- #1 Automation Empire
97% 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 30.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.4%, Mining 8% ★
- #2 Final Factory
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Moddable 13.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 8.2%, Crafting 8%
- #3 MineMogul
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Mining 15.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #4 Dragon Forge
95% matchMixed50% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.5%
- #5 Star Crafter
94% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Automation 23%, Mining 17.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #6 Microtopia
94% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.8%, Moddable 16.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%
- #7 Incremental Factory
93% matchMixed68% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Mining 11.3% ★, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%
- #8 Mob Factory
92% 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 34.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Simulation 7%
- #9 Factory Magnate
91% 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 25.7%, Moddable 16.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.3%
- #10 Techtonica
91% 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 29.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9%
- #11 Roboplant
90% matchMixed65% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Rebelpug
Windows · Linux
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #12 AETHUS
88% matchVery Positive95% of 2,015 reviews2026
Dev: Pawsmonaut Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Mining 15.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%
- #13 Forge Industry
89% 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 20.9%, Moddable 15.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Inventory Management 8.5%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #14 The Resonance Initiative
89% 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 27.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Moddable 9.9% ★
- #15 Astro Colony
87% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 22.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #16 The Crust
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.3%
- #17 Desynced
84% 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 28.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #18 Final Upgrade
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 458 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Management 7.7%
- #19 JUNKPUNK
85% matchMixed62% of 687 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.5%
- #20 shapez
84% 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 29.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Moddable 10.6% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9%
- #21 Factorio
83% 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 33.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Moddable 8.4% ★, Crafting 7.7%
- #22 Substructure
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
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.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #23 TowerLine
81% 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 30.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
- #24 BOREWORKS
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Mining 8.3% ★, Building 8.1%
- #25 Industrix
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iyox Studios
Windows · Linux
Step into the world of industrial production and become a master in factory-building! Create efficient production lines and manage your resources. As you progress through the game, you'll need to complete challenges for a certain company in order to rank up and unlock new technologies!
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Mining 9.3% ★, Management 8.8%
- #26 CosmoFab
80% 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 34.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 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 23.6%, Moddable 15.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Crafting 7.6%
- #28 Outworld Station
77% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Inventory Management 8.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #29 Odd Realm
78% 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 16.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Mining 10.6% ★, Resource Management 8.3%, Survival 8%
- #30 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #31 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 29.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #32 Belts of Iron
75% 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 28.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Immersive Sim 6.9%
- #33 Potion Pipeline
77% 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 29.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #34 Industronaut
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Mining 13.3% ★, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #35 Flow Factory
76% 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 28%, Base Building 15.6%, Mining 12.2% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.4%
- #36 Microtopia: Prologue
74% 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 21.3%, Moddable 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 8.3%, Crafting 8%
- #37 Widget Inc.
73% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 14.9%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Simulation 6.6%
- #38 Islandustry
74% 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 29%, Base Building 16%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #39 Adaptory
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Moddable 14.9% ★, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #40 Mito
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Deer Games
Windows
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 34.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 9.4%
- #41 Gunsmith
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,051 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Automation 15.3%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 9.8%
- #42 One More Turret
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 8.6%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #43 Oreguard: Mining Endeavors
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Noditot
Windows
Descend into the depths, extract valuable resources, and turn them into the engine of a growing industrial operation. Build underground infrastructure and process everything on the surface to expand your production and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Mining 17% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.9%
- #44 Beyond These Stars
71% 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 18.4%, Moddable 14.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 9.1%
- #45 Survival Vacancy
73% 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 20.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Mining 8.9% ★, Inventory Management 8.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #46 FACTO
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havca Games
Windows
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 36.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #47 Clogwork
69% 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 31.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Moddable 12.5% ★, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11.3%
- #48 Attrition Line
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Management 8.1%
- #49 Evospace
71% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 21%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 11.9%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
- #50 Lexip
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Craffel
Windows
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Moddable 9.8% ★, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Base Building 8.1%
- #51 Copacetic
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Automation 16.7%, Management 10.6%, Mining 9.6% ★, Simulation 8.6%
- #52 Rafting Factory
68% 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 36.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Survival 9%
- #53 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% 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 27%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #54 Infindustry
70% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Mining 11.7% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.1%
- #55 Fabricatio
66% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 6.3%
- #56 Vilset
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 12.2%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.9%
- #57 ChromaFlow
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVLWorks
Windows · Linux
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #58 Captain of Industry
67% 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 35.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 6.8%, Mining 6.2% ★
- #59 shapez 2 - Factory
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Moddable 15.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%
- #60 plexum
67% 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 34.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 8.6%