- #1 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
97% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
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 22.5%, Farming Sim 18.2%, Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 13.9%
- #2 WebCraft
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tofubur
Windows
Webcraft is a claw machine mixed with open world crafting game in space. Catch resources floating by, craft and expand your base from a single square!
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.2%, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Space 9.5%, Management 8.8%
- #3 Constructed
96% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Project
Windows
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Farming Sim 13.7%, Building 13.5%
- #4 BOREWORKS
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
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 21.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 12.1%, Building 11.9%
- #5 Plantile
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
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 26.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Management 9.9%
- #6 Fields of Fortune
94% matchPositive92% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: UC Studios
Windows
Leave the everyday stress behind and start a new, relaxed life on a peaceful island. Build structures and craft new items, manually or with automation. The choice is yours. This is your island.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Automation 22.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.4%
- #7 CosmoFab
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
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 30.6%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 14.8%, Space 8.8%
- #8 Star Birds
92% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Space 10.5%
- #9 Terrafarmers Inc.
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Tame wild planets, create environments friendly to humans. Fight for survival, farm the land, craft items, build, automate — Terrafarm.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.4%, Automation 16.4%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #10 TowerLine
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 25.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 17.4%, Procedural Generation 10%, Building 8.4%
- #11 My Shelter
90% matchMixed49% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Tree
Windows
A bottom-screen idle game that won't disrupt your work or study. Research tech, farm crops, raise animals, recruit survivors, unlock mines, hunt mutants, fend off aberrations, gear up your squad, craft with machinery, repair the rocket, build your shelter—and conquer the apocalypse!
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.2%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%
- #12 Outer Factory
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
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 24.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Management 12.7%, Building 11.7%
- #13 Food Factory
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mosqi Games
Windows
Food Factory is a game in which players can produce food using various machines, starting by collecting basic products.
Why similar: Farming Sim 19.2%, Automation 18.5%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%
- #14 Outpath
86% matchVery Positive93% of 3,073 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Farming Sim 19.1%, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 11%
- #15 Dyson Sphere Program
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 27.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Space 17.7%, Building 14.3%, Management 10%
- #16 Dice Guy
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dope Loop Games
Windows
You are Dice Guy. Evil everyday objects have taken over the world. FARM plastic crops and AUTOMATE factories to refine the plastic into weapons and armor. After arming yourself you will be ready to face a world full of enemies, bosses and secrets...
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.1%
- #17 Final Factory
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 23.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 12.5%, Space 11.5%
- #18 One More Turret
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
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 23.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.5%, Management 12%
- #19 Node Farm
84% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.2%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Management 10.7%
- #20 Untitled Automation Game
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galactic Circuit Studio
Windows
Destroy every sentient being on a planet far, far away from Earth using automation cubes and a little magic!
Why similar: Automation 24%, Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.6%, Management 13.5%, Base Building 13.3%
- #21 Automation Station
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Building 16.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 15.1%, Management 10.5%
- #22 Industronaut
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amca Games
Windows
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 22.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 12%, Space 11.7%
- #23 Alien Farmer
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Baran Taylan
Windows
Alien Farmer is a third-person survival automation game set on a hostile alien world. Farm, mine, and build an automated base by day, then defend it against deadly creatures by night. Explore, expand, and survive alone or in co-op.
Why similar: Farming Sim 19.5%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Space 11%, Building 9.9%
- #24 Block Factory
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Management 13.6%
- #25 plexum
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
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 29.8%, Building 18%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 13.2%, Management 7.7%
- #26 Faun Town
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.1%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.3%
- #27 Total Factory
81% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Total Craft Games
Windows
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 18%, Farming Sim 16.7%, Building 16%, Base Building 15%, Management 14.7%
- #28 Factory Trashcension
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
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 25.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Building 15.4%, Management 9.8%
- #29 F.E.A.S.T
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Before40
Windows
Congratulations! You've been hired by an elite organization that cooks for gods. Farm, automate, and cook gourmet meals to appease divine beings.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.1%, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.9%
- #30 shapez
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 29.5%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 16%, Building 11.4%, Management 10.6%
- #31 X Space
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: X SPACE
Windows
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Space 14.2%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13%
- #32 Builderment
77% matchMixed67% of 124 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
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 27.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 14.4%, Management 5%
- #33 Roboplant
76% matchMixed66% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: Rebelpug
Windows · Linux
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23%, Automation 19.6%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%
- #34 The Last Seed
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
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 24.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Management 13.9%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.4%
- #35 Pistonica
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
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 30%, Base Building 20.2%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Exploration 5.6%
- #36 Jaden Industries: Cozy Automation Puzzler
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pushka Studios
Windows
Jaden Industries is a relaxing factory-building puzzle game about managing compact crafting chains across floating islands. As an expedition engineer, you’ll explore a peaceful Archipelago, configure production flows, refine resources, and achieve perfect efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Building 17.7%, Crafting 17.1%, Management 13.8%, Exploration 9%
- #37 Amicraft Factory™
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 7.3%, Character Customization 7.2%
- #38 Alien Planet Survival
75% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Yamate
Windows
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 28.7%, Base Building 20.2%, Crafting 18%, Building 14.8%, Space 10.6%
- #39 Yuri's Resolve
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Apothecary Games
Windows
Yuri’s Resolve is a single-player factory-building game set in Mars' orbit. Salvage wreckage, mine Phobos, construct manufacturing systems, and forge a path back home. Operate from the immersive cockpit of your ship as Yuri’s Resolve delivers a bold, innovative take on the factory building genre.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 17%, Space 14.2%, Building 9.1%
- #40 Plantasia
71% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Cave Bear Games
Windows
A cozy, semi-idle, gardening game in a solarpunk universe that sits at the bottom of your screen while you work.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Management 11%
- #41 Agronauts
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dungeon Door Studios Inc.
