- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.4%, Moddable 12.3%, Management 11.7%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #2 shapez
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 27.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Moddable 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 35.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Moddable 8.8%
- #4 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
95% matchVery Positive84% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Education 20.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 8.9%
- #5 Learning Factory
94% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Science 14.6%, Education 13.4%, Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%
- #6 Modulus: Factory Automation
94% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Building 14.4%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.2%
- #7 Mob Factory
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 33.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #8 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
91% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #9 Kubifaktorium
92% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 24.8%, Building 13.2%, Moddable 11.6%, Management 11.2%, Crafting 11%
- #10 Feed the Reactor
89% matchVery Positive82% of 665 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Management 43.6%, Strategy 26.7%, Simulation 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
- #11 Food Factory
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mosqi Games
Windows
Food Factory is a game in which players can produce food using various machines, starting by collecting basic products.
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Cooking 21.5%, Building 14.1%, Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%
- #12 Burger Bistro Story
90% matchVery Positive83% of 356 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.
Why similar: Cooking 41.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.1%, 2D Platformer 7.9%
- #13 Swarmdustry
88% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Moddable 17.5%, Building 9.8%, Mining 8.8% ★, Crafting 8.8%
- #14 Recipe for Disaster
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 729 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
Why similar: Cooking 30.8%, Automation 18%, Management 15.2%, Building 12.5%, Moddable 8.9%
- #15 Creature Kitchen
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 9,915 reviews2026
Dev: The Rat Zone
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.
Why similar: Cooking 54%, Puzzle 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 7.1%, Cute 7%
- #16 Factory Town
87% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.2%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Moddable 10.6%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #17 MoteMancer
86% matchVery Positive92% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%
- #18 Cafeteria Nipponica
86% matchVery Positive87% of 204 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!
Why similar: Cooking 36.4%, Building 15.8%, Management 14.2%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Simulation 8.6%
- #19 The Magical Mixture Mill
84% matchVery Positive84% of 612 reviews2024
Dev: GlowlightPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Management 23.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%
- #20 Sandustry
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Building 16.9%, Crafting 15.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%
- #21 Atrio: The Dark Wild
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 606 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Crafting 17.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.2%
- #22 Word Factori
83% matchVery Positive84% of 482 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Building 13.4%, Logic 13.4%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #23 Microtopia
82% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 23.4%, Moddable 16.2%, Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #24 Food Park Manager
82% matchVery Positive82% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Drix Dev
Windows
Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.
Why similar: Management 26%, Sandbox 20.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Simulation 15%, Cute 7.1%
- #25 AutoForge
81% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 11.2%, Logic 9.9%
- #26 Block Factory
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 266 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 22.5%, Building 12.7%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #27 Bone's Cafe
79% matchVery Positive96% of 368 reviews2022
Dev: Acute Owl Studio
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.
Why similar: Cooking 27.8%, Automation 25.3%, Management 13.5%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 5.5%
- #28 Sizzle & Stack
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 314 reviews2025
Dev: Arvis Games
Windows · Mac
Sizzle & Stack is a fast-paced restaurant management card game where you stack ingredients, cook dishes, explore recipes, and serve hungry customers. Upgrade your kitchen and master strategic cooking in a unique blend of card play and time management!
Why similar: Cooking 33.3%, Management 15.2%, Moddable 14.9%, Crafting 14%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #29 ReFactory
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
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 27.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Management 11.6%
- #30 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 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 27.8%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Crafting 9%
- #31 Builderment
78% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #32 The Sushi Spinnery
77% matchVery Positive93% of 457 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!
Why similar: Cooking 38.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #33 Techtonica
76% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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 29.1%, Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%
- #34 Shokudo Underworld
76% matchVery Positive83% of 281 reviews2024
Dev: Miluku Inc.
Windows · Mac
Run your own sushi shokudo in a mysterious underworld. Satisfy the appetite of your customers, collect suspicious ingredients from bizarre fantastical creatures, and realize your dream of creating ... the legendary Chawanmushi!
Why similar: Cooking 54.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Cute 9.3%, Colorful 6.9%, Management 6.4%
- #35 Food Processing Simulator
73% matchVery Positive88% of 341 reviews2026
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.
