- #1 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
97% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Idler 22.9%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8.9%, Building 7.8%
- #2 ASTERSTEAD
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 6.1%
- #3 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Idler 26.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Management 8.7%, Building 8.4%
- #4 The Last Factory
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jitkem TienngamPub: Hello World Labs
Windows · Mac
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Idler 11.2%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 8%
- #5 MegaFactory Tycoon
94% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Building 13.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #6 Astral Bloom
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
Grow a living alien world in this incremental base-builder. Cultivate strange plants, command loyal wisps, and reshape the sky with powerful wishes. Automate and expand your ecosystem as you uncover lost memories. As your sanctuary grows, will you stay... or leave in search of something more?
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Idler 22.9%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 10%
- #7 Stick Legion
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vanishline Games
Windows
Your income isn't a spreadsheet - it's a battle line. Muster warbands, carve across eight realms, then dock the war in a screen corner and fight on while you work - Order the Last Charge, strengthen your Elders, run it back. Pay once. No ads.
Why similar: Idler 31.1%, Automation 28.6%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.6%
- #8 Chronominion Idler
92% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Indie Addict Game Studio
Windows
Manage your party, develop skills, and shape the fate of a living world in this strategy-driven RPG.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Idler 29.1%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #9 Factory Works Idle
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EnricoBC
Windows · Linux
Build an industrial empire across 10 technological eras and 3 parallel dimensions. Gather resources, automate production chains, research 100 technologies, and tear through reality itself - from stone tools to singularity cores to alien dimensions with hostile ecosystems.
Why similar: Idler 25.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 7.8%
- #10 Apiary in Flow
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AkinoEgo
Windows
Apiary in Flow is an incremental game with automation elements where you place bees inside a hive to build efficient honey-gathering chains. Unlock new bee types and spend your harvest on permanent skill tree upgrades!
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Idler 26.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 7.6%, Management 7%
- #11 ChromaFlow
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 8%, Building 7.7%
- #12 Potion Pipeline
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
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 29.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 14%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 9%
- #13 Genterra
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: The Bunker Studios
Windows
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Simulation 13.2%, Building 12.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Futuristic 8.3%
- #14 Fabricatio
88% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.8%, Management 7%
- #15 Attrition Line
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 6.9%
- #16 Resources Assemble!
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Automation 31%, Idler 26.3%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #17 plexum
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
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 32.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 12.6%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #18 We Need More Steam!
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, Management 13.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 12%, Strategy 11.9%
- #19 The Rift Machine
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mechayaan
Windows
The Rift Machine is an incremental game where you extract resources from inter-dimensional anomalies. Build modular defenses, research advanced technology, automate complex systems, and scale your operation into an unstoppable anomaly-harvesting engine.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Idler 21.9%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 7%
- #20 Cursor Kingdom
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oba Games
Windows
Create an army of cursor clones by recording your actions. Automate resource gathering, production, and defense while your kingdom grows on its own.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Idler 21.9%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 6.9%
- #21 CivDle
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Star Software
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: Idler 26%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 6.5%
- #22 Node Math
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Idler 22%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 6.5%
- #23 Infinite Number Factory
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 12%, Simulation 7.2%
- #24 Closed Circuit: Recursive Idle
79% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: kealsoft
Windows
Optimize your loop. Cut, connect, and duplicate complex nodes to build an ever-expanding automated network in this chill incremental idler. Purchase powerful upgrades, unlock permanent skills, and push your system to its absolute limits.
Why similar: Idler 29.2%, Management 14.3%, Automation 12.6%, Futuristic 11.5%, Sci-fi 8%
- #25 Assembly Line 2
81% matchMixed65% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 39.7%, Idler 17.6%, Management 14%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10%
- #26 Mito
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%
- #27 Factory Magnate
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 10%
- #28 Feed The Flame
78% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Retnuh
Windows
Feed The Flame is a simple incremental game where you grow a flame to burn down the world. Buy better resources, unlock upgrades and employ thousands of workers to mine, chop and hunt down fuel for the flame. Easy. Satisfying. Highly addictive.
Why similar: Idler 31.7%, Automation 26.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 9.4%
- #29 FLOWORKS
77% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: QUENCH FORGE
Windows
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Idler 20.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 7.9%
- #30 Beltex
81% matchVery Positive86% of 233 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 27.4%, Idler 17.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9.5%
- #31 Factorization
83% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Anubis Gaming
Windows · Linux
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #32 Idle Lab Rats
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex BrownPub: FAFF Games
Windows
Train rats in a series of mazes and help them improve their stats. Submit rats for grant money and use it to upgrade your lab with new tools and buy new rats with powerful abilities! These new rats have such amazing potential. How smart are these rats becoming?
