- #1 River Town Factory
97% matchVery Positive89% of 1,351 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 17%, Time Travel 13.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 8.1%, Alternate History 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game offers the complete experience of building a factory in an ancient setting.
- #2 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 35.9%, Base Building 23.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 6.8%, City Builder 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive automation game that sets the standard for complex logistics and base-building mechanics.
- #3 Factory Town
96% 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 30.4%, Base Building 21.1%, City Builder 16%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the logistics of moving goods through a town, mirroring the town-building aspect of the seed game.
- #4 Satisfactory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 25%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, first-person automation experience with a heavy emphasis on vertical base-building.
- #5 Nova Lands
95% matchVery Positive89% of 3,518 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Base Building 19.9%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines pixel-art exploration with automation and base-building in a vibrant, alien world.
- #6 Forager
94% matchVery Positive89% of 43,959 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Crafting 22.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Open World 9.4%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the addictive loop of gathering, crafting, and expanding your territory in a charming pixel-art world.
- #7 Little Rocket Lab
92% matchVery Positive91% of 1,311 reviews2025
Dev: Teenage AstronautsPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Automation 37.3%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 13.6%, RPG 10.3%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title shares the specific blend of RPG elements and automation-based building found in the seed game.
- #8 Craftopia
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 20,210 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World 29.7%, Crafting 24.6%, Automation 13.7%, Building 10.5%, RPG 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world exploration, RPG character progression, and automation mechanics into a single cohesive experience.
- #9 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 34.3%, Base Building 23.1%, Open World 11.8%, City Builder 9.6%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a grand-scale automation challenge that rewards players for optimizing complex production chains.
- #10 Autonauts
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique approach to automation where you program cute robots to perform tasks for your colony.
- #11 My Time at Sandrock
90% matchVery Positive88% of 28,958 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Crafting 24%, Open World 22.5%, Building 21.3%, RPG 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at combining RPG storytelling with crafting and town-building mechanics.
- #12 Core Keeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 66,104 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Open World 19.1%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, pixel-art survival game that emphasizes crafting, base-building, and RPG-style progression.
- #13 ReFactory
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 23.8%, Crafting 14.2%, City Builder 11.9%, Simulation 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy automation game that challenges players to optimize production in a hostile environment.
- #14 Mob Factory
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces a creative twist on the automation genre by incorporating tower-defense mechanics.
- #15 Faun Town
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines narrative-driven drama with base-building and exploration mechanics.
- #16 Builderment
87% 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 29.6%, Base Building 20.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A streamlined automation game that focuses on efficient resource management and factory layout.
- #17 Prospector
86% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the exploration and resource-gathering aspects of the open-world survival genre.
- #18 FOUNDRY
85% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 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: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 20.2%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for massive, complex factory designs in a 3D environment.
- #19 Graveyard Keeper
84% matchVery Positive85% of 55,062 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Crafting 28.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, RPG 13.1%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, story-rich management experience with deep crafting and progression systems.
- #20 The Planet Crafter
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 23.9%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying progression of terraforming a planet through base-building and resource automation.
- #21 Minicology
84% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 9%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that emphasizes automation and crafting on procedurally generated planets.
- #22 shapez
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 35.4%, Base Building 22%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 9.1%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist approach to automation that focuses purely on the logic and flow of production lines.
- #23 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
81% matchVery Positive91% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 23%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features open-world survival and base-building mechanics with a focus on crafting and exploration.
- #24 Chocolate Factory
83% matchMixed57% of 150 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 27%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 12.3%, City Builder 11.9%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the production-focused gameplay loop of the seed game with a lighthearted, factory-management theme.
- #25 Mr. Prepper
81% matchVery Positive80% of 5,449 reviews2021
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.
Why similar: Base Building 41.3%, Crafting 23.8%, Simulation 14.5%, RPG 9.8%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with a story-driven narrative about building a hidden base.
- #26 Beer Factory - Prologue
80% matchVery Positive85% of 2,021 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Automation 56.2%, Simulation 17%, Crafting 15.4%, Sandbox 7.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a production-focused simulation experience centered on managing a specific manufacturing process.
- #27 Sandustry
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 25.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 9.5%
- #28 Microtopia
79% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 17.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that incorporates automation and resource management in a sandbox environment.
- #29 Car Manufacture
78% matchMixed65% of 1,408 reviews2024
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
Why similar: Automation 48.7%, Time Management 17.6%, Building 16.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and production aspects of running a factory, similar to the seed game's workshop mechanics.
- #30 Smart Factory Tycoon
79% matchMixed60% of 927 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Automation 16.8%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management-focused simulation that emphasizes the efficiency of automated production lines.
- #31 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 19.4%, City Builder 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 8.5%
- #32 Technicity
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 241 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox building experience that allows for creative construction and city-building.
