60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Sandbox, Simulation, Building.
Use simple machines to build complex assembly lines and automate increasingly advanced blocks. Weld together blocks and move them as one unit for vehicles, elevators, or mining machines.
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A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Desynced
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 30.4% ★, Automation 26.6%, Building 14.1%, Physics 7.7%, Logic 5.7%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 30.1% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%
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: Programming 30.7% ★, Automation 21.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%
Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.
Why similar: Programming 34.4% ★, Automation 22.4%, Underground 14% ★, Logic 8.6%, Open World 6.3%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Mining 15.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 11%
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 22.8%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 10.9%
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Why similar: Programming 40.5% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 14.6%, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 25.8%, Mining 13.3% ★, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.3%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 32.9% ★, Automation 21.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%
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 29.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 9%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 28.5% ★, Automation 18%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Logic 6%
Embark on your asteroid hauling career with Veritago Fortana. Start with a basic ship and earn credits to upgrade, customise and repair as you try to fulfil larger and harder contracts. Built exclusively for VR, use your own hands to build, wire and fly using 100s of interconnecting components.
Why similar: Programming 28.4% ★, Automation 20.3%, Mining 17.5% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%
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 26.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 11.5%
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: Programming 23.3% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
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 24.8%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 10.2%
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Programming 34.6% ★, Automation 20%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Logic 7.4%
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: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.3%
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Why similar: Programming 41.1% ★, Automation 22.9%, Building 9.9%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 5.6%
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 20%, Mining 15.2% ★, Building 10.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Underground 8.3% ★
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 27.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 23.9%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Logic 7%
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: Automation 22.2%, Transportation 20.8% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Mining 13% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.5%
Buried Cargo is a terminal-driven automation game. Wake up as a lone maintenance robot buried beneath a dead world. Use real command-line interface to control machines, extract scrap, and build your automation network.
Why similar: Programming 17.6% ★, Automation 15.2%, Mining 11.8% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Underground 8.8% ★
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Programming 22% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%
What kind of sparks will programming and factories create? Watching strings and numbers run on the conveyor belt, enjoy leisure time!!! Programming Factory is a factory puzzle game that now supports creative workshops and customizes your own puzzles!!!
Why similar: Programming 28.8% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Logic 7.1%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Programming 27.4% ★, Automation 19.6%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 8%
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Transportation 15% ★, Mining 12.3% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
Multiply Factory is a factory building game. Build your own multiple-layer factory within a 3-D space with belts, inserters, factories and stairs. Enjoy the fantasy of manufacturing.
Why similar: Programming 22% ★, Automation 18%, Transportation 15.4% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Programming 17.9% ★, Mining 16.1% ★, Building 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 13%, Building 12%, Sandbox 12%
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 25.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%
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: Programming 35.2% ★, Automation 24%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 6.9%, Crafting 6.3%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Building 18.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.1%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 24.9% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
Why similar: Programming 51% ★, Automation 25.9%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Logic 2.9%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & 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 25.8%, Building 14.1%, Mining 11.5% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%
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 24.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 7%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 33.9% ★, Automation 24.4%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Puzzle 8.3%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Mining 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%
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 26.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory is a relaxed automation sim where you build at your own pace. Design complex lines with the intuitive Link System and Relays. Unlock new tech via the Tech Tree, boost production with your clicks, and manufacture everything from iron to sushi in your ultimate factory!
Why similar: Programming 23.1% ★, Automation 18.8%, Transportation 15% ★, Mining 9.9% ★, Sandbox 8.6%
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: Automation 19.5%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Transportation 13.4% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Mining 18.4% ★, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
Why similar: Programming 56.7% ★, Automation 22.4%, Puzzle 6.9%, Logic 6.4%, Sandbox 4.1%
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 22.8%, Transportation 17.1% ★, Building 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
Programming Factory 2 is an educational and entertaining algorithmic puzzle game! Players solve algorithmic challenges ranging from simple mathematical operations to complex operations by building a network of processing modules.
Why similar: Programming 35.8% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12%, Logic 7.6%
Number Machine is an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics. Design, build, and optimize factories that automatically assemble and deliver complex numerical structures. Inspired by Opus Magnum and Infinifactory.
Why similar: Programming 30.6% ★, Automation 22.2%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.2%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Automation 19.4%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Transportation 18.3% ★, Mining 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.7%
An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.
Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Automation 31.6%, Building 16.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 6.3%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8.8%
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Programming 30.3% ★, Automation 22.7%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.7%, Physics 9.3%