Why similar: Idler 27.2%, Automation 19.4%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #33 CosmoFab
75% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 8.5%
- #34 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Idler 14.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 9.4%
- #35 Crime Empire Idle
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Litwire Games
Windows · Linux
Build your criminal dynasty in a deep idle/incremental game. Run crimes, launder dirty cash, upgrade your empire, use the black market, craft weapons & gear to fight criminal opponents while you balance heat and notoriety.
Why similar: Idler 28.7%, Automation 25.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #36 Modulus: Factory Automation
73% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 26.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #37 Astral Enterprises
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimise production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 10.3%
- #38 Planet Harvester
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Otto Development
Windows · Mac
Planet Harvester is a sci-fi automation and resource management sim where you deploy autonomous drones, harvest planets, transfer resources to your mothership, buy upgrades, solve bottlenecks, and expand across the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Idler 25.7%, Resource Management 16%, Simulation 10.2%, Sci-fi 6.2%
- #39 AetherRift
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Slade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Place magical constructs around a swirling cosmic rift, chain together exotic energies, and collapse reality to grow stronger in this deep incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Idler 27.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 7.3%
- #40 Widget Inc.
73% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 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 31.9%, Idler 17.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Simulation 5.4%
- #41 Factorwave
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11%, Management 9.4%
- #42 LaVonne's Grid Idle
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LaVonne
Windows
A deeply mathematical 3D idle game leveraging exponential scaling. Unlock the Void Dimension, assemble powerful Artifacts, unlock massive Constellation technology trees, and fully automate your resource production to achieve endless numerical growth.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Management 18.9%, Idler 18.9%, Resource Management 18.5%, Casual 8.1%
- #43 Doodle Factory
73% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Idler 13.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10.6%
- #44 Starvester
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 788 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Idler 22.4%, Resource Management 12%, Building 9.7%, Management 9%
- #45 Automation Station
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 8.9%
- #46 Nexus: Quantum Industries
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kuiper Industries
Windows
A sci-fi incremental about industrializing the universe, collapsing it into Stardust, and rebuilding stronger. Automate twelve tiers of impossible machines, chart a finite galaxy, draft run-changing Cosmic Laws, light five constellations, and descend into the endless Abyss
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Idler 27.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%
- #47 Incremental Factory
72% matchMixed68% of 247 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 28.8%, Idler 23%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.7%
- #48 Beltmatic
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,224 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 30%, Idler 17.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 8%
- #49 Feed The Forest
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indoor Sunglasses
Windows · Linux
A short, innocent incremental forest-builder. Unlock snail powers to spread life in a barren desert. Feed the mysterious Forest with juice. And remember: Blood is a type of juice.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Idler 24%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 8.3%
- #50 Singularity Echoes
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Null Axiom
Windows
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Idler 20.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Management 7.9%
- #51 Rocket Automashapes
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Idler 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10%
- #52 Phantasm Cube
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 47.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 10%
- #53 Islandustry
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
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 31.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #54 BOREWORKS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 12.1%, Building 10.9%
- #55 The PipeTuber's Guide to the Solar System
67% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: 阿森定食寿司屋 Team SoulShi
Windows
The PipeTuber's Guide to the Solar System is a Rogue-Lite Strategy Resource Management game. Players will build “Pipelines” to gather 4 kinds of resources in order to fulfill recurring survival challenges and explore the game world.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Futuristic 7.6%
- #56 11 pm
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Marijenburg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lay out your machines, route your resources, and chase the perfect flow. Then a single new module reshapes everything and hands you a fresh puzzle. An automation game where you never solve the same factory twice.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 14%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Idler 8.4%
- #57 Astra Nauta
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MochaSalmon
Windows
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Idler 21.4%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #58 Mars Inc 98
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unreal Fusion Games
Windows
A retro Win98 styled incremental game about terraforming Mars. Manage power, build your systems, and clear the atmosphere to make the planet livable.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Idler 26.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #59 Captain of Industry
70% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.3%
- #60 Buerokratie Idler: Germany
65% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: AKM Interactive
Windows
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
Why similar: Idler 30.7%, Automation 30.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 7.8%