Games Like Sandustry

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 18.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a first-person, voxel-based factory building experience that mirrors the destructible world mechanics of the seed game.

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 20%, Base Building 15%, Open World Survival Craft 11.3% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the gold standard for 3D factory automation, featuring expansive exploration and vertical base-building.

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 27.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that provides the deep, complex production chain mechanics essential to the genre.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Automation 16.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: An early pioneer of the voxel-based automation genre that emphasizes deep mining and complex logistics.

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 22.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.6%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique mining and automation game that relies heavily on physics-based terrain manipulation and resource processing.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a bioluminescent underground world, this game perfectly captures the feeling of exploring and automating a subterranean environment.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features intuitive terrain deformation and a focus on modular base-building that aligns with the sandbox nature of the seed game.

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: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming blend of automation, exploration, and survival that simplifies the factory-building loop for a more accessible experience.

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 29.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled sense of scale in automation, allowing players to build production chains across entire star systems.

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines mining, automation, and exploration in a top-down perspective with a strong focus on uncovering ancient secrets.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines terraforming and automation, tasking players with transforming a hostile planet into a habitable one.

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.5% ★, Automation 16.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scavenging and automating in a zero-gravity environment, capturing the exploration-heavy side of the seed game.

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 22.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity survival experience where complex atmospheric and electrical automation is required to stay alive.

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for extensive vehicle and base building in a vast, open-world environment with a focus on resource gathering.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and automation while exploring a dangerous alien landscape.

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 32.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique programming-based automation system to build and manage a thriving colony.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on collaborative survival and industrialization where every action impacts the destructible, simulated world.

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 21.5%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated factory-building simulation that focuses on the strategic management of production lines.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Base Building 21.9%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: Blends tower defense with complex supply-chain automation, requiring efficient logistics to survive waves of enemies.

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 21.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and automating a mobile space station, providing a unique take on the base-building genre.

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: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique water physics and vertical building mechanics that require clever automation to survive environmental challenges.

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 24.9%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mining and physics-based resource management aspects of the automation genre.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Automation 9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that includes automation and colony management elements within a procedurally generated world.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game where the environment is fully destructible and requires clever base defense and resource management.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 10.6%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty, destructible world where survival and base-building are the primary focus against constant threats.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D destructible-world game, offering endless exploration and crafting possibilities.

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.6%

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Automation 17.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that requires players to automate their defenses and resource gathering in a hostile, neon-lit world.

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 15%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.1%

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Automation 13.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%

Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Why similar: Resource Management 21.5%, Automation 17.2%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.1%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.4% ★, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.6%

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 25.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 10.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 16% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%

An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.8%

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%

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 26.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11%

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 25.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Resource Management 12.1%

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 35%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 17.5%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 5.4%

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 28.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.1%

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%, Building 19.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.4%

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 24%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.1%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 9.4%

A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 7.8%

A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.

Why similar: Crafting 25.6%, Sandbox 25.4%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 10.7%, Simulation 8.7%

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 12.3%

Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.3%, Survival 8.8%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.9%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.8%

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 26.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 11.3%

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 8%

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 18.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Automation 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 9%

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 23.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Resource Management 11.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.5%, Building 18.5%, Survival 14%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%