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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, Automation, Strategy.

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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 reviews2026
    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 27.6%, Automation 23%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 7.9%, Management 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%, Colony Sim 24%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.5%

  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 28.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Co-op 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%

  4. #4 Microtopia
    95% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Futuristic 7.9%

  5. #5 Eden Crafters
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 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 25.1%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.2%

  6. #6 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: Colony Sim 29.9%, Automation 29.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 11%, Crafting 9.2%

  7. #7 Astro Colony
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,699 reviews2026
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.2 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 26.5%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Space 10.6%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%

  8. #8 Dinky Guardians
    92% matchVery Positive81% of 108 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 28.6%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%

  9. #9 CircuitVeil
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
    Windows · Linux

    CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.

    Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 8.2%, Crafting 7.8%

  10. #10 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 37.3%, Colony Sim 24%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 8.5%, Procedural Generation 6.7%

  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 24.1%, Automation 16.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 7.9%

  12. #12 The Crust
    89% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Space 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.6%

  13. #13 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 26.6%, Sandbox 11%, Management 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Strategy 7.6%

  14. #14 Wreckborn
    88% matchPositive96% of 26 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 22.3%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8%

  15. #15 shapez 2 - Factory
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
    Dev: tobspr Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 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 28.8%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Futuristic 8.9%

  16. #16 Black Market INC.
    86% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Pixellow Official
    Windows

    Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Automation 15.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Artificial Intelligence 7.8%, Management 7.5%

  17. #17 Terra Crafter
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Greenway Interactive
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Automation 18%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 6.9%, Space 6.5%

  18. #18 Starmancer
    87% matchMixed62% of 1,047 reviews2021
    Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    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 10.1%, Building 9.6%

  19. #19 Krasnaya Factory
    84% 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 29.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.2%, Co-op 10%, Sandbox 8.8%

  20. #20 Outworld Station
    83% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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 28.9%, Co-op 11.3%, Space 11.1%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.6%

  21. #21 Techtonica
    84% 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 29.3%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

  22. #22 Gridmax
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Dream Gears
    Windows

    Gridmax is a living board game of readable tiles, rules, and behaviors. Lost on a hostile alien world, gather, craft, and build to survive. Grow a team, expand your colony, explore the grid, and advance your technology as you search for a way home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Automation 27%, Sandbox 13.7%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 8.1%

  23. #23 CYBER SCOUTS
    82% 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 33.3%, Artificial Intelligence 23.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Space 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%

  24. #24 FOUNDRY
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
    Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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 23.2%, Co-op 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.5%

  25. #25 Fronimus
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: StayOnSofa
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 11.8%, Open World 9.3%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

  26. #26 Automation Station
    79% 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 31.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Management 8.3%

  27. #27 Code: Terraform
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: AppsMafia
    Windows · Linux

    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 25.4%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.3%, Space 8.7%

  28. #28 Survival Vacancy
    81% 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 24.3%, Automation 22.6%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%, Co-op 8.6%

  29. #29 Microtopia: Prologue
    78% matchVery Positive95% of 129 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 24.3%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.2%

  30. #30 Yuri's Resolve
    78% matchNo user reviews
    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 30.8%, Artificial Intelligence 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Space 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

  31. #31 PoliPlanet
    77% 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 30.1%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%

  32. #32 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 22.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.9%

  33. #33 Beyond These Stars
    76% 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 24%, Automation 20.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.3%

  34. #34 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 31.5%, Automation 27.6%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Futuristic 8.5%

  35. #35 Untitled Automation Game
    75% 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 30.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Management 11%, Crafting 8.9%

  36. #36 Kardaviik
    74% 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 41.1%, Space 13.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%

  37. #37 Alchemy Factory
    73% 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!

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  38. #38 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 28.9%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%

  39. #39 Odd Realm
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 24.4%, Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Management 9.7%

  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 28.2%, Sandbox 12%, Automation 11.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 11.3%

  41. #41 Satisfactory
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 35.9%, Co-op 11.7%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

  42. #42 Spaceolar
    72% 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 31.6%, Space 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Strategy 7.9%

  43. #43 Space Architect
    72% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 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: Colony Sim 24.3%, Automation 24.3%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

  44. #44 Common'hood
    73% matchMixed51% of 341 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 23.3%, Automation 18.1%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%

  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 25%, Automation 22.8%, Building 9.1%, Space 8.2%, Crafting 7.1%

  46. #46 Modulus: Factory Automation
    68% 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 30.6%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 10.7%, Futuristic 9%

  47. #47 Settletopia
    70% 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 10.6%, Management 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.7%

  48. #48 Genterra
    68% 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 35.9%, Strategy 16.4%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Futuristic 9%

  49. #49 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 19.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.7%, Management 9%

  50. #50 shapez
    70% 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 38.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.6%

  51. #51 Dyson Sphere Program
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
    Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows
    Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 Vilset
    71% 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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  53. #53 Icaria
    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 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 25.3%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Building 9.7%

  54. #54 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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  55. #55 Evospace
    71% matchVery Positive83% of 392 reviews2019
    Dev: Quantum Rivet
    Windows · Mac

    Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

    Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.5%

  56. #56 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 39%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.1%

  57. #57 StarRupture
    65% matchVery Positive81% of 13,247 reviews2026
    Dev: Creepy Jar
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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.

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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 37.9%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Management 8.3%

  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%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Space 10.2%

  60. #60 WilderLands
    67% 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 32.3%, Grand Strategy 31.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 6.8%, Management 5.9%

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