- #1 Factor Y
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 22.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%
- #2 Yuma Nest
96% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Piokou
Windows
Destroy massive swarms of monsters to grind and grow stronger in this Open-World Sandbox RPG. Build automated systems that farm monster drops for you, defeat bosses, and descend deeper into an interconnected underworld.
Why similar: Automation 16.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Action RPG 9.6%
- #3 BOREWORKS
96% matchNo user reviews2026
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: Mining 20.6% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 12%, Crafting 11.8%
- #4 Hydroneer
95% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 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: Mining 26.1% ★, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.7%
- #5 Deep Pockets
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows
Deep Pockets is an incremental inventory management game where every ore you mine gets dropped into your pockets as a physics object. Dig deep, ferry minerals in your pockets, and get rich! But be sure to not take more than you can carry.
Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Automation 11%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #6 Kastle Kraft
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite and Unbound Studios
Windows
Gather, craft, and then automate resources to build fabulous Kastles. Beware the locals don't like you destroying their land. Defend your Kastles through combat and defenses. Explore the land to find additional recipes, resources, and items to help you defend and build your Kingdom!
Why similar: Mining 23.4% ★, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%
- #7 Eureka
93% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Coding Duck
Windows
Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!
Why similar: Mining 21% ★, Economy 15.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Automation 13.3%, Building 11.7%
- #8 Cobalt Miner
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: MadOctopus
Windows
Survive in futuristic 2046 USA where a ruthless megacorporation owns your debt. Mine cobalt, automate production, craft machines, explore a dying world, and ride your electric bike across vast pixel-art wastelands. Pay what you owe… or disappear.
Why similar: Mining 26.9% ★, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #9 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 29.3% ★, Automation 18%, Sandbox 12.6%, Economy 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #10 Unearthed
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitWatson
Windows · Linux
Unearthed is top down mining adventure set in a procedurally generated blocky underground world. Explore endless cave systems filled with dangerous creatures and unexpected companions. Mine resources, survive the depths, and rebuild the world as you see it fit.
Why similar: Mining 31.8% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 6.5%
- #11 Fronimus
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StayOnSofa
Windows
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 11%, Open World 9.8%
- #12 Return from Core
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,800 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Mining 16.8% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #13 Flow Factory
89% 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 22.4%, Mining 21.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #14 Bouncekraft
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sinister Plots Games
Windows · Mac
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
Why similar: Mining 31.2% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Automation 14.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 8%
- #15 LithoBreak
88% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Tau Ceti Labs
Windows
LithoBreak is an Early Access industrial survival game rebuilding toward one moon-site loop: boot up the console, build the first site, and help shape a science-driven survival sim.Play with Science
Why similar: Mining 19.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11.1%
- #16 Automation Empire
87% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 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 23.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Mining 13.1% ★, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #17 Incremental Factory
86% matchMixed68% of 244 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 21.4%, Mining 17.2% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #18 Return to Lumia
84% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: hwangso.world
Windows
Mine, craft, and explore deeper underground. Forge powerful gear, conquer 10 dungeons, and reclaim Lumia from the darkness in this 2D mining sandbox RPG.
Why similar: Mining 18.6% ★, Crafting 15.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #19 Stellar Shipyard
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Mining 20.7% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #20 MineMogul
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 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: Mining 24.5% ★, Automation 20.7%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%
- #21 Constructed
84% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Project
Windows
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #22 Oreguard: Mining Endeavors
83% 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: Mining 28.8% ★, Automation 15.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.5%
- #23 Industronaut
82% 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: Mining 23.9% ★, Automation 20%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11%
- #24 Corner World
81% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Lactose Free
Windows
Game where you can build, break or craft things.
Why similar: Mining 29% ★, Sandbox 22.2%, Building 18.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Casual 6.4%
- #25 Cosmorists
81% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Mining 18.4% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.4%
- #26 Arlo's Ascension
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Piki
Windows
Arlo' Ascension is a single-player action RPG. Deprived of your strength and memories, you must fight the evil that threatens the world. Crafting, blacksmithing, and magic are at your disposal. Do whatever it takes to reclaim everything.
Why similar: Mining 26.1% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.1%
- #27 The Maker Way
79% 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 18.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 13.4%
- #28 The Adventurer’s Trial
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HY Studio
Windows
Every adventurer must face the Trial — a boundless pixel-art sandbox where you can explore, build, mine, farm, and challenge epic bosses. Play solo or with up to 3 friends in thrilling top-down adventures.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.4%, Crafting 16.2%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Open World 10%, Exploration 9%
- #29 Elsewhere
77% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Automation 17.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%
- #30 Moon Rocks and Slimes
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voided Pixels Studio
Windows
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 25.7% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 10.7%
- #31 Shuttle World
79% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 12.2%
- #32 Hazy Hollow
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Eye Games
Windows
Dig and explore the depth of the earth. Mine and harvest miscellaneous resources. Craft better tools and weapons and expand your base ! Fight against local mobs. Unlock electricity to lighten the darker depths. Automate harvesting to reign on the underground world !
