- #1 Infindustry
97% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Transportation 16.7% ★, Automation 15.6%, City Builder 11.3%, Mining 10.2% ★, Base Building 10.1%
- #2 Factory Town
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 15.6%, City Builder 12.4%, Transportation 11.1% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Colony Sim 9.4%
- #3 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 21.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 8.4%, City Builder 8.3%
- #4 NationForge
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Transportation 23.8% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Automation 17.6%, Resource Management 6.5%, Trading 5.7%
- #5 Builderment
94% matchMixed67% of 121 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 20%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10%, Transportation 7.3% ★
- #6 Factory Town 2: Paradise
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Economy 8.2%
- #7 Odd Realm
93% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 12.2%, Automation 12%, City Builder 12%, Mining 10.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%
- #8 Mini Settlers: Prologue
92% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Transportation 16.5% ★, Automation 15.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%
- #9 Mad Tower Tycoon
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 441 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Transportation 15.7% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Economy 8.6%, Management 7.4%
- #10 Automation Empire
91% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20.7%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%, Economy 7.8%
- #11 Outer Factory
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
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 19.9%, Transportation 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #12 Rise of Industry
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Economy 11.6%, Transportation 10.6% ★, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #13 Spaceflight Factory
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Transportation 18.2% ★, Automation 14.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #14 Country Architect
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Transportation 14.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7%
- #15 Islandustry
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
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 20.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9%, Building 7.8%
- #16 Flow Factory
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
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 20.3%, Base Building 13%, Mining 12.8% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #17 Kingdom Workshop
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 15.1%, Automation 12.6%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.3%
- #18 Wild West Pioneers
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Transportation 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 12.6%, Mining 9.4% ★, Base Building 8.3%
- #19 StarScraper
84% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mitchell GarrettPub: Rosae Ex Ludis
Windows
So, you’re the new Boss? Seems like every year I get a new entrepreneur to babysit. It takes more than dreams to build a skyscraper! You need to track stocks, utilities, prestige—ah who am I kidding? You're rich, you can do whatever you want. Go on, build rockets into it like the last clown did.
Why similar: Transportation 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #20 Astral Enterprises
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 11.9%, Management 10.9%
- #21 Malmyr
84% matchPositive81% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: ziegler gamedev GbR
Windows · Linux
Malmyr - Plan and optimize complex production chains. In each of the royal missions, the rules change and you are always challenged anew. What is it about the magical dwarven runes? Can you combine the runes correctly to master even the greatest challenges?
Why similar: Transportation 18.9% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Automation 13.2%, Mining 10% ★, Base Building 8.5%
- #22 FluxWerks
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Transportation 19.6% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.1%
- #23 Union Of Rivals
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2Play
Windows
The rails are coming. Build, Trade, or break them. Connect East to West in a harsh frontier where every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. Harvest resources, refine goods, and persuade stubborn towns to let the tracks through. The West is untamed, and so are the people.
Why similar: Transportation 15.7% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Mining 11% ★, Colony Sim 10.8%, Automation 9.8%
- #24 Industry Idle
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Transportation 18.5% ★, Automation 16.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #25 InfraSpace
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,907 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Automation 14.6%, Resource Management 8%, Economy 7.7%
- #26 Deep Space Directive
80% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #27 All Roads Connected
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Trading 8.4%
- #28 Farmman
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #29 Civilize
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NCAT
Windows
From the first stone tool to the first starship. One city carries an entire civilization across eight ages. Civilize is the first CivForge: a city-builder where multiple islands and 100+ resources let you forge an arc of human history that is entirely your own.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Transportation 18.8% ★, Resource Management 12.9%, Economy 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #30 Oxygen: First Breath
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Economy 8.8%
- #31 Intergalactic Transfer Station
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build & manage your Intergalactic Transfer Hub. Receive travellers and dock ships. Help passengers transfer, but also control them. Expand hub, build shops, take care of everyone's needs. Increase profits, change taxes. But beware: dangerous diseases and asteroids may alter your plans!
Why similar: Transportation 16.6% ★, Automation 14.7%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 10%, Simulation 8.6%
- #32 Casino Resort Tower
76% matchVery Positive94% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Transportation 16.8% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Automation 10.3%, Colony Sim 10.2%, City Builder 9.7%
- #33 Survival Vacancy
77% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Base Building 10%, Mining 9.6% ★, City Builder 9.2%
- #34 Factor Y
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #35 Airport CEO
76% matchVery Positive83% of 8,179 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 17% ★, Automation 13.1%, City Builder 11%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #36 Ridiculous Shipping
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crowfriend
Windows · Linux
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: Transportation 23.3% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 10.2%
- #37 Proto Garden
74% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: arreyne
Windows · Linux
Factory automation, but the conveyor belts are bees! Gather pollen, automate honey production, and research new flowers to create your own ecosystem from the ground up.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 7.9%
- #38 Greedy Little Kingdoms
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Automation 16%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #39 Space Architect
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 288 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Mining 9.6% ★, Management 7.9%
- #40 Automation Station
73% 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 21.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.3%
- #41 Copacetic
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Automation 12.5%, Management 12.5%, Mining 10.4% ★, City Builder 10.1%
- #42 Logistik
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Why similar: Transportation 18.4% ★, Automation 14.1%, City Builder 11.4%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Base Building 8%
- #43 Modulus: Factory Automation
69% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 19.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.9%
- #44 Resort Galactica
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.3%
- #45 City Masterplan
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1:1 Studio
Windows
Break the grid and build a true 1:1 scale metropolis. City Masterplan is a realistic city builder where traffic, citizens, and economy form a fully simulated system. Design complex road networks freely, manage real congestion, and shape a city through the decisions you make.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Transportation 14.4% ★, Automation 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 8.1%
- #46 The Colonists
72% matchVery Positive86% of 1,222 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Automation 17.3%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.4%
- #47 Musgro Farm
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metal Games LLC
Windows
Start a farming empire in this incremental factory builder. Plant crops, combine them into recipes, and distribute them for sale. Optimize your layouts and reinvest in your infrastructure to maximize your output. Gain experience to unlock new technologies and expand your ever-growing automated farm.
Why similar: Transportation 16.7% ★, Automation 15.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 8.6%
- #48 Galaxy Scavengers
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
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 18.1%, Colony Sim 12%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Automation 10.7%
- #49 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Automation 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #50 First Feudal
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.5%
- #51 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Mining 19.8% ★, Automation 18%, Transportation 11.2% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Economy 6.8%
- #52 Beyond These Stars
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Automation 14.2%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10%
- #53 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #54 Good Company
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #55 Oxygen
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #56 Biofactory
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
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 21.7%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.5%, City Builder 9.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #57 Crowded Blue Dot
68% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Management 9.7%
- #58 Food Industry
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Evolugame
Windows
Build and expand in agriculture, industry and commerce. Evolve in the food industry sector, and weather the storms by helping your people build the new world.
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Trading 9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #59 Doodle Factory
66% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
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 21.5%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 9.5%