Why similar: Automation 49.8%, Sandbox 19%, Management 19%, Simulation 12.2%
- #36 Beltmatic
74% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Education 14.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.2%
- #37 Omelet You Cook
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,597 reviews2026
Dev: Dan SchumacherPub: SchuBox Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
The cozy chaotic cooking roguelike. Assemble omelets for quirky students using ingredients from a conveyor belt. Discover wacky combinations to satisfy the ever-demanding Principal Clucker.
Why similar: Cooking 76.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
- #38 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
73% matchVery Positive83% of 2,294 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Building 25.2%, Logic 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #39 Production Line : Car factory simulation
75% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 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 22.4%, Management 17.9%, Building 13%, Moddable 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #40 Little Big Workshop
74% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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 21.7%, Management 17.1%, Building 15.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 11%
- #41 Chef Knight
70% matchNo user reviews95% of 2,674 reviews2026
Dev: Clover Bite
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Cook what you kill in this cozy fantasy incremental game! Dive into dangerous dungeons, harvest fresh monster ingredients, and serve delicious dishes to hungry adventurers. Slay, cook, sell and upgrade your way to a sprawling dungeon-food empire!
Why similar: Cooking 37.2%, Management 27.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 13%, Fantasy 5.1%
- #42 Incremental Factory
73% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 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 29.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 11.8%, Mining 11.5% ★, Sandbox 10.1%
- #43 Mindustry
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 28,247 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 41.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.9%, Moddable 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #44 Autonauts
71% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 37.2%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%
- #45 Chef RPG
68% matchVery Positive88% of 2,819 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
Why similar: Cooking 39%, Management 17.4%, Building 17.2%, Crafting 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #46 Cafe Master Story
69% matchVery Positive97% of 443 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!
Why similar: Cooking 27.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 10.1%, 2D Platformer 9.4%
- #47 Satisfactory
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 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 37.1%, Base Building 16%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #48 Widget Inc.
69% matchVery Positive85% of 779 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.4 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: Automation 57.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Simulation 11%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Strategy 5.5%
- #49 Beastro
67% matchVery Positive93% of 643 reviews2026
Dev: Timberline Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beastro is a cozy culinary adventure where the fate of the world rests on what's for dinner! Farm and gather fresh ingredients, tackle cooking minigames, and create tasty recipes to fuel the Caretakers for deckbuilding battles as they seek to save the world.
Why similar: Cooking 85.9%, Cute 8.1%, Colorful 6%
- #50 Candy Machine
75% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Colossal Wreck
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 224.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy
Why similar: Building 22.3%, Management 19.3%, Sandbox 17.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 7.3%
- #51 ShapeHero Factory
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,015 reviews2025
Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 6.8%
- #52 Cooking Festival
72% matchMixed64% of 60 reviews2022
Dev: BoomBit
Windows · Mac
Cooking Festival takes you to the tasty world of fantastic cuisine - let's cook!
Why similar: Cooking 45.6%, Building 22.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Cute 3.9%
- #53 Whimsy Bake&Craft
68% matchMixed65% of 423 reviews2026
Dev: MOON SCAPEPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Take over a bakery! Establish production lines for farming, fishing, and baking to create delicious treats! Fulfill missions to earn rewards. Recruit helpers, expand production, and decorate the bakery and homes. Restore Starlight Island to its former glory—one delicious dessert at a time!
Why similar: Building 29.1%, 2D Platformer 19.9%, Simulation 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Cute 8.6%
- #54 Automation Empire
71% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Building 12%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 9.7%
- #55 Tiny Bakery
66% matchVery Positive91% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Bubbly Games
Windows
Run a tiny bakery for sweet-toothed slime customers! Adapt to changing weather, seasons, and festivals as cravings shift. Unlock new recipes, welcome new guests, and prepare each night for the day ahead.
Why similar: Cooking 34.5%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 6.4%
- #56 PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,107 reviews2015
Dev: Q-Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Building 24.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Strategy 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #57 Node Farm
68% matchVery Positive81% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!
Why similar: Automation 25.1%, Cooking 18.8%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 8.8%
- #58 Plan B: Terraform
65% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 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 29.5%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.8%
- #59 Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 575 reviews2024
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A simulation game where you create a wonderful sweets shop with Doraemon
Why similar: Simulation 26.2%, Cooking 24.4%, 2D Platformer 15%, Management 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
- #60 Chocolate Factory
69% matchMixed56% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Management 13.7%, Base Building 11.4%