- #1 shapez 2 - Factory
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 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 23%, Moddable 12.2%, Management 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%
- #2 shapez
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 28.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Moddable 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 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 36.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Moddable 8.6%
- #4 Learning Factory
95% matchVery Positive86% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Education 13.1%, Science 13%, Building 11%, Management 9.9%
- #5 Kubifaktorium
94% matchVery Positive81% of 796 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 25.8%, Building 13%, Management 11.3%, Moddable 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%
- #6 Modulus: Factory Automation
93% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 26.3%, Building 14.1%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 9%
- #7 Mob Factory
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 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 34.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9%
- #8 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
92% 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 33.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #9 Freshly Frosted
91% matchVery Positive99% of 373 reviews2022
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Cooking 16.1%, Building 11.7%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #10 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 24.3%, Cooking 21.3%, Building 13.8%, Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%
- #11 Burger Bistro Story
90% matchVery Positive83% of 326 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.
Why similar: Cooking 41.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 9.1%, 2D Platformer 7.7%
- #12 Techtonica
89% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 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 30%, Building 14.9%, Management 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 10%
- #13 MoteMancer
89% matchVery Positive92% of 249 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 28.3%, Management 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%
- #14 Production Line : Car factory simulation
88% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 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 23.2%, Management 18.1%, Building 12.7%, Moddable 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #15 Little Big Workshop
87% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
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 22%, Management 17.2%, Building 15.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 11%
- #16 The Magical Mixture Mill
85% matchVery Positive84% of 607 reviews2024
Dev: GlowlightPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 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 31.5%, Management 23.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 8.5%
- #17 Automachef
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 915 reviews2019
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Simulation 21.2%, Cooking 18.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Management 7%
- #18 Recipe for Disaster
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 719 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 30.5%, Automation 18.7%, Management 15.4%, Building 12.2%, Moddable 8.7%
- #19 Mindustry
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,276 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 42.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 13.6%, Moddable 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #20 Bone's Cafe
83% matchVery Positive96% of 362 reviews2022
Dev: Acute Owl Studio
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 27.4%, Automation 26.2%, Management 13.6%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 5.5%
- #21 Builderment
84% matchMixed67% of 124 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 30.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #22 Word Factori
82% matchVery Positive84% of 461 reviews2023
Dev: Star Garden Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 29.1%, Building 13.2%, Logic 13.1%, Management 13%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #23 Microtopia
80% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 24.3%, Moddable 15.8%, Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #24 Cafeteria Nipponica
82% matchVery Positive87% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!
Why similar: Cooking 36.5%, Building 15.7%, Management 14.5%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Simulation 8.7%
- #25 Atrio: The Dark Wild
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 600 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 37.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 10.2%
- #26 Block Factory
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 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 23.4%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #27 ReFactory
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 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 28.2%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 11.6%
- #28 Feed the Reactor
78% matchVery Positive81% of 541 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.9 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: Management 44.1%, Strategy 26.7%, Simulation 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #29 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,251 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 29.4%, Building 24.7%, Logic 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #30 Incremental Factory
79% 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 30.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.5%, Mining 11.4% ★, Sandbox 9.9%
- #31 Food Park Manager
78% matchVery Positive82% of 50 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 26.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Cute 7%
- #32 Sizzle & Stack
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 310 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 15.5%, Moddable 14.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #33 Creature Kitchen
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 8,366 reviews2026
Dev: The Rat Zone
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 53.9%, Puzzle 14.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Cute 6.8%
- #34 Beltmatic
75% matchVery Positive94% of 2,149 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 29.5%, Education 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.1%
- #35 Factory Town
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 27.4%, Management 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Moddable 10.4%
- #36 The Sushi Spinnery
76% matchVery Positive93% of 427 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!
Why similar: Cooking 38.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 10%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #37 Shokudo Underworld
75% matchVery Positive83% of 273 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 54.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Cute 9.2%, Colorful 6.9%, Management 6.5%
- #38 Food Processing Simulator
73% matchVery Positive89% of 315 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 50.5%, Management 19%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 12%
- #39 Autonauts
73% matchVery Positive90% of 4,943 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 38%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Simulation 9.3%
- #40 Star Birds
70% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Science 14.2%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%
- #41 Satisfactory
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 38%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #42 Omelet You Cook
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,536 reviews2026
Dev: Dan SchumacherPub: SchuBox Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.9 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 76.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #43 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
72% matchVery Positive85% of 630 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Education 19.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 8.8%
- #44 MineMogul
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 26.6%, Mining 14.5% ★, Building 13.2%, Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.9%
- #45 PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,100 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 24.3%, Base Building 21.8%, Strategy 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
- #46 Node Farm
71% matchVery Positive82% of 76 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 25.9%, Cooking 18.6%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.6%
- #47 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 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 28.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%
- #48 ShapeHero Factory
68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,000 reviews2025
Dev: Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 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 36.5%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #49 Cafe Master Story
69% matchVery Positive96% of 343 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!
Why similar: Cooking 27.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 10.1%, 2D Platformer 9.2%
- #50 Chocolate Factory
71% matchMixed55% of 146 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 30.6%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Management 13.7%, Base Building 11.2%
- #51 Widget Inc.
69% matchVery Positive85% of 764 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 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 58.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Strategy 5.4%
- #52 Automation Empire
72% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.6%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #53 Beastro
67% matchVery Positive92% of 479 reviews2026
Dev: Timberline Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 85.8%, Cute 8.1%, Colorful 6%
- #54 Plan B: Terraform
66% matchVery Positive91% of 3,542 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 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 30.4%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #55 Candy Machine
74% matchMostly Negative34% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Colossal Wreck
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 215.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Run a candy factory. Place machines and conveyors and feed them different mixtures of ingredients to create candy
Why similar: Building 22.1%, Management 19.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Simulation 7.4%
- #56 Neon Noodles
70% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Vivid Helix
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Cooking 31.6%, Logic 11.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #57 Cooking Festival
71% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2022
Dev: BoomBit
Windows · Mac
Cooking Festival takes you to the tasty world of fantastic cuisine - let's cook!
Why similar: Cooking 45.8%, Building 22.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Cute 3.9%
- #58 Chef Knight
64% matchNo user reviews95% of 1,624 reviews2026
Dev: Clover Bite
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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%, Management 27.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Fantasy 5%
- #59 Chef RPG
66% matchVery Positive88% of 2,659 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 17.7%, Building 17.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
- #60 Whimsy Bake&Craft
67% matchMixed65% of 401 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 29.2%, 2D Platformer 19.6%, Simulation 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Cute 8.6%