- #1 Satisfactory
96% 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 24.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Open World 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the premier first-person automation and factory-building experience with a massive, beautiful open world to explore.
- #2 Techtonica
97% 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 20.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 11%, Crafting 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory-building game features deep underground exploration and terraforming mechanics similar to Technicity.
- #3 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Building 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on first-person terraforming and base-building in a hostile environment, emphasizing the transformation of a world.
- #4 FOUNDRY
95% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person, voxel-based factory-building game that perfectly mirrors the block-by-block construction style of Technicity.
- #5 Eden Crafters
94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines first-person open-world survival with extensive automation and terraforming capabilities.
- #6 Hydroneer
94% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Co-op 10.5%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox mining and construction game that allows for complex machine building and first-person manipulation of the terrain.
- #7 Stationeers
93% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed first-person building experience where you must manage complex atmospheric and electrical systems.
- #8 Eco
92% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Transportation 23.1% ★, Economy 14%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A collaborative simulation game where players must build a society and manage resources while preventing global catastrophe.
- #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 19.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Transportation 13.6% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: A logistics-focused builder that emphasizes moving goods through complex networks in a sandbox world.
- #10 Omega Crafter
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game where you use programmable robots to automate your building and resource gathering.
- #11 InfraSpace
90% 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: Transportation 20.6% ★, Automation 14.8%, City Builder 14.8%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that integrates complex traffic and automation systems, requiring careful planning of infrastructure.
- #12 TerraTech
89% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Building 24.2%, Sandbox 20%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Multiplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for creative vehicle and base building in a sandbox environment with a focus on modular design.
- #13 ASTRONEER
88% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World 16.1%, Automation 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features intuitive terraforming and modular base-building in a vibrant, low-gravity first-person sandbox.
- #14 FortressCraft Evolved!
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 31.2%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 16.1%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic first-person voxel automation game that focuses on massive-scale logistics and base defense.
- #15 Occupy Mars: The Game
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 12%, Online Co-Op 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A highly technical first-person base-building game that requires managing power, water, and oxygen on a harsh planet.
- #16 Dyson Sphere Program
85% 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 31.9%, Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: While top-down, it offers the ultimate scale in automation and logistics, perfect for players who love the industrial aspect of Technicity.
- #17 Voxel Tycoon
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,743 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Transportation 26.9% ★, Automation 12.3%, Economy 11.7%, City Builder 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based logistics and management game that allows for creative transportation network design.
- #18 Common'hood
87% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Automation 15.2%, Economy 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A community-focused building game that emphasizes first-person construction and resource management in a sandbox setting.
- #19 RoadCraft
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 15,086 reviews2025
Dev: Saber InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!
Why similar: Transportation 20% ★, Automation 17%, Building 13%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Modern 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and logistics of building infrastructure, mirroring the road-building elements of Technicity.
- #20 Timberborn
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Automation 26.1%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that utilizes verticality and water physics, challenging players to build creative structures in a changing landscape.
- #21 Medieval Dynasty
82% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 20.1%, Building 19.7%, Co-op 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a grounded first-person building and management experience where you develop a settlement from the ground up.
- #22 Good Company
83% 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 16.1%, Economy 11.6%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and automation of a manufacturing business, perfect for those who enjoy the factory-building loop.
- #23 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 27.2%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, City Builder 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the industrial side of building, requiring players to design massive automated systems to maximize efficiency.
- #24 Highrise City
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,282 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Economy 13%, Building 12.6%, Modern 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that balances traditional management with a focus on complex supply chains and industrial production.
- #25 shapez
80% 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 32.5%, Crafting 15%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the satisfaction of building efficient production lines.
- #26 Silicon City
81% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Polycorne
Windows · Mac · Linux
Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.
Why similar: Transportation 22.6% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Modern 15.6%, Economy 12.9%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that offers a sandbox experience with a focus on modular growth and management.
- #27 ContractVille
77% matchVery Positive81% of 5,683 reviews2025
Dev: MYM Games StudiosPub: FiftyEight Studios
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Plan, design, build, and decorate your dream house in an open-world. Smash walls, sketch your layout, then build and decorate every inch—inside and garden. In an open world, tackle each renovation solo or with up to 4 friends. Pick up that hammer and start creating - Your dream house is waiting!
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Modern 13.7%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.8%
- #28 Oxygen
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 11.2%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that requires building a self-sustaining base in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #29 The Architect: Paris
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 234 reviews2021
Dev: Enodo GamesPub: 5PM Studio
Windows
The Architect: Paris is a construction game that allows you to shape the city of Paris into what you want. Destroy, draw, build your own architectural projects, customizing each building carefully or entire districts at once.
