
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
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Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.

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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!

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A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
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 29.4%, Base Building 20.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 10.2%
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Idler 13.9%, Colony Sim 11.8%
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Building 17.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Colony Sim 12.8%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 9.3%
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 20.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Base Building 13%, Building 11%
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 30.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Building 9.7%, City Builder 9.5%
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 20.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Simulation 6.3%
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Automation 19.4%, City Builder 15.7%, Idler 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 10.6%
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Automation 13.8%, Idler 12.1%, City Builder 10.9%
Village Incremental is an incremental game where you harvest resources and grow your village and research tools.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Automation 14.9%, Idler 13%, Base Building 12.6%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Automation 15.2%, Building 15.1%, Simulation 8.2%
Casual town builder that takes place on floating islands in a fantasy world. Grow your town and manage your resources in this challenging builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 13.6%, Idler 10.2%
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: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Automation 17%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 11.7%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Building 12.8%
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 19%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 6.3%
A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12%, Idler 11%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Automation 16.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 10.9%
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 11.9%
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: Colony Sim 28.9%, Automation 22.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 6.6%
Swing your axe, drop the trees, and watch a village rise from the stumps. Assign villagers to nine trades, unlock a 54-node talent tree, and carry your settlement through five ages — from a primitive camp to a medieval kingdom with a crown of its own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 18.5%, Automation 17.9%, Idler 14.9%, Building 7.6%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 6.2%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 8.1%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 42.3%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Resource Management 5.5%
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 19.9%, Automation 18.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Building 10.7%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 7.7%
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 24%, Building 16%, Simulation 14.4%, City Builder 13.8%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 8.1%
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 20.9%, Building 17.6%, Simulation 8.4%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Idler 12.5%, Simulation 10.7%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 20.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Automation 15.2%, Simulation 7.7%
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 11.3%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 15.8%, City Builder 15.4%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Automation 15.8%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 11.7%
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Automation 23.8%, Building 17%, Simulation 13.5%, Base Building 10.4%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.8%, Cartoony 6.7%
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Building 17.3%, Cartoony 7.2%, Simulation 6.4%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 14.7%, Colony Sim 14.5%
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 13.8%, City Builder 13%, Idler 11.8%
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Base Building 22.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 8%
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 6.5%
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 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 22.8%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 6.2%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 8.8%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 7.4%
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: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Idler 16.7%, Building 13.5%, Simulation 8.2%
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 8.1%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 12.6%, City Builder 9.1%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Base Building 20.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 9.3%
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Idler 15%, Building 13.9%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Automation 22%, Idler 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.8%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 27.1%, Base Building 20%, Simulation 12.7%, Resource Management 4.1%
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 13.6%
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 22%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.7%, Automation 8.9%
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Automation 21.7%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Simulation 7%
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 11.5%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 26.9%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Automation 13.8%, Building 11.5%, City Builder 8.1%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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: Colony Sim 23.3%, Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 12.1%
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 22.7%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Building 7.7%, City Builder 6.5%
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: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 13.6%, City Builder 11%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Automation 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 10%