60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Singleplayer, Indie, 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 41.7%, Automation 21.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, 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 34.8%, Automation 23.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 5.4%
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 29.1%, Automation 22.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Crafting 7.4%, 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 21.7%, Automation 19.7%, Science 13.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 29%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 6.4%
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 41.1%, Simulation 20%, Education 16%, Realistic 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%
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 27.4%, Simulation 23.1%, Automation 18.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Sci-fi 7.6%
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 23.9%, Automation 23%, Crafting 11.9%, Realistic 10.6%, Simulation 9.7%
Craft inventions and sell them to customers, then automate your workbench, workshop and store! Research new inventions or create your own from scratch. Set prices based on an economic model, unlock and craft upgrades, and vertically integrate your supply chain. Become the world's greatest inventor!
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Shop Keeper 20.3% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 7.7%
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 33.7%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Education 11.4%, 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 38.7%, Simulation 33%, Education 17.7%, 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 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Science 19.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Resource Management 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 38.4%, Education 20.7%, Simulation 19.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Realistic 10%
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 36.2%, Simulation 16.6%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Strategy 7.5%
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 43.5%, Simulation 21.8%, Education 19.6%, Realistic 9.5%, Exploration 5%
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Why similar: Science 36.2%, Simulation 20.6%, Realistic 20.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%
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 29.2%, Automation 25.5%, Education 18.1%, Simulation 18%, Strategy 5.5%
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 44.4%, Simulation 26.9%, Education 17.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Indie 2.2%
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 39.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Resource Management 15%, Simulation 14%, Sci-fi 7.5%
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 38.8%, Crafting 17.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Resource Management 11%, Sci-fi 8.9%
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 22.1%, Automation 21%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Realistic 9.1%, Simulation 7.9%
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.
Why similar: Science 34.8%, Realistic 12.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Education 8.7%, Resource Management 8.5%
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 24.4%, Science 16.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Education 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%
Syntaris is a logistics and automation strategy game with RTS elements, focused on system design over micromanagement. Build industrial networks, organize local economies, set logistics rules, unlock advanced technologies, and capture enemy infrastructure to integrate it into your own base.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Science 20.6%, Automation 17%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 8%
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 15.5%, Simulation 15.4%, Realistic 10.9%, Crafting 9.6%
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 26.2%, Science 24.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Simulation 7.8%
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: Automation 37.1%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Simulation 19.5%, 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 28.9%, Colony Sim 23%, Crafting 13%, Simulation 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%
A short, science themed story game about a secret research facility - dedicated to unwrap the mystery behind strange, otherworldly objects. Meet unique characters, prove your worth, work in the laboratories - and lose your mind.
Why similar: Science 53.7%, Simulation 18.2%, Story Rich 13.2%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 36.7%, Automation 30.6%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 7.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Automation 29.2%, Simulation 26.2%, Resource Management 10%, Indie 0.8%
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 30.2%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Realistic 11%, Simulation 10.4%
Harvest planets with programmable robots. Write real Python to collect every resource on the map, deliver it to your spaceship, and avoid the hazards. Sharpen your problem solving and coding skills, one level at a time. No coding experience needed — learn as you play.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Education 13.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 9.4%
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 35.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%
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 31.5%, Simulation 22%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%
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 34.4%, Automation 22.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Resource Management 9%
Power Network Tycoon is a power grid simulation and strategy game where you build and maintain a high-voltage power network. Build power infrastructure, monitor resources, research upgrades, adapt to environmental challenges, keep up with energy demands and protect your island community!
Why similar: Science 34.8%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Education 10.9%
The Pharm Sim is a single-player simulation game set in a dystopian future. As humanity loses its basic needs and identity due to rapid technological evolution, you must take control of your pharmacy. Produce medicines, develop new formulas, and manage your lab to help save what remains of humanity.
Why similar: Science 29.7%, Simulation 18.2%, Shop Keeper 17% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Realistic 10%
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 32.6%, Automation 27.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Building 6.4%
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 30.9%, Realistic 15.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Crafting 13.4%
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 31.5%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
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 30.6%, Simulation 22.8%, Strategy 13%, Realistic 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%
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 45.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.3%
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 38.1%, Resource Management 17.3%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 6.3%
Step into massive 3D images made up of billions of voxels and explore the internal structures of real objects, from animals and human organs to complex materials and devices.
Why similar: Science 48.4%, Simulation 19.7%, Realistic 17.3%, Exploration 7.4%, Education 6.3%
“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 35.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Education 12.8%, Realistic 12.7%, Simulation 12.5%
Run a factory in Hell. Automate production lines, hit monthly revenue targets, bribe the board of Seven Deadly Sins, and skim slush funds to seize control — before they terminate you. A roguelike fusion of factory automation and boardroom politics.
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Shop Keeper 22.5% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
A clicker/incremental game themed around AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) development. Use AI to streamline AI development, build data centers and power plants, and venture into space in pursuit of even more power.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Science 28.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.7%
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 52.5%, Education 25.4%, Simulation 18%, 2D 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 26.3%, Automation 20.5%, Education 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
Decay is an incremental game in which you are tasked with using your trusty particle launcher to create ever-larger and more unstable atomic nuclei, witnessing longer and more complex atomic decay chains and aiming to discover all the isotopes!
Why similar: Science 49.2%, Automation 33.2%, Simulation 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 33.7%, Automation 22.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Crafting 10%, Building 6.1%
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 33.2%, Automation 25.5%, Education 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Realistic 5.5%
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 29.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Simulation 9.1%
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 24.8% ★, Simulation 24.5%, Automation 19.5%, Strategy 13.9%, Resource Management 10%
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 29.7%, Automation 27.3%, Simulation 22.3%, Building 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%
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 23.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 7.2%
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 30.3%, Automation 17.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 6.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Sci-fi 7.8%
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 24.8%, Automation 20.8%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%
