Games Like Tower Factory

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 25%, Tower Defense 19.8%, RTS 18.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Like Tower Factory, it brilliantly combines resource automation and conveyor logistics with intense tower defense combat.

In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.

Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Tower Defense 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Roguelite 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation mechanics and roguelite progression to fuel your tower defense strategy.

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 33.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate factory-building game where resource management and automated defense are core to survival.

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 24%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10%, RTS 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on turning defeated enemies into factory resources while building up your defenses.

Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.7%, Roguelike 14.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure roguelite tower defense experience that shares the same strategic wave-survival feel.

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends side-scrolling automation and crafting with base defense elements.

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 25.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, RTS 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex space-based automation and resource management against hostile threats.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 17.7%, RTS 15.1%, Isometric 9%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Mixes base building, resource automation, and survival tower defense against massive alien swarms.

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Roguelite 11.7%, Roguelike 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep resource mining and roguelite tower defense strategy.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, City Builder 20.9%, Action RTS 19.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Isometric 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that streamlines base-building and tower defense into fast-paced tactical gameplay.

Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Roguelite 10.4%, RTS 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy tower defense game with roguelite progression and strategic base-building.

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 34.2%, Base Building 23.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory builder that satisfies the same urge for complex logistics and automated production chains.

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 24%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on heavy logistics, automation, and town management mirroring supply chain optimization.

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Roguelike 23.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, Procedural Generation 17.4%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features roguelike mining and resource management while defending your base from relentless monster waves.

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Automation 23.8%, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers space-based automation and base-building simulation mechanics.

Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.

Why similar: Tower Defense 67%, Strategy 17.9%, Colorful 11.2%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply strategic tower defense game with complex upgrade systems and resource mechanics.

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 24.8%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 13.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A subsurface factory building and automation game focused on resource extraction.

Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, RTS 19.1%, City Builder 11.5%, Roguelite 11.1%, Procedural Generation 11%

Why You'll Like It: A hexagonal grid tower defense game featuring roguelite strategy elements.

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 29%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox focused on automation and crafting.

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Why similar: Tower Defense 86.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends first-person shooter mechanics with intricate tower defense base building.

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, tower defense, and automation in a top-down view.

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 29.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Pure automation and geometric shape processing without the combat stress.

Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Isometric 9.6%, Roguelite 9.4%, Roguelike 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based tower defense game with city-building and sandbox elements.

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: RTS 16.8%, Tower Defense 16.8%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy roguelike base builder featuring tower defense mechanics.

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 23.6%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world automation and crafting title centered on supply lines.

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 24.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game dedicated to intricate manufacturing lines and strategy.

Tower Defense Rogue-like. Defend a temple on a procedural map with variety of towers. Craft your strategy through Boon and Curse cards. With every run earn faith to upgrade the weapons. Many progression paths keep you engaged and entertained without getting stuck.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.3%, Roguelike 15.9%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Action RTS 14.9% ★, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike tower defense game driven by procedural generation and strategic placement.

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: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13.6%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down strategy and simulation game centered on automated base rebuilding.

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, RTS 16.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Roguelike 9.3%, Roguelite 8.7%

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Roguelite 12.4%, Isometric 12.2%

This is a strategy game that combines tower defense with Roguelike. Unlike traditional tower defense game, the towers in the game are vehicles that move along ‘loops’.You need to create defense loop and build battle trains to defend against enemy attacks.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.2%, RTS 20.3%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Roguelike 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical tower defense game with roguelike survival mechanics.

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An idle-focused automation and resource management experience.

Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.

Why similar: Automation 39.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 8.7%

Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

Why similar: Action RTS 19.2% ★, Tower Defense 16.4%, RTS 14.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%

The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!

Why similar: Automation 34%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Roguelite 12%, Roguelike 10.1%

Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.6%, Base Building 17%, Roguelite 13.6%, Management 12.2%, Roguelike 10.2%

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11.6%

Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.7%, Roguelike 20.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Colorful 4.7%

Defend your base with placeable towers that can be upgraded endlessly. Automate your production and make sure there's enough power to keep everything running.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.5%, Automation 28.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Base Building 6.4%

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Action RTS 23% ★, Tower Defense 21.8%, RTS 18.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Roguelite 8%

Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Roguelite 13.6%, Roguelike 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%

Assemble a factory, manufacture golems, and defend yourself from ruin in this strategic automation roguelike.

Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Tower Defense 28.6%, Roguelike 15.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 9.2%

A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.6%, Roguelite 25.3%, Roguelike 13.9%, Strategy 12.2%

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 24.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 11%, Crafting 10%

As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, City Builder 19.2%, RTS 18.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Roguelite 9%

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Roguelite 14.1%, Sandbox 11.2%

Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?

Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Roguelite 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%

Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, RTS 19.9%, Base Building 12%, Roguelite 11.1%, Roguelike 9.8%

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Roguelite 28.5%, Roguelike 27.2%, Procedural Generation 26.1%, Strategy 15.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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 32.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.8%

The Territory of Egg is a unique twist on tower defense game. You need to build defense lines with egg warriors to protect the Holy Egg, the core of all eggs. Remember to upgrade your Tech Tree with the resources you've collected and unlock more skills to fight against the evil monsters.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, RTS 20.5%, Isometric 11.3%, Roguelite 10.8%, Procedural Generation 10.3%

Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, RTS 19.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Roguelike 10.2%, Procedural Generation 10.1%

Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.7%, Roguelike 17.6%, Roguelite 15.4%, Isometric 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Action RTS 17.7% ★, RTS 15.9%, Tower Defense 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 11%

You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.7%, Action RTS 17.3% ★, City Builder 14.2%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 11%

Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.

Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Management 13.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Exploration 7.6%

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 32.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Management 8.6%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Automation 25.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 9.9%

Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Tower Defense 31.5%, Roguelike 11.4%, Roguelite 11.4%, Strategy 8.2%

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 28.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Management 9.3%