
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%, Base Building 24.6%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, 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 37.4%, Base Building 29.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 13%, 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 34.8%, Base Building 28.2%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 3.3%
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 37.6%, Base Building 28.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, 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 41.9%, Base Building 27.1%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 12.4%, 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 34.5%, Base Building 28.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, 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 36.1%, Base Building 26.9%, Sandbox 17.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, 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 36.5%, Base Building 28.6%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 12.8%, Strategy 3.7%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Base Building 32%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, 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 36.4%, Base Building 26.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, 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 33.1%, Base Building 27.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, 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 38.1%, Base Building 29.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Adventure 4.3%
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 37.4%, Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Mystery 4.8%
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 31.6%, Base Building 27.6%, Sandbox 18.7%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 8%
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 34.4%, Base Building 27.3%, Sandbox 17%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 7.2%
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 41.7%, Base Building 34.6%, Sandbox 22.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Base Building 31%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 7.9%, 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 32.8%, Base Building 27%, Sandbox 16.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Surreal 5.1%
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 33.4%, Base Building 27.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 3.3%
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 36.3%, Base Building 34.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, 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 33.6%, Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 3.9%
Travel to alien planets and mine for resources. Build a factory out of blocks. Automate and innovate with customizable machines. Cash in your harvest and prove you are the best digger in the galaxy.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, 2D Platformer 27.2%, Base Building 22.6%, Platformer 8.2%, Resource Management 3.8%
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 39.8%, Base Building 30.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Adventure 4.3%
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 40.9%, Base Building 31.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 5%
Fast-paced factory builder with combat. Automate, defend, and destroy the alien mothership!
Why similar: Automation 41.5%, Sandbox 21.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 2.4%
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 35.1%, Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 18.4%, Resource Management 10%, 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 35.8%, Base Building 30.3%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 13%, Strategy 3.7%
Cold rationality and warm ideals. The protagonist carries conflicting worldviews—and she journeys to the afterlife.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 29.3%, Philosophical 24%, Story Rich 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Platformer 6.3%
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 37.8%, Base Building 26.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, 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 31.9%, Base Building 26.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, 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 36.6%, Base Building 30%, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 14%, 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 34.9%, Base Building 28.6%, Sandbox 17.8%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 3.2%
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%, Base Building 31.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 2.2%
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 29.4%, Sandbox 24.5%, Base Building 20.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
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 35.5%, Base Building 29.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 4.9%
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 41.4%, Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 19.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 3.9%
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 35.4%, Base Building 25.2%, Philosophical 18.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Strategy 3.8%
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 38.4%, Surreal 18%, Platformer 17.7%, Story Rich 7.3%, Adventure 5.3%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 27.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 3.4%
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 28.7%, Base Building 23.8%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 12.5%
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 35%, Base Building 26.1%, Sandbox 19.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 3.5%
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 36.9%, Sandbox 20.6%, Automation 17.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 5.7%
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 33.8%, Base Building 28.7%, Sandbox 18%, Resource Management 14.3%, Strategy 3.4%
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 42.1%, Base Building 32.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Strategy 4.8%
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%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Strategy 6.9%
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Base Building 36.6%, Sandbox 19.2%, Strategy 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 43.4%, Base Building 33.3%, Resource Management 18.6%, Strategy 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
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 41%, Base Building 33.1%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 8.5%, 2D 1.8%
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%, Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 15.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, 2D Platformer 8.5%
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 33.3%, Narration 24.2%, Platformer 15.6%, Story Rich 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
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 33.4%, Base Building 27.4%, Sandbox 17.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, 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 36.9%, Base Building 29.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 4.5%
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%, Base Building 28.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 3.6%
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 35.5%, Base Building 29.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 3.3%
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: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 26.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
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 40.4%, Base Building 31.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, 2D 1.4%
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Why similar: Automation 45.6%, Base Building 34.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, 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 32.4%, Base Building 29.7%, Sandbox 18.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, 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 33.9%, Base Building 28.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Strategy 3.2%