- #1 Factorio
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 29.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game turns resource extraction, conveyor routing, and ever-growing production chains into an exceptionally deep optimization sandbox.
- #2 FOUNDRY
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 19.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 10%, Open World 8.8%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors Satisfactory's first-person 3D factory construction, with voxel terrain, mining, belts, pipes, and large-scale modular production.
- #3 Chocolate Factory
96% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 21.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory builder combines conveyor-heavy automation and exploration with a whimsical world and extensive vertical factory design.
- #4 Techtonica
95% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 25.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its subterranean first-person setting, interconnected conveyor networks, exploration, and co-op factory expansion make it a particularly direct alternative.
- #5 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 32.4%, Base Building 24.9%, Building 10.6%, Open World 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the factory-building fantasy to an interstellar scale, letting you automate entire planets and construct a planet-encompassing Dyson sphere.
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 39.4%, Base Building 28.4%, Resource Management 15.6%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 3%
Why You'll Like It: Its complex extraction, refining, transport, and waste-management systems offer a more industrial and management-heavy take on factory planning.
- #7 Astro Colony
93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 24%, Base Building 22.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This co-op space-colony builder lets you automate production aboard expandable space stations while exploring and extracting from new worlds.
- #8 The Planet Crafter
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,281 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Base Building 17.3%, Automation 15.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.7% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs first-person exploration and base construction with planet-wide terraforming, gradually evolving from survival crafting into large-scale industrial development.
- #9 Final Factory
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 28%, Base Building 21.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its spaceship-based production lines, modular construction, and continuous resource logistics offer a polished sci-fi automation experience.
- #10 FortressCraft Evolved!
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Automation 23.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person block-world automation game with mining, conveyors, power systems, and huge factories, it shares much of Satisfactory's hands-on building appeal.
- #11 ASTRONEER
90% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 15.8%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Open World 11.4%, Automation 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful co-op planetary exploration and modular base building provide a more relaxed, discovery-driven counterpart to Satisfactory's alien-world premise.
- #12 shapez
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 29.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist format makes it ideal for players who enjoy Satisfactory's production-line logic and want an exceptionally focused automation challenge.
- #13 Mindustry
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes resource automation, conveyor logistics, and factory expansion with tower defense pressure and optional cooperative multiplayer.
- #14 Desynced
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on designing flexible automated networks and programmable worker units across an alien planet with satisfying logistical complexity.
- #15 Factory Town
88% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 29.8%, Base Building 23.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxed but deep logistics game is built around routing workers, vehicles, belts, pipes, and trains through increasingly elaborate production networks.
- #16 Scrap Mechanic
84% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its creative sandbox construction, multiplayer support, vehicle building, and Survival Mode farming systems suit players who enjoy engineering their own solutions.
- #17 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
86% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 22.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 15.2%, Co-op 9.1%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines approachable automation and resource networks with exploration and charming creature-like workers rather than traditional conveyor-only systems.
- #18 Automation Empire
86% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 32.1%, Base Building 23.9%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: It is centered on designing efficient automated supply chains using vehicles, drones, trains, and processing facilities across a large map.
- #19 Hydroneer
85% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Open World 9%, Co-op 8.7%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a tactile first-person automation loop built around mining, sorting, smelting, and routing water-powered machinery.
- #20 Space Engineers
83% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Open World 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox emphasizes engineering functional bases, vehicles, ships, power networks, and automated mining systems in a fully destructible space setting.
- #21 Stationeers
84% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22.4%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person construction and highly detailed engineering systems, including power, atmospherics, piping, and programmable automation on hostile worlds.
- #22 Nova Lands
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Automation 23%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World Survival Craft 11.4% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This compact automation adventure combines base building, resource gathering, exploration, and worker-bot management in a more survival-oriented format.
- #23 Oxygen Not Included
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 40.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from the side, it offers exceptionally intricate base management involving gases, fluids, heat, power, plumbing, and automated resource systems.
- #24 Timberborn
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.6%, Base Building 24.6%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This colony builder rewards careful planning of production chains, water infrastructure, vertical construction, and automated industry in a distinctive beaver society.
- #25 Volcanoids
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 11.3%, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person exploration, crafting, and base building with a mobile drillship that can be upgraded into a functional industrial stronghold.
- #26 TerraTech Worlds
81% matchMixed63% of 2,297 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 17.6%, Automation 13.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.5% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op survival crafting and modular vehicle construction offer a more combat- and exploration-oriented take on building industrial systems.
- #27 Sandustry
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 20%, Base Building 15%, Open World Survival Craft 11.7% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 8.9%
- #28 StarRupture
78% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12.4% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9%
- #29 Eco
80% matchVery Positive81% of 14,085 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 22.9%, Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer world revolves around collaboratively extracting resources, building industry, managing pollution, and creating an interdependent civilization.
- #30 Eden Crafters
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Automation 20%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World Survival Craft 12.2% ★, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.7%
- #31 Voxel Tycoon
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 35.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on building rail, road, and air networks to connect mines, factories, and cities makes it a satisfying logistics-focused alternative.
- #32 Sweet Transit
78% matchMixed67% of 1,278 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Why similar: Base Building 34.4%, Building 21.3%, Resource Management 19.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Simulation 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It revolves around developing rail-linked settlements and production chains, emphasizing thoughtful transport routing and industrial growth.
- #33 Alchemy Factory
76% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 30.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #34 Belts of Iron
76% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
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 25.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 11%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #35 Lightyear Frontier
75% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 16%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.7%
- #36 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 7,668 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 13.1% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.2%
- #37 shapez 2 - Factory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 34%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #38 Modulus: Factory Automation
73% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 26.3%, Base Building 19%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #39 Skyformer
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Co-op 7.7%
- #40 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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 22%, Base Building 17.6%, Open World Survival Craft 12.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #41 Solarpunk™
72% matchVery Positive81% of 4,581 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Automation 15.5%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Building 8.4%
- #42 MineMogul
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #43 ICARUS
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,864 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 9.9%, Building 8.5%
- #44 Prospector
72% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
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: Automation 19%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World Survival Craft 9.3% ★, Open World 9.1%
- #45 FluxWerks
70% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
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 29.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Open World 7.2%
- #46 Valheim
67% matchVery Positive94% of 555,289 reviews2026
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 81.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Open World 12%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.3%
- #47 Outworld Station
69% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 28.9%, Base Building 23%, Crafting 11.5%, Co-op 10.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #48 AutoForge
71% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 24%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #49 Core Keeper
69% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 12.7% ★, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.6%, Building 10.1%
- #50 Builderment
71% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
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 28.7%, Base Building 22.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.5%
- #51 Voidtrain
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 10.3%, Open World 9.3%
- #52 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,722 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Open World Survival Craft 14.6% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Automation 10.5%, Open World 10%
- #53 Raft
68% matchVery Positive93% of 379,035 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.7%
- #54 Necesse
67% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 20.1% ★, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #55 Outpath
68% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9.5%
- #56 Occupy Mars: The Game
67% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Open World Survival Craft 14.8% ★, Crafting 12%, Open World 10.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #57 Star Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
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: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Open World Survival Craft 13.7% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #58 SpaceCraft
66% matchMixed64% of 2,773 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 54.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #59 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,909 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 30.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Co-op 11.5%, Building 10.4%