- #1 Drug Dealer Schedule
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MindBrew Studio
Windows
Get your hands dirty in an immersive open-world crime simulator. Mix, grind, dissolve, and package every product yourself, build hidden labs, outsmart the police, smuggle shipments through checkpoints, and grow from a small-time dealer into an underground kingpin.
Why similar: Crime 22.1%, Automation 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 9.6%
- #2 DRUG Schedule
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CrimsonRoute Games
Windows
Build your empire! Cook and make illegal drugs, expand your cartel, and outsmart rivals and law enforcement. Play solo or team up in co-op to dominate the underworld! Your empire, your rules. Rise to power! Don't get high on your own dope!
Why similar: Crime 17.7%, Automation 11.6%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.4%, Management 9.5%
- #3 Schedule I
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 317,746 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Crime 25.3%, Management 12%, Automation 10%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%
- #4 Dirty Business
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,072 reviews2026
Dev: Plan Dirty Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crime 21.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 10.8%, Automation 10.5%
- #5 Drug Life: Gangster Simulator
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TwoRushGames
Windows
Step into the gangster underworld: grow weed, strike dangerous deals, and battle rival gangs for control. Upgrade your rides, secure your turf, and build a criminal empire that fears no one.
Why similar: Crime 27.6%, Management 12.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Stealth 7.1%
- #6 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Idler 24.3%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.3%
- #7 The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire
93% matchVery Positive83% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: BEF GAMESPub: Tripwire Presents
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a criminal empire from the streets up. Commit crimes in third-person, run and automate illegal businesses, recruit your own crime family, fight rival organizations, and take control of a seamless open-world city.
Why similar: Crime 22.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Automation 10.3%, Management 10%
- #8 WeedEx: Drug Express Delivery
92% matchMixed70% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
Start as a street dealer and rise to criminal power — produce and distribute various illegal substances across the dark streets of Hyland Point. Expand your empire by purchasing property, growing your business, acquiring new cars, and building a powerful underground network.
Why similar: Crime 30.2%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Driving 8.6%
- #9 Blank Slate
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OneHotChicken
Windows
You lost everything. So you forged your way back. Blank Slate is a first-person crime sandbox — craft graded fake IDs, run shady storefronts, launder dirty cash, and outrun the heat in a city that looks the other way.
Why similar: Crime 24.9%, Stealth 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Automation 9.8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #10 Mulerun – Retro Bootlegger Simulator
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CristianGames
Windows
Build a moonshine business on a tropical island in the 1980s. Brew, bottle, and deliver your liquor, outsmart your ankle monitor, and fly contraband while caught between the CIA and the cartel. Play solo or build your operation with up to 4 players in online co-op.
Why similar: Crime 21.3%, Automation 12%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%
- #11 Crime Empire Idle
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Litwire Games
Windows · Linux
Build your criminal dynasty in a deep idle/incremental game. Run crimes, launder dirty cash, upgrade your empire, use the black market, craft weapons & gear to fight criminal opponents while you balance heat and notoriety.
Why similar: Idler 27.5%, Crime 18.2%, Automation 15.9%, Management 13.2%, Crafting 10%
- #12 AetherRift
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Slade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Place magical constructs around a swirling cosmic rift, chain together exotic energies, and collapse reality to grow stronger in this deep incremental game.
Why similar: Idler 26.8%, Automation 17.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 11.5%
- #13 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
89% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Idler 26.3%, Automation 20.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #14 Crimswell
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucapy Studio
Windows
turn a run-down bar into a full-blown criminal operation. Craft drinks unlike anything else, take shady deals, and expand with illegal properties. Survive the heat from cops and rival crews while you rule the streets of Crimswell. Play solo or with up to 8 friends.
Why similar: Crime 34.1%, Automation 15.9%, Management 15%, Simulation 11.8%, Driving 8.1%
- #15 Assembly Line 2
88% matchMixed66% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Idler 17.7%, Management 15.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Crafting 8.5%
- #16 Resources Assemble!
