60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Singleplayer, Automation, Simulation.
In a world dominated by all-powerful AIs, you’re a plain old human who just signed a crawler contract with the luxurious metaverse resort known as The Bathing Palace. Your job? Clean, pamper, and purify our beloved leaders while they are on their wellness break.
Desynced
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
The Factory Must Grow
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!
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Programming 26.4% ★, Automation 22%, City Builder 14.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 8.1%
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 32%, Resource Management 14.2%, First-Person 10.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Resource Management 16.5%, Management 14%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Simulation 10%
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: Automation 24.5%, Action RTS 21.5% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Procedural Generation 10%
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Programming 21.4% ★, Resource Management 16.9%, Simulation 14.1%, Indie 5.4%
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 40.6% ★, Automation 30.9%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 5.1%
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Why similar: Action RTS 25.1% ★, Programming 22.8% ★, Automation 19.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 7.7%
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Programming 16.9% ★, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11%
A large-scale narrative city-builder set across floating lands. Build 100+ structures, master production and sky trade, and transform a fragile colony into a thriving civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Automation 22.9%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 10.8%, Stylized 6.1%
In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.
Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 26.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.3%
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Resource Management 21.6%, Management 16.6%, Procedural Generation 7.7%, Simulation 6.9%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Programming 40.1% ★, Automation 33.2%, Resource Management 9.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Management 5.9%
Dig to Escape is a VR prison-break adventure where you dig tunnels, complete risky inmate quests, fight rivals, avoid guards, and upgrade your tools to plan the perfect escape. Every run challenges you to adapt, improvise, and outsmart the prison from the inside.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.5% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Adventure 8.6%
Fix urban traffic issues by placing road signs and programming traffic light patterns. Create green lanes, and divert traffic!
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Automation 24.3%, Programming 22.3% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Stylized 8.4%
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Programming 25% ★, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%
Defend your castle against thousands of enemies. Choose your towers wisely to rise an impenetrable barricade. Fight in several worlds against tireless golems that are willing to destroy your kingdom. Build an elaborate defense to restrain the hordes that assault you in each world.
Why similar: Action RTS 48.8% ★, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Strategy 14.1%, Management 11.6%, 3D 6%
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, City Builder 25%, Resource Management 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Strategy 8.4%
A strategy replay simulator where you observe your trading strategies battle in the market. Write code that becomes a living strategy, watch it trade, and learn how it survives or falls in a competitive environment.
Why similar: Programming 47.2% ★, Automation 30.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
In this game, we will play with the simplest automaton model, Finite State Automaton, and use it to cope with 80 challenges.
Why similar: Programming 52.6% ★, Automation 39.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Singleplayer 1%
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 41%, Resource Management 19.7%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8.7%
"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 37.8%, Programming 28.1% ★, Resource Management 19.7%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 5%
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 41.6%, Resource Management 23.3%, City Builder 11.5%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 5.7%
Write code to command your defenses. Overhead is a strategy game where your code is your weapon; script turret (or sensor) behavior in JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or any WASM language. Every scenario is seeded and deterministic. Write a better script, get a better score.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 27.1%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Resource Management 6.1%
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Why similar: Programming 43.7% ★, Automation 32.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 6%
Run your own game development company, creating hit games for over 60 years worth of console releases
Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Management 16.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 8.6%
Build and automate your own pizza factory to feed waves of hungry aliens! Manage resources, optimize machinery, and design the ultimate production line in this delightfully chaotic cooking and automation simulator packed with cheese, conveyor belts, and cosmic mayhem. Sign Up for Playtest
Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Resource Management 19.7%, Programming 12.9% ★, Management 11.6%, Strategy 7.4%
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world, semi-realistic art style with puzzle-solving, programming, and visual novel elements. play as a Soul Seal Master, Craft Soul Seals, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Why similar: Programming 42.2% ★, Automation 39.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.8%, Indie 1.3%
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
Why similar: Programming 30.4% ★, Automation 18.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Management 10.7%
Dive into the world of machine learning! Idle AI Architecture is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-million dollar tech empire.
Why similar: Programming 28.3% ★, Automation 24.2%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.4%
Harvest planets with programmable robots. Write real Python to collect every resource on the map, deliver it to your spaceship, and avoid the hazards. Sharpen your problem solving and coding skills, one level at a time. No coding experience needed — learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 37.6% ★, Automation 28.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Strategy 4.8%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Programming 42.3% ★, Automation 33.4%, Management 9.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 5.7%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 40.9% ★, Automation 35.9%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Simulation 5.8%, First-Person 5.4%
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Programming 30.4% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 5.9%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Management 9.8%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Programming 51% ★, Automation 39.3%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 1%
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 32%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 14.2%, Management 12.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Visual Programming Puzzle game inspired by Spacechem and other Zachtronics games.
Why similar: Programming 42.5% ★, Automation 40.6%, Stylized 9.6%, Simulation 4.3%, Indie 2.2%
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Resource Management 16.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Management 7.9%
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: Automation 29.8%, City Builder 22%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Resource Management 22.9%, Management 13.5%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Strategy 9.4%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Resource Management 19%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 13.2%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, City Builder 19.9%, Resource Management 15.9%, Management 11.3%, Procedural Generation 8%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Programming 32% ★, Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 7.4%
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Why similar: Programming 31% ★, Automation 30.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.2%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 62.3% ★, Automation 31.4%, Simulation 4.1%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 40.2%, Resource Management 16.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Management 10%, Sci-fi 8.8%
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Resource Management 21.2%, Management 16.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%, City Builder 7.7%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.3%
Harvest candy, build whimsical rides, and design your dream getaway in this cozy theme park builder. Relax as you expand your sugary world and watch your slice of paradise flourish. One attraction at a time!
Why similar: Automation 29%, Resource Management 19.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Management 16.6%, Strategy 6.4%
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 41.6%, Resource Management 21.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Programming 31.6% ★, Automation 26.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Sci-fi 5.1%
Write real Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that don't end well. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie however you like.
Why similar: Programming 38% ★, Automation 27.8%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Strategy 5.2%
Iron Stars is a realistic space 4X strategy game where you explore believable star systems, colonize planets and moons, grow your population, and turn entire solar systems into industrial empires.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.5% ★, Automation 19.1%, Resource Management 18.7%, Management 17%, Simulation 9.9%
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 50.8%, Resource Management 23.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Resource Management 16.9%, City Builder 11%, Management 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.1%
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: Automation 33.6%, Resource Management 17.7%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Sci-fi 10.8%, City Builder 9.8%
Glintland is a magical factory-building card puzzler. Place tiles from a deck to build enchanting production chains, light up the land, and discover a cozy world full of secrets. Each Glint is a short, satisfying journey of automation and alchemy.
Why similar: Programming 31.5% ★, Automation 29.7%, City Builder 14%, Story Rich 5.8%, Stylized 5.7%
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: Automation 42.5%, Resource Management 20.4%, Sci-fi 10.9%, First-Person 5.9%, Simulation 5.3%
Untitled Automation Game is a automation game blended with mech combat, story and a little bit of magic!
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Management 13.5%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
Echoes of the Architects is a fast-paced real-time strategy game where creativity drives victory. Design modular, programmable units to build your perfect army. Adapt and outsmart your opponents in dynamic skirmishes that reward tactical precision, ingenuity, and strategic mastery.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.4% ★, Programming 24.4% ★, Automation 22%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 6.1%
