
A 2D sandbox focused on exploration and automation. Construct production chains, optimize resource flow, and discover hidden mechanics shaping a self evolving world. Please don't fall that would be bad for your bones actually
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A 2D sandbox focused on exploration and automation. Construct production chains, optimize resource flow, and discover hidden mechanics shaping a self evolving world. Please don't fall that would be bad for your bones actually

Manaftory
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.

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.
Collect resources, build machines, and automate everything. Explore magical lands, face hostile creatures, and turn their loot into part of your factory system. This is your Manaftory — a magical factory powered by mana.
Why similar: Automation 41.3%, Base Building 24.4%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
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 37.7%, Base Building 29.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 2.2%
Jigsaw Industry is a game that allows you to unleash your creativity and fully enjoy the fun of thinking. Design your own factory to combine and process different shapes and colors. A fully automated and intelligent factory can be achieved through digital circuits, logic signals, and other means.
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Base Building 28%, Sandbox 15.8%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 3.2%
Kardashev is a first-person, space set, procedural open world, factory building game. Your primary goal is to ascend the Kardashev Scale.
Why similar: Automation 37.9%, Base Building 28.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 4.4%
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 42.2%, Base Building 26.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%
"Poop Right Now" is a puzzle game. Players play the role of "Courier" who have just entered the industry here to transport "Poop" to the right place. Please carefully arrange the transportation route to ensure that the "Poop" can be transported safely and accurately to its destination.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 27.9%, Sandbox 17.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 3.2%
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 36.3%, Base Building 26.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 3.2%
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 36.8%, Base Building 28.3%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 3.7%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Base Building 31.9%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 3.8%
Stellar Descending is a turn-based factory builder spanning multiple layers. As a scout, design vertical production lines using conveyors, assemblers, and inserters. Use strategy and automation to conquer the planet and uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Base Building 29.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Adventure 4.2%
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 33.4%, Base Building 27.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 3.8%
Another Game About Automation is a casual factory-building where you have to generate numbers and combine them with mathematical operations. Upgrade and unlock new mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 42.1%, Base Building 34.3%, Sandbox 21.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%
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 34.8%, Base Building 27.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.2%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 30.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 3.3%
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 27.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 3.3%
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 33.1%, Base Building 26.8%, Sandbox 16.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Surreal 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 36.6%, Base Building 34.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Adventure 1.6%
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 33.9%, Base Building 28.2%, Sandbox 18.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 3.8%
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains to survive alone on a radiation heavy planet with no rescue and no external support.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 30.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Adventure 4.2%
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 35.4%, Base Building 28.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 4.9%
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 36.1%, Base Building 30%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 3.7%
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 38.1%, Base Building 26.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Strategy 3.2%
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 32.2%, Base Building 26.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 5%
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 37%, Base Building 29.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Strategy 2.2%
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 39.4%, Base Building 31.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 2.2%
Cold rationality and warm ideals. The protagonist carries conflicting worldviews—and she journeys to the afterlife.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 29.1%, Philosophical 24.1%, Story Rich 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Emotional 6.3%
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover resources drawn from a vast randomly generated pool, create tools and machines in a free-form crafting system and progress from sticks and stones to space rockets in a sandbox loop of discovering and inventing
Why similar: Automation 29.7%, Sandbox 24.3%, Base Building 20.2%, Adventure 8%, Pixel Graphics 7%
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 29.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 4.9%
Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.
Why similar: Automation 35.8%, Base Building 25.1%, Philosophical 18.1%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 3.8%
Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game where you build and scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what’s stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 29%, Base Building 23.7%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 12.7%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Base Building 27.3%, Sandbox 17.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 3.4%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 41%, Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 4%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 25.9%, Sandbox 19.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 3.5%
Help Lionel on his epic hack & Slash adventure to save his town from the evil Ringmaster. Explore the small town carnival, check out the rides, Carnie games, food court, a not so fun house, and make your way to the Big Top in a hand-drawn 2D art style.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 38.2%, Surreal 18.1%, Platformer 17.6%, Story Rich 7.3%, Adventure 5.3%
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 28.5%, Sandbox 17.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 3.4%
A plant-sim automation game with resource management and roguelike progression. Build transport networks, manage resource flow, unlock mutations, and stack synergies as you spread across procedurally generated biomes.
Why similar: Automation 43.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 15.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 6.8%
Bestion is a game that combines Roguelike tower defense elements with automated factory construction. Players are required to construct their own factory on a planet and protect the kernel from monster attacks.
Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Base Building 32.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Strategy 4.8%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Base Building 33.6%, Resource Management 18.5%, Strategy 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Multiply Factory is a factory building game. Build your own multiple-layer factory within a 3-D space with belts, inserters, factories and stairs. Enjoy the fantasy of manufacturing.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Base Building 24.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, 2D Platformer 8.4%
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 33.7%, Base Building 27.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 3.4%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Base Building 28.9%, Sandbox 16.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 4.5%
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 35.8%, Base Building 29.7%, Sandbox 18.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 3.3%
Beltex is a casual factory game played on a hex map. Extract numbers. Combine them using mathematical operations. Deliver them using belts across a huge map. Unlock new buildings and upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 34.4%, Base Building 27.9%, Sandbox 17.9%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 3.5%
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Base Building 31.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, 2D 1.4%
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 46%, Base Building 34.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, 2D 1.4%
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 32.7%, Base Building 29.4%, Sandbox 18.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 3.2%
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 34.2%, Base Building 28.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 3.2%
A crash. Alone in a lab while war rages around you. Explore dark alien dungeons, mine rare minerals, build machines to survive and fight to uncover the truth buried deep below.
Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Sandbox 23.7%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Adventure 2.6%
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 45.1%, Base Building 34.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 3.8%, 2D 2.2%
Macaronpolis is a simulation game where you design your own ultimate factory. Start from scratch and become a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 26%, Sandbox 16.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
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 33.1%, Base Building 32.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 3.3%
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 26.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
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 37.4%, Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Strategy 3.9%
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 49.8%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 17.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Singleplayer 2%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 26%, Sandbox 16.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Classic retro-style platform game inspired by the famous handheld consoles of the 90s. Jump, hit, collect items, and get power-ups as you advance through challenging levels and face powerful bosses. The key to success is not giving up and knowing your enemy.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 36%, Narration 17.9%, Platformer 16.8%, Story Rich 10%, Pixel Graphics 6%
This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.
Why similar: Automation 49.4%, Sandbox 26.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 5.2%, 2D 2.6%
Automate your factory to fuel a planet-splitting laser drill. Mass-produce mechanized combat units, deploy them in tactical auto-battles to conquer enemy outposts, and route their resources back to your expanding mega-factory. Grow your army and destroy the Runaway Artificial Superintelligence (RAS)
Why similar: Automation 34%, Base Building 27.7%, Sandbox 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%