Windows
Congrats, farmer—you’ve been rocketed into space to fix the food crisis. Grow crops on strange planetoids, ship food back home, and keep your people fed. Expand your planetoid, solve puzzles, and explore alien worlds to turn lifeless rock into a thriving offworld farm.
Why similar: Farming Sim 27.3%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 16%, Space 15.4%, Management 14.6%
- #42 Industrial Petting
75% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Another Yeti
Windows · Mac
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Farming Sim 17.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%
- #43 Outpath VR
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
An experimental VR base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.7%, Crafting 17.2%, Automation 16.8%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 6.1%
- #44 Shinzen Hollow
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Honeycomb Gaming
Windows
Embark on a journey in Shinzen Hollow, a captivating farm-sim RPG set in the Japanese highlands. Beyond farming, discover secrets, form bonds with NPCs, and tackle mysteries. With combat, crafting, and the beauty of changing seasons, experience a world filled with endless adventure and tranquility.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.6%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%
- #45 shapez 2 - Factory
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Management 15%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.3%
- #46 Gobs & Gears
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GOBLINTEK
Windows · Mac
The Gob King wants his bomb. A big one. He wants it NOW. Reconstruct a lost factory in the Fog, route resources, and put the Gobs to work to build the BIG BOOM before he loses what's left of his patience.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Management 11%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #47 UNIT 42: Adrift in Space
69% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: AwitaGames
Windows · Linux
An incremental journey through space. Manage your ship's capsules, choose your path through the stars, and watch your crew and automation do the rest.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Space 18.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Management 13.3%
- #48 Belts of Iron
68% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
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 24.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 16.3%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #49 Dimensional Project
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DarSha
Windows
Travel to multiple completely unique dimensions, gather their unique natural resources, build new structures and buildings, craft high-level materials, and automate everything. In doing so, you will be able to complete your ultimate goal: constructing the "Dimensional Engine".
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Farming Sim 24.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Management 14.6%, Third Person 5.5%
- #50 Assembly Planter
73% matchVery Positive90% of 250 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 21%, Farming Sim 20%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 11.8%
- #51 Potion Pipeline
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
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 20.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 10.5%
- #52 Space Chickens
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tabsil
Windows
In Space Chickens, you will Explore colorful miniature planets, breed unique chickens to complete your Chicken Codex, and upgrade your machines as you uncover secrets hidden across the galaxy.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.4%, Space 23%, Exploration 13.6%, Character Customization 10.1%, Third Person 8.9%
- #53 MineMogul
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 24.5%, Building 15.5%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%
- #54 Palm Farm: Idle Crops
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Tree
Windows
A relaxing idle desktop farming game where you grow crops, gather resources, upgrade facilities, tease little birds, earn extra coins by clicking or typing, and expand your farm at a laid-back pace.
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Automation 25.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Building 10.2%
- #55 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 24.4%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 13.6%, Crafting 12.4%
- #56 Wreckborn
67% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Space 12.1%
- #57 Final Upgrade
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 457 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Space 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Management 11.8%
- #58 Idyll Isle
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Future Soil Media
Windows
A cozy idle island sim that lives quietly above your taskbar. Five islanders — a farmer, woodcutter, fisherman, miner, and chef — farm, fish, mine, cook, and craft on their own. Build a self-sustaining isle while you work or browse.
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.1%, Automation 19.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11%, Base Building 8.3%
- #59 Astro Colony
62% matchVery Positive81% of 2,654 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 24.3%, Base Building 21.1%, Space 16.4%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 11.4%