60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Simulation, Base Building, Sandbox.
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Gridmax
Gridmax is a living board game of readable tiles, rules, and behaviors. Lost on a hostile alien world, gather, craft, and build to survive. Grow a team, expand your colony, explore the grid, and advance your technology as you search for a way home.
CircuitVeil
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.
Gridmax is a living board game of readable tiles, rules, and behaviors. Lost on a hostile alien world, gather, craft, and build to survive. Grow a team, expand your colony, explore the grid, and advance your technology as you search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.5%
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%, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8.7%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Automation 19.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.1%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Automation 27.3%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Automation 24.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 4.5%
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 27.3%, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 10.2%
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: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 22%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 39.2%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 4.5%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 14.8%, Automation 12.3%, Management 10%
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 33.8%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Automation 24.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 10.7%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Management 6.4%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Automation 32%, Colony Sim 30.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 4%
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 29.1%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 13%, Management 8.8%
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: Colony Sim 29%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%
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: Colony Sim 25.2%, Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7%, Base Building 19.3%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 4.6%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 16%, Automation 14.3%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 11.6%, Crafting 11%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 9.2%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 10.4%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 8.9%, Crafting 6.1%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 5.1%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 8.5%, Crafting 8%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 9.9%
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Management 12.1%
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Automation 20.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9.1%
The MMO management sim where you operate a living MMORPG. Paint zones, design classes, gear, quests and dungeons, and run the economy. Then thousands of autonomous adventurers move in, form guilds, run and rate your dungeons, and pay the subscriptions that fund you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 12.6%
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 30.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 9.6%
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 29.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 9.4%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 10.4%
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 30.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 9.2%
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 12.9%, Automation 9.9%, Strategy 7.4%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 6.8%
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 30.1%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.9%
A cozy underground colony sim where nothing can ever go wrong. You never dig, you give the orders, and the Bobbitz do the rest. Carve a home out of the dark, raise a town of little burrowers, and light the deep together. No death, no fail states. Dig at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.3%
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 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12%, Management 9.8%
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: Colony Sim 27.7%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10%
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 35%, Base Building 21.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 7.2%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Automation 18%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 6.5%
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 27.9%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Sandbox 19.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 13.1%
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 8.5%
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Management 10.5%
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 25.5%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Management 10.4%
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: Colony Sim 28.1%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 10%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Automation 28.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 7.2%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%
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 41.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Automation 15.5%, Crafting 5.2%, Management 4.8%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 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 49.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Management 7.8%, Crafting 4.9%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.1%, Base Building 23.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 4.9%
A sci-fi game where you help restore collapsed ecosystems on an alien planet. Raise and breed bees, grow native plants from bee produce and automate production as you stabilise the planet's ecosystems.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Automation 25.3%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.9%
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 30.7%, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 11%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 18.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Resource Management 6%
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Management 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Strategy 6.1%
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Resource Management 6%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Automation 16.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 9.5%
