- #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 33.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%
- #2 Laplana
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 13.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 11.1%
- #3 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 33.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 11.7%, Resource Management 8%
- #4 Alchemy Factory
94% matchVery Positive88% of 2,896 reviews2026
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9%, First-Person 7.5%
- #5 Potion Pipeline
95% 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 29.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%
- #6 Builderment
94% 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 29.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11.1%
- #7 FACTO
93% 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 36.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 15.1%, Crafting 15%, Strategy 8.1%
- #8 Kardaviik
91% 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 36.3%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%
- #9 Car Factory
92% 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 30.8%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.5%
- #10 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 35.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Building 10.7%
- #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 31.3%, Simulation 22.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 11%
- #12 TowerLine
89% matchPositive96% of 28 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 32.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 9.9%
- #13 Industrix
88% 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 30.1%, Simulation 19.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Crafting 8.7%
- #14 Little Big Workshop
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
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 22.5%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 10.9%
- #15 plexum
87% 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%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Simulation 10.6%
- #16 Cartefact
86% 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 40.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Resource Management 14.8%, Simulation 12.9%, Base Building 12.1%
- #17 Stella Astrum
85% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Simulation 9.3%
- #18 Scraplings
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%
- #19 Islandustry
84% 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 30.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Simulation 10.5%, City Builder 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #20 The Factory
84% 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 28.9%, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Crafting 7.8%, First-Person 7.8%
- #21 Captain of Industry
83% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 15.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 9%, City Builder 7.3%
- #22 Fab.exe
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BT Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 12%, Base Building 11.7%
- #23 Automation Station
81% 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 29.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #24 Techtonica
80% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 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 27.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #25 Modulus: Factory Automation
78% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 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 27.4%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%, City Builder 9.7%
- #26 Amicraft Factory™
79% 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%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Simulation 12.1%
- #27 MegaFactory Tycoon
79% 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 35.5%, Simulation 20.9%, Building 13%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 5.5%
- #28 Factorization
82% 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 43.9%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 14.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #29 ReFactory
81% 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 27.6%, Simulation 18.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%
- #30 PoliPlanet
78% 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 28.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.1%
- #31 Fill the Sky
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 9.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #32 Factory Trashcension
76% 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 29.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #33 Alien Planet Survival
77% 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 33.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.6%
- #34 Manaftory
75% 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%, Simulation 21.1%, Resource Management 16.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%
- #35 Factorio
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 14%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 5.2%
- #36 Attrition Line
74% 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 36.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Strategy 9.4%
- #37 Factomancer
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Voltige Games
Windows · Mac
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%
- #38 Automation Empire
77% matchMixed66% of 2,646 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 31.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.8%
- #39 BOREWORKS
73% 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 29.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%
- #40 The Last Factory
72% 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 33.8%, Simulation 15%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #41 Nuclear Engineer Tycoon
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows · Mac · 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 20%, Automation 17.9%, Strategy 16.3%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 8.3%
- #42 GridCraft
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Crafting 17.2%, Simulation 17%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #43 Belts of Iron
71% matchVery Positive87% of 52 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 28.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, City Builder 10%
- #44 Zombies Per Minute
72% 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 29.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.7%, Building 9.3%
- #45 Infinite Number Factory
70% 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 37.1%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.3%
- #46 Rafting Factory
70% 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 39.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Building 8%
- #47 FACTORY I
69% 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 30.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.6%
- #48 BricksPhilosophorum
70% 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 33.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.3%
- #49 shapez
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 35.6%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 7.7%
- #50 Shape Together
68% 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 30.3%, Simulation 22.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%
- #51 Substructure
69% 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 29.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 10%
- #52 Krasnaya Factory
69% 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 29.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #53 Infindustry
71% 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 27.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 9.7%, Simulation 9.1%
- #54 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 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 33.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #55 Chocolate Factory: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 208 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 28.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.3%
- #56 Meow Factories.Inc
67% 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 38.2%, Crafting 15.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #57 Fabricatio
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 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 32.8%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 8.6%
- #58 Pistonica
67% 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 36.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.5%
- #59 FluxWerks
65% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.8%
- #60 Timberline Factory
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: El Grande Games
Windows
A physics based sawmill simulation - tycoon where logs aren't just rigid icons, but physical objects that roll, collide, and jam. Automate complex production lines, master a dynamic market index, and turn waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 36.7%, Simulation 17.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.1%