-Op 26.2%, Co-op 13.9%, Casual 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Why similar: Sandbox 42.7%, Survival 16.8%, Action 14.7%, Casual 14.6%, Exploration 11.3%

Swing, climb, and jump your way through massive “gardens” of vibrant other-worldly plant-life in this truly organic platformer.

Why similar: Casual 26.1%, Indie 22.1%, Platformer 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 15.7%, Action 13.6%

CAN YOU SAVE THE SCIENTISTS ON APOXUS PRIME?PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate is a twin-stick shooter with equal elements of action and puzzle solving.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 45.6%, Action 32.3%, Co-op 22.1%