- #1 Industry Idle
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,488 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.6 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: Automation 26.4%, Incremental 18.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Idler 13.6%
- #2 Incremental Factory
96% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 36.4%, Resource Management 18.9%, Idler 18.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 6.1%
- #3 Starvester
96% matchMixed70% of 810 reviews2026
Dev: Syphono4Pub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Incremental 27.3%, Idler 16%, Resource Management 15.7%, Simulation 4.5%
- #4 Forage Wizard
95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,591 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Maxim
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Why similar: Incremental 22.8%, Automation 21%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, Idler 9.9%
- #5 Sixty Four
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,665 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg DanilovPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.
Why similar: Incremental 31%, Automation 29%, Resource Management 15.3%, Idler 12.3%, Simulation 5.5%
- #6 Feed the Reactor
94% matchVery Positive82% of 665 reviews2026
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Why similar: Incremental 55.7%, Idler 21.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 5.8%, Casual 4.3%
- #7 Gridkeeper
93% matchMixed69% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: pixelwide
Windows
Gridkeeper is an incremental game about managing "Grids" and using their power to run MineBots, research tech, and grow your mining empire by getting better Grids.
Why similar: Incremental 33.3%, Automation 21.3%, Idler 18.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #8 Fracture Field
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,264 reviews2026
Dev: Type Ten
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Incremental 27%, Idler 16.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
- #9 Idle Colony
91% matchVery Positive82% of 578 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Incremental 30.6%, Idler 15.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 3.9%
- #10 shapez
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,968 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 42.2%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 19.6%, Procedural Generation 5%, Strategy 3.4%
- #11 Final Upgrade
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Base Building 24.3%, Resource Management 20.6%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 3.6%
- #12 Upload Labs
89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,641 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Incremental 21.1%, Idler 16.6%, Time Management 11%, Simulation 7.1%
- #13 Factory Town Idle
89% matchVery Positive91% of 1,262 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Incremental 27.2%, Idler 17.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Casual 3.7%
- #14 Idle Deepcore
88% matchVery Positive86% of 399 reviews2026
Dev: Bluehood Games
Windows
Idle Deepcore is an incremental mining game where you dig ever deeper, smelt ore into ingots, upgrade your pickaxe and machines, and grow several mines in parallel to build a vast underground industry.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Incremental 28.3%, Idler 16.7%, Resource Management 6.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #15 shapez 2 - Factory
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 45.9%, Base Building 20.2%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Futuristic 8.4%, Simulation 6.4%
- #16 Universe Horizon
87% matchVery Positive89% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: Jarkem
Windows · Linux
An idle incremental game where you decide to travel across the whole Universe. Embark on this journey in your little ship and get as far away as possible from Earth, gathering resources and upgrading your spaceship along the way.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Incremental 26.6%, Idler 16.9%, Resource Management 15%, Pixel Graphics 3%
- #17 Beltmatic
86% matchVery Positive95% of 2,263 reviews2024
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 17.2%, Idler 13.6%, Simulation 5.1%
- #18 Tower Wizard
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,955 reviews2025
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Why similar: Incremental 52.2%, Idler 17%, Resource Management 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Strategy 3.4%
- #19 Incredicer
84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,452 reviews2025
Dev: pochi
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.
Why similar: Incremental 33.5%, Automation 21.9%, Idler 15.5%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 3.9%
- #20 Military Incremental Complex
84% matchVery Positive81% of 754 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Incremental 27.5%, Idler 16.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Simulation 5.6%
- #21 Factorio
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 45.9%, Base Building 25.4%, Resource Management 19.8%, Strategy 2.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%
- #22 Scratch Inc.
82% matchVery Positive91% of 2,193 reviews2025
Dev: Makopaz
Windows · Mac
Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.
Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Incremental 27%, Idler 18.1%, Time Management 14.7%, Simulation 4.2%
- #23 Revolution Idle
82% matchVery Positive87% of 12,507 reviews2025
Dev: Oni Gaming
Windows
Median: 16.6 hrsMean: 181.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.
Why similar: Incremental 27.8%, Automation 26.5%, Idler 15.2%, Resource Management 13%, Futuristic 5.7%
- #24 Fortune Mill
81% matchVery Positive82% of 3,876 reviews2026
Dev: Lavaflame2
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An incremental game where you must make $1,000,000 to escape! Throw darts, drop pachinko balls, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, and discover powerful synergies as each new game affects all the others!
Why similar: Automation 29.1%, Incremental 27.7%, Idler 15.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
- #25 Hearth and Hamlet
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,235 reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: Incremental 32.9%, Base Building 21.3%, Idler 15.2%, Resource Management 14%, Simulation 4.6%
- #26 Outpath
80% matchVery Positive93% of 3,137 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Incremental 23.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 5.1%
- #27 Click and Conquer
79% matchVery Positive93% of 2,495 reviews2025
Dev: SOCKHOUSE STUDIOS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Click and Conquer is a short, relaxing incremental game. Drop bombs through the fog of war, uncover hidden enemies, collect rewards, and spend currency to boost passive income, increase bombing power, and unlock new maps.
Why similar: Incremental 43.8%, Idler 18.6%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
- #28 IDLE_DIRECTIVE
78% matchVery Positive86% of 518 reviews2026
Dev: Kevinfu510
Windows
Median: 24.8 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 100%
Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.
