- #1 Cobalt Miner
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 18.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #2 Mob Factory
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Tower Defense 20.4%, Automation 15.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 12%
- #3 PlanetForge Protocol
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Railstar GamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.7%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, RTS 10.4%
- #4 Mindustry
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,276 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Automation 15.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, RTS 14.3%
- #5 Terrafort
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Tessellation Specifications
Windows · Mac · Linux
A procedurally generated sandbox survival game with RTS elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Open World 14.8%, RTS 10.2%
- #6 Vectorio
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 397 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 12.9%
- #7 Planet Gemini
92% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: decidonePub: Planet Gemini
Windows
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.6%, Mining 16% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Automation 12.8%, Sandbox 11%
- #8 Bandit the game
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 46 reviews2019
Dev: Adrian Ubiorski
Windows
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 12.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #9 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 621 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Tower Defense 14.1%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #10 Defe
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Curare Games
Windows
Tower Defense Roguelike with Action RPG elements, combining base building, real-time strategy, resource management, and intense top-down combat. Build by day. Defend by night. Explore and survive, if you can.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, RTS 11.6%
- #11 Machine Mind
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 534 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Open World 10.1%
- #12 Hostile Mars: Prologue
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Rook Games
Windows
Hostile Mars is a Factory-Building game focused on Combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech, unlocking powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #13 JKRobots
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JKRobots
Windows
A macro-focused RTS where you defend against a surprise invasion of thousands of robots. Reclaim your territory to rebuild your economic engine and army. But beware: the harder you push, the harder the machines push back.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, RTS 24.7%, Resource Management 17.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Base Building 14.4%
- #14 Candy Factory TD
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Automation 13.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #15 Galaxy Scavengers
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Sandbox 17%, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%
- #16 Son of Aral
87% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2020
Dev: Miradil
Windows · Mac
An experimental game that combines sandbox survival and tower defence. Expand your island from scratch and build it any way you want, also defend the enemies from destroying island's core.At last escape from this fake world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Mining 18.1% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 14.5%, RPG 7.6%
- #17 Signal Zone
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: Norafox Studio
Windows
Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Mining 16.3% ★, Resource Management 16.3%, Strategy 12.7%
- #18 HORDE Survival
86% matchMostly Negative29% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: WDS Games
Windows
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Open World 17%, Resource Management 16.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%
- #19 X Space
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: X SPACE
Windows
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 13.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 11.5%
- #20 LithoBreak
85% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Mining 15.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Automation 12.8%, Open World 12.6%
- #21 Tin Lord
82% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: IcosaCore
Windows
Tin Lord is a hybrid of strategy and tower defense in a post-apocalyptic world where you control robots that rebuild technology and fight monsters in a destroyed world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #22 Industronaut
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Mining 18% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Automation 14.3%, Sandbox 13%
- #23 Factorwave
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 18.9%, Resource Management 16.5%, Base Building 11.7%
- #24 Total Tower Engine
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RubyRTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, RTS 21.5%, Resource Management 19.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 9%
- #25 Prospector
79% matchMostly Positive71% 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: Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 13.1%, Automation 12.5%
- #26 Planet Barren Objective
81% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
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: Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Automation 11.9%
- #27 Red Moon: Survival
80% matchMixed58% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: WMG
Windows
The world is thrown into chaos when the moon suddenly turns red, causing its residents to turn into zombies.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 14.3%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Mining 10.8% ★
- #28 Rafting Factory
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 17.5%, Sandbox 16%, Strategy 13.1%
- #29 Astral Industrial Complex
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Con7rad7
Windows
A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Automation 19.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, Strategy 16.3%
- #30 Outpost: Infinity Siege
77% matchMixed65% of 13,600 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.2 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12%, RTS 10.8%, Automation 10.5%
- #31 Hydroneer
78% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Mining 22.1% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Automation 14.9%, Open World 13.1%
- #32 Stellar Infestation
77% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: YogurtGames
Windows
Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, Resource Management 17.9%, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 15.9%, Base Building 13.5%
- #33 Spiritura
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spiritura Works
Windows · Mac
Spiritura is an atmospheric open-world survival crafting game with light RPG elements, exploration, and base building. Forge your own path through a mysterious, procedurally generated land, utilizing diverse combat skills to survive the threats of the wild as you uncover the secrets of the world.
