
In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Simulation, Automation, Resource Management.

In this open-world factory sandbox you need to harness unique power waveforms to run your machines. Use everything as fuel, from plant life to fallen enemies. Explore the world to uncover new foes and resources to exploit as your empire grows.

Substructure
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.

Beyond These Stars
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.
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 13.8%, Moddable 10.3%, City Builder 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 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: City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 11.2%, Automation 10.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 7.5%
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
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: Simulation 19.5%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, City Builder 10.1%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 9.4%
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 15.5%, City Builder 11.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9%
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: City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 11.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Automation 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Moddable 15.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Resource Management 10%
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 19.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Moddable 9.6%
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 21.7%, Simulation 19.2%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 7.3%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.9%
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Moddable 15.6%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%
Factory Coin Mining combines a strategy game with the complexity of an advanced puzzle. BASE BUILDING as you never seen before, from simple nature elements, build factories, melting machines, conveyor belts, logistical equipment, stations and much more to mine a virtual coin inside the game.
Why similar: Simulation 12.8%, Moddable 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.9%
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 16.3%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 10.1%
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 19%, Simulation 15.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!
Why similar: Automation 16.3%, Base Building 11.3%, City Builder 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 9%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 26.2%, Automation 13.5%, Management 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, City Builder 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Moddable 13.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 9.7%, City Builder 9.3%
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: Moddable 15.3%, Automation 13.8%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Simulation 9%
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 15.9%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Simulation 19.6%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, build mega factories and evolve organic industry. Balance growth, efficiency, creep spread, and survive in a world that fights back.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Moddable 16.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8%
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 17.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 9.4%
You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Moddable 15.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.2%
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 17.4%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 9.1%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Simulation 23.4%, Automation 12.5%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%
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: Automation 11.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 15.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Moddable 9%
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 10.8%
The Factory Must Grow is a 3D first-person factory builder where you mine resources, craft machines, and research tech. Begin by unlocking your first technology, then expand into a sprawling, multi-layered production empire. From small setups to massive systems, your imagination is the only limit!
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, Automation 20.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, City Builder 9%
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 23.8%, Simulation 18.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Simulation 15.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Moddable 14.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 9.9%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Simulation 15.7%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 9.9%
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Crafting 9.7%
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Simulation 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.3%
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Simulation 15%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Crafting 9.7%
An adorable, stocking stuffer-sized factory automation game
Why similar: Simulation 24.9%, City Builder 19.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.3%
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Moddable 17.2%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 11.8%
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: City Builder 15.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
The deepest city-building simulation experience ever. Build, grow, and manage a bustling metropolis. Take on the administrative tasks necessary to keep a modern-day city functioning. Construction, zoning, transportation, budgets, city services, and more. You're in control of it all. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Simulation 29.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Strategy 10%, Moddable 8.7%, Management 7%
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 10.3%
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.8%
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.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 9.5%
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Simulation 25.5%, Automation 22.9%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 8.2%, Management 8%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 16%, Base Building 11.3%, Simulation 10.9%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
Switch between first- and third-person as you build your park, ride your coasters, and serve your guests. Design rides, manage staff, and keep the chaos under control in your very own roller coaster park!
Why similar: Simulation 17.7%, City Builder 17.4%, Management 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 9.8%
Ruin and Rebirth is a fantasy open-world factory building game with creature taming and breeding. In this playable creation myth, bring life back to a surreal, shattered, post-divine apocalyptic world where the gods have died.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Moddable 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars 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 17.1%, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 10.1%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 14.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Automation 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 10.9%
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 18.4%, City Builder 12.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.8%