- #1 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
96% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 37%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Top-Down 8.9%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #2 Factorization
97% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Anubis Gaming
Windows · Linux
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 47.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Top-Down 11.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.1%
- #3 Assembly Line 2
96% matchMixed66% of 69 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 45.9%, Simulation 18.1%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Top-Down 7.4%
- #4 MegaFactory Tycoon
95% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Simulation 19.9%, Management 8.5%, Top-Down 7.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #5 Car Factory Tycoon
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jomica
Windows · Mac
Build cars step-by-step in a factory sim. Design vehicles, build your garage layout, hire and train workers, manage parking inventory, and sell cars through customer orders or walk-in buyers as you expand your operation.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Simulation 20.4%, Management 16.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Top-Down 6.9%
- #6 A Dreaming Ladybug
94% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: LilyCompany
Windows · Mac
Shape your garden. Shape your luck. Use flowers and filters to guide ladybugs and change their colors and numbers, then hit the slots in the black moon. Cash out before your ecosystem collapses, or risk it all for a bigger payout. Unlock permanent upgrades and grow a greater garden.
Why similar: Automation 43.3%, Management 15.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #7 Potion Pipeline
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
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 37.4%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Resource Management 8%, Management 7.5%
- #8 FACTO
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Simulation 15.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #9 Industrix
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Simulation 19.5%, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 9.9%
- #10 Fabricatio
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Science 11.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #11 ChromaFlow
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 41.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Management 7.8%
- #12 Food Facility
89% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Lemo-Logic Studios
Windows
Food Facility is a 2D factory automation game where you design and build complex production lines to create delicious food, sell your goods, and grow your business empire!
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 18.5%, Management 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%
- #13 Prodix
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tyler CritchlowPub: Brody Critchlow
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prodix is a 2D isometric factory automation game, where the goal is to import, export, and automate your production of many different materials and items; while also managing company relationships through contracts.
Why similar: Automation 48.4%, Simulation 20%, Management 13%, Resource Management 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 5%
- #14 Phantasm Cube
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 56.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 4%
- #15 Hosting Simulator
87% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: HypeDevelopments
Windows
Build and manage your own data center! Design modular servers, set up realistic networking, and power systems. Manage heat, install OS (Windows/Ubuntu), and fulfill contracts for profit. Technical depth and hardware precision await!
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Simulation 21.5%, Modern 18.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Management 9.3%
- #16 LineManager
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LineManager
Windows
Build and operate public transport in a living traffic simulation. Plan tram and bus networks, schedules and depots while cars, traffic lights, passengers and infrastructure interact around you. Keep it simple – or dive deep into signalling and operations.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Simulation 20.4%, Modern 13.2%, Strategy 12%, Top-Down 9.8%
- #17 ASTERSTEAD
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
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 49.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #18 Factory Magnate
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Rising TailPub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 38%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 7%
- #19 Mito
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 44.6%, Simulation 15.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Management 6.1%
- #20 Little Big Workshop
86% 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 27.9%, Simulation 23.2%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 13%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #21 Manaftory
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 52.8%, Simulation 21.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #22 Idle Lab Rats
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex BrownPub: FAFF Games
Windows
Train rats in a series of mazes and help them improve their stats. Submit rats for grant money and use it to upgrade your lab with new tools and buy new rats with powerful abilities! These new rats have such amazing potential. How smart are these rats becoming?
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Simulation 23.7%, Science 17.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Top-Down 12.6%
- #23 Lexip
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Craffel
Windows
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Why similar: Automation 47.1%, Simulation 18.2%, Top-Down 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Management 6.3%
- #24 The Banker Tycoon
81% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Lunatic Eclipse Studio
Windows
Start a management experience where you grow your own bank step by step. Handle customer operations yourself, control risk and fees, unlock new systems through a wide research tree, upgrade your bank and rise from a small branch to a respected financial center.
Why similar: Simulation 22.4%, Modern 18.5%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Top-Down 13.3%
- #25 Factorwave
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plaza Studio
Windows
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 45.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #26 Automatica
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strawberry Dev
Windows
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 48.5%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 14%, Simulation 13.1%, Sandbox 4.1%
- #27 Genterra
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: The Bunker Studios
Windows
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Simulation 24.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Management 7.7%, Building 6.4%
- #28 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
78% 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 40.1%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #29 Hue Factory
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Yellow Tree Games
Windows
A colorful, minimalist automation game. Place machines, mix colors, and manage the flow of an evolving factory. Listen to the hum of the machines and watch the colors blend while keeping your lines efficient.
