60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Automation, Strategy, Colony Sim.
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!
Clipper
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Factory Trashcension
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!
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.6%
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 27.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 9.9%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 24.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 7.1%
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 20.9%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Futuristic 8%
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 23.3%, Automation 22.9%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.3%, Co-op 9.2%
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 24.6%, Colony Sim 12%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.2%
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%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Space 10.7%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 30.2%, Automation 29%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 11%, Crafting 9.3%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Co-op 12.2%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%
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 28.1%, Colony Sim 28%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Crafting 7.9%
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 36.7%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Management 8.5%, Procedural Generation 6.7%
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 24.2%, Automation 15.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 7.9%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Space 10.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.6%
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 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Strategy 7.5%
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 28.4%, Automation 14.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Artificial Intelligence 7.8%, Management 7.4%
Build a sprawling automated factory across a hand-crafted solar system. Mine, smelt, refine, then route everything by belt, train, and cargo ship — powered by a real electrical grid. 15 orbital launcher milestones stand between you and a finished starship. Steam EA Oct 12.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Grand Strategy 19.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Automation 12.9%, Futuristic 12.8%
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 21.8%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%
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 28.5%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Futuristic 8.9%
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 18.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 10%, Building 9.6%
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 24.9%, Automation 17.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 7%, Space 6.6%
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 28.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Co-op 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 33.8%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 8.3%, Management 7%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Co-op 8.3%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
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 22.7%, Co-op 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.5%
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 32.7%, Artificial Intelligence 23.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Space 8%, Crafting 7.5%
Fronimus is an automation-focused game about building factories, featuring nonlinear step by step progression
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12%, Open World 9.5%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
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 28.4%, Space 11.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 8.6%
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%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.3%, Space 8.8%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Management 8.3%
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Building 16%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Artificial Intelligence 12.5%, Strategy 9.2%
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 24.4%, Automation 22.2%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Co-op 8.6%
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 23.8%, Colony Sim 22%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%
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 22.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 10.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.9%
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 29.5%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 10%
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 30.2%, Artificial Intelligence 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Space 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
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 24.1%, Automation 20.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.2%
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 31.7%, Automation 27.1%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Building 13.7%, Futuristic 8.6%
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 39.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Strategy 7.6%
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.6%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 9%
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 40.4%, Space 13.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Crafting 8.7%
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 28.3%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Automation 23.8%, Building 12.3%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%
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 36.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 8.1%
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 24.6%, Automation 19.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Management 9.7%
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 28.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Automation 11.6%, Management 11.2%
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 24.4%, Automation 23.9%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
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%, Space 11.3%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Strategy 7.9%
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 35.4%, Co-op 11.7%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%
Build and defend a growing industrial colony on a hostile alien world. Mine resources, automate production lines, expand a massive factory, and protect your territory from relentless alien attacks in this top-down 3D strategy game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 17.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Co-op 8.4%
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 23.4%, Automation 17.8%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%
A space sim where you build the industry that produces your rockets, then fly them. Genuinely integrated orbits, aerodynamics solved part by part, procedural planets you can walk. From first mine to first interstellar flight.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Space 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%
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 11.9%, Building 10.6%, Management 10%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
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%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 10.7%, Futuristic 9.1%
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 25.1%, Automation 22.3%, Building 9.2%, Space 8.3%, Crafting 7.2%
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 35.4%, Strategy 16.5%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 10%, Futuristic 9.2%
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 24.1%, Automation 18.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.9%
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 29.5%, Sandbox 13%, Building 12.1%, Space 10.9%, Crafting 9.6%
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 26.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.5%
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 24.8%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Building 9.7%
