
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.
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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.

Factorio
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.

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.
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 31.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 6.4%
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 23.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9%, Management 8.5%
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 28.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 24.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 7.7%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 26.3%, Building 14.5%, Crafting 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 29.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.7%, Survival 10.2%
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 28.2%, Building 17.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
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 27.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.3%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
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 27.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Management 10.1%, Moddable 9.7% ★
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 30%, Crafting 16%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6.2%
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 26.7%, Crafting 15%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Moddable 10% ★
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 22.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.5%
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 29.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 12.6%, Open World 8.1%
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 30.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 9.3%, Open World 7.4%
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 24.6%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.3%, Management 10.3%
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 25%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 10.3%
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.5%
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 25.3%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11%, Crafting 10.5%
Pistonica invites you into a calm, open world where steam and machines meet. In this first-person steam automation game, you build and automate a refined factory, explore an island, research tech, and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 8.7%
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 32.1%, Building 16.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 6.6%
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 29.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.6%
Outer Factory is a peaceful, minimalist factory simulation where you build and automate factories across planets and asteroids. Create complex production networks with simplified building mechanics. Become an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 11.4%, Building 11.2%
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 29.2%, Base Building 18%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Management 7.8%
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: Automation 24%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.9%
Automate your factory in space. Build logistic railguns to feed the production lines of your ever growing machines. Gravity disrupts your trajectories - master it. Connect your machines over the vast void. Find resource rich moons and asteroid streams to harvest and mine, but beware of the Locals.
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 14%, Management 10.2%
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 36%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 7.3%, Management 7%
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 27.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Management 12.5%
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 26.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 8.1%, Building 8%
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Building 15.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%
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 25.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to ensure the automatic production of the necessary resources and their dispatch. It would seem that what could go wrong?
Why similar: Automation 20%, Building 15%, Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.5%
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 12.7%, Management 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%
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 29.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 23.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 27.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
Crash-land on a hostile planet and build automated extraction outposts to survive. Defend your operations, manage power networks, and send resources to orbit to unlock new technologies.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12.2%
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10%
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 13.6%, Management 9.2%
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.2%
Reconstruct a Gob factory lost in the Fog. Route resources, put the Gobs to work, and build the BIG BOOM. The Gob King wants his bomb and he wants it NOW!
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10.1%
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 37.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 15.1%, Resource Management 5.9%
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity, all without any fighting.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 9.3%, Open World 6.2%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.1%
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 19.5%, Automation 14.3%, Survival 12%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Building 18.4%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 13.6%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%
Cartefact is an automation card game. Craft, automate and manage resources all through cards Play as a young explorer who lands on a distant alien planet to uncover its mysteries and find a way to solve humanity’s energy crisis.
Why similar: Automation 40.5%, Crafting 20.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Resource Management 6.3%
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 28.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.2%
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 40.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Resource Management 6.4%
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 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: Building 16.9%, Automation 16.3%, Crafting 16.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 11.7%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 12.6%, Moddable 9.3% ★
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 29.6%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
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 29.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Management 10.8%, Building 10.6%