Why similar: Automation 44.8%, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Top-Down 7.6%
- #30 Holon
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Management 11.7%, Top-Down 10.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 8%
- #31 We Need More Steam!
79% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 44.1%, Strategy 14.4%, Management 13.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Building 6.1%
- #32 My Tiny Grocery Store - Desktop Idle Supermarket Game
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
My Tiny Grocery Store is an idle shopping simulator located in the bottom right corner of your screen that allows you to manage your store while also completing other tasks! Design your store, arrange your shelves, and enjoy earning money.
Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Simulation 17.6%, Management 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #33 Let Them Fall
78% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Marcin Kubala
Windows
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Simulation 22.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 6.6%
- #34 Infinite Number Factory
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 46.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 6.2%
- #35 Islandustry
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #36 The Glorious Colony
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WeLIAS Studio
Windows
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 47.6%, Simulation 19.4%, Management 9.3%, Top-Down 7.3%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #37 Karma Keepers
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: yonazdev
Windows · Mac
A chill incremental strategy game where you restore souls, build a Faith economy, automate your realm, and rebirth for permanent progress before corruption takes over.
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Top-Down 9.8%
- #38 Shape Together
72% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 7%
- #39 Timberline Factory
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
A physics based sawmill simulation - tycoon where logs aren't just rigid icons, but physical objects that roll, collide, and jam. Automate complex production lines, master a dynamic market index, and turn waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 45.5%, Simulation 18.1%, Resource Management 11%, Management 7.4%, Building 6.7%
- #40 Simple Trains
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: ElectronDust
Windows
Simple Trains is a transit simulation game where you build efficient railroad networks and manage trains and routes. Streamline complex passenger flow utilizing eight unique upgrades!
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Top-Down 12.7%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.1%
- #41 Compound Interest
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GhostRZZRPub: coldboot.studio
Windows
Turn Hydrogen into a production engine. Fuse elements by atomic number, craft real compounds, and build synergies on your way to mastering matter itself.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Science 33.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Puzzle 2.8%
- #42 Industrial Garbage
71% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: LMT
Windows
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 47.9%, Simulation 19.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Top-Down 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #43 plexum
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 45.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 7%, Building 6.8%
- #44 Scrap Yard Idle
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: David SecoPub: HeadArrow
Windows
Build your own scrap empire in this incremental idle game. Collect, process, and automate your production chain while optimizing resources and scaling your industrial system.
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 10.2%
- #45 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadJones
Windows
Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.
Why similar: Automation 42.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Top-Down 8.8%
- #46 Automachef
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 925 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 43.4%, Simulation 29.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 4.8%, Puzzle 4.6%
- #47 Scraplings
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 46.2%, Simulation 18.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #48 BOREWORKS
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 38.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #49 FLOWORKS
67% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: QUENCH FORGE
Windows
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
Why similar: Automation 44%, Simulation 16.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
- #50 Iron Inc.
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Segment Games
Windows · Mac
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Automation 46.2%, Simulation 27.7%, Strategy 17.8%, Sandbox 5.3%, Indie 2.4%
- #51 Slimy Harvest
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: plyoung
Windows
Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.
Why similar: Automation 68.9%, Simulation 18.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #52 TowerLine
66% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 45.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Management 6.2%, Strategy 5.8%
- #53 The Factory Must Grow
69% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Krayno Studios
Windows
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Automation 44%, Simulation 21.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
- #54 Log Drop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Who Nose Studios
Windows · Mac
A physics sandbox with one noble goal: get more logs into the core than physically reasonable. Chop the trees, build the contraption, then unleash a wave of logs for combo-fueled cash. Kick back and let it flow, or engineer the perfect cascade. Your sandbox, your rules.
Why similar: Automation 42.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 7.4%, Building 6.6%
- #55 Volt Ventures Idle
67% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Denver
Windows
An idle game of growth and strategy. Build, upgrade, and prestige your way to limitless power.
Why similar: Automation 41.4%, Science 23.1%, Simulation 13%, Top-Down 10.1%, Building 6.8%
- #56 Deep Space Observatory
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GetSky Games
Windows · Linux
Scan the stars, unlock technologies, automate data collection, and build an ever more efficient observatory.
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Science 23.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.9%
- #57 Space Architect
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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: Automation 29.6%, Science 13.7%, Top-Down 11%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #58 Rafting Factory
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 51.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #59 Mob Factory
68% 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 44.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 7%, Strategy 6%