60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Science, Singleplayer, Strategy.
231 real materials. 352 accurate recipes. Build a Hyperdrive Engine using actual chemistry. Your factory grows. Your efficiency improves. Someone notices. Every decision is logged. Welcome, Director.
Compound Interest
Build your atomic empire. Fuse elements, craft real compounds, trigger chain reactions, and break the periodic table wide open in an idle game where chemistry IS the strategy.
Dustdrive: The Lightspeed Project
A minimalist factory puzzle game about reaching the speed of light. Build an experimental engine that runs off galactic dust to accelerate your ship to impossible speeds. Match dust signatures carefully and manage your energy to avoid Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly!
Build your atomic empire. Fuse elements, craft real compounds, trigger chain reactions, and break the periodic table wide open in an idle game where chemistry IS the strategy.
Why similar: Science 41.2% ★, Automation 22%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Strategy 9.1%
A minimalist factory puzzle game about reaching the speed of light. Build an experimental engine that runs off galactic dust to accelerate your ship to impossible speeds. Match dust signatures carefully and manage your energy to avoid Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly!
Why similar: Science 34.5% ★, Automation 24.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 5.5%
Build floating automated rigs in a volatile gas giant. Extract elements, synthesize compounds, and descend through atmospheric layers in this sci-fi systems-builder focused on chemistry, engineering, and survival.
Why similar: Science 28.8% ★, Automation 23.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Crafting 7.3%, Simulation 6.9%
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 21.6% ★, Automation 20%, Science 13.7% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
Survive, evolve, and adapt in a rapidly changing world. Survive the test of time, and become an integral part of your world's biosphere. Or play God and build a full ecosystem in seconds.
Why similar: Science 41% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Education 15.9%, Realistic 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%
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 23.7% ★, Automation 23.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Realistic 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%
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: Science 27.1% ★, Simulation 23.1%, Automation 18.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Sci-fi 7.5%
Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems. Observe interactions like hunting, blooming, and even decomposing! Will your biodome last for decades, or will it experience a total ecosystem collapse? You’re in control!
Why similar: Science 44.2% ★, Simulation 27%, Education 17.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Indie 2.2%
Baugarten is a new kind of empire-builder. Baugarten plays like a traditional empire builder - but those interested can push the limit by leveraging their math and science skills to optimise everything further and get ahead faster.
Why similar: Science 33.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Education 11.3%, Simulation 10.8%
Chemistry My Love is the ultimate gamified educational tool for high school and college level chemistry. Balance chemical reaction coefficients, masses and concentrations, with step-by-step explanations. Level up your knowledge playing chemical games and solving computer-generated quizzes.
Why similar: Science 38.5% ★, Simulation 33.2%, Education 17.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 3.4%
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: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Science 19.6% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, Simulation 8.3%
This is a serious game. Made for educational purposes. It was made in order to enable students to understand the high school chemistry curriculum and to provide equality of opportunity.
Why similar: Science 38.3% ★, Education 20.6%, Simulation 19.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Realistic 9.9%
A first person exploration of a cancer cell deep in the human body, featuring a highly detailed simulation of cellular anatomy and processes based on the latest scientific research!
Why similar: Science 43.4% ★, Simulation 22%, Education 19.5%, Realistic 9.5%, Exploration 5%
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Why similar: Science 36.1% ★, Simulation 20.8%, Realistic 20.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Crafting 17.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Science 29% ★, Automation 25.9%, Simulation 18%, Education 17.9%, Strategy 5.5%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Sci-fi 7.4%
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
Why similar: Science 21.8% ★, Automation 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Realistic 9%, Resource Management 7.9%
Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game where you build and scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what’s stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Science 16.6% ★, Crafting 12%, Education 11.4%, Resource Management 11.4%
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries. Then go beyond and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: Science 34.9% ★, Realistic 12.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Education 8.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Why similar: Science 20.4% ★, Automation 15.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Realistic 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%
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: Automation 37.4%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Simulation 19.4%, Resource Management 5.5%, Exploration 5.3%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Resource Management 11.3%
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 26.6%, Science 24.2% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Simulation 7.8%
In Dyson Era Idle, harness stellar power to build cosmic megastructures. Research technologies, select unique stars, and construct increasingly efficient Dyson Spheres. Transform theoretical astrophysics into a captivating idle experience of galactic engineering.