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lasarevs
Windows · Linux
Build, automate, and expand your factory. Mine resources, craft components, and evolve your systems toward full autonomy and interplanetary production
Why similar: Idler 27.9%, Automation 21.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 9.9%
- #17 Potion Pipeline
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
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 20.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 15%, Simulation 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #18 Soul Shine
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: House Of Stupid
Windows
Prohibition ruined your brewery job. So you started a moonshine business. Expand and automate your empire by harvesting souls, trafficking organs, selling to addicts, and serving strange gods.
Why similar: Crime 26.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Automation 11.6%
- #19 419
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AVALON_STUDIOS
Windows
Start as a small-time filler and work your way up to kingpin. Buy CC info, print blanks, card online and launder your money through crypto. But watch out: the more you scam, the more heat you get. Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Crime 28.1%, Automation 16.2%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 13.1%
- #20 Holon
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14%, Management 13.4%, Building 12.2%
- #21 The Last Factory
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jitkem TienngamPub: Hello World Labs
Windows · Mac
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 15.9%, Idler 12.6%, Building 11.6%
- #22 Fabricatio
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Automation 20.3%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Management 8.3%
- #23 Laplana
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Crafting 19.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 18.4%, Simulation 10.4%
- #24 University Tycoon - The College Management Simulator
84% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Robert Gould
Windows
Build and manage a University, with realistic curriculum scheduling, reputation system, and a multiple building campus
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Management 22.4%, Simulation 17.3%, Top-Down 13.8%, Building 11.6%
- #25 The Resonance Initiative
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.5%, Management 14%
- #26 Bang Business
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Centum Dev
Windows
Rise to become Blizwood’s top gun mogul — craft outrageous weapons and hustle them across the city. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, a loyal crew, and more.
Why similar: Crime 27.2%, Crafting 14.6%, Automation 13.2%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 11.3%
- #27 Taskbar Syndicate
78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Low Signal Games
Windows
Run a tiny crime empire from your taskbar. Assign crooks to jobs, launder dirty money, manage heat, survive audits, and make terrible decisions while pretending to work.
Why similar: Crime 27.7%, Idler 26.2%, Automation 16.9%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 5.2%
- #28 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Idler 31.6%, Automation 22.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Management 11.3%, Building 9.9%
- #29 Beltex
79% matchVery Positive86% of 234 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Idler 19.1%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 10.1%
- #30 We Need More Steam!
79% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Management 16.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 13%, Simulation 9.2%
- #31 Forest Factory Simulator
76% matchMixed48% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Samle Indie Studio
Windows
Build, automate, and thrive in Forest Factory! Chop trees, craft wooden goods, and sell them to grow your factory. Manage your depot, fulfill orders, and balance nature with machinery in a serene forest setting. Experience automation in the wild!
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Idler 18.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.7%
- #32 Node Math
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Idler 24.1%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Simulation 8%
- #33 Stick Legion
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vanishline Games
Windows
Your income isn't a spreadsheet - it's a battle line. Muster warbands, carve across eight realms, then dock the war in a screen corner and fight on while you work - Order the Last Charge, strengthen your Elders, run it back. Pay once. No ads.
Why similar: Idler 36%, Automation 21.2%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 6.6%
- #34 Clickerite
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bugguri
Windows
Clickerite is an incremental mining game where you must collect materials, craft powerful tools, and battle evil monsters in a cube-dimensional world!
Why similar: Idler 25.3%, Automation 19.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Building 12.6%, Management 12.4%
- #35 Rocket Automashapes
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Night Stroll Studio
Windows
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, Idler 15.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Management 11.3%
- #36 ReFactory
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
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: Base Building 21.5%, Automation 18.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Management 11%
- #37 Factory Works Idle
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EnricoBC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build an automated industrial empire from stone tools to singularity tech. Click, automate, and research through 10 eras, then breach reality to conquer parallel dimensions with unique rules, resources, and threats. Idle factory builder with deep prestige and cross-dimensional logistics.
Why similar: Idler 29.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 15.2%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 10.6%
- #38 Brewgether
72% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Coop Factory
Windows
Brewgether is a coop brewery sim. Run your own brewery, manage bars and employees, trade with townsfolk for different materials used in infusing the alcohol, build houses and furnish them in order to rent them out. Expand your business with new locations, brewery stations, vehicles and more.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Driving 11.4%
- #39 Drug Lord Tycoon
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,712 reviews2024
Dev: Duhndal
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.