Why similar: Mining 18.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Open World 12.9%
- #34 Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parsons Goldman Jones and Co
Windows
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Base Building 20.9%, Automation 17%, Resource Management 16.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #35 ManaWeaver
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BadgerHub Studio
Windows · Mac
A fantasy open-world terraforming and crafting adventure. Survive, gather resources, and harness magic to build your home. Construct mystical machines to purify the curse and restore life to the realm. Uncover history as you reshape the world around you.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.6%, Open World 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Automation 12.1%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #36 Deepfield
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Armoured Beans
Windows · Linux
Deepfield is a sandbox RTS set in the tiny world of microbiology. Deepfield's microverse is alive and contains many biomes, each with their own mix of environmental mechanics and unique enemy types. Find and exploit resources, multiply in number and expand your territory to fend off extinction.
Why similar: RTS 17.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #37 Bug Bait
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.3%, Resource Management 19.6%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 11.4%
- #38 World Crafter TD
74% matchMixed46% of 653 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 12.6%, Open World 11.1%
- #39 Pistonica
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 16.7%, Open World 16.4%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #40 A Silent Desolation
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SHK Interactive
Windows
Stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth centuries after humanity's exodus, "A Silent Desolation" is a solo survival game developed by one person. Face dangers, craft, explore, and uncover secrets while repairing a shuttle base to escape.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.3%, Open World 15.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Survival 11.9%
- #41 Tower Factory
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,226 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.6%, RTS 14.5%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #42 The Last Resourcer
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MechaWing Lab
Windows
Survive a hostile world with your droid. Build your base, automate with robots, and manage the energy that keeps you alive. Beware. The tech you rely on may save your life – or destroy it.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Automation 15.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 12%
- #43 PoliPlanet
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
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: Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 16.1%, Automation 15.9%, Open World 13.6%, Sandbox 13.3%
- #44 Elsewhere
71% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 16.6% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #45 The Islands
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trash Studios
Windows
An open-world survival game. Use your environment to craft items and structures. Physics based with weather and day/night. More than 50 different animals. Combat and non-combat activities fishing.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 12.6%, Exploration 8.9%
- #46 Reprocessed
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 16.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Automation 15.2%, Open World 11.7%
- #47 Moon Rocks and Slimes
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voided Pixels Studio
Windows
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 19.9% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Open World 17.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Exploration 9.7%
- #48 The Last Caretaker
68% matchVery Positive86% of 12,107 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Automation 13%, Open World 12.7%
- #49 Nightwater
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
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: Resource Management 15.6%, Open World 15.5%, Automation 14.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Mining 11.7% ★
- #50 Skyreap
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Entin Games
Windows · Mac
You are the power of runes, shaping worlds. Gather resources and find pedestals to build, craft, and transform islands - until the forgotten archipelago gains a new soul.
Why similar: Open World 15.4%, Mining 14.7% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #51 Bouncekraft
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 25.4% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Automation 11.5%
- #52 Infinitory
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RedCactus
Windows · Linux
Infinitory mixes city-building, automation, and tower defense in a in a rogue-lite top-down game. Expand your base vertically in limited space, a strategic planning challenge. Automate resources to produce ammunition and upgrades, crucial for stopping waves of enemies on procedurally generated maps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.6%, Base Building 15%, Automation 14.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, RTS 13.1%
- #53 Polylithic
69% matchMixed68% of 175 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Open World 14.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Automation 12.8%
- #54 Satisfactory
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Base Building 22.1%, Automation 18.7%, Open World 15.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #55 Project Tomorrow
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #56 Deep Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Open World 16.5%, Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #57 Artificial Extinction
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 264 reviews2020
Dev: 100Hr Games Inc
Windows
You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, RPG 10.1%
- #58 Kardashev
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
Kardashev is an open-world, procedurally generated, factory building game, set amongst a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission is to harness energy and ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 17.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 10.5%
- #59 TechGuardian: Territory Defense
66% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Apex HorizonPub: Liquid Meow
Windows
This is a sci-fi strategy game featuring a Defense Mode focused on tower defense and an Attack Mode focused on combat. The game includes over 30 different buildings and units, all of which can be upgraded through entry editing to enhance their performance and firepower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, RTS 17.9%, Resource Management 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Automation 11.7%
- #60 The Maker Way
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 15.9%, Automation 14%, Survival 9%