Why similar: Science 34.5% ★, Automation 17.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Realistic 12.6%, Sci-fi 9.7%
FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Crafting 16%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 6.9%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Science 36.4% ★, Automation 31%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 7.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
Power Network Tycoon is a power grid simulation and strategy game where you build and maintain high-voltage power networks. Construct infrastructure, monitor resources, research upgrades, adapt to environmental challenges, keep up with energy demands and protect your island community!
Why similar: Science 35.1% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Education 9.5%
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 30.1% ★, Automation 17.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 6.7%
Manage a bunker. Protect survivors. Outsmart a rogue AI. Bunker 1024 is a first person survival management game where you craft tech, maintain critical systems, and deliver aid as time grows thin - all while Lumina 6.0 studies your patterns and actively works against your routines.
Why similar: Science 30% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Realistic 10.9%, Simulation 10.5%
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Simulation 21.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%
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 37.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 6.5%
From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.
Why similar: Science 34% ★, Automation 23%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 9.1%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
Join the early 20th century oil boom! In this game you will hire people, build your own oil field, extract crude oil, fight obstacles and crises what eventually will bring you fortune you’ve never dreamed of!
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Realistic 15.1%, Resource Management 14.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Crafting 13.3%
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Science 32.3% ★, Automation 28.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Building 6.4%
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 46%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.2%
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 13%, Realistic 11%, Crafting 8.9%
“Chemist Wanted” is a crafting game with a difference. In this lab simulator, you use real chemistry to create specific compounds. Set up your equipment, run the experiment and create your products. The higher the purity, the more money you will earn!
Why similar: Science 35.8% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Education 12.7%, Realistic 12.6%, Simulation 12.6%
Become a big-time, full-fledged dentist in Boring Game - a simulator you’ve never seen before! Appear on the opposite side of the dentist’s chair and take care of your patients’ dentition to have a go at reaching the top of the dentist world!
Why similar: Science 29.4% ★, Simulation 24.6%, Education 20.9%, Realistic 16%, Management 6.3%
Build and manage your own data center! Design modular servers, set up realistic networking, and power systems. Manage heat, install OS (Windows/Ubuntu), and fulfill contracts for profit. Technical depth and hardware precision await!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.8% ★, Simulation 24%, Automation 19.3%, Strategy 13.6%, Resource Management 9.9%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Science 26.1% ★, Automation 20.8%, Education 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.
Why similar: Science 33.5% ★, Automation 22.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Building 6.1%
Chimp Memory is a logical puzzle game and memory challenge. Take on the same tests faced by lab monkeys and prove your memory skills are sharper than theirs. Can you outperform the primates? Test yourself and find out!
Why similar: Science 52.4% ★, Education 25.3%, Simulation 18.1%, 2D 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Colony Sim 11.8% ★, Simulation 9%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 26.7%, Automation 24%, Strategy 14.3%, Resource Management 14%, Building 7.2%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Sci-fi 7.7%
Meco Rocket Simulator is a realistic physics game where you play as an underpaid rocket scientist working for Mecodyne to design and test rocket engines without regard for your safety.
Why similar: Science 33.1% ★, Automation 25.9%, Education 12.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Realistic 5.4%
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 24.6% ★, Automation 21.1%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Simulation 21.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 9.7%
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Automation 27.6%, Simulation 22.2%, Building 7.5%, Crafting 6.9%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.4%
Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.
Why similar: Science 30.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Education 11.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.8%
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 34.9%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%
Beeing Hive is a relaxed hive-building simulation with clicker elements. Design the inside of your beehive, click for resources, optimize comb layouts and bee roles, and protect your colony from wasps, moths, a woodpecker, and a hungry bear.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Shop Keeper 17.4% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Science 29.6% ★, Automation 26.4%, Education 12.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 5.9%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Science 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Automation 18.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.5%
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 20.5%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Resource Management 11.2%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Science 23.3% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 8%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Automation 25.3%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Realistic 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 10.8%
