Games Like Sandustry

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 28%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of automation, challenging you to build sprawling, highly optimized production lines.

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 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar voxel-based open-world factory building experience where you mine and automate in first-person.

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 11.7% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Explore and build massive, multi-tiered factory complexes in a gorgeous first-person open world.

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 24.6%, Base Building 15%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Delve deep into an alien planet's subterranean biomes to build vast automated factories and uncover ancient secrets.

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 29.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 12.8%, Open World 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Scale your automation to cosmic proportions as you harvest resources across an entire star cluster.

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 35.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 16.7%, Building 11%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines complex factory automation with resource management and colony survival mechanics.

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 22.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on physical mining, resource processing, and building custom machinery to extract riches.

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 28.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Streamlines the core joy of scaling shape-processing assembly lines into a polished 3D environment.

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

Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Base Building 22.1%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends resource management and tower defense into a streamlined, fast-paced automation strategy experience.

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 20.1% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building, automation, and exploration on a series of charming alien islands.

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 24.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Fuses open-world survival crafting with automated base defense on a hostile, dynamic alien planet.

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 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Merges side-scrolling platforming and combat with intricate factory automation and resource crafting.

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 24.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to automate production chains to terraform a harsh open-world planet.

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 21.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Build and automate sprawling space stations while exploring procedurally generated stellar sectors.

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 24.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Scales up factory automation into deep space exploration and fleet management.

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 21.6%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers classic top-down factory building with deep logistical and production 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 25.4%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers early-access physics-based mining and automation loops in a sandbox environment.

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 25.1% ★, Automation 15.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival mechanics with automated scavenging in a floating space debris field.

Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.

Why similar: Automation 30%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Infuses traditional automation mechanics with a mystical medieval alchemy theme.

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 25.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, Resource Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines town-building and economic logistics with complex belt-based automation chains.

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 25.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Explore, build, and automate across alien landscapes using modular blocks and vehicles.

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 25.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the satisfying mechanics of geometric automation and scaling production.

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 20.7%, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in a dwarf-themed voxel survival world focused on mining and engineering.

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Build sprawling transport networks and automated factories in a destructible voxel world.

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 19.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation and real-time strategy with cute creatures to help build your production lines.

Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rugged, open-world industrialization and logistics setup in an untamed environment.

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

Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incremental approach to resource generation and abstract automation puzzles.

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 28.5% ★, Automation 16.5%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you into a massive voxel world to mine, research, and automate complex machinery.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.2%

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 30.3%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

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: Building 18.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%

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 26.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends idler mechanics with continuous factory growth and optimization.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 11.5%

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 26.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to design complex freight and manufacturing networks across diverse maps.

Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!

Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.9%

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 26.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.3%

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 16.5% ★, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 25.7%, Sandbox 25%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 10.8%, Simulation 8.6%

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 15.8%, Crafting 14%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%

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 21.4% ★, Automation 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 13%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.7%

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 20% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.4%

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 25.3% ★, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.7%

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 42.9%, Base Building 23.7%, Resource Management 19.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 4.3%

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 14.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%

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 26%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.5%

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

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

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: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.5%, Survival 10.1%

Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.9%, Automation 27.2%, Exploration 16.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.8%

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 34.6% ★, Automation 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.9%

Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.

Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.2%

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 30.1% ★, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%

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 29.2% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 24.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 11%

Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World Survival Craft 14.1% ★

Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 8.8%

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!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8%