60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Automation, Simulation, Singleplayer, Strategy.
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?)
ARUS-1
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.
Skyberry Garden
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?
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: Automation 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 8.3%, Exploration 8.2%
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 31.5%, Colony Sim 30.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Management 10%, Simulation 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 30.1%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Simulation 15.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Exploration 4.4%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 8.1%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 49.9%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 5.5%
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Automation 31.1%, Simulation 21.5%, Procedural Generation 6.4%, Resource Management 4.3%
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Automation 38%, Simulation 18%, Strategy 2.2%, Casual 1.2%
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%, Automation 20.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 8.3%
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 27.6%, Automation 25.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 10.8%, Survival 9.2%
Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.
Why similar: Automation 59.1%, Sandbox 24%, Simulation 16.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Nature 8.6%, Management 8.1%
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 42.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Nature 8.1%, Resource Management 6.6%
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 45.6%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
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 30%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 7.5%, Simulation 7.1%
Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
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 38.6%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 7.4%, Management 6.7%
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 30.4%, Automation 29.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
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 25.2%, Automation 22.5%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 9.4%, Management 8.6%
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Automation 25.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Survival 7.6%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
Sail your island. Bring new land home. A colony sim where heroes of history and myth gather, build and fight to survive. Merge islands, plan your settlement, set each hero’s priorities and automate production—then take command in battle. Turn a tiny camp into a moving homeland.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 7.8%
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 29.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Automation 12.7%, Management 10.3%
The depths of Ashenburrow are alive. Wildlife hunts, feeds, breeds and dies — with or without you. Survive, craft, build. But remember: you are not alone underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Automation 24.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 10.2%, Exploration 9.6%
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 35.4%, Automation 20.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Survival 9.1%, Exploration 7.3%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Automation 17.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
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 39.8%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Nature 9.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 40.4%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 16.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Survival 5.1%
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 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 8.1%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Simulation 21.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 7.5%, Strategy 6.6%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 23.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Exploration 7.1%, Management 5.1%
Build and upgrade production loops, manage resources and workers, and expand your realm. Trade, adapt and survive hunger, pressure, decay, and threats in a tense, multi-layered strategy game where every choice matters.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Management 10.6%, Survival 7.1%
Doterra Industries is a 2D factory-building sandbox about exploring a strange mineral world, building production lines, and slowly turning a rough outpost into an automated industrial network.
Why similar: Automation 44%, Simulation 42.1%, Exploration 10.4%, 2D 3.5%
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 49.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 7.7%, Survival 7.2%
Nothing is greater than Aquasplendere, and we hear his voices. His blood flows through our world. Embody the descendants of the Great Deaf bloodline and lead the epic journey of our civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Automation 28.9%, Nature 11.8%, Survival 8.7%, Simulation 5.3%
The Last Seed is a 2D automation strategy game where factory efficiency is hard-linked to environmental control. Construct complex logistics networks, process resource chains, and balance closed-loop humidity systems—because if the ecosystem crashes, your entire automated infrastructure halts.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Sandbox 15%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Exploration 7.2%
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start each farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window persists over other applications on your desktop, and is fully re-sizeable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Simulation 23.3%, Sandbox 18.6%, Nature 10.1%, Procedural Generation 5.6%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Nature 9.7%, Survival 9.1%
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Colony Sim 29%, Sandbox 12%, Exploration 8.4%, Simulation 8.3%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 19.6%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 10%, Sandbox 9.3%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Simulation 18.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 6%
Raccoon Crafts Factory is a game about creating automated factories to produce things of increasing complexity, within an endless 2D world - Use your imagination to design factories, combine simple elements into complex structures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 22.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Exploration 6.7%
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 38%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 11%, Exploration 7.9%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
Build and run your own fantasy MMO in a single-player management sim. Design the world, classes, loot and raids, then watch simulated adventurers play, form guilds and chase rare drops. Keep them happy, keep them subscribed, and decide what your MMO needs next.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Automation 25%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 11.3%, Management 10.7%
In FACTO, become the world’s biggest factory boss! Build your factories, buy raw materials, process them and then sell them on to boost your turnover until you become a mega-corporation !
Why similar: Automation 47.6%, Simulation 16.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 8.2%, Management 5.1%
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 25.8%, Automation 21.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 8.5%
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 26.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 5.8%
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 47.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 7.6%, Resource Management 6.8%, Simulation 6.7%
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Steampunk 12.8% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Nature 11%, Simulation 9.8%
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Steampunk 11.3% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Management 9.6%
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 28.6%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Exploration 5.9%
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: Automation 30%, Colony Sim 28.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 9.4%
Build, sail, and thrive in a strategic floating city! Manage biomes, rescue species, and harness the power of wind to navigate a world shaped by extreme climates. Balance ecology, exploration, and survival in this unique city-builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Automation 18.7%, Sandbox 13%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 9.6%
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Automation 23.2%, Management 10.2%, Exploration 10.1%, Nature 9.6%
Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.
Why similar: Automation 36.6%, Colony Sim 28%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Resource Management 5.1%
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 27.4%, Automation 26.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Management 8.2%
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 35.4%, Automation 32.3%, Simulation 20.3%, Procedural Generation 9%, Resource Management 2.7%
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 52.1%, Simulation 20.6%, Management 13.9%, Strategy 6%, Top-Down 4.4%
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 28.6%, Automation 20%, Simulation 15.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Exploration 6.3%
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Why similar: Automation 48.7%, Simulation 18.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Management 6.5%, Top-Down 4.7%
