
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
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[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.

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

Make Your Kingdom
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Automation 21%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 8.7%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.4%, RTS 8.7%
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.3%
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 24.6%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Crafting 8.4%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 22.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 8.3%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.1%
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 25.2%, Automation 19%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.1%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.5%, Survival 8.4%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.3%
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: Colony Sim 21.1%, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 8%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.3%
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 21.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.5%
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 21.1%, Automation 13.9%, Building 6.9%, Third Person 6.6%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 9.5%, Survival 7.7%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10.7%, Survival 7.5%
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 21.3%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 6.1%
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Building 11.9%
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 22.4%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11%
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 24.4%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, RTS 12.7%, Crafting 10%
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 12.6%, Automation 12.2%, Building 10.8%
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 20%, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 13%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 13%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Building 10.7%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.1%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%, RTS 11%
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 24.3%, Base Building 19%, Automation 17.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.1%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 18%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.2%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 20.2%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 9.9%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 9.5%, Survival 6.5%
A sci-fi factory automation game where resources move as light instead of belts. Build production chains, expand across asteroid islands, trade your resources, research new systems, and keep your growing factory flowing under rising pressure.
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 16.8%, RTS 9.9%, Building 8.1%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Automation 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.6%
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11%
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 22.5%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, City Builder 10.4%
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: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Automation 18.2%, Crafting 11.6%, RTS 11.4%
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: Colony Sim 20.1%, Automation 18.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%
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 22%, Automation 14.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.6%
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 10.3%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Survival 7.4%
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 13.6%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.9%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.4%
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 23.4%, RTS 15.6%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.4%
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 25%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.6%
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Third Person 6.2%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.9%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 22.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.3%
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 13.3%, Survival 9.3%
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 26.4%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%
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 20.9%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 15.4%, Automation 13.3%, Building 12.3%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.8%, RTS 12.9%, Building 8.8%
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 26.1%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, RTS 12.8%, Building 11.9%
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.3%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 18%, Survival 8.5%, Building 5.5%