60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 2D, Strategy, Simulation, Colony Sim.
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Quicksant
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
GearTopia
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Side Scroller 16.2%, Automation 10.9%, Mining 9.3% ★, Exploration 7.3%
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
Why similar: Steampunk 17% ★, Automation 16.4%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Mining 9.9% ★, Crafting 8%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 22.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Exploration 6.7%
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 35.3%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Management 8.3%
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Side Scroller 12.5%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Adventure 8.5%
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: Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 14%, Mining 11.6% ★, Crafting 8.7%
Your tiny colony's adventure begins! Explore the depths of nature in this pink colony, gather resources, and build your nest step by step. Just don't let the little ones go starve! Command your soldiers and workers to keep your queen safe, and turn your colony into a thriving nest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Side Scroller 16%, Simulation 11.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Mining 7.1% ★
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 33.4%, Automation 18.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%
A thought-provoking exploration survival game. You must endure a frozen wilderness threatened by both brutal natural forces and demonic creatures. Starting with nothing, you will fight the cold, manage resources, maintain body temperature, and gradually take in survivors to build a home together.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Side Scroller 13.2%, Simulation 13.2%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Strategy 12.5%
The depths of Ashenburrow are alive. Wildlife hunts, feeds, breeds and dies — with or without you. Survive, craft, build. But remember: you are not alone underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Automation 13.6%, Strategy 8.2%
在群雄割据的三国乱世中，从零开始建设村庄，发展势力、抵御敌军，最终统一天下。
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 12.3%, 2D Platformer 10%
You and your friends bought a “nice” piece of land... Turns out you accidentally signed up for catastrophic lifelong debt. Now the collectors want their money. Dig down for treasure, ore, and anything shiny enough to pawn off. Unlock ancient relics and buy new tools to help you on your dig!
Why similar: Side Scroller 21.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Exploration 9.7%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 8.4%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10%, Building 7.8%
Craftory is a rougelite top-down wave survival game with loads of automation. You build machines, conveyor belts, and defensive structures like walls and turrets. However, at night enemies will invade your base! The goal is to conquer the planet and protect your core.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Strategy 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Automation 11.4%, Logic 9.6%
Dwarf Core is an idle-management game about a small colony of dwarves who love to mine. Send them to the mine to gather resources, gain experience, upgrade their stats and craft new pickaxes. Looking for more active gameplay than idle? Take control of one of the dwarves and help them mine!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Platformer 13.2%, Side Scroller 12.6%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Crafting 7.5%
Away Team is a new Oxygen Not Included game. Mistakenly shipped off to an alien world, you will need to harness the environment and master temperature, pressure, chemical reactions and more in order to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Side Scroller 16.6%, Sandbox 15%, Automation 14.2%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%
Put your creativity to the test! Use the in game tools to build a purely physics driven level. Create and Engineer your own character/object to control and use in the level. Go nuts with the many settings, object attributes & freedom to create any number of objects, events & scenarios.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.6%, Side Scroller 18.3%, Platformer 17.6%, Simulation 17.3%, 2D Platformer 15.1%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Side Scroller 15.1%, Automation 14.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 6.5%
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 28.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Automation 12.6%, Mining 9.3% ★, Crafting 8.4%
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 8.4%
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 29.4%, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Mining 7.3% ★
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Automation 17.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Exploration 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 6.6%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Automation 15.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 9.2%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Strategy 7.3%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Sandbox 21.5%, Simulation 17.9%, Building 8.9%, 2D 4.8%
Tales of Mist is a survival game integrating strategy and adventure in a decaying world. Plagued by the presence of witches and the tyranny of creatures straight out of fairy tales, take command of a city to bring light to this fog-filled world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Steampunk 19.4% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Management 8.9%
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 29.5%, Automation 15.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Cartoony 9.1%, Management 7.7%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Automation 17.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.8%
A 2D side-view factory builder where every grain of dirt, every drop of water, and every wisp of steam in the world is its own simulated pixel.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, Side Scroller 17.7%, Platformer 16.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Automation 14.3%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Automation 23.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 7.5%, Strategy 6.3%
A medieval fantasy colony sim based on Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, MediAevi features multiple playable races in a procedurally generated world. Make a sustainable colony and keep your colonists alive through raids and attacks. Research and Advance, to make better weapons, armors, spells, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 11.1%
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Sandbox 21.4%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Logic 8.7%
A crafting colony sim that feels like coming home. A warm campfire, the cutest animal villagers, the curiosity of putting two items together and seeing what comes out. Craft, build, automate, and explore the ancient tunnels down below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 15%, Crafting 11.3%, Logic 8.8%, Simulation 7.6%
Dig deep into an alien world, gather resources, explore the unknown, and build interconnected power, oxygen, and production systems. Upgrade your gear, expand your base, and automate logistics with drones as manual work gradually grows into an efficient production network.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Mining 17% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Simulation 8.1%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 7.6%
Build an underground shelter for content creators. Recruit new talent, construct specialized rooms, manage your resources and grow your operation into a thriving creator empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 10%, Cartoony 8.2%
Fight, rebuild, survive. Command your crew in a frantic survival shooter with simple controls, intense action, and nonstop chaos. Every run makes you stronger!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Crafting 17%, 2D Platformer 10%, Platformer 9%, Management 8.8%
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.3%, Automation 18%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.6%
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Mining 9.9% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 16%, Crafting 10.1%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Automation 20.8%, Crafting 12%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 7.9%
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Management 9.5%, Logic 8.7%
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Exploration 7.7%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Automation 11.9%, Simulation 10.3%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.3%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Sandbox 18.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Automation 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Adventure 8.5%
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Simulation 13%, Exploration 8.1%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Automation 12.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 8.6%, Strategy 7.3%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 22.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Crafting 9.7%
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 33.2%, Automation 17.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 8.1%
Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.1%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 18.5%, Management 7.8%, Colorful 6.8%
Fluida is a simulation puzzle game where you build and play levels using flexible modules to strategically control water pressure and solve challenges.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.8%, Cartoony 13.5%, Logic 12.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 11.3%
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Automation 25.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 6.1%
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Side Scroller 18%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 6.6%
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Cartoony 10.3%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 8.4%
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Side Scroller 14.9%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.4%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Automation 14.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%
