- #1 FOUNDRY
97% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.6%
- #2 MineMogul
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 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: Mining 26.3% ★, Automation 21%, Base Building 11%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.5%
- #3 Hydroneer
96% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 25.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Co-op 8.1%, Building 7.7%
- #4 Techtonica
95% 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 20.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%
- #5 Sandustry
94% 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #6 AutoForge
94% 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 17.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.3%
- #7 Mindustry
93% 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 27.4%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #8 Stationeers
92% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Mining 21.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.2%
- #9 Orebound
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Resource Management 20%, Mining 18.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%
- #10 Satisfactory
90% 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 24.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9.5%, Co-op 9%
- #11 Factorio
91% 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 28.7%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #12 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,909 reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 27.9% ★, Automation 16.9%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Co-op 7.9%
- #13 Mining Mechs
88% matchVery Positive90% of 2,746 reviews2023
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Why similar: Mining 30.8% ★, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #14 Astro Colony
87% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Automation 21.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Space 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9%
- #15 Incremental Factory
89% 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 21.7%, Mining 18.9% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 8.8%
- #16 Alchemy Factory
86% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #17 Nova Lands
86% matchVery Positive89% of 3,544 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #18 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
85% 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 20.6%, Building 17.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11%, Co-op 10.6%
- #19 Outworld Station
84% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Space 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Co-op 9.4%
- #20 Swarmdustry
84% 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 23.6%, Mining 17.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #21 Star Birds
82% matchVery Positive92% of 3,164 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 25.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.2%
- #22 Dyson Sphere Program
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Space 14.2%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #23 shapez
82% 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 26.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #24 Super Mining Mechs
81% matchVery Positive87% of 898 reviews2024
Dev: Delayed Victory
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Why similar: Mining 31.1% ★, Online Co-Op 19.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Procedural Generation 11%, Crafting 10.5%
- #25 Eden Crafters
80% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #26 Lightyear Frontier
81% matchVery Positive84% of 4,735 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Mining 22.1% ★, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #27 Necesse
78% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Automation 14.6%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.3%
- #28 Core Keeper
77% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Co-op 10.9%
- #29 My Little Universe
79% matchVery Positive86% of 2,265 reviews2023
Dev: EstotyPub: SayGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!
Why similar: Mining 39.5% ★, Dungeon Crawler 16.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Space 11%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #30 Mob Factory
79% 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 28.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #31 Learning Factory
78% 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 22.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #32 Outpath
77% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #33 StarRupture
75% matchVery Positive81% of 13,607 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 13%, Co-op 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.4%
- #34 Desynced
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #35 shapez 2 - Factory
73% 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 28.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #36 Kubifaktorium
76% 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 28.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 14%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #37 Factory Town
75% 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 26.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #38 ASTRONEER
74% matchVery Positive92% of 139,497 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 16.5%, Space 15.6%, Automation 12.3%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%
- #39 Belts of Iron
73% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #40 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
72% 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 31.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 9%
- #41 Builderment
74% 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 25.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 10.4%
- #42 Modulus: Factory Automation
70% 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 25.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #43 Scrap Mechanic
68% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 20.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%
- #44 Occupy Mars: The Game
71% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.
Why similar: Mining 21% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #45 Tinkertown
73% matchMixed67% of 1,345 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Crafting 17.5%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.9%
- #46 Return from Core
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,824 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 FuncoreClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Mining 19.8% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Dungeon Crawler 9.7%
- #47 Astronomics
70% matchVery Positive89% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.
Why similar: Mining 29.6% ★, Space 17.8%, Procedural Generation 17.7%, Automation 13.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #48 Final Factory
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.2%
- #49 MoteMancer
69% 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 26.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #50 Little Big Workshop
72% 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 21.4%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 14.5%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 11.5%
- #51 Autonauts
70% 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 33%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 11%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #52 Skyformer
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 96 reviews2026
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes! Play alone or up to 4 player co-op.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 9.8%
- #53 Prospector
68% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 11.3%
- #54 Planet Centauri
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,395 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Loot 14.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #55 Facteroids
69% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 22.5% ★, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.5%
- #56 Voxel Eras
67% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #57 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
66% matchVery Positive94% of 12,916 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Building 20.9%, Online Co-Op 20.2%, Space 19.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Strategy 8.2%
- #58 Star Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 26.8% ★, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #59 Luma Island
65% matchVery Positive84% of 12,744 reviews2024
Dev: Feel Free Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.9%, Co-op 11.2%
- #60 ReFactory
69% 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 25.9%, Base Building 22.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 11%