- #1 Factorio
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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 23.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%
- #2 Belts of Iron
96% matchPositive90% of 49 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%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #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 23%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 9%, Management 8.5%
- #4 shapez
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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 24.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #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 22.2%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #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 20.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 7.5%
- #7 Builderment
93% 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 23.1%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #8 Factory Town
92% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 19.2%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%
- #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 21.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #10 Modulus: Factory Automation
90% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 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 20%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #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 14%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Moddable 9.3% ★
- #12 Satisfactory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #13 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 21.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #14 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 207 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 20.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.5%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #15 Chocolate Factory
87% matchMixed57% of 150 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 20.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, City Builder 10%
- #16 Galaxy Scavengers
86% 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 18.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Automation 10.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #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 23.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Moddable 12.6% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #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 19.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Moddable 12.6% ★, Resource Management 10%, City Builder 9.8%
- #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 22.6%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%
- #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: Automation 13.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Moddable 9.9% ★, Resource Management 9.3%
- #21 Automation Empire
84% matchMixed66% of 2,643 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 23.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sandbox 9%, City Builder 7.5%
- #22 Clogwork
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Odd Sprout Games
Windows
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 9.7%
- #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 21.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #24 Techtonica
81% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 21.8%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%
- #25 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 21.4%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 12.8%, City Builder 10.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #26 Potion Pipeline
80% 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%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #27 ASEMA
79% 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 Locals.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Moddable 11.1% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, City Builder 9.4%
- #28 Factory Town 2: Paradise
77% matchVery Positive91% of 151 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 20%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Trains 9.7% ★
- #29 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 16.5%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Trains 12.9% ★, Crafting 9.9%
- #30 TowerLine
77% matchPositive96% of 26 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 26.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #31 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 23.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #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 25.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 9.2%
- #33 Microtopia: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive95% of 129 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 18.1%, Moddable 12.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #34 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
76% 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 29.9%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 6.8%
- #35 Proto Garden
75% 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 23.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 10.6%, City Builder 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #36 Biofactory
74% 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 23.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #37 plexum
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.4%
- #38 Pistonica
73% 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 27.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #39 MoteMancer
72% matchVery Positive92% of 256 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 24.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%
- #40 Outer Factory
73% 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 24.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #41 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 16.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Moddable 10.6% ★, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #42 Dyson Sphere Program
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 27.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 8.7%, Building 8%
- #43 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 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.
Why similar: Automation 14.3%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.5%, Trains 10.4% ★, Moddable 9.5% ★
- #44 Swarmdustry
70% matchPositive91% of 43 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 24.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #45 Rafting Factory
71% 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 30.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 7.6%
- #46 Mob Factory
71% 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 26.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #47 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 17.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #48 Good Company
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 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 18.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #49 RAILGRADE
69% matchVery Positive85% of 1,255 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 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 16.2%, Trains 12.2% ★, Moddable 11.7% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #50 FluxWerks
69% matchNo user 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 24.2%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 8.4%
- #51 Odd Realm
69% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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.
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #52 Kubifaktorium
70% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 19.4%, City Builder 13.5%, Trains 10.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9%
- #53 Alchemy Factory
66% matchVery Positive90% of 2,515 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 29.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.4%
- #54 CosmoFab
67% 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 31.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 8.8%
- #55 Reprocessed
68% 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 22.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%
- #56 Captain of Industry
68% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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 18.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, City Builder 9.6%, Management 7.2%
- #57 The Maker Way
67% 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 20.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 8.5%
- #58 Sandustry
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #59 Desynced
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,026 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.8 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 19.5%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #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 28.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%