60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Sandbox, Strategy, Simulation.
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.
Substructure
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Beyond These Stars
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Moddable 9.1% ★, City Builder 8.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Automation 11.2%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Moddable 9.4% ★
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Automation 11.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Moddable 10% ★, Base Building 9.6%
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 15.4%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Base Building 10%, City Builder 9.9%, Trains 8.3% ★
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 22.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Trains 7.3% ★
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Trains 14.1% ★, Colony Sim 12% ★, Automation 10.9%, City Builder 10.3%, Moddable 9.2% ★
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: Trains 14.8% ★, Automation 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 7.7%
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Trains 14.4% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Base Building 9.4%
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 14.5%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Moddable 12.8% ★, Base Building 9.6%, City Builder 9.4%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.9% ★, Moddable 13.7% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Trains 10.6% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Moddable 12.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, City Builder 8.3%
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 22.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 7.4%
Ruin and Rebirth is a fantasy open-world factory building game with creature taming and breeding. In this playable creation myth, bring life back to a surreal, shattered, post-divine apocalyptic world where the gods have died.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Trains 14.7% ★, Moddable 12.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 8.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Colony Sim 8.1% ★
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 21%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.3%
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 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, Moddable 11.2% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 19.2% ★, Automation 13.8%, Moddable 12.6% ★, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%
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 22.1%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Moddable 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 12%, Sandbox 8%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Moddable 14.8% ★, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 8.9%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 7.8%
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 21.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Trains 9.9% ★, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11%, Resource Management 9.7%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 10%
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Moddable 14.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 19%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Automation 17%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Trains 11.3% ★, Base Building 11%, City Builder 10.8%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 12.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.2%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Moddable 14.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 8.7%, Survival 7.9%
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 19.3%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Automation 13.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Moddable 11.2% ★, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Moddable 11.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 8.1%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Automation 9.6%, City Builder 8.6%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Colony Sim 9.7% ★, Building 9%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
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 18.7%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Trains 10.7% ★, Crafting 9.7%
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Moddable 15.2% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, City Builder 8.1%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 7.2%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Moddable 10.7% ★, Sandbox 9.8%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 22.1%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.6%
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 23.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 8.8%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.7% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Moddable 12.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
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 20.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 12.6%, City Builder 10.8%, Strategy 8%
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Management 9.6%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Automation 12.8%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 9.2%
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Moddable 12.5% ★, Resource Management 9.9%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7%, Management 6.6%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 10%
