60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Sandbox, Automation.
‘Ruin Adventurer’ is an automation game with survival and programming elements. Use your robots to ensure your survival, automate resource gathering, and ultimately escape the ruins.
Block Line Engineer
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Conveyance
A conveyor-based production and logistics sandbox including smart machines, node based conveyor belts, logic and recipe based item generation and powerful design time construction. Create and connect Miners, Splitters, Factories, Containers, Vaults and more...
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, Sandbox 19.6%, Strategy 19.1%, Programming 14.5% ★, Automation 10.5%
A conveyor-based production and logistics sandbox including smart machines, node based conveyor belts, logic and recipe based item generation and powerful design time construction. Create and connect Miners, Splitters, Factories, Containers, Vaults and more...
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 17.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Logic 10.3%
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Simulation 24%, Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 21.4%, Strategy 20.1%, Logic 7%
Connect an evolving delivery network in Kaskade, a minimalist strategy game. Construct intricate paths to ensure each delivery gets to the right destination. Unlock upgrades to manage the increasing complexity as your network grows. Relax to the ambient soundtrack and the satisfying puzzle vibes.
Why similar: Simulation 18.3%, Automation 17.3%, Strategy 16%, Minimalist 15%, Sandbox 12.8%
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 26.9%, Simulation 18%, Sandbox 16.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Strategy 12.5%
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Simulation 14.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 10.1%, Minimalist 7.4%
Let's make your dream mall! Hire great employees and train them. Sell everything that customers want. Upgrade your mall and prepare to deal with unexpected events. Be the best mall in the world.
Why similar: Strategy 30.8%, Simulation 29.2%, Sandbox 24.7%, Management 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!
Why similar: Programming 22.9% ★, Automation 19.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 9.5%
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 22.7%, Sandbox 22.2%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Crafting 7.7%
"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 24.4%, Sandbox 17.8%, Programming 15.4% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%
Begin a journey like no other, become the Ant Queen and establish your empire. Ant Queen is a simulation game where you breed different types of ants to ultimately conquer your surroundings and achieve a stable ant colony.
Why similar: Simulation 35.4%, Strategy 35.1%, Sandbox 25.7%, Indie 3.8%
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: Simulation 21.6%, Strategy 21.4%, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 12%
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, 2.5D 18.2%, Minimalist 12.2%, Logic 10.2%, Strategy 9.3%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 27.5%, Strategy 22.7%, Automation 16.8%, Sandbox 13%, Management 9.8%
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 27.4%, Simulation 21.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Exploration 8.7%, Management 6.4%
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 29.8%, Sandbox 23.8%, Strategy 14.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 12.6%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 24.1% ★, Automation 20.9%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Logic 9.5%
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Simulation 31.6%, Strategy 30.3%, Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Indie 2.4%
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 12%, Crafting 7.9%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 28.4% ★, Sandbox 22.7%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Logic 9.2%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, Strategy 25.3%, Automation 21.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Resource Management 4.9%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 16.9%, Crafting 7.1%
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: Simulation 27.8%, Automation 24.3%, Strategy 24.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Management 5.6%
A short automation challenge aimed at everyone from beginner to veteran. Take your time to uncover the lore of an ancient civilization without any dangers. Can you find a clever way to use logistics to overcome the scarce space available?
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Minimalist 9%
Galactineers is a genre-mix of open world sandbox game and realtime strategy game. You can use blocks and items to build your world in space, and also construct your own ships. Win cooperative PVE missions or PVP arena battles with your own custom ships.
Why similar: Strategy 33.1%, Simulation 30.7%, Sandbox 21.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Indie 3.6%
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.2%, Automation 19%, Crafting 11%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.9%
Minimalist automation puzzle game where you build physics-based machines to manipulate the flow of numbers.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 20.6%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Minimalist 11.8%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Simulation 24.5%, Strategy 21.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Automation 15.6%, Management 6.7%
Worldless: Mercenaries is a fantasy-themed strategy and management game. Recruit, hire, equip and manage your mercenaries. Send them to explore the world, hunt treasures and trade among cities. They might find a dragon - or be found.
Why similar: Simulation 35.8%, Strategy 35.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 5.7%, Management 4.2%
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: Automation 21.1%, Programming 14.8% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 11.2%
A magical automation puzzle game where you program a little shikigami automaton using visual spell blocks - explore, harvest energy, and cleanse corrupted sigils in a cozy fantasy world.
