60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Sandbox, Base Building.
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Iron Inc.
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Ingnomia
Following in the footsteps of Dwarf Fortress and Gnomoria, this game aims to provide the best experience of both worlds. The graphics and accessibility of Gnomoria and the depth and rich content of Dwarf Fortress.
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Strategy 24.7%, Simulation 22.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
Following in the footsteps of Dwarf Fortress and Gnomoria, this game aims to provide the best experience of both worlds. The graphics and accessibility of Gnomoria and the depth and rich content of Dwarf Fortress.
Why similar: Strategy 24.9%, Simulation 24.7%, Base Building 24.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Indie 11.2%
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 29.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11.7%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Automation 16%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 13.2%
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 25.7%, Strategy 21.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Simulation 14.3%, Sandbox 11.9%
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Simulation 21.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 16.6%, Sandbox 10.6%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 11.9%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 10.7%
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Strategy 19.2%, Simulation 16%, Resource Management 15.1%, Base Building 11.6%
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: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Strategy 14.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 12.5%
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 23.6%, Strategy 21.1%, Base Building 20.5%, Simulation 19.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
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 32.9%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 7.7%
Begin a journey like no other, become the Ant Queen and establish your empire. Ant Queen is a simulation game where you breed different types of ants to ultimately conquer your surroundings and achieve a stable ant colony.
Why similar: Strategy 35.1%, Simulation 32.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Indie 12.9%
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 32.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 13.2%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 15.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Strategy 10.7%
Rekindling is a settlement building and management game. You are tasked with rebuilding society after the ZTD virus has taken over and turned the masses into mindless creatures. Build, Harvest, Mine, and Fight with your survivors to build a sustainable society and take steps towards finding the cure!
Why similar: Strategy 27.5%, Simulation 27.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Indie 11.5%
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 12.1%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 22.9%, Automation 19.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
The adventurers are curious about the Dungeon, and you will build a new Dungeon.Build a world famous Dungeon,To create a frightening Monster army
Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, Simulation 29.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Indie 12.2%, Resource Management 12%
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Resource Management 18.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 13.1%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 14.6%, Sandbox 10%
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 27.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Sandbox 11.7%
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 27.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 9%
Craft Elements is a first person minecraft-esque journey into the nuclear reactor design, periodic table and vaporwave world. It is a unique, simple and atmospheric sandbox puzzle game with a focus on complex simulation and calculations.
Why similar: Strategy 34.7%, Simulation 34.4%, Indie 14.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
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 23.2%, Strategy 17.3%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Automation 13%
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels and power your factory. Research new machines to automate everything in voxel-based multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends and turn the desert into a solar farm.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 21.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%
Welcome to the prologue to Train Station Renovation. This is where you will learn and teach how to renovate these small and the largest train stations in the world.
Why similar: Simulation 33.3%, Strategy 30.8%, Indie 12.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 7.1%
Survival strategy with indirect control and tower defense elements. Build and manage your medieval town.
Why similar: Strategy 28.1%, Simulation 27.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Indie 11.4%
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 27.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 12.2%
Stellar Descending is a turn-based factory builder spanning multiple layers. As a scout, design vertical production lines using conveyors, assemblers, and inserters. Use strategy and automation to conquer the planet and uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
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: Automation 33.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 11.8%
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Strategy 17%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Base Building 9.4%
Colonize islands and grow your population. Manage trade routes and resources to meet the ever increasing needs of your colonist.
Why similar: Strategy 35.2%, Simulation 33.8%, Indie 14.3%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 7.7%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Sandbox 19%, Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Simulation 12.2%
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 31.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Strategy 11.2%
Build your stronghold and survive in the wasteland world controlled by artificial intelligence. Deal with relationships with other strongholds, develop allies or conquer them. Control pollution and fight against bad weather. Protect your base and destroy your enemy.
Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, Simulation 29.1%, Base Building 26.1%, Indie 12.9%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 12%
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 10.6%
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 12.4%
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 25.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 11.9%
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 33.9%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 20%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10.9%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 18.7%, Sandbox 18.4%, Resource Management 12.3%
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 28.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 15.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.9%
Worldless: Mercenaries is a fantasy-themed strategy and management game. Recruit, hire, equip and manage your mercenaries. Send them to explore the world, hunt treasures and trade among cities. They might find a dragon - or be found.
Why similar: Strategy 36.8%, Simulation 34%, Indie 14.4%, Resource Management 7.7%, Sandbox 7.2%
Build and manage your own data center! Design modular servers, set up realistic networking, and power systems. Manage heat, install OS (Windows/Ubuntu), and fulfill contracts for profit. Technical depth and hardware precision await!
Why similar: Simulation 25.1%, Strategy 23.9%, Sandbox 17.4%, Automation 17.2%, Resource Management 11.2%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 33.5%, Base Building 21.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10%
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 31.1%, Simulation 22.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 12%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Simulation 20%, Strategy 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 10.3%
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 16.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12.1%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 15.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Sandbox 10.8%
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 26.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 10.5%
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Simulation 25.3%, Strategy 23.1%, Sandbox 18.6%, Indie 3.2%
Hard Work is a 3D factory simulation game.
Why similar: Strategy 35.9%, Simulation 34.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Indie 14.6%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Strategy 22.5%, Simulation 21.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
Take over a small dungeon that no adventure is interested in as a new manager. You'll start with almost nothing and recruit minions, accumulate money, construct facilities, develop technology, explore the realm, have the dungeon's name up, defeat other dungeons and win the championship of the Dungeon League.
Why similar: Strategy 36.2%, Simulation 32.5%, Resource Management 17%, Indie 14.3%
Initiative is an Aerospace Company Manager. Build and grow your aerospace company on Earth and be the first to establish a self-sustainable colony on Mars.
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Simulation 40.5%, Indie 17.2%
8bit style RTS! You can win at high speed by a speed button. You can win a stage in 5-10 minutes. Easy operation. Your color is "Red". You build "Factory". -> Creates Units! You build "Fortress". -> Atacks Units! When you occupy all towns, you win. You get Buildings and Special Powers.
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Simulation 40.5%, Indie 17.2%
