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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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    97% 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 23.1%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Crafting 7.3%

  2. #2 Belts of Iron
    96% 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 18.6%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 10.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%

  3. #3 The Resonance Initiative
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Blackfield Studios
    Windows

    In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.

    Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9%, Management 8.5%

  4. #4 shapez
    95% 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 24%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.9%

  5. #5 Islandustry
    94% 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 21.8%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 7.7%

  6. #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 20.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 7.5%

  7. #7 Factory Town
    93% 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 18.9%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Crafting 9%

  8. #8 Builderment
    92% 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 22.8%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Resource Management 10.9%

  9. #9 Automation Station
    91% 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 21.4%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%

  10. #10 Modulus: Factory Automation
    90% 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 19.7%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 11.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

  11. #11 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 13.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Moddable 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%

  12. #12 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 21.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

  13. #13 Satisfactory
    89% 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 23.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.7%

  14. #14 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
    88% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 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 20.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.6%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%

  15. #15 Chocolate Factory
    87% matchMixed56% of 152 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 19.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, City Builder 10.1%, Resource Management 10.1%

  16. #16 Galaxy Scavengers
    86% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Team Asterisk
    Windows

    Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Automation 10.7%, Survival 9.4%

  17. #17 Factory Magnate
    85% 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 23.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Moddable 12.9%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 9.5%

  18. #18 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 19.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Moddable 12.9%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%

  19. #19 FACTORY I
    83% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: Studio H.D
    Windows

    FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.

    Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%

  20. #20 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: City Builder 12.9%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Moddable 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%

  21. #21 Stella Astrum
    82% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
    Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
    Windows

    Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!

    Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

  22. #22 Automation Empire
    84% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 23.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, City Builder 7.6%

  23. #23 PoliPlanet
    81% 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 21.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

  24. #24 ReFactory
    82% 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 21%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 12.9%, City Builder 10.7%, Sandbox 8%

  25. #25 Techtonica
    81% 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 21.4%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Crafting 8.3%

  26. #26 ASEMA
    80% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: goblin-architecture
    Windows

    Automate your factory in space. Build logistic railguns to feed the production lines of your ever growing machines. Gravity disrupts your trajectories - master it. Connect your machines over the vast void. Find resource rich moons and asteroid streams to harvest and mine, but beware of the humans.

    Why similar: Automation 20%, Base Building 13.4%, Moddable 11.3%, Resource Management 10%, City Builder 9.4%

  27. #27 Potion Pipeline
    79% 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 24.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 8.8%

  28. #28 Factory Town 2: Paradise
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac

    A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

    Why similar: Automation 19.6%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Trains 9.8% ★

  29. #29 Flow Factory
    78% 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 23.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%

  30. #30 TowerLine
    77% 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 26.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

  31. #31 Factory on a Train
    78% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: bahrdev
    Windows · Mac

    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 16.2%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Trains 12.9% ★, Crafting 10%

  32. #32 Alien Planet Survival
    79% 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 25.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 9.3%

  33. #33 Microtopia: Prologue
    76% matchVery Positive95% of 132 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 17.7%, Moddable 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

  34. #34 Fill the Sky
    76% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
    Windows

    A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

    Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

  35. #35 GridCraft
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: hy_studio
    Windows

    Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.

    Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 11%, Building 8.4%

  36. #36 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
    75% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 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 29.5%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 6.9%

  37. #37 RAILGRADE
    74% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
    Dev: Minakata Dynamics
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 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 15.9%, Trains 12.4% ★, Moddable 11.8%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

  38. #38 Proto Garden
    73% 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 22.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 9.5%, Resource Management 9%

  39. #39 FluxWerks
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
    Dev: Metallibitti Oy
    Windows

    Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.

    Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.5%

  40. #40 Biofactory
    73% matchNo user reviews2027
    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 23.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%

  41. #41 plexum
    73% 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.

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  42. #42 Pistonica
    72% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Cutting Corner Games
    Windows

    Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.

    Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

  43. #43 Outer Factory
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kescoding
    Windows · Mac

    Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.

    Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%

  44. #44 MoteMancer
    70% 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.

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  45. #45 Factory Coin Mining
    74% 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.

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  46. #46 Swarmdustry
    68% 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.

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  47. #47 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
    69% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
    Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
    Windows

    Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

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  48. #48 Dyson Sphere Program
    71% 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.

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  49. #49 Rafting Factory
    70% 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 30.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 7.6%

  50. #50 Mob Factory
    70% 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 26.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

  51. #51 Alchemy Factory
    67% 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.

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  52. #52 Survival Vacancy
    71% 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 17.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%

  53. #53 Odd Realm
    68% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

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  54. #54 Good Company
    69% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
    Dev: Chasing Carrots
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 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 18.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%

  55. #55 CosmoFab
    66% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
    Dev: StrabSphace
    Windows

    CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.

    Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 13%, Building 8.9%

  56. #56 Reprocessed
    67% 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 21.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%

  57. #57 Kubifaktorium
    69% 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 19%, City Builder 13.6%, Trains 10.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.1%

  58. #58 Captain of Industry
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 29.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 15.5%, City Builder 9.6%, Management 7.3%

  59. #59 Desynced
    65% 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 19.2%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%

  60. #60 Plantile
    67% 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 28.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%

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