- #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 22.1%, Farming Sim 18.3%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 14%
- #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 23.3%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 9.6%, Management 8.7%
- #3 BOREWORKS
96% matchNo user reviews
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 21.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Management 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%
- #4 Constructed
95% 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 20.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 14.4%, Farming Sim 13.8%, Building 13.6%
- #5 Skyreap
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Entin Games
Windows · Mac
Explore a forgotten archipelago of floating islands. Gather resources, build and automate production, and link islands into a thriving trade network — until the sky belongs to you.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Farming Sim 15%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 9.6%
- #6 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 25.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Farming Sim 16.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Management 9.9%
- #7 Fields of Fortune
93% 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 25.3%, Automation 21.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.3%
- #8 TowerLine
92% matchPositive96% of 26 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 26.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Building 8.3%
- #9 CosmoFab
91% match8 user reviews50% of 8 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 30.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 14.9%, Space 8.9%
- #10 Star Birds
91% matchVery Positive92% of 3,102 reviews2025
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 20.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Space 10.7%
- #11 Terrafarmers Inc.
90% 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 25.5%, Automation 16%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #12 My Shelter
89% 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: Automation 18%, Farming Sim 16.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 14%, Base Building 12.5%
- #13 Outer Factory
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
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 24.1%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 16.4%, Management 12.6%, Building 11.8%
- #14 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 19.3%, Automation 18.1%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.6%
- #15 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 20.5%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.2%
- #16 Dyson Sphere Program
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 27.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Space 18%, Building 14.5%, Management 10%
- #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 22.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 12.6%, Space 11.6%
- #18 Clogwork
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Odd Sprout Games
Windows
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 26.5%, Building 18.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 13.4%
- #19 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 23.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 12.6%, Management 12%
- #20 Node Farm
83% matchVery Positive81% of 77 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 20.4%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Management 10.6%
- #21 The Resonance Initiative
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blackfield Studios
Windows
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.
Why similar: Automation 27%, Building 19.1%, Crafting 18.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 14.7%
- #22 Untitled Automation Game
82% 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 23.6%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 13.5%
- #23 Automation Station
81% 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 24.8%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Management 10.5%
- #24 Industronaut
81% 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 21.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 12.1%, Space 11.9%
- #25 Alien Farmer
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Baran Taylan
Windows
Alien Farmer is a farming, light automation, tower defense 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 19.6%, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Space 11%, Building 10%
- #26 Jay and Silent Bob's Joint Venture
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Starworks StudiosPub: Nitrate Games
Windows
After Jay and Silent Bob sell you a bad dimebag, you help New Jersey’s legendary slackers take their operation from a rundown backyard to the best operation in the tri-state area in this gleefully obscene cozy farming adventure.
Why similar: Farming Sim 36.7%, Management 14.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Character Customization 9.2%, Cute 6.3%
- #27 Sky Homestead
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: MrBongoBong
Windows
Sky Homestead is a cozy farming and automation game set on floating islands. Rebuild a shattered sky-kingdom: raise crops, chain machines into production lines, hire a crew who work while you explore, and sail cargo balloons between the isles you bring back to life.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.4%, Automation 20.2%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Management 10.9%
- #28 Block Factory
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 264 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 22.1%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 14.5%, Management 13.5%
- #29 Shuttle World
79% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
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: Farming Sim 26%, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 15%, Crafting 11.3%
- #30 Farmous
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Besir KAYRAN
Windows
Build your dream farm, create production chains, mine valuable resources, expand your village, and grow a thriving farming empire.
Why similar: Farming Sim 26.6%, Automation 21.3%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%
- #31 plexum
77% matchNo user reviews2026
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 29.2%, Building 18.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 7.8%
- #32 Faun Town
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 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 21.2%, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%
- #33 F.E.A.S.T
74% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
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 21.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 11%
- #34 Total Factory
78% 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 17.7%, Farming Sim 16.9%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 14.6%
- #35 Factory Trashcension
75% 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%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 17.4%, Building 15.6%, Management 9.8%
- #36 Necromancer's Workshop
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Farming Sim 11.5%
- #37 shapez
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 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%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.6%
- #38 X Space
73% 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 18.1%, Space 14.3%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13%
- #39 Builderment
73% matchMixed68% of 128 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%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 17.7%, Building 14.4%, Management 5.1%
- #40 Jaden Industries: Cozy Automation Puzzler
71% 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 21.3%, Building 17.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Management 13.7%, Exploration 9.1%
- #41 Roboplant
73% matchMixed65% of 83 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 23.2%, Automation 19.2%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.9%
- #42 Pistonica
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cutting Corner Games
Windows
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 29.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Building 16%, Crafting 13.9%, Exploration 5.6%
- #43 The Last Seed
71% 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 24.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 13.8%, Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%
- #44 Plantasia
70% matchPositive87% of 31 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 23.9%, Base Building 16%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 11%, Space 11%
- #45 Amicraft Factory™
70% 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 29.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Crafting 17.2%, Building 7.4%, Character Customization 7.2%
- #46 Wreckborn
69% matchPositive96% of 26 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%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 12.9%, Space 11.4%
- #47 Agronauts
69% 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 17.6%, Base Building 16%, Space 15.5%, Management 14.4%
- #48 Alien Planet Survival
72% 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 28.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Crafting 18.1%, Building 15%, Space 10.7%
- #49 Space Chickens
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Tabsil
Windows
Space Chickens is a cozy little game where you will Breed Unique Chickens, Explore Colorful Miniature Planets and ultimately, populate your chicken museum.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.4%, Space 23.1%, Exploration 13.6%, Character Customization 10.1%, Third Person 9%
- #50 Yuri's Resolve
69% matchNo user reviews
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 24.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 17.1%, Space 14.4%, Building 9.2%
- #51 shapez 2 - Factory
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 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 24.4%, Management 14.8%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%
- #52 Outpath VR
68% 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 25.8%, Crafting 17.2%, Building 16.7%, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 6.2%
- #53 Palm Farm: Idle Crops
67% matchNo user reviews92% of 12 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 29.3%, Automation 25.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Management 10.2%
- #54 Industrial Petting
72% 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%, Farming Sim 17.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%
- #55 Shinzen Hollow
68% 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 23.7%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #56 Belts of Iron
66% matchPositive90% of 49 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%, Base Building 18%, Crafting 16.3%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.9%
- #57 UNIT 42: Adrift in Space
66% 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 23.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Space 19%, Crafting 14.7%, Management 13.2%
- #58 Dimensional Project
67% 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 25.3%, Farming Sim 24.3%, Crafting 17.9%, Management 14.6%, Third Person 5.6%
- #59 Potion Pipeline
67% 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 27.8%, Building 21.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Management 10.5%