- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Management 17.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Strategy 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly polished, isometric automation experience that perfectly mirrors the satisfying growth and puzzle-like factory building found in Sixty Four.
- #2 shapez
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 35.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: As the predecessor to the sequel, it provides a pure, minimalist approach to automation and resource processing that aligns with the core loop of the seed game.
- #3 Beltmatic
96% matchVery Positive94% of 2,089 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, Idler 14.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines automation with mathematical challenges, requiring players to build complex conveyor networks to solve increasingly difficult resource production tasks.
- #4 Factorio
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 43.2%, Resource Management 18.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of the genre, it provides the ultimate experience in scaling up automation and managing complex resource chains.
- #5 Industry Idle
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Incremental 17.9%, Idler 14.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the management and economic side of automation, providing a deep, spreadsheet-friendly experience for those who love optimizing supply chains.
- #6 Factory Town Idle
94% matchVery Positive91% of 1,215 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 73.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Incremental 22.4%, Automation 22.3%, Idler 15.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game strips back the complexity of traditional factory games to focus on the pure, satisfying progression of an idle automation title.
- #7 Mindustry
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,625 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: Automation 46.3%, Resource Management 25.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Sandbox 9%, Management 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends factory automation with tower defense, offering a more aggressive but equally satisfying approach to building and managing production lines.
- #8 Dyson Sphere Program
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 46.6%, Resource Management 18%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It scales the automation concept to a galactic level, offering deep resource management and a visually stunning sense of progression.
- #9 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 45.7%, Crafting 18.4%, Resource Management 17.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game provides a deep, immersive experience in building massive, efficient factories within a beautiful 3D world.
- #10 Orb of Creation
91% matchVery Positive90% of 1,494 reviews2022
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is an active incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
Why similar: Incremental 52.2%, Idler 13.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 7.1%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, incremental experience centered on magic and resource transformation, perfect for fans of the 'clicker' progression style.
- #11 Idle Research
90% matchVery Positive84% of 1,854 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Why similar: Incremental 22.7%, Automation 20.4%, Idler 16.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly satisfying, multi-layered incremental experience that focuses on automating research and production to reach new tiers of power.
- #12 Outpath
89% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Idler 12.5%, Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the addictive, clicker-adjacent crafting and base-building loop that makes Sixty Four so difficult to put down.
- #13 Mob Factory
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 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: Automation 38.5%, Resource Management 17.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique twist on automation by having players automate the collection and processing of creatures, blending tower defense with factory management.
- #14 Widget Inc.
87% matchVery Positive86% of 747 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Incremental 30.9%, Automation 29.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Idler 12.4%, Simulation 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of a clicker game while introducing light automation elements that keep the player engaged in the growth process.
- #15 Incremental Factory
88% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Idler 17.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the idle and incremental aspects of factory building, offering a streamlined experience for those who enjoy constant growth.
- #16 Assembly Line 2
86% matchMixed64% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Management 15.2%, Idler 13.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the core mechanics of building efficient production lines in a 2D space, emphasizing optimization and layout design.
- #17 Autonauts
86% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Automation 41.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 10%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique programming-based automation system that allows you to teach robots to perform complex tasks, mirroring the factory-building feel of the seed game.
- #18 Desynced
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,936 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Automation 37.6%, Resource Management 16.9%, Management 15.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex, bot-based automation experience that emphasizes logic and logistics in a sci-fi setting.
- #19 Final Factory
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Resource Management 18.6%, Crafting 16.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This space-based automation game focuses on building massive, interconnected factory networks across a solar system.
- #20 FOUNDRY
83% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Resource Management 18.8%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that allows for immense creativity in how you design and scale your factory operations.
- #21 Little Big Workshop
84% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a charming, management-focused take on factory building, where you oversee the production of various goods in a miniature world.
- #22 Mr.Mine
82% matchVery Positive92% of 18,415 reviews2020
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 100.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Why similar: Incremental 29%, Idler 20%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Simulation 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic idle game that focuses on the satisfying, never-ending progression of mining deeper and automating resource collection.
- #23 Gridkeeper
82% matchMixed68% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: pixelwide
Windows
Gridkeeper is an incremental game about managing "Grids" and using their power to run MineBots, research tech, and grow your mining empire by getting better Grids.
Why similar: Incremental 32.5%, Idler 20.2%, Automation 19.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Resource Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a strategic, grid-based approach to automation and idle progression that feels both tactical and rewarding.
- #24 Block Factory
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 261 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Isometric 11.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a relaxing, building-focused experience that emphasizes the joy of creating efficient, automated systems.
- #25 Coin Factory
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 214 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!
Why similar: Idler 34%, Isometric 22%, Resource Management 20.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Casual 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A casual, relaxing take on automation that focuses on the satisfying flow of resources and currency generation.
- #26 Hydroneer
80% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.9 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: Automation 41.3%, Resource Management 17.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This mining and automation game emphasizes the physical aspect of resource extraction and the joy of building custom machinery to automate the process.