Why similar: Simulation 31.1%, Strategy 27.1%, Automation 19.9%, Programming 15.7% ★, Fantasy 5.2%
Food Facility is a 2D factory automation game where you design and build complex production lines to create delicious food, sell your goods, and grow your business empire!
Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Simulation 24.7%, Automation 22.3%, Management 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
Manage your own Pet Shop like no one else!
Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, Sandbox 28.5%, Strategy 21.1%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 4.5%
Craft Elements is a first person minecraft-esque journey into the nuclear reactor design, periodic table and vaporwave world. It is a unique, simple and atmospheric sandbox puzzle game with a focus on complex simulation and calculations.
Why similar: Simulation 37.7%, Strategy 34.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 6.5%, Indie 4.3%
Automate the arcane! Build spell-powered factories, reclaim ancient territories filled with magical secrets, and discover game-changing technology hidden across procedurally generated worlds. Master both engineering and magic in this cozy fusion of factory automation and RPG progression.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 19%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Exploration 8%
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 19%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%
Omni is a game that teaches you how to program.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.1%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 16.2%, Automation 14.9%, Minimalist 10.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Sandbox 19.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.9%, Automation 17.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Management 10.3%
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Simulation 24.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Management 10.3%, Crafting 6.7%
Craftory is a rougelite top-down wave survival game with loads of automation. You build machines, conveyor belts, and defensive structures like walls and turrets. However, at night enemies will invade your base! The goal is to conquer the planet and protect your core.
Why similar: Strategy 27.7%, Sandbox 25.3%, Automation 13.8%, Logic 9.4%, Crafting 8%
Hard Work is a 3D factory simulation game.
Why similar: Simulation 36.4%, Strategy 34.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 4.8%
Solve puzzles by designing an AI for a team of selfless heroes. Test your algorithm, optimize it, and emerge victorious from the dungeon!
Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Strategy 28%, Programming 23.8% ★, Logic 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
Welcome to Coin Factory 2. An idle game about placing tiles strategically to make as many coins as possible. Level them up to get the numbers growing or make them evolve to adapt your play to new needs!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Simulation 18.3%, Automation 17.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Minimalist 11.7%
Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Automation 16.2%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 15.7%, Minimalist 12%
A colorful, minimalist automation game. Place machines, mix colors, and manage the flow of an evolving factory. Listen to the hum of the machines and watch the colors blend while keeping your lines efficient.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Minimalist 15.1%, Management 11%, Simulation 9.7%
You have discovered ways to quickly move using teleportation and when visiting new lands you will have to protect your portals so that aggressors do not penetrate them.
Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, 2.5D 25.4%, Strategy 24.6%, Minimalist 11.1%, Logic 6.9%
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 19.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 5.5%
Node production simulator. Purchase nodes to produce resources, so you can advance in the technology tree and build yourself a large production line. This game will satisfy your need for incremental simulators with the large amount of content.
Why similar: Simulation 29.3%, Sandbox 23.6%, Automation 17.1%, Management 11.8%, Logic 7.2%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 26.6% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Automation 16%, Simulation 13.2%, Minimalist 12.5%
Do you like guns? Many people sure do! Gun Shop 3 is a real-time storefront simulator with a sprinkling of first person shooter mechanics on top. Choose your location, design your store, stock the shelves, and then flip that sign to “open for business”!
Why similar: Strategy 26.1%, Simulation 24.9%, Sandbox 20.8%, Automation 17.4%, Crafting 7.8%
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 28.2%, Sandbox 18.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Logic 11.4%, Simulation 10.2%
A short and sweet escape automation game meant to scratch that factory itch. Crash land from space into a randomly generated world with 4 basic resources and then gather, upgrade, and construct a factory to build your spacecraft back up from rubble and escape. A 2-3 hour experience (no game saves).
Why similar: Sandbox 22.2%, 2.5D 19.1%, Strategy 17.4%, Automation 14.7%, Exploration 9.2%
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 7.2%
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 23%, Strategy 13.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Simulation 11%, Crafting 9.5%
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: Simulation 27.3%, Strategy 23.8%, Sandbox 22.9%, Automation 14.8%, Management 7.4%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Programming 22% ★, Sandbox 20.4%, Simulation 18.1%, Logic 7.3%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Programming 21.2% ★, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Logic 9.9%