Why similar: Incremental 36.8%, Idler 22.1%, Automation 9.8%, Resource Management 6.5%, Simulation 6.1%
- #29 Microcivilization
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,455 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: Incremental 27.1%, Automation 24.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 15.7%, Idler 10.5%
- #30 (the) Gnorp Apologue
77% matchVery Positive95% of 9,971 reviews2023
Dev: MycoPub: (Myco)
Windows
Median: 15.5 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Why similar: Incremental 53.9%, Idler 20.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Strategy 3.5%
- #31 Crafting Idle Clicker
81% matchMixed49% of 934 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 31.4%, Incremental 30.2%, Idler 17.7%, Simulation 5.1%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #32 Factory Town
77% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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 42.6%, Base Building 25%, Resource Management 21.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 2.7%
- #33 Trainatic
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,114 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan Forrester
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Trainatic is an explosive incremental train-building game! Upgrade your cars, gather resources, and unlock powerful synergies to chug further down the track.
Why similar: Incremental 49.5%, Idler 20%, Procedural Generation 6%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Casual 5.7%
- #34 FOUNDRY
76% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 36.2%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 19.3%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Simulation 6.2%
- #35 CivIdle
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,131 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Idler 19.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 4.1%
- #36 Increlution
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,257 reviews2021
Dev: Gniller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 72.4 hrsMean: 602.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
Why similar: Incremental 44.6%, Time Management 21.8%, Idler 20.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Casual 1.6%
- #37 Orb of Creation
72% matchVery Positive84% of 2,243 reviews2026
Dev: MarpleGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 49.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
Why similar: Incremental 64.9%, Resource Management 17.8%, Idler 8.3%, Casual 3.9%, Strategy 3.8%
- #38 Nightwater
73% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ashty
Windows
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Incremental 23%, Resource Management 15.4%, Idler 13.2%, Base Building 12.6%
- #39 Mob Factory
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 42.2%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 19.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 3.2%
- #40 Idle Research
73% matchVery Positive84% of 1,909 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Why similar: Incremental 28.5%, Automation 26.8%, Idler 18.3%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 5.5%
- #41 FACEMINER
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,560 reviews2025
Dev: WristworkPub: Wristwork Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
Why similar: Incremental 44.3%, Idler 21.6%, Time Management 13.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #42 Dyson Sphere Program
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 46.5%, Base Building 26.4%, Resource Management 18.1%, Simulation 5.4%, Strategy 2.3%
- #43 Learning Factory
72% matchVery Positive86% of 523 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 38.5%, Base Building 23%, Resource Management 20.5%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Simulation 5.6%
- #44 Coin Factory
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 218 reviews2024
Dev: Lino Rabolini
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!
Why similar: Idler 40.2%, Resource Management 28.6%, Casual 11.5%, Strategy 8%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #45 Upload Simulator Silicon
74% matchMostly Positive69% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Upload Simulator Silicon is an incremental game about uploading, making money, hacking, and ascending as a powerful entity that controls the very laws of the universe using powerful technologies you discover throught your journey.
Why similar: Incremental 43.3%, Idler 25%, Resource Management 10.2%, Casual 7.1%, Futuristic 6.1%
- #46 Particul
70% matchVery Positive80% of 781 reviews2026
Dev: MILLION PIXELS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Click to mine particles and watch your pile grow. Turn resources into profit, automate extraction, research new technologies and trade. Can you mine the rarest particle and ascend? There is just one way to find out.
Why similar: Incremental 34.8%, Idler 20.3%, Automation 16.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Casual 7.2%
- #47 MMO98
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 513 reviews2026
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Why similar: Incremental 39%, Idler 19.5%, Automation 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 8.6%
- #48 Chipmatic
70% matchMixed66% of 178 reviews2026
Dev: Molter
Windows · Linux
Chipmatic is an incremental factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore underground, find buried blueprints, research technologies and upgrade yourself to create the best (and only) factory on Earth!
Why similar: Automation 66.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Futuristic 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #49 Click Mage
68% matchVery Positive92% of 2,593 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Incremental 44.7%, Resource Management 27.9%, Simulation 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Casual 5.4%
- #50 3D Printer Manager
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 103 reviews2026
Dev: Smushii
Windows · Mac · Linux
Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive semi idle tycoon game.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Incremental 20.5%, Idler 15.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Time Management 7.1%
- #51 Incremental Town RPG
71% matchMixed60% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Incremental 23.9%, Automation 17.7%, Idler 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.4%
- #52 Sandustry
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 42.9%, Base Building 23.7%, Resource Management 19.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 4.3%
- #53 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 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 39.9%, Base Building 21.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Futuristic 7.1%
- #54 Microtopia
67% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 35%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 18.8%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Futuristic 7.8%
- #55 Swarmdustry
67% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Procedural Generation 7.7%, Simulation 6.6%
- #56 Builderment
69% 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 40.4%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 19.5%, Simulation 4.5%, Procedural Generation 3.1%
- #57 Autonauts
68% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 49.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Casual 4.4%
- #58 A Game About Feeding A Black Hole
65% matchVery Positive88% of 3,544 reviews2025
Dev: AarimousPub: Aarimous and Thornity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A short incremental game about feeding a Black Hole matter by destroying Asteroids, Planets, and Stars.
Why similar: Incremental 55.8%, Idler 14.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 4.7%, Casual 4.6%
- #59 Final Factory
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 18.5%, Procedural Generation 7.3%, Simulation 5.7%
- #60 Beltex
68% matchVery Positive86% of 234 reviews2022
Dev: Notional Games
Windows
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 33.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 16.8%, Idler 14%, Simulation 5.3%