- #1 The Maker Way
97% 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: Automation 19.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.4%
- #2 Satisfactory
96% 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: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 20.9%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #3 Starvector
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.9%
- #4 Factory Trashcension
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
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 25.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%
- #5 Signalfall
94% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Fallen Relay
Windows
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 13.9%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12.3%
- #6 The Last Seed
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 10.8%, Time Management 9.7%
- #7 XenoHaven
93% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Automation 13.2%, Building 11.2%, Open World 11.2%
- #8 River Town Factory: Prologue
92% matchVery Positive85% of 125 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9%
- #9 Krasnaya Factory
91% 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 25.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #10 Elfgineer
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DigitalMishaps LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Elfgineer is a cozy factory game where you design the most important factory in the world, Santa's workshop. Automate toy production, craft festive contraptions and unlock new recipes, machines and technologies. Build, optimize and maximize christmas spirit before time runs out on Christmas Eve!
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Time Management 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%
- #11 PoliPlanet
89% 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: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%
- #12 Evospace
90% matchVery Positive83% of 391 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 12.5%
- #13 Reprocessed
89% 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: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.8%
- #14 ManaWeaver
88% 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: Automation 19.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 15%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.5%
- #15 Pistonica
86% 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 31.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.8%
- #16 Automation Station
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 14%, Crafting 10.6%
- #17 Belts of Iron
84% matchPositive93% of 41 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%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.7%
- #18 Alien Planet Survival
85% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.8%
- #19 Factorio
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 34.8%, Base Building 22%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 6.6%
- #20 GlowCore
82% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: CNDY StudiosPub: Nat Games
Windows · Linux
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Time Management 10%, Crafting 9.8%
- #21 ENDGAME: Survival
83% matchMixed45% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: AGames
Windows
Big group of people will be dropped into a deserted island where they will have to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%
- #22 Everlost
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.8%, Building 18.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 12.5%
- #23 Moose Builders
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
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 28.2%, Base Building 21.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.5%
- #24 Modulus: Factory Automation
78% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 8.5%
- #25 Layer Land
78% matchMixed50% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: PUDDING Co. Ltd.
Windows
Layerland is a sandbox survival game set in a world that mirrors Earth’s terrain. Travel through gates, capture monsters as pets, and team up to battle, gather, craft, and build.
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 10.9%
- #26 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HatchStudio
Windows
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Time Management 12.6%, Building 10.3%
- #27 Fronimus
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 11.6%
- #28 Tides of Despair
80% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.8%
- #29 Vilset
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.4%
- #30 Islandustry
77% 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 29.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 7.4%
- #31 Alchemy Factory
75% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.7%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 10.9%
- #32 Return from Core
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,800 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #33 X Space
76% 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: Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12%, Open World 10%
- #34 Unvoided
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alexandre
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mine asteroids and refine resources to build your own spaceship, designing every detail as you balance mass, thrust, and torque. Alone or with a crew, expand your vessel into a self-sustaining mobile factory through automation as you survive the harshness of space.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Sandbox 18.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.9%
- #35 Edge Of Survival
77% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Builderline
Windows
Escape to a relaxing, survival sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your base into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, hunting, cooking, and growing your own food.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%
- #36 DepthWake
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reversed Interactive
Windows
Return to an Earth abandoned for over 500 years and explore its transformed oceans in search of vital resources. With supplies on humanity's new home world running dry, you must gather materials, build automated underwater operations, and uncover the secrets that now lie beneath the waves.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 10.5%
- #37 Elsewhere
73% 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: Automation 21.3%, Sandbox 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%
- #38 Dragon Forge
74% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.4%
- #39 Nova Lands
72% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 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 26.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #40 FluxWerks
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #41 shapez
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 32.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 15.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10%
- #42 Prospector
71% 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: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%
- #43 LithoBreak
73% 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: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.4%
- #44 Rafting Factory
70% 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 36.5%, Base Building 22.4%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #45 Space
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neila Games
Windows
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11%
- #46 Chocolate Factory
70% matchMixed55% of 146 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 25.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #47 Substructure
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
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 27%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #48 Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!
Why similar: Base Building 14.2%, Building 14%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.9%
- #49 River Town Factory
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,343 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.2%
- #50 Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RubyRack Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online. A first-person infrastructure sim where ports, power, fault domains, RSTP and BGP do real work, not flavour text. Readable for newcomers, honest for engineers.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 17.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
- #51 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 203 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 26.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #52 Witching Well
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shiitake Knights
Windows
Witching Well is a magic sandbox where you craft spells, explore, shape your surroundings, and play at your own pace. Collect ingredients, craft magic, meet unique creatures, and transform the world around you.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 14%, Building 13.5%, Life Sim 12.9%, Time Management 11.3%
- #53 Astral Divide
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sébastien Aoki
Windows · Linux
You wake up alone in a damaged space station with no memories. To get out of here, you will have to build your own spaceship. But survival comes first: gather resources, build a base and a factory out of gear and steam, and explore hand-crafted planets with unique biomes and resources.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 16.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #54 FACTORY I
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Building 14%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%
- #55 Potion Pipeline
66% 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 31.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Crafting 8.2%
- #56 Far Out
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bekardo
Windows
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 12.9%, RPG 10.5%
- #57 Keplerth
66% matchVery Positive84% of 4,145 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Building 17.8%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 13.8%, Base Building 10.1%