- #1 Greedy Little Kingdoms
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.1% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #2 Deep Space Directive
96% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Economy 15.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.5%
- #3 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Resource Management 17.3%, Economy 14%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 8.4%
- #4 VoltHaven
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ARTilleryPub: ARTillery Studio
Windows
Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layout with drag-and-drop simplicity. Simulation based on european data.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 16.8% ★, Economy 13.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Automation 13%, Management 11.4%
- #5 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 18.1% ★, Automation 15.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 10.6%
- #6 Let Them Trade
94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,081 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.1% ★, Economy 14.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 8.7%
- #7 Automation Empire
93% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Real-Time with Pause 8.7% ★
- #8 Astral Enterprises
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Economy 18.2%, Resource Management 16%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 13%
- #9 Oriontis
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beacon 55
Windows
A large-scale narrative city-builder set across floating lands. Build 100+ structures, master production and sky trade, and transform a fragile colony into a thriving civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Economy 18.7%, Automation 17.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 10.1%
- #10 Kingdom Workshop
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Economy 15%, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 10%
- #11 Production Line : Car factory simulation
90% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Economy 17%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 9.4%
- #12 Islandustry
89% 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 27.4%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.3%
- #13 Power to the People
89% matchVery Positive82% of 547 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19% ★, Economy 17.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 12.6%
- #14 Astral Bloom
88% 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 24.2%, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%
- #15 Doodle Factory
87% 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 26.3%, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 8.3%
- #16 Scorchlands
86% matchVery Positive91% of 131 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Resource Management 14%, Economy 13.1%, Hex Grid 13% ★, City Builder 12.9%
- #17 MegaFactory Tycoon
86% 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 32.2%, Economy 16.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.5%
- #18 Solar Baron
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Preon Studio
Windows
As head of an interplanetary corporation, your goal is to extract resources from across the solar system and bring them home faster and cheaper than your competitors. Construct trade depots and colonies. Build rockets and spaceports. Master realistic orbital mechanics and maximize profits.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Real-Time with Pause 20.6% ★, Resource Management 16.1%, Economy 13%, Base Building 12.2%
- #19 Little Big Workshop
85% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Economy 16%, Resource Management 15.9%, Management 15.8%, Strategy 11%
- #20 Good Company
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 21%, Economy 16.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%
- #21 Advancity
83% matchMixed40% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Run an empire in this simple and enjoyable city builder strategy management game. Build, research, train, battle, upgrade, expand, and sail, all while managing your citizens and resources. Advancity focuses on fun and progression.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Economy 18.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 10.4%
- #22 Rise of Industry
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 20.4%, City Builder 17.4%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Automation 11.7%
- #23 Factory Town 2: Paradise
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 15.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.4%
- #24 Another Brick in The Mall
82% matchVery Positive83% of 2,429 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Management 15.3%, Economy 13.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 9.5%
- #25 Offshore Prophets
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 12.5%, Real-Time with Pause 11.2% ★, Economy 7.7%
- #26 Crowded Blue Dot
81% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 17.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 13.3%, Real-Time with Pause 12.1% ★
- #27 Civitatem
79% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Real-Time with Pause 11.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.7%
- #28 Nightlife Tycoon
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: Economy 21.7%, Resource Management 18.8%, Management 18.3%, Building 12.7%, Automation 10.9%
- #29 Star Birds
76% matchVery Positive93% of 2,717 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Resource Management 16.4%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 10.6%, Management 9.2%
- #30 Biofactory
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10.8%
- #31 Halloween Store Simulator
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Automation 15.2%, Economy 14.1%, God Game 10.4% ★, Resource Management 9.3%
- #32 Industry Idle
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 12.6%, Base Building 10.7%
- #33 Airborne Kingdom
77% matchVery Positive87% of 2,369 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Real-Time with Pause 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Economy 12.4%
- #34 Midas
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Null and Void Studios
Windows
Midas is a relaxing strategy game about cards, automation, and gold. Place buildings, create explosive production lines, and drown your kingdom in glittering riches.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 11%, Hex Grid 10.6% ★, Strategy 8.3%
- #35 STARIO: Haven Tower
73% matchVery Positive94% of 343 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 8.8%
- #36 Winterreach Emporium
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Large Lads
Windows
Run your own fantasy ski shop in the frosty peaks of Winterreach. Stock magical gear, serve a variety of races, hire and manage staff, research upgrades, and adapt to festivals, shortages, and the shifting demands of a living, lore-rich world.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Economy 15%, City Builder 13.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 12.1%
- #37 Copacetic
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Management 17.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Automation 16.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, City Builder 9.9%
- #38 Complex SKY
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Economy 15.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 10.6%
- #39 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
75% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Management 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #40 plexum
73% matchNo user reviews
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 33.4%, Resource Management 18.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 11%, Economy 8%
- #41 Factory Town
72% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 11.8%
- #42 Aquis
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Economy 20%, Base Building 16%, Management 12.4%, Building 11%
- #43 Star Haul Tycoon
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sugames
Windows · Linux
Star Haul Tycoon is a narrative logistics sim where efficiency is the only path to profit. Connect planets, manage a fleet of transport ships and optimize complex supply chains. In an economy where fuel equals money, you must pay off your massive corporate debt to a supervisor who's always watching.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Economy 24.7%, Resource Management 20.9%, Management 15.1%, Strategy 8.2%
- #44 The Colonists
72% matchVery Positive86% of 1,222 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 16.7%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%
- #45 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 11.7%
- #46 Modulus: Factory Automation
68% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 26.6%, City Builder 14.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%
- #47 Urbanist
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Halfcooked Games
Windows
Thousands of citizens, each with a life of their own. Urbanist is a strategy and simulation game about transforming small settlements into thriving cities and vibrant neighborhoods. Build up your island, manage resources and production chains, and earn your reputation as the next great Urbanist.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Resource Management 16.8%, Economy 15.3%, Management 12.9%, Building 11.9%
- #48 Urban Ascend
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BitQuest Studio
Windows
A casual city builder where growth is constant, production chains expand, citizens thrive, and upgrades push your city toward a bustling metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Automation 17.9%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 12.4%
- #49 Hotel Management Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ice Drop Coding
Windows
Build, renovate and manage your hotel to keep your guests happy. Increase your star rating, but be careful - unhappy guests leave bad reviews and you don't want to lose your hotel!
Why similar: Economy 18.7%, Resource Management 16.6%, Management 15.1%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.3%
- #50 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Economy 22.7%, Management 14.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.9%
- #51 Forge Industry
69% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 12.5%, Management 12.2%
- #52 Smart Factory Tycoon
69% matchMixed61% of 869 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 17.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Automation 12.6%
- #53 Hotel Magnate
67% matchMixed59% of 486 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: Economy 17.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 14.8%, Building 10.6%
- #54 Shopping Center Tycoon
68% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Economy 20.1%, Management 19.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%
- #55 Builderment
68% matchMixed67% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
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: Automation 31.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Resource Management 16.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 9%
- #56 Flotsam
65% matchVery Positive81% of 4,361 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Real-Time with Pause 19.1% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 12.1%
- #57 Property Pro
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build or purchase a property and manage it effectively. Make strategic decisions to maintain and improve the property, and address any issues that arise.
Why similar: Economy 18.4%, Automation 17.5%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, City Builder 11.8%
- #58 Truck City
65% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 11.4%
- #59 United Penguin Kingdom
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 439 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 19.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Management 14.8%, Strategy 7.9%