- #1 Revive & Prosper
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: God Game 15.7% ★, Voxel 15.2% ★, Moddable 13.6% ★, Automation 12.3%, Colony Sim 9.7%
- #2 Facteroids
96% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
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 16.7%, Mining 16.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Voxel 11.4% ★
- #3 Dawn Apart
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Automation 21.3%, Voxel 19.2% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 4.4%
- #4 VoxFox
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 26 reviews2020
Dev: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
VoxFox - a cute real-time strategy made in voxel graphics for any age.
Why similar: God Game 22.7% ★, Voxel 19.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Level Editor 11.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #5 MeowFactory
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Smola Game Studio
Windows
Welcome to the MEOWFACTORY! Automate production lines and manage limited space to achieve perfection. Connect machines with conveyor lines and minimize hand (well, paw) labour! In the near and depressing future, when the world is on the verge of destruction, ONLY MEOWORKERS can revive production!
Why similar: God Game 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 7.8%
- #6 Timberborn
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Voxel 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 14.2%, Level Editor 10.4%, Base Building 10%
- #7 Epoch Forge
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vaporware Software
Windows
Dig, wire, pray, fly. An open-ended colony sandbox where everything coexists: player-built starships, working circuitry, a living economy, gods who answer prayers, disasters, and NPCs who hold real conversations. Play it guided, honest, or unforgiving. There is no ending — the world continues.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Moddable 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Real Time Tactics 13%, Level Editor 12.2%
- #8 Factory Town
92% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 20.2%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 12%, Moddable 10% ★
- #9 Flow Factory
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
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 23.3%, Mining 20.3% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #10 Factor Y
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
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: Mining 24.3% ★, Automation 20.5%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #11 A Planet of Mine Legacy
91% matchMixed62% of 65 reviews2019
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Mining 18.3% ★, God Game 16.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #12 CircuitVeil
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #13 Stationeers
89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Mining 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.8%, Moddable 15.2% ★, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 11.1%
- #14 Odd Realm
87% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Mining 18.6% ★, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #15 Dungeon D14
88% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Mining 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #16 Deity's Domain
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unlikely Games
Windows
Deity's Domain is a God game with City-building elements. Set on a mystical Norse island, you compete with other deities for supremacy over the faithful. You can choose to be a kind or a cruel god, shaping the world around you with your decisions as you grow your personal Pet companion.
Why similar: God Game 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #17 Microtopia: Prologue
86% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Automation 18.4%, Moddable 18.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #18 Beyond These Stars
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Automation 15.5%, Moddable 14.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 12.1%
- #19 Captain of Industry
84% 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 29.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 18%, Colony Sim 13%, Mining 10.3% ★
- #20 FortressCraft : Phoenix
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DjArcasPub: ProjectorGames
Windows
The third iteration of the game that invented the Factory genre, FortressCraft :Phoenix takes the over-the-top base building and survival gameplay and cranks it up a hundred times. Build your mining base with hundreds of thousands of machines in it, explore alien landscape, heading deep underground.
Why similar: Voxel 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 24.1%, Automation 12.8%, Sandbox 11%, Moddable 10% ★
- #21 Factory Magnate
82% 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 25.4%, Moddable 19.4% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #22 Fata Deum - The God Sim
82% matchMixed60% of 460 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Moddable 16.6% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #23 DECO:BLOCK SIMULATOR
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Hiruko Time App
Windows
Simple block play. There are no battles, puzzles, or items to collect in this game. All you can do is play with blocks. There is no story, setting, or background. You can only play with blocks.
Why similar: God Game 30.9% ★, Level Editor 27.8%, Physics 15.4%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Simulation 5.3%
- #24 Spherical Symphony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maaz BaigPub: Night Rain Studios
Windows
Guide tiny planets back into harmony in Spherical Symphony. Balance each world’s living systems, recruit cozy catfolk helpers, befriend cosmic sea creatures, trade between worlds, repel threats, and awaken the sleeping sun at the heart of it all.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, God Game 23.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Automation 14.1%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #25 SkillGrid
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Real Time Tactics 17.7%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 10.8%
- #26 EarthX 2
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DenisPub: Mesote Games
Windows · Mac
Grow your rocket startup from a humble launchpad to sprawling colonies on Mars and beyond! Secure government contracts, launch massive satellite constellations, build space stations, terraform Mars with nuclear blasts, and mine vital resources to fuel your expansion!