- #27 Techtonica
79% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 36.4%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person game focuses on underground factory building, offering a unique aesthetic and deep automation mechanics.
- #28 Feed the Reactor
78% matchVery Positive82% of 507 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Why similar: Incremental 44.1%, Idler 19.1%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 6.7%
- #29 Captain of Industry
78% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 44.7%, Resource Management 23.7%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a complex, realistic take on industrial management and automation, perfect for players who want a deeper challenge.
- #30 Fracture Field
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 872 reviews2026
Dev: Type-TenPub: Type Ten LLC
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Incremental 24.5%, Idler 16.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 7.7%
- #31 Tingus Goose
76% matchVery Positive91% of 1,304 reviews2025
Dev: SweatyChairPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Tingus Goose is a delightfully absurd idle game where you plant seeds in patients, bounce babies for profit, and ascend through surreal worlds toward riches.
Why similar: Incremental 21.9%, Automation 17.6%, Idler 13.7%, Management 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #32 Good Company
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Management 12.6%, Isometric 11.9%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management and logistics of a manufacturing business, emphasizing the efficiency of your production floor.
- #33 Forage Wizard
75% matchVery Positive85% of 754 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Incremental 21.7%, Automation 19.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Idler 10.9%
- #34 Node Math
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Idler 16.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #35 Idle Colony
75% matchVery Positive83% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Incremental 26.7%, Automation 26.4%, Idler 14.9%, Management 10%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #36 Idle Deepcore
74% matchVery Positive83% of 205 reviews2026
Dev: Bluehood Games
Windows
Idle Deepcore is an incremental mining game where you dig ever deeper, smelt ore into ingots, upgrade your pickaxe and machines, and grow several mines in parallel to build a vast underground industry.
Why similar: Incremental 28%, Automation 20.9%, Idler 20.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #37 Incredicer
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,195 reviews2025
Dev: pochi
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.
Why similar: Incremental 31.1%, Automation 19.4%, Idler 16%, Resource Management 12.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #38 A Game About Feeding A Black Hole
73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,979 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.
Why similar: Incremental 50.7%, Idler 14.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 5.5%
- #39 Gamblers Table
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,335 reviews2026
Dev: greenpixels
Windows · Linux
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Incremental 26.7%, Management 13%, Idler 10.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #40 Revolution Idle
72% matchVery Positive87% of 11,167 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 172.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.
Why similar: Incremental 26.4%, Automation 24.1%, Idler 15.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10.9%
- #41 Modulus: Factory Automation
72% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 32.9%, Management 14.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #42 MineMogul
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 11.9%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #43 Crafting Idle Clicker
77% matchMixed49% of 913 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 43.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Incremental 24.7%, Automation 24.6%, Idler 15.9%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #44 Beltex
74% matchVery Positive86% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Resource Management 16.1%, Idler 15.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #45 Military Incremental Complex
71% matchVery Positive85% of 672 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Incremental 21.4%, Idler 14.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 9.9%
- #46 MoteMancer
71% matchVery Positive93% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Resource Management 15.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #47 (the) Gnorp Apologue
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,673 reviews2023
Dev: MycoPub: (Myco)
Windows
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Why similar: Incremental 47.7%, Idler 20.1%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%
- #48 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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 32.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.7%
- #49 Alchemy Factory
68% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 44.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 8.6%
- #50 Cult of the Yellow King
70% matchVery Positive83% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Metaphor Games
Windows
A cosmic horror idle game where you build the Yellow King’s cult, spread his living mold, and click yourself hollow. Memory by memory. Scream by silent scream, as the sky blooms with eyes watching your beautiful undoing.
Why similar: Incremental 32.3%, Idler 21.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%
- #51 FACEMINER
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,346 reviews2025
Dev: WristworkPub: Wristwork Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
Why similar: Incremental 40.8%, Idler 22%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #52 Masterplan Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 735 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Resource Management 18.3%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Stylized 7.6%
- #53 MMO98
67% matchMixed70% of 458 reviews2026
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Why similar: Incremental 33.1%, Idler 18.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Automation 10.3%, Simulation 9.4%
- #54 Production Line : Car factory simulation
69% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Management 19.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Isometric 13.6%, Simulation 8%
- #55 Plan B: Terraform
65% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Resource Management 17.9%, Management 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #56 Kubifaktorium
69% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Crafting 16.4%, Management 15.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #57 uFactory
67% matchMixed70% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Isometric 12%, Management 10.8%
- #58 3D Printer Manager
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: Smushii
Windows · Mac · Linux
Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive idle tycoon game.
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Incremental 25.8%, Idler 21.7%, Resource Management 6.4%, Management 6.2%
- #59 Shelldiver
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 12,859 reviews2025
Dev: Gagonfe
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!
Why similar: Incremental 42.3%, Idler 16.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 5.5%
- #60 Assembly Planter
68% matchVery Positive91% of 248 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Resource Management 15.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Idler 11.8%, Management 9.4%