60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Automation, Building, Base Building.
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.
GridCraft
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.
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.
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 27%, Crafting 17.5%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8.9%
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 22.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9%, Management 8.5%
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%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 6.5%
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%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9%
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: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Management 11.9%
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%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 7.9%
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 12%, Management 11.7%
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 28.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12.8%, Survival 10.4%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
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 27.6%, Building 17.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 26.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 13.5%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
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 27.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 14%, Management 10%, Moddable 9.9%
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 29.4%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.3%
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 26.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Moddable 10.1%
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 26.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 30%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.1%
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%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 12.7%, Open World 8.3%
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 29.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9.4%, Open World 7.7%
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 24.1%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.5%, Management 10.2%
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 24.5%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.5%, Management 10.3%
Pistonica is the pure steam and mechanical factory automation game, challenging your resource management skills. Explore the tropical island first-person, research tech, mine for minerals, build contraptions and trade goods - all because of a strange radio signal.
Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 9%
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 24.7%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11%, Crafting 10.6%
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 31.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.6%
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 31.4%, Building 16.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 12%, Management 6.6%
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Management 7.7%
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 27.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.4%, Management 11.3%
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 23.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.9%
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 27.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.6%
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%, Crafting 15.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 humans.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 9.6%, Management 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 27.3%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 14.2%, 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 35.3%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 7.1%
Veinfall is a 2D exploration, crafting, and factory automation game. Mine ore, gather materials, build machines, and connect production lines with conveyors. Grow a small hand-built base into your own factory as you explore deeper into the planet.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 10.1%
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Building 23.2%, Crafting 20%, Base Building 15.7%, Simulation 4.8%
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 27.2%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Management 12.4%
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%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 25.8%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 8.3%, Building 8.1%
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 12%, Base Building 11.2%
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 24%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 19.5%, Building 15.1%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.6%
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 26.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 12.9%, Management 12%, Crafting 11.5%
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 26.5%, Crafting 14.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
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 28.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10%
Build a factory around a black hole. Extract elements, route atoms through Matter Tubes, bond them using valence-driven chemistry, and scale precise molecular production lines atom by atom.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 6.7%
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 13%, Moddable 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%
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 21.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 16.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.4%
Production Zero is a factory building game in which you grow a manufacturing empire across an untamed world. Design vast networks of factories from top to bottom, extract unique resources, optimize & automate to achieve industrial harmony and scale your operation through varied biomes.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 8.3%
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 23.8%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%
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 27.4%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 13.8%, Management 9.1%
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 25.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.1%
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 36.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 5.7%
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 28.7%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 7%
Grimmdustry is an automation game with adventure and RPG elements. After finding yourself stranded in a medieval world full of fantasy tropes, use your knowledge of modern technology to find a way home, or use it to make this new world your own!
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Crafting 19.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.1%, Management 6.9%
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 25.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.9%, Survival 9.3%
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: Base Building 19.5%, Automation 13.9%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%
Build and create automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 3D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally escape from creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
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 35.4%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
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 31.2%, Building 18.7%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 13.6%