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Building 21.2%, Sandbox 19%, Realistic 8.7%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox building game that allows for high-fidelity architectural design and urban planning.
- #30 Captain of Industry
77% 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 30.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Economy 13.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 8.7%
- #31 Technicity: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive83% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: City Builder 13.7%, Automation 12.2%, Transportation 9.3% ★, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 8.1%
- #32 Sengoku Dynasty
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.2%
- #33 Sphere - Flying Cities
78% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Building 15.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, 3D 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where you manage a floating colony, requiring careful structural planning and resource management.
- #34 Mars First Logistics
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,474 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
Why similar: Transportation 30.3% ★, Co-op 16%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 9.9%
- #35 Urbek City Builder
76% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Building 15.1%, Economy 15.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Modern 12.7%
- #36 Fuel Harvest Together
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 907 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Transportation 16% ★, Automation 13.3%, Economy 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #37 Transport Fever
76% matchVery Positive83% of 10,800 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Why similar: Transportation 21.3% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Flight 14.2%, Economy 10.9%, Building 9.5%
- #38 Volcanoids
75% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Crafting 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Open World 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11%
- #39 Alchemy Factory
71% 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 26.3%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #40 Desynced
71% 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 20.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9%
- #41 Tiny House Simulator
73% matchMixed66% of 126 reviews2024
Dev: FarFromSky
Windows · Mac
Design and build custom tiny homes for various clients in this relaxing open-world building game. Create unique spaces suited to each client’s requirements, and dive into different layouts with the sandbox mode for total creative freedom.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Crafting 14.2%, Economy 14%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #42 Construction Simulator
72% matchVery Positive81% of 13,349 reviews2022
Dev: weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbHPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.
Why similar: Transportation 23.3% ★, Building 14.9%, Online Co-Op 14%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #43 Transport INC
74% matchMixed70% of 1,070 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!
Why similar: Transportation 24.7% ★, Sandbox 12%, Economy 11.9%, Automation 11.3%, Building 9.1%
- #44 Per Aspera
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Online Co-Op 19.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #45 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Building 17.2%, Co-op 15.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.8%
- #46 Junkyard Simulator
72% matchMixed65% of 2,146 reviews2021
Dev: Rebelia GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.
Why similar: Transportation 19.2% ★, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.4%, Open World 9.1%
- #47 Island Paradise
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: GSG
Windows
Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Economy 10.4%
- #48 Brickadia
68% matchVery Positive87% of 1,234 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Building 23.7%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Co-op 10.3%
- #49 Kubifaktorium
69% 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 23.3%, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 13.8%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.3%
- #50 Biztopia
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Lymo Games
Windows
Welcome to Biztopia! A unique trading city full of business and opportunities awaits you! Start with a small delivery, build your own trading world, and team up with friends to shape the city and discover the next big venture!
Why similar: Economy 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #51 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: City Builder 46.6%, Resource Management 15.2%, Building 12.4%, Open World 7.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #52 Demolish & Build 2018
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,659 reviews2018
Dev: Noble MuffinsPub: Demolish Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.
Why similar: Building 24.3%, Simulation 19.8%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #53 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
65% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Economy 17.1%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #54 Cities: Skylines II
67% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Building 13%, Transportation 13% ★, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #55 Loco Shortline Operations
69% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2021
Dev: TSRS
Windows
Openworld Railbuilder Simulator with Realistic Physics based Locomotives,Trucks,Cranes,Boats,Economy
Why similar: Building 13.1%, Sandbox 13%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 11%, Online Co-Op 10.9%
- #56 Aviassembly
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,303 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Transportation 25% ★, Flight 21.8%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 9.8%
- #57 Shamania
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Crafting 16%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Online Co-Op 11.3%
- #58 Hometopia
67% matchMixed57% of 816 reviews2025
Dev: Hometopia Inc.
Windows
Hometopia is a sandbox home-building game featuring thousands of assets and customization options. Choose from a variety of environments where you can design your dream homes—solo or with friends. Bring your architectural visions to life exactly as you imagine, with no budget limitations.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Modern 17.3%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Co-op 9.9%
- #59 Airport CEO
67% matchVery Positive83% of 8,135 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 16.7% ★, Flight 15.8%, Automation 13.2%, City Builder 11%, Resource Management 9%
- #60 Voxel Turf
68% matchVery Positive88% of 575 reviews2017
Dev: L Twigger
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.5%, City Builder 23.2%, Open World 18.9%, Simulation 12%, Building 11.2%