- #1 Kubifaktorium
97% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 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: Automation 15.6%, Voxel 14.3% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, Moddable 10.7%, City Builder 10.2%
- #2 Factory Town
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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 16.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Moddable 9.5%, Transportation 9.1% ★
- #3 InfraSpace
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 17.4% ★, Automation 15.3%, Moddable 14.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 9%
- #4 Voxel Tycoon
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Voxel 19.5% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, Automation 16.8%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #5 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 26.1%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 8.7%, Colony Sim 8.3%
- #6 Modulus: Factory Automation
92% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 20.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, City Builder 10.5%
- #7 Automation Empire
94% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #8 Stationeers
93% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 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: Moddable 18%, Automation 14.9%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.3%
- #9 Factory Town 2: Paradise
91% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Building 11.2%
- #10 Plan B: Terraform
91% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Transportation 19.2% ★, Automation 18.6%, Colony Sim 14%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #11 shapez 2 - Factory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Transportation 16.1% ★, Moddable 15.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.3%
- #12 Sapiens
90% matchVery Positive80% of 2,200 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 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 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 13%, Moddable 12.8%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.1%
- #13 Timberborn
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 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 17% ★, Automation 11.9%, Colony Sim 11.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #14 Creo God Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 29.1% ★, Voxel 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Management 6.7%
- #15 ALL WILL FALL
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Automation 13.3%, City Builder 11.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #16 RAILGRADE
87% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Moddable 19.1%, Automation 15.7%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 9.1%, Transportation 9% ★
- #17 Microtopia
86% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in 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: Moddable 15.5%, Automation 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.7%
- #18 Mini Settlers
85% matchVery Positive81% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 16.4%, Transportation 14.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 9.7%
- #19 Dawn Apart
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 264 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: Automation 22.1%, Voxel 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 4.3%
- #20 FluxWerks
83% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Voxel 15.6% ★, Transportation 13.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.1%
- #21 Settlement Survival
84% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.7%, Building 14.4%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #22 Nova Roma
81% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Moddable 16.7%, Base Building 13%, Colony Sim 12.5%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 10%
- #23 Swarmdustry
81% matchVery Positive90% of 73 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 22.9%, Moddable 21.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.2%
- #24 Sweet Transit
82% matchMixed67% of 1,278 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Why similar: Moddable 19.7%, Transportation 19% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.1%
- #25 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 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 18.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12%, Moddable 11.8%, Management 10.6%
- #26 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Moddable 14.1%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Automation 12.4%, City Builder 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%
- #27 Space Architect
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 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: Automation 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.6%
- #28 Adaptory
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 112 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 16.9%, Moddable 15.9%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #29 Belts of Iron
78% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #30 Voxel Eras
78% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Voxel 21.2% ★, Moddable 18.1%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #31 STARIO: Haven Tower
76% matchVery Positive94% of 360 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: God Game 16.4% ★, Automation 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 10.4%
- #32 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
77% matchMixed70% of 834 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Automation 11.5%, Building 10.4%
- #33 The Crust
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Colony Sim 14.6%, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #34 Incremental Factory
77% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 13.1%
- #35 Reus 2
75% matchVery Positive94% of 2,321 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #36 Plentiful
74% matchVery Positive92% of 102 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 30.2% ★, Voxel 25.1% ★, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.8%, Colony Sim 9.7%
- #37 Factorio
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Moddable 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #38 Facteroids
75% 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 17.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Voxel 13.4% ★, Colony Sim 11.1%, Building 10.1%
- #39 Evospace
76% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Voxel 21.5% ★, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 14.2%
- #40 FOUNDRY
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 25.3% ★, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #41 Astro Colony
71% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #42 Havendock
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 10.9%
- #43 Dyson Sphere Program
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 19.9%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #44 Urbek City Builder
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: Voxel 27.1% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #45 Rise of Industry
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 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: City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.9%, Transportation 11.4% ★, Automation 11.4%, Management 11.2%
- #46 Sandustry
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 11.9%
- #47 Builderment
72% matchMixed68% of 128 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 23.2%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #48 shapez
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Moddable 13.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #49 Stardeus
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,562 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 22.6 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: God Game 18.3% ★, Moddable 17.3%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #50 Subway Builder
68% matchMixed60% of 422 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Building 13.6%, Automation 10.2%, Moddable 9.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #51 Lifecraft
68% matchVery Positive81% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
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: God Game 23.2% ★, Automation 21.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 13.1%
- #52 Seeds of Resilience
71% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #53 Whiskerwood
65% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Moddable 17.9%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.7%, Building 9.8%
- #54 Industries of Titan
69% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: Voxel 23.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.8%
- #55 Parcel Simulator
64% matchVery Positive93% of 2,861 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!
Why similar: Automation 37%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #56 Transporter
69% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Mirror Studio
Windows
Modern transport sim game combining realistic simulation with indie game style, old-school grid environment, newest features, and modern transport options. Transport a wide variety of cargo and passengers over road, rail, and water, and create your own transport company!
Why similar: Transportation 46.7% ★, Management 14.1%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 9.7%, 3D 7.8%
- #57 Meeple Station
69% matchMixed57% of 956 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Why similar: Moddable 19.9%, Base Building 14%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Building 10.9%, City Builder 9.7%
- #58 MineMogul
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 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: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #59 Trappist
66% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: God Game 20.2% ★, Automation 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%, City Builder 10.2%
- #60 Masterplan Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 747 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Building 22.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 7.9%