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Games Like The Factory Must Survive

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Base Building, Simulation, Automation.

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Command the resources of the stars through automation on an unprecedented scale. Establish an autonomous megafactory, the Forge World of the rising Megacorporation, to outproduce the Empire in a galactic war of attrition. Defend it against all odds. The Factory Must Survive!

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Coming soon
Developer: Sebastian Fitt
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows

    Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Automation 23.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Management 7.8%, Building 7.8%

  2. #2 Clipper
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Adequate Games
    Windows · Linux

    An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

    Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Management 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.4%

  3. #3 Factory Trashcension
    96% 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 28.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.1%, Co-op 9.8%, Crafting 9.8%

  4. #4 Microtopia
    95% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Futuristic 7.8%

  5. #5 Eden Crafters
    94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,537 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%

  6. #6 Astro Colony
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,654 reviews2026
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Automation 27%, Colony Sim 22%, Space 10.5%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.6%

  7. #7 Skyberry Garden
    94% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Catculus
    Windows · Mac

    Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?

    Why similar: Automation 30%, Colony Sim 29.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 11%, Crafting 9.1%

  8. #8 Dinky Guardians
    92% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
    Dev: Endless Loop Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

    Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Co-op 12%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.2%

  9. #9 The Glorious Colony
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: WeLIAS Studio
    Windows

    Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)

    Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 8.5%, Procedural Generation 6.7%

  10. #10 Terra Crafter
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Greenway Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A space themed open world crafting and base-building game where you terraform a planet by scaling up a colony of autonomous robots. Provide shelter, gather resources, and manage your bots to keep work moving across the base. Create a new atmosphere and make the planet inhabitable.

    Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Space 10.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%

  11. #11 FortressCraft : Phoenix
    90% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: DjArcasPub: ProjectorGames
    Windows

    The third iteration of the game that invented the Factory genre, FortressCraft :Phoenix takes the over-the-top base building and survival gameplay and cranks it up a hundred times. Build your mining base with hundreds of thousands of machines in it, explore alien landscape, heading deep underground.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Automation 16.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.9%

  12. #12 Worlds Explorers
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Pioneers Games
    Windows · Linux

    Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Sandbox 11%, Management 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Strategy 7.6%

  13. #13 shapez 2 - Factory
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
    Dev: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

    Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Management 11%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Futuristic 8.8%

  14. #14 The Crust
    88% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,637 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Colony Sim 23%, Space 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.5%

  15. #15 Wreckborn
    87% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2025
    Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
    Windows

    Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.

    Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.8%, Space 8.2%

  16. #16 Starmancer
    89% matchMixed63% of 1,041 reviews2021
    Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Artificial Intelligence 18.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.6%

  17. #17 Krasnaya Factory
    86% 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 30%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 11.1%, Co-op 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

  18. #18 Techtonica
    85% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 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 29.7%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Co-op 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

  19. #19 Outworld Station
    84% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2026
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

    Why similar: Automation 29.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Space 11%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 8.7%

  20. #20 Gridmax
    84% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Dream Gears
    Windows

    Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Automation 27.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 8%

  21. #21 CYBER SCOUTS
    83% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Maxim Solovyev
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Cyber Scouts is a space simulator. Build your ship block by block, script your autopilot in Lua, and battle the rogue AI NEXUS in a story campaign. Play solo or co-op with up to 10 friends — no accounts, no global servers.

    Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Artificial Intelligence 23.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Space 7.8%, Crafting 7.4%

  22. #22 FOUNDRY
    82% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 23.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.4%

  23. #23 Moose Builders
    81% 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 32.3%, Co-op 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.6%

  24. #24 Fronimus
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: StayOnSofa
    Windows

    Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression

    Why similar: Automation 36.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Open World 9.1%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

  25. #25 Survival Vacancy
    82% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 23%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Co-op 8.5%

  26. #26 Automation Station
    80% 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 32.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Management 8.3%

  27. #27 Code: Terraform
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: AppsMafia
    Windows

    A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.

    Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Colony Sim 22%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.9%, Space 8.2%

  28. #28 Microtopia: Prologue
    79% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%

  29. #29 Yuri's Resolve
    78% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Apothecary Games
    Windows

    Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.

    Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Artificial Intelligence 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 8.7%

  30. #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 30.6%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%

  31. #31 X Space
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: X SPACE
    Windows

    A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.

    Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Space 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Management 9%

  32. #32 Beyond These Stars
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Automation 21%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.3%

  33. #33 Hexoplanet
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sirnic Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Automation 28.1%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Futuristic 8.3%

  34. #34 Untitled Automation Game
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
    Windows

    Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!

    Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Management 11%, Crafting 8.8%

  35. #35 Alchemy Factory
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
    Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 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 39.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Strategy 7.7%

  36. #36 Factor Y
    75% 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: Automation 29.3%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.4%

  37. #37 Kardashev
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
    Windows · Mac

    Kardashev is an open-world, procedurally generated, factory building game, set amongst a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission is to harness energy and ascend the Kardashev Scale.

    Why similar: Automation 41.8%, Space 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Crafting 8.5%

  38. #38 Odd Realm
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Management 9.8%

  39. #39 Spaceolar
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pilzschaf (Jonathan Hauser)
    Windows · Linux

    Spaceolar is an isometric base building and automation game. You land on a planet and need to build drills to farm resources and further process them to advance your research and expand onto other planets. Spaceolar supports multiplayer so you can build your base together with your friends

    Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Space 11%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Strategy 7.9%

  40. #40 GUILDMAKER
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: LEONAN
    Windows

    Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Automation 12.1%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 11.4%

  41. #41 Satisfactory
    71% 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 36.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10%

  42. #42 Space Architect
    72% matchMostly Positive76% of 290 reviews2024
    Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

    Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Management 10%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

  43. #43 Common'hood
    74% matchMixed51% of 339 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: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 18.4%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 11%

  44. #44 Arcaneering: Beyond Automation
    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Sundrop Games
    Windows · Linux

    Automate the arcane! Build spell-powered factories, reclaim ancient territories filled with magical secrets, and discover game-changing technology hidden across procedurally generated worlds. Master both engineering and magic in this cozy fusion of factory automation and RPG progression.

    Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Procedural Generation 12%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%

  45. #45 Hexfactory
    70% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Aquila Industrial
    Windows

    Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 23.2%, Building 9%, Space 8.1%, Crafting 7.1%

  46. #46 Genterra
    70% 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 36.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 9.8%, Futuristic 8.9%

  47. #47 Modulus: Factory Automation
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
    Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 31%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 10.7%, Futuristic 8.9%

  48. #48 Architect of Ruin
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

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  49. #49 shapez
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
    Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 38.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.6%

  50. #50 Settletopia
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
    Windows · Linux

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.5%, Management 10.2%, Procedural Generation 9.7%

  51. #51 Dyson Sphere Program
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 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.

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  52. #52 Occupy Mars: The Game
    67% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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  53. #53 Vilset
    72% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
    Dev: Another Reality
    Windows

    Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

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  54. #54 Icaria
    67% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2026
    Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
    Windows

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

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  55. #55 StarRupture
    66% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  56. #56 Reprocessed
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Macrostructura
    Windows

    Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.

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  57. #57 Pistonica
    68% 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.

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  58. #58 Factoriant
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Marudice
    Windows

    Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.

    Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Colony Sim 12%, Management 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%

  59. #59 Rebots
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 56 reviews2024
    Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
    Windows

    Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

    Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 10%

  60. #60 WilderLands
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Laura PersonPub: Lymecraft
    Windows · Linux

    WilderLands is a prototype for a planet-scale sandbox showing the custom isocahedral/tetrahedral terrain engine.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Grand Strategy 30.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 6.8%, Management 6%

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