
[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!

AColony
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.
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 8.4%
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 15.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Crafting 10.3%
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 21% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.4%, RTS 8.6%
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 24.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.4%
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 24.9% ★, Automation 20.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.8%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 8.9%
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 13.2%, Building 10.2%, Survival 8.1%
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 27.2% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.4%, Survival 8.2%
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 30.5% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.1%
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 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10%
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 24.3% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 9.3%, Survival 7.6%
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 26.8% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 10.6%, Survival 7.4%
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 24.9%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, RTS 15.1%, Strategy 6.2%, Immersive Sim 6.1%
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: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.7%, Building 8%
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 24.2% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Automation 13.3%, RTS 12.3%, Building 10.7%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill 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 20.3%, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Building 10.5%
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: Automation 19.4%, Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%
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 17.6% ★, City Builder 17%, Automation 15.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%
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%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, RTS 12.4%, Crafting 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 18.3% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%, RTS 10.8%
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 21.5%, City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%
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 31% ★, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Survival 10%
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 19.7% ★, Automation 18.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Base Building 10.8%
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 30.2% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Automation 14.8%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.3%
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 26% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 7.7%, Building 7.6%
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: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Automation 19.6%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.7%
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 22.3% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.7%, City Builder 10.1%
SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Automation 19.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Crafting 11.5%, RTS 11%
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 35.3% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 9.4%, Survival 6.3%
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 18.6% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.3%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.5%
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 26.2% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 16.6%, Automation 14.4%, Survival 9%
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 20.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Automation 14.3%, Building 11.9%
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 30.8% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 9.5%, Survival 7.3%
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 21.8%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 14.8%, RTS 12.5%, Building 11.9%
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 25.2% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.5%
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 20.2%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.6%, RTS 12.5%, Building 8.6%
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 23.1%, RTS 15.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.4%
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Simulation 8%
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 22.4% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
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 25.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.3%
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Automation 18.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 13%, Survival 8.4%
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 30.6% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 8.4%, Building 5.4%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 12.7%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.1%
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 28.8% ★, City Builder 26%, Building 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 14.2%, RTS 10.3%, Survival 8.1%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Automation 17.9%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Base Building 14.4%, RTS 10.7%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Automation 16.3%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.5%
A sci-fi turn-based strategy, station building game where you need to manage resources and protect the station and human inside from the danger of space, and your own action.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.6%
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 18.5%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 11%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 17.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Strategy 7.9%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Building 10%, Base Building 9.2%, RTS 5.1%
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 24.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, City Builder 10.1%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.1%
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 33.3%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.5%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Automation 27.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Strategy 4.1%
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 10.8%
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%