
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

Rafting Factory
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.

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.
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 25.8%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 10.9%, 2D Platformer 8.7%
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 40.7%, Base Building 25%, Resource Management 14.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
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 36.7%, Base Building 30.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 2.2%
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Base Building 31.1%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 13.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 34%, Base Building 28.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 3.3%
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Base Building 29.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 4.5%
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 41.2%, Base Building 27.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, 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 33.7%, Base Building 28.7%, Sandbox 17.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 3.3%
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 35.3%, Base Building 27.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 3.3%
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 35.7%, Base Building 29.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 3.8%
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 35.6%, Base Building 27.1%, Sandbox 17%, Resource Management 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 2.6%
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 32.5%, Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, 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 37.3%, Base Building 30.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Adventure 4.5%
Infinite Digital Factory is a dark neon 2D automation game where numbers power every production line. Extract values, route them through independent pipes, combine larger numbers, upgrade the central core, and expand across layers with elevators, portals, space modules, and blueprints.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Base Building 28.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Strategy 4.2%
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 36.4%, Base Building 26.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Mystery 5%
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 33.7%, Base Building 27.8%, Sandbox 17.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.3%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Automation 30.9%, Base Building 28.2%, Sandbox 19%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 8.1%
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 36.9%, Base Building 30%, Sandbox 14.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 3.9%
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 40.7%, Base Building 35.2%, Sandbox 22.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Why similar: Automation 37.8%, Base Building 29%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 4.9%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 38.9%, Base Building 31.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 7.7%, Strategy 3.4%
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 36.9%, Base Building 31.6%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 3%
Lay out your machines, route your resources, and chase the perfect flow. Then a single new module reshapes everything and hands you a fresh puzzle. An automation game where you never solve the same factory twice.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 3.7%
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 32.1%, Base Building 27.6%, Sandbox 17%, Resource Management 12.9%, Surreal 5.2%
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 35.6%, Base Building 35.4%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 11.1%, Adventure 1.7%
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 32.7%, Base Building 28%, Sandbox 17.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 3.4%
Cold rationality and warm ideals. The protagonist carries conflicting worldviews—and she journeys to the afterlife.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 29.3%, Philosophical 24.1%, Story Rich 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Platformer 6.4%
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 32.8%, Base Building 29%, Sandbox 19.1%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 3.9%
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.
Why similar: Automation 37.7%, Base Building 30.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 4.1%
This is a strategy game that combines automated base construction with real-time tower defense. Land on a harsh alien planet, construct a vast automated industrial assembly line from scratch, and transform it into a formidable front capable of withstanding a massive influx of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 40.1%, Base Building 32.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Strategy 5.1%
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Why similar: Automation 40.7%, Sandbox 22%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 2.5%
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 34.3%, Base Building 29%, Sandbox 18.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 4.9%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 52%, Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%
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 42.7%, Base Building 34%, Resource Management 15.3%, Strategy 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 31.9%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 3.7%
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 38.3%, Platformer 18%, Surreal 17.9%, Story Rich 7.2%, Adventure 5.4%
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 37.1%, Base Building 27%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, 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 31.1%, Base Building 26.7%, Sandbox 17%, Resource Management 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
A deep biological network automation game where you grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume the local flora and creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity that consumes worlds.
Why similar: Automation 33.7%, Base Building 29.2%, Sandbox 16.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 3.4%
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 35.8%, Base Building 30.7%, Sandbox 16.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 2.3%
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 34.2%, Base Building 29.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 3.2%
Explore procedurally generated worlds, discover unique, randomly generated resources, 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 28.5%, Sandbox 24.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
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 38.3%, Base Building 32.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 2.2%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 27.9%, Sandbox 18.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 3.5%
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 34.4%, Base Building 25.6%, Philosophical 18.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 3.8%
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 24.9%, Sandbox 19.5%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 4%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 37.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Automation 16.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Strategy 5.8%
Automate the ultimate Korean kitchen. Route belts, watch ingredients transform, and physically assemble each kimbap roll step by step. Discover new recipes, fulfill requests, and expand your kitchen at your own pace. No pressure, no timers, just a satisfying and unique casual factory experience.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Base Building 32%, Sandbox 15.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Strategy 3%
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 32.9%, Narration 24.9%, Platformer 15.6%, Story Rich 9%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Base Building 26.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 3.5%
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 33.1%, Base Building 29.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 3.4%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Base Building 37.2%, Automation 36.3%, Sandbox 19.5%, Strategy 5.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 41.1%, Base Building 33.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Strategy 4.9%
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 42.2%, Sandbox 21.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%
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 42.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 7%
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity, all without any fighting.
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Sandbox 25.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Base Building 37.2%, Automation 36.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Strategy 3.8%
A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.
Why similar: Automation 40.2%, Base Building 33.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 8.6%, 2D 1.9%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Base Building 29.3%, Sandbox 22.1%, Resource Management 4.9%, Strategy 3.5%
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 28.3%, Base Building 25%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 12%, 2D Platformer 8.8%