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #33 iCorp
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Martin Souček
Windows
Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.
Why similar: Mining 22.6% ★, Automation 20.5%, Economy 16.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 12.7%
- #34 Museum Keeper
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Red Thorn Interactive
Windows · Mac
Build your dream museum and go digging for lost treasures! Manage staff, theme your exhibits, buy and sell artifacts, and fight creatures that try to disrupt your research! Watch out for thieves, and loud teenagers, and of course, use your museum to turn around the fortunes of your local town!
Why similar: Mining 23.2% ★, Economy 15%, Sandbox 14.7%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Building 14.5%
- #35 Satisfactory
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 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 25.6%, Base Building 21%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #36 Automation Station
75% 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 23.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 13.6%
- #37 Star Crafter
74% matchMixed70% of 105 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: Mining 25.7% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #38 Pistonica
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #39 TerraTech Worlds
74% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Automation 12.5%, Building 12.2%
- #40 BitRoca
71% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: BitRoca
Windows
Grab a pickaxe and stake your claim. Bitroca is a sandbox survival MMO where your machine fuels every swing, every wall, every win. Mine, build, defend, and trade on a living frontier where the power of the players shapes what the world can become.
Why similar: Economy 15.4%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%
- #41 Blue Energy
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ROWAN FUTURE
Windows
100000 years after the apocalypse, a mysterious entity guides you to build a factory on a desert island...
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Mining 18.5% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 12.3%
- #42 Skies of Aevium
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheShelfman
Windows
A crafting automation game where you build the entire world from the ground up, while fighting the gods of Olympus, and becoming the strongest being in the universe!
Why similar: Mining 20.5% ★, Automation 18.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 10.6%
- #43 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
73% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Economy 20.7%, Building 17.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.5%
- #44 Factory Trashcension
71% 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 23.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.9%
- #45 plexum
71% matchNo user reviews
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 28.4%, Base Building 17%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #46 Starground
70% matchVery Positive82% of 190 reviews2024
Dev: Big Boy GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Linux
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Why similar: Mining 28.5% ★, Automation 18%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 10.7%
- #47 Planet Gemini
69% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: decidonePub: Planet Gemini
Windows
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Mining 24.2% ★, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #48 Evospace
73% matchVery Positive83% of 391 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 18.9%, Crafting 17%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.7%
- #49 Escalate
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bastion Entertainment
Windows
A system-heavy RPG sandbox with interlocking skills and progression systems. Build your island, master your abilities, and face the Observer to unlock new features that evolve your gameplay.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Action RPG 16%, Base Building 14.9%, Automation 14.7%, Building 9.2%
- #50 ForgeCraft
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luminous Arts
Windows
Explore, craft, fight and develop an automated technological civilization complete with airships and robotic drones!
Why similar: Sandbox 13.6%, Automation 13.2%, Economy 12.6%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%
- #51 Spiritura
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spiritura Works
Windows · Mac
Spiritura is an atmospheric open-world survival crafting game with light RPG elements, exploration, and base building. Forge your own path through a mysterious, procedurally generated land, utilizing diverse combat skills to survive the threats of the wild as you uncover the secrets of the world.
Why similar: Mining 25.1% ★, Base Building 16%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 10.6%
- #52 Nightwater
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows · Linux
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Mining 15.9% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11%
- #53 Resourcer
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Wings Ltd
Windows
Dig deep into diverse biomes, uncover ancient treasures and mine various resources. Craft new tools and build various production structures. Improve your character’s skills and unlock new features as you progress through the game. Manage the resources and create an efficient production chain.
Why similar: Mining 30.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.3%, Economy 12.2%
- #54 Moose Builders
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels and power your factory. Research new machines to automate everything in voxel-based multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends and turn the desert into a solar farm.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 20.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 11.4%, Open World 10.4%
- #55 Rafting Factory
67% 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 31.3%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.2%, 2D Platformer 7%
- #56 Orebound
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Mining 22.3% ★, Automation 17.6%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.8%
- #57 Skyreap
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Entin Games
Windows · Mac
You are the power of runes, shaping worlds. Gather resources and find pedestals to build, craft, and transform islands - until the forgotten archipelago gains a new soul.
Why similar: Mining 20.2% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.7%
- #58 XenoHaven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Automation 12.6%