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 18%, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.1%
- #27 Bouncekraft
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
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 31.8% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Automation 16.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 8.5%
- #28 Ghouls Of Divinity
79% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Bl4ck?
Windows
Command a civilization of dancing ghouls in this fast-paced 3D real-time strategy and god simulation game. Utilize physics-based combat with throwable weapons to expand your tribe. Manage resources, cast powerful spells, and eliminate rival ghoul races to achieve total domination.
Why similar: God Game 27.1% ★, Level Editor 16.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Physics 10.2%
- #29 Adaptory
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Moddable 15.7% ★, Resource Management 12.2%
- #30 Plentiful
76% matchVery Positive93% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.
Why similar: God Game 29.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, Voxel 20.3% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 4.7%
- #31 Build To The Moon
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BumpkinBrothers
Windows
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Automation 19.1%, God Game 19.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #32 L'Avancée du désert
78% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Ian Corbeil
Windows
L'Avancée du désert est un jeu de gestion où vous devez développer votre colonie spatiale pour récolter de la nourriture et trouver de nouvelles technologies tout en combattant la désertification.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 22.5%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Strategy 11.7%
- #33 Icaria
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
Windows
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Voxel 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #34 Stardeus
76% matchVery Positive87% of 1,552 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, God Game 19.3% ★, Moddable 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #35 HavenCraft
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Third Person 9%
- #36 Skyberry Garden
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Automation 25%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #37 Cog Foo
73% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 23%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #38 Phantasm Cube
74% 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 38.9%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 14.8%, Simulation 8.4%
- #39 Space Architect
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 18.4%, Mining 15.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #40 Danglebox
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erich Hradek
Windows
Danglebox is about creating physics based structures to hunt for resources or just for fun. Build with various materials, lift with balloons, pull with ropes and push with thrusters to enable your designs to withstand the weight of trains, buildings, containers, weapons fire and more.
Why similar: Level Editor 17.8%, Automation 17%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #41 Oxytopia
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iida-lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
A co-op colony sandbox where temperature and fluids run on a living cellular-automaton simulation. Terraform a dead world with friends, build a base that runs itself… then watch one leak bring it all down.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Automation 20.4%, Moddable 16.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #42 Architect of Ruin
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Moddable 15.7% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 14.4%, Resource Management 12%
- #43 StarShip-DF
69% matchPositive100% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: 四哥
Windows
Build a 3D multi-layer starship and lead your colonists. Mine resources and salvage wreckage in space, or land to gather supplies on planets. Fight enemies, protect your crew, and build robots for the ultimate mobile base.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, God Game 23.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Automation 7.9%
- #44 KingForge
69% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Voxel 21.4% ★, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 11.4%, Mining 8.9% ★
- #45 Swarmdustry
68% matchPositive91% of 43 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Moddable 20.2% ★, Mining 16% ★, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #46 Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory
70% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Linux
An automation puzzle game in the spirit of The Incredible Machine to stretch your brain without the stress. Build chocolate-making contraptions out of conveyors, cannons and simple parts, then optimise them until they run themselves.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Level Editor 17.9%, Moddable 15.8% ★, Physics 11%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #47 Astra Nauta
70% 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: Colony Sim 26.6%, Automation 20.6%, God Game 14.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #48 Survival Vacancy
72% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Automation 18.1%, Mining 15.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #49 Halloween Store Simulator
71% matchNo 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: God Game 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.4%, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #50 Kubifaktorium
71% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Automation 20.1%, Voxel 16.8% ★, Moddable 11.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%
- #51 WildRoot
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, God Game 19.9% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #52 Sapiens
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,162 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, Moddable 15.2% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #53 One Turret
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Kaplin86
Windows · Linux
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 19.9%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Level Editor 12.6%, Simulation 8.9%
- #54 Aground Zero
67% matchVery Positive83% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Voxel 21.7% ★, Moddable 15.6% ★, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 11.6%
- #55 StoneEra
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arrock Games
Windows · Mac
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Voxel 19.1% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #56 Star Crafter
66% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 25.3% ★, Voxel 18.7% ★, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #57 Dust & Diamonds
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SAD Games Studio
Windows
Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #58 Going Medieval
64% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Voxel 21.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Moddable 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 12%
- #59 MineMogul
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Mining 25.7% ★, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Physics 10%