- #1 Factorio
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 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 24.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 7.1%
- #2 Sandustry
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 15.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Moddable 9.1% ★, City Builder 8.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #3 shapez
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 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 25.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #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 23.1%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #5 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 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 22.5%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Crafting 8.2%
- #6 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 21.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 7.3%
- #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 22.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #8 Builderment
92% matchMixed66% of 119 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 24.2%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%
- #9 Factory Town
91% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 19.9%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%
- #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 14.8%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Moddable 9.1% ★
- #11 Modulus: Factory Automation
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #12 Architect of Ruin
89% 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 15.4%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 12%, Moddable 9.6% ★, Resource Management 9.5%
- #13 Satisfactory
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 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 24.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #14 Factory Trashcension
89% 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 22.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #15 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 198 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 21.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, City Builder 10.2%
- #16 Chocolate Factory
86% matchMixed54% of 139 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 21%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, City Builder 9.7%
- #17 Factory Magnate
86% matchNo user reviews
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 24.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Moddable 12.2% ★, Sandbox 9.3%
- #18 Forge Industry
85% 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 20.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Moddable 12.2% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 9.5%
- #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 22%, Base Building 13.6%, Moddable 11.1% ★, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #20 Automation Empire
84% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 24.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, City Builder 7.3%
- #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 22.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #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 22.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 12.7%, City Builder 10.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #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 25.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #24 Factory Town 2: Paradise
81% 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 20.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10%, Trains 9.7% ★
- #25 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 26.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 12%, Survival 8.9%
- #26 Belts of Iron
80% matchNo user reviews
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 21.3%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 10.1%
- #27 TowerLine
79% 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 25.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #28 Microtopia: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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 18.9%, Moddable 12.2% ★, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.6%, Resource Management 10%
- #29 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
78% 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 31.1%, Base Building 17.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 6.6%
- #30 Proto Garden
78% 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 24%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, City Builder 9.1%
- #31 Biofactory
77% 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 24.4%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #32 Pistonica
77% 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 28.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #33 MoteMancer
75% matchVery Positive94% of 236 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 25%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%
- #34 Outer Factory
76% 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 25%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #35 Dyson Sphere Program
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 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 28.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 11%, City Builder 8.5%, Building 7.8%
- #36 Mob Factory
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 27.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #37 RAILGRADE
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,194 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 17%, Trains 12.1% ★, Moddable 11.3% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #38 Good Company
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,764 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 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 19.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, City Builder 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #39 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
73% matchNo user 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 15.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Trains 10.1% ★, Moddable 9.4% ★
- #40 Survival Vacancy
74% 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 18.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 8%
- #41 FluxWerks
72% matchNo user reviews
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 25.4%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 13.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.2%
- #42 Kubifaktorium
73% matchVery Positive81% of 786 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 20.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Trains 10.5% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #43 Reprocessed
72% 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 23.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%
- #44 Swarmdustry
71% matchNo user reviews
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 23.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Moddable 13.6% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.7%
- #45 Alchemy Factory
69% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 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 30.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.2%
- #46 Desynced
69% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 20.2%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #47 Captain of Industry
71% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 31.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 16.6%, City Builder 8.3%, Management 7.5%
- #48 The Maker Way
70% matchNo user reviews
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 21.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 8.4%
- #49 Doodle Factory
70% matchPositive96% of 26 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 25.1%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #50 Cartefact
70% 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 35.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 15.8%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #51 Production Line : Car factory simulation
71% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 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 21.2%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #52 Candy Factory TD
69% 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 23.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #53 Blacksmith Master
67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: City Builder 14%, Moddable 13.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #54 Greedy Little Kingdoms
68% 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 19.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.6%
- #55 Kardashev
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%
- #56 Settletopia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Base Building 16%, City Builder 15.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #57 FACTO
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
FACTO is a top-down factory building and business simulation game where you are the big boss. You'll have to start from scratch, build your factories and grow your business until you become one of the pillars of the global economy!
Why similar: Automation 34%, Resource Management 16.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 5.8%
- #58 Microtopia
66% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.6%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Moddable 10.7% ★, Resource Management 10.5%
- #59 InfraSpace
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Moddable 9.3% ★, Base Building 9.1%
- #60 Factoriant
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Management 6.9%