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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Base Building, Resource Management, Sandbox.

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Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Coming soon
Developer: Dubious Design
Publisher: Hooded Horse
Genres: Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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  1. #1 Factorio
    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 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 24%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%

  2. #2 Belts of Iron
    96% matchNo user 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 19.6%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

  3. #3 shapez
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
    Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 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 25%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%

  4. #4 Islandustry
    95% 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 22.8%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 8.1%

  5. #5 Krasnaya Factory
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kickback games
    Windows

    Produce weapons, automate your production, and complete contracts to gain more money and expand your factory. A war is waging against the aliens. You will need to support the war effort by producing an ever-increasing amount of weapons. And always stay ready to defend your factories.

    Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 8.1%, Building 7.4%

  6. #6 Builderment
    94% matchMixed67% of 121 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 23.9%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%

  7. #7 Automation Station
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Boxbot Games
    Windows

    Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.

    Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.7%

  8. #8 Factory Town
    92% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 19.7%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 8.8%

  9. #9 Modulus: Factory Automation
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
    Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    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 20.5%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

  10. #10 Beyond These Stars
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Automation 14.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Moddable 9.2%

  11. #11 Satisfactory
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 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 24.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

  12. #12 Factory Trashcension
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Factory Trashcension
    Windows

    Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!

    Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

  13. #13 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
    89% matchMostly Positive72% of 201 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! The free prologue for the full game!

    Why similar: Automation 21%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, City Builder 10.2%

  14. #14 Chocolate Factory
    88% matchMixed56% of 145 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 20.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, City Builder 9.8%

  15. #15 Factory Magnate
    86% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Moddable 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

  16. #16 Galaxy Scavengers
    87% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Team Asterisk
    Windows

    Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 9.2%

  17. #17 Forge Industry
    86% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
    Dev: BiteMe Games
    Windows · Mac

    Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.

    Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Moddable 12.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, City Builder 9.6%

  18. #18 Architect of Ruin
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

    Why similar: Automation 13.5%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Moddable 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%

  19. #19 Ruin and Rebirth
    84% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Andrew Teo, Adam TeoPub: AT-AT Games
    Windows

    Ruin and Rebirth is a fantasy open-world factory building game with creature taming and breeding. In this playable creation myth, bring life back to a surreal, shattered, post-divine apocalyptic world where the gods have died.

    Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Moddable 11.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%

  20. #20 Automation Empire
    85% matchMixed66% of 2,635 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 24.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, City Builder 7.4%

  21. #21 PoliPlanet
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: -
    Windows

    Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.

    Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

  22. #22 ReFactory
    83% 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 22.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 12.7%, City Builder 10.4%, Sandbox 7.8%

  23. #23 Potion Pipeline
    82% 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 25.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%

  24. #24 Techtonica
    81% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.2 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 22.4%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 8.1%

  25. #25 Flow Factory
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Smuie
    Windows

    Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.

    Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%

  26. #26 Alien Planet Survival
    81% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
    Dev: Yamate
    Windows

    You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game

    Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 9%

  27. #27 Factory on a Train
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: bahrdev
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

    Why similar: Automation 15.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Trains 13%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.7%

  28. #28 Factory Town 2: Paradise
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac

    Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!

    Why similar: Automation 20.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.1%, Trains 9.7%

  29. #29 Microtopia: Prologue
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 118 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 18.7%, Moddable 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 9.8%

  30. #30 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
    77% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
    Dev: weathering
    Windows

    从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!

    Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 6.7%

  31. #31 TowerLine
    78% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Mehmet Melih Solt
    Windows

    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 25.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

  32. #32 ASEMA
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: goblin-architecture
    Windows

    Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.

    Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 12%, Moddable 12%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%

  33. #33 Proto Garden
    76% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
    Dev: arreyne
    Windows · Linux

    Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.

    Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, City Builder 9.2%

  34. #34 plexum
    76% matchNo user reviews
    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 28.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%

  35. #35 Biofactory
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Bioreactor Studios
    Windows

    Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.

    Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%

  36. #36 Pistonica
    74% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Cutting Corner Games
    Windows

    Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.

    Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

  37. #37 MoteMancer
    73% matchVery Positive93% of 243 reviews2025
    Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
    Windows

    An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.

    Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%

  38. #38 Outer Factory
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kescoding
    Windows

    Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.

    Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%

  39. #39 Dyson Sphere Program
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 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 27.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, City Builder 8.5%, Building 7.8%

  40. #40 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
    71% matchMostly Positive74% of 233 reviews2026
    Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
    Windows

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    Why similar: Automation 14.9%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Trains 10.3%, Moddable 9.4%

  41. #41 Mob Factory
    73% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 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 27.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

  42. #42 Factory Coin Mining
    75% matchMixed53% of 32 reviews2019
    Dev: Thetis Games
    Windows · Mac

    Factory Coin Mining combines a strategy game with the complexity of an advanced puzzle. BASE BUILDING as you never seen before, from simple nature elements, build factories, melting machines, conveyor belts, logistical equipment, stations and much more to mine a virtual coin inside the game.

    Why similar: Base Building 16%, Resource Management 13.5%, Moddable 10.5%, Building 9%, Sandbox 9%

  43. #43 RAILGRADE
    71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,211 reviews2023
    Dev: Minakata Dynamics
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

    Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Trains 12.1%, Moddable 11.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 9.6%

  44. #44 Good Company
    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
    Dev: Chasing Carrots
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

    Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%

  45. #45 Odd Realm
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

    Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%

  46. #46 FluxWerks
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Metallibitti Oy
    Windows

    Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.

    Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 13.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.3%

  47. #47 Kubifaktorium
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 795 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 20%, City Builder 13.3%, Trains 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9%

  48. #48 Survival Vacancy
    72% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

    Why similar: Automation 18%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8%

  49. #49 Alchemy Factory
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
    Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 23.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

    Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.2%

  50. #50 Swarmdustry
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Mitchy Studios
    Windows

    Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, build mega factories and evolve organic industry. Balance growth, efficiency, creep spread, and survive in a world that fights back.

    Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Moddable 13.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%

  51. #51 Reprocessed
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Macrostructura
    Windows

    Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.

    Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.2%

  52. #52 Desynced
    67% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,936 reviews2026
    Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 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 20%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 13%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 9%

  53. #53 Plantile
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Daivy
    Windows · Linux

    Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!

    Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

  54. #54 The Maker Way
    68% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Brave Games Inc.
    Windows

    Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.

    Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 8.4%

  55. #55 Captain of Industry
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 16.7%, City Builder 8.6%, Management 7.4%

  56. #56 Doodle Factory
    67% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
    Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
    Windows

    Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!

    Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 10.7%

  57. #57 Cartefact
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Sillage Games
    Windows · Mac

    Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.

    Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

  58. #58 Production Line : Car factory simulation
    69% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 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 21%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

  59. #59 Candy Factory TD
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
    Windows

    Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!

    Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.3%

  60. #60 Greedy Little Kingdoms
    66% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: zlorky
    Windows · Mac

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

    Why similar: Automation 19.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.7%

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