- #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 16.8% ★, Automation 15.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Mining 10.2% ★
- #2 Factory Town
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 15.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Transportation 11.2% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Colony Sim 9.5%
- #3 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 20.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, City Builder 9.4%, Economy 7.9%
- #4 Economicon
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gomo StudiosPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.
Why similar: Transportation 21.2% ★, Automation 17.9%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 9%
- #5 NationForge
94% 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 24% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Automation 17.1%, Resource Management 6.3%, Trading 5.6%
- #6 Factory Town 2: Paradise
93% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Colony Sim 8.9%, Economy 7.9%
- #7 Builderment
94% matchMixed68% of 128 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 19.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Transportation 7.5% ★
- #8 Odd Realm
92% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 12.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Automation 11.7%, Mining 10.8% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #9 the Cellarer
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Transportation 13.6% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #10 Mini Settlers: Prologue
91% 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 16.6% ★, Automation 15.2%, City Builder 12.5%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Base Building 10.4%
- #11 Mad Tower Tycoon
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 444 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 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 14.6%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Economy 8.3%, Management 7.3%
- #12 Country Architect
89% 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 18%, Transportation 14.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.1%
- #13 Automation Empire
89% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 20.2%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 8.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #14 Outer Factory
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows · Mac
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 19.4%, Transportation 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #15 Spaceflight Factory
86% 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 18.3% ★, Automation 14.5%, City Builder 13.5%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%
- #16 Rise of Industry
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 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 17.2%, Economy 11.3%, Transportation 10.7% ★, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #17 Islandustry
86% 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%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 7.9%
- #18 Flow Factory
85% 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 19.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Mining 12.7% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #19 Texas Oil Baron
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slabon Games
Windows
Build your Texas oil empire from scratch. Explore the underground, drill wells, and extract oil into tanks or barrels. Sell it cheaply at a local depot or store it and wait for a price spike on global markets. An atmospheric economic tycoon game featuring a unique cross-section view of the earth.
Why similar: Transportation 13.5% ★, Automation 12.7%, Economy 11.4%, Mining 10.6% ★, Management 10.3%
- #20 Kingdom Workshop
84% 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 15.4%, Automation 12.2%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9%
- #21 Wild West Pioneers
83% 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 16.6%, Transportation 14.3% ★, Colony Sim 12.6%, Mining 9.3% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #22 Macaronpolis
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lemiraum
Windows
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Transportation 21.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.1%
- #23 FluxWerks
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 20%, Transportation 19.7% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.2%
- #24 StarScraper
82% 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 21% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #25 Astral Enterprises
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimise production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10.9%
- #26 Industry Idle
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,484 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 18.7% ★, Automation 15.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #27 Malmyr
81% 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 19.1% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Automation 12.9%, Mining 9.9% ★, Base Building 8.6%
- #28 InfraSpace
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,954 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 21% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Automation 14.2%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%
- #29 All Roads Connected
78% 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 17.9%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10%, Trading 8.3%
- #30 Farmman
78% 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 20.1%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #31 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 19.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 8.5%
- #32 Civilize
77% 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 24.8%, Transportation 18.9% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.8%
- #33 Casino Resort Tower
76% matchVery Positive94% of 135 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 16.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Automation 10%, City Builder 9.9%
- #34 Terra-7
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #35 Industrial Mogul
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: codebooster
Windows · Linux
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build powerful brands, and compete for market dominance in a dynamic economy shaped by supply and demand.
Why similar: Transportation 17.4% ★, Automation 12.9%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 8.7%
- #36 Intergalactic Transfer Station
74% 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 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Simulation 8.6%
- #37 Survival Vacancy
75% 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 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Mining 9.5% ★, City Builder 9.4%
- #38 Factor Y
73% 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 18.5%, Mining 16.2% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #39 Airport CEO
74% matchVery Positive83% of 8,330 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 17.2% ★, Automation 12.7%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 7.8%
- #40 Radia Island
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 14%, Automation 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%
- #41 Ridiculous Shipping
73% 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 23.4% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 9.9%
- #42 Agromatic
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
An industrial empire builder where the workforce is the automation. Hire specialists with their own traits and put them to work wherever the operation needs them, mines, workshops, rail depots, research labs. You decide what gets built. They make it run.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Automation 17%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 10%, Economy 9%
- #43 Subway Builder
71% matchMixed57% of 360 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Resource Management 9.7%, Automation 9.6%, Building 9.6%, Management 9.4%
- #44 Greedy Little Kingdoms
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil 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 19.6%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #45 Proto Garden
71% 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 20.3%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 8%
- #46 Deep Space Directive
71% matchPositive88% of 16 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 16.3%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #47 Space Architect
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 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 15.5%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Mining 9.6% ★, Management 7.9%
- #48 Times of Progress
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pressing Thumbs Games
Windows · Linux
Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Transportation 15.5% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #49 Resort Galactica
70% 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 16.2%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.4%
- #50 Automation Station
69% 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 21.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.5%
- #51 Modulus: Factory Automation
67% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #52 City Masterplan
69% 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 24.2%, Transportation 14.4% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Automation 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #53 Copacetic
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
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 17.6%, Management 12.4%, Automation 12.2%, Mining 10.3% ★, City Builder 10.3%
- #54 Musgro Farm
68% 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 16.9% ★, Automation 15.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.5%
- #55 Production City
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mayor of the Month
Windows
Production City is a city builder focused on manufacturing, logistics, and politics. Build efficient production chains, make impactful (or questionable) decisions, and grow your city into an industrial empire!
Why similar: Transportation 25.6% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.3%
- #56 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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 18.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #57 The Colonists
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,240 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 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 17.8%, Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%
- #58 Galaxy Scavengers
66% 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 18.3%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Automation 10.4%
- #59 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
64% matchVery Positive82% of 1,472 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 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 18%, Automation 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%