- #1 CosmoFab
97% 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 33.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%
- #2 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
96% 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 33.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #3 Potion Pipeline
96% 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 30.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11%
- #4 Alchemy Factory
94% 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 34%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9%, First-Person 7.7%
- #5 Builderment
95% 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 30.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 11%
- #6 FACTO
94% 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 36.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Simulation 15%, Crafting 14.8%, Strategy 8%
- #7 Car Factory
93% match9 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: 5 Games
Windows
Assemble vehicles on a realistic production line, from the chassis to the final assembly. Optimize your production process to work more efficiently and unlock new models.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Building 13.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.4%
- #8 Kardaviik
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%
- #9 Mito
91% 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 35.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 10.6%
- #10 TowerLine
91% 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 33.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 9.8%
- #11 Genterra
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: The Bunker Studios
Windows
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 31.7%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 15.1%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%
- #12 Industrix
89% 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 30.5%, Simulation 19.1%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 11.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #13 Little Big Workshop
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 10.8%
- #14 plexum
88% 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 34.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 10.5%
- #15 Cartefact
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sillage Games
Windows · Mac
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 40.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Resource Management 15%, Simulation 12.8%, Base Building 12%
- #16 Islandustry
86% 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 30.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 10.4%, City Builder 9.7%, Building 9.6%
- #17 The Factory
86% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Awesome Studios
Windows
The Factory is a first-person, factory sim game with machine purchasing, upgrading, and building expansion. Use income from crafted products to buy and upgrade tools and buildings. Upgrade your factory layout to gain infinite wealth while trying not to lose money from damaging products.
Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Crafting 7.7%, First-Person 7.7%
- #18 Captain of Industry
84% 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 36.2%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 9.1%, City Builder 7.3%
- #19 Automation Station
84% 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 30.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%
- #20 Factorization
85% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Anubis Gaming
Windows · Linux
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 44.4%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 14.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #21 Techtonica
82% 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 28.4%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #22 Amicraft Factory™
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 12%
- #23 ReFactory
83% 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 28%, Simulation 18.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%
- #24 MegaFactory Tycoon
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 36%, Simulation 20.7%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 5.5%
- #25 Modulus: Factory Automation
79% 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 27.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%
- #26 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 28.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Building 9%
- #27 Alien Planet Survival
80% 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 33.8%, Crafting 13.5%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.4%
- #28 Factorio
78% 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 39.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 5.1%
- #29 Factory Trashcension
78% 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 30.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #30 Manaftory
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hiyakaru
Windows
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 44.4%, Simulation 20.9%, Resource Management 16.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
- #31 Attrition Line
77% 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 37.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%
- #32 Automation Empire
79% 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 32.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8.7%
- #33 The Last Factory
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jitkem TienngamPub: Hello World Labs
Windows · Mac
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 34.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.2%
- #34 BOREWORKS
76% 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 30.1%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%
- #35 Nuclear Engineer Tycoon
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Build a nuclear power plant and manage reactors, generators, and turbines, producing energy to keep the city lit and prevent reactor explosions. Earn resources, research nuclear technologies, build larger and more modern reactors, refine uranium, and create a nuclear energy empire.
Why similar: Simulation 19.9%, Automation 18.2%, Strategy 16.3%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 8.3%
- #36 Belts of Iron
74% 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 28.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.9%
- #37 Zombies Per Minute
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Enzed Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombies Per Minute is a factory-building roguelite where everything you build is measured by one thing: how many zombies you can kill per minute. Yes, really. Use your imagination to grow your factory, make decisive choices each wave and progress from one outpost to the other. Until Earth is saved.
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 9.2%
- #38 Rafting Factory
73% 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 40%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 7.9%
- #39 Infinite Number Factory
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.1%
- #40 shapez
74% 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 36%, Resource Management 13.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 7.5%
- #41 Substructure
73% 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 29.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 9.9%
- #42 FACTORY I
71% 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 31.2%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.4%
- #43 Krasnaya Factory
72% 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 29.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #44 Shape Together
70% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Blu
Windows · Mac
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 16.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 12.2%
- #45 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
71% 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 28.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%, City Builder 9.2%
- #46 Infindustry
73% 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 28%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 10.6%, City Builder 9.6%, Simulation 9%
- #47 BricksPhilosophorum
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 芥语工作室
Windows
[点金方块]BricksPhilosophorum is an automated game that uses an assembly line to study alchemy. The game starts with collecting minerals, purchasing land, unlocking technology, and building automated production lines.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Simulation 15.1%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 10.3%
- #48 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 10.6%
- #49 Meow Factories.Inc
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Automate. Assemble. Deliver cats. Build an adorable factory, create cats piece by piece, and optimize your production to meet an ever-growing demand. Unlock machines, paint your cats, and make your feline assembly line run like clockwork!
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #50 Fabricatio
68% 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 33.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 8.4%
- #51 Pistonica
69% 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 36.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.4%
- #52 ChromaFlow
69% 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 37.3%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 10.1%
- #53 Chocolate Factory
69% 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 28.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.1%
- #54 Jigsaw Industry
68% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Light Game
Windows
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 8.3%
- #55 Timberline Factory
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
Build and manage your industrial sawmill in Timberline Factory. Experience a tycoon game where logistics meet physics: logs aren't just icons, they are physical objects that roll, collide, and react to your machines. Design efficient lines, manage equipment, and turn wood waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Simulation 17.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 9%
- #56 Kingdom Workshop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Crafting 13.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 11.3%
- #57 Industronaut
67% 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 28.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Simulation 8.7%
- #58 Outer Factory
67% 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 32.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%
- #59 Factory Magnate
65% 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 33.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Building 10.8%
- #60 Factory Town 2: Paradise
64% 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 27.7%, City Builder 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%