Why similar: Crime 28.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 11.9%, Building 10.4%
- #40 The Factory
74% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Awesome Studios
Windows
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Idler 23.3%, Automation 19.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.7%
- #41 Fraud Simulator
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1 Day DevelopmentPub: 1 Day Publishing
Windows
Take over the coastal town of Faircombe one scam at a time!
Why similar: Crime 25.7%, Automation 14%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 11%, Crafting 10%
- #42 Die for Pay
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Woziva
Windows
Die for Pay is a CO-OP Multiplayer action crime game where you try to rise from nothing in a world where riots break out every night. Make money by day, gather your crew. By night, stand your ground with honor, or run. When the siren sounds, there's no mercy.
Why similar: Crime 34.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Automation 11.4%, Action 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #43 My Shelter
71% matchMixed49% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Tree
Windows
A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study. Research tech, farm crops, raise animals, recruit survivors, unlock mines, hunt mutants, fend off aberrations, gear up your squad, craft with machinery, repair the rocket, build your shelter—and conquer the apocalypse!
Why similar: Idler 22.9%, Automation 15.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 12%
- #44 GridCraft
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Crafting 21%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 12.5%
- #45 Incremental Factory
73% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Idler 24.5%, Automation 19.7%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.3%
- #46 Astral Bloom
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
Grow a living alien world in this incremental base-builder. Cultivate strange plants, command loyal wisps, and reshape the sky with powerful wishes. Automate and expand your ecosystem as you uncover lost memories. As your sanctuary grows, will you stay... or leave in search of something more?
Why similar: Idler 27.4%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 14.2%, Management 13.1%
- #47 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 26%, Base Building 21.7%, Idler 15.7%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 10.2%
- #48 Islandustry
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
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 21.4%, Base Building 18.9%, Building 12.2%, Management 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%
- #49 CosmoFab
69% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 22.2%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 11.1%
- #50 Attrition Line
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 6.4%
- #51 Amozon Extraplanetary Colonization Program
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows · Linux
AECP is a chaotic 2D roguelike factory builder inspired by games like Factorio. Build unique and wacky factories using whatever means you have available, and use your revenue to expand further!
Why similar: Idler 24.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.4%, Top-Down 10.2%, Management 10.1%
- #52 Craft Drill
68% matchPositive79% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Alex HK
Windows
Craft Drill - this mining simulator puts you in control of powerful drilling equipment, letting you explore mysterious mines and uncover hidden treasures.
Why similar: Idler 40.8%, Simulation 24.6%, Crafting 23.5%, 2D 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #53 Dictapoint — Underground Pharma Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CorePlay
Windows
They were waiting for a fix — they got you instead. Craft the cure, scale up production, run sales and wage war on the gangs choking this rotting town. Choose: stay honest and die broke, or brew a cure so good they'll crawl to you on their knees.
Why similar: Crime 20.8%, Automation 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Stealth 10.9%, Management 10.1%
- #54 TowerLine
67% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 18.2%, Simulation 8%, Management 7.3%
- #55 摸鱼仙村
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 不怕虎工作室
Windows
This idle game blends card-based building, resource management, and relaxed gameplay. Expand your village, master sect skills, explore realms, and enjoy offline rewards. Effortless fun awaits—start your journey to immortality!
Why similar: Idler 25.2%, Automation 19.4%, Management 13.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.3%
- #56 Gridmax
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Automation 15.5%, Management 15.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.9%
- #57 BOREWORKS
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 14.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.7%
- #58 Krasnaya Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kickback games
Windows
Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 12.5%, Management 9.3%
- #59 Road Tycoon
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: REVOKO
Windows
Road Tycoon is an idle incremental racing game with custom-built tracks, prestige layers, and vehicle ascensions. Build the perfect track, let your cars race, and push your numbers into infinity.
Why similar: Idler 37.7%, Automation 15.6%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Simulation 8.7%
- #60 Symbiosis: Criticality
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brehmdig
Windows
It starts as a black screen and one thing to click. Break the core, sweep what spills, spend the spill on machinery that breaks the core for you. Drones, node meshes, coupling beams, tesla banks — watch a machine build itself across the void until the screen is a web of light you barely hold.
Why similar: Idler 25.4%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Management 13.6%, Top-Down 8.7%