- #1 HavenCraft
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Automation 19.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 9%
- #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 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 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.
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Space 14%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 8.6%
- #52 Occupy Mars: The Game
67% matchMixed70% of 3,099 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Co-op 9.8%, Building 9.7%, Space 9.5%
- #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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Automation 28.2%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 10%
- #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.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Building 9.6%
- #55 StarRupture
66% matchVery Positive81% of 12,866 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Co-op 11.4%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 8.8%
- #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.
Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.9%, Space 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%
- #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.
Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9%
- #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 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 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%