- #33 Microtopia: Prologue
76% 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: Automation 27.7%, Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.3%
- #34 Drink Factory Simulator - Prologue
75% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: Agosto Game StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own beverage empire from scratch! 🍹 Experiment with recipes, find the perfect blend, expand your factory and fulfill massive orders. Every drop is your call!
Why similar: Simulation 49.2%, Crafting 29.9%, Time Management 16.1%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #35 Road Diner Simulator: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive87% of 246 reviews2026
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Experience the past and get to know the story of the old diner and its struggling history in this prologue to Road Diner Simulator.
Why similar: Simulation 45.7%, Crafting 27.9%, Sandbox 22.1%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #36 Car Manufacture: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive86% of 318 reviews2023
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.
Why similar: Building 25.7%, Time Management 23.8%, Simulation 18.7%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #37 Paleon
73% matchVery Positive81% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Building 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #38 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 506 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Automation 21%, Simulation 17.2%, Building 12.7%, Time Management 12.5%
- #39 回到2001买房子
73% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: 新起点制作组
Windows
在游戏中，玩家作为一个买不起房子的普通人，因为偶然的机会穿越到2001年。你是否能利用这次机会，用传越者的知识来重拾当年错过的投资机会，实现财富自由，进而实现人生价值。
Why similar: Simulation 21%, Time Travel 20.6% ★, Building 16.5%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 13.3%
- #40 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,709 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Open World 17.7%, Automation 17%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 6.6%
- #41 Esports History: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Quantum Gear Studios
Windows
Esports History: Prologue is a free RPG simulator about the era of the birth of eSports. Start from scratch and work your way up to an eSports career. Use your resources and time wisely to develop a unique character and win tournaments.
Why similar: Time Management 23.9%, Pixel Graphics 23.6%, Simulation 23.2%, RPG 16.5%, 2D 8.4%
- #42 Modulus: Factory Automation
68% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 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 27.2%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9%
- #43 Technicity: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, City Builder 20.5%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 11.3%
- #44 Final Factory
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Base Building 24.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 7.4%
- #45 Incremental Factory
71% matchMixed68% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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 38.4%, Crafting 16.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 8.7%
- #46 WW2 Rebuilder: Germany Prologue
71% matchVery Positive85% of 416 reviews2022
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visit a part of war-torn Hamburg in the FREE Germany Prologue! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.
Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Building 20.5%, Crafting 18.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Simulation 11.2%
- #47 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.
Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Crafting 20.4%, Alternate History 17.4%, Time Management 16.8%, Simulation 11.1%
- #48 Noble's Life: Kingdom Reborn - Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Gentle GriffonsPub: Concept Lab Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Experience the first months after a brutal assault on your own estate in the free prologue of a realistic simulator of a medieval noble combined with a strategy game of historical depth. Manage your town and villages and make decisions in non-linear events.
Why similar: Base Building 36.1%, Building 17.9%, RPG 16.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #49 Border Town
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Open World 28.9%, Building 19.5%, Base Building 15.1%, RPG 13.9%, Sandbox 12%
- #50 Factory Outlet Simulator: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 458 reviews2024
Dev: PISHO
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive clothes manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!
Why similar: Simulation 33.4%, Automation 30.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Building 11.8%, Singleplayer 4%
- #51 Figure Shop Simulator: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive90% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Gnome Games
Windows
In this free version of the game, manage your own figure shop! Produce figures with 3D printers, stock your shelves, set prices, and offer the best shopping experience to your customers. Manage your warehouse, complete collections, follow trends, and grow your business!
Why similar: Automation 34%, Time Management 25.5%, Simulation 19.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #52 The Unexpected Quest Prologue
70% matchVery Positive86% of 133 reviews2020
Dev: RionixPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.
Why similar: City Builder 44.5%, Base Building 22.6%, Simulation 17.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #53 Deadwater Saloon Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 155 reviews2022
Dev: Tanglefoot GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner with this Free Prologue version of Deadwater Saloon. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws and lawmen all while building your saloon business.
Why similar: Building 27.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Crafting 19.1%, RPG 19.1%, Sandbox 14.5%
- #54 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
69% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Base Building 23.2%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 14.2%, Simulation 6.2%
- #55 Tavern Manager Simulator: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive91% of 183 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Try running a tavern for a day in Prologue.
Why similar: Base Building 42.6%, Building 18%, Simulation 17%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #56 Factory Planner: First Sparks
66% matchVery Positive82% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner: First Sparks is a card-based simulation and strategy game. In this Prologue version, build your own factory using strategic card combinations and enjoy a unique sandbox experience.
Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Simulation 27.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, 2D 5.9%
- #57 Widget Inc.
65% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 42.4%, Base Building 24.6%, Time Management 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Simulation 7.7%
