- #1 Desk Top Racer
96% matchMixed64% of 194 reviews2026
Dev: BRHP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Turn your desktop into a living racetrack with this idle racing management game. Acquire cars, equip parts, and compete online against other players. Win championships and expand your garage through Mastery, Collections, and new rewards.
Why similar: Racing 24.2%, Automation 22.4%, Management 11.8%, Inventory Management 10.2%, Sports 9.9%
- #2 Motorsport Manager
96% matchVery Positive92% of 14,233 reviews2016
Dev: Playsport GamesPub: Miniclip
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 41.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing.
Why similar: Racing 45.8%, Management 27.5%, Sports 14.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Economy 0.7%
- #3 Racing Series Manager
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ivan Wolf
Windows
A fresh take on classic racing management games. Gameplay focuses on off-track team leadership—tune your car, negotiate with drivers and staff, secure sponsors, and engage in tech espionage.
Why similar: Racing 40%, Sports 23.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Management 10%, Economy 6.7%
- #4 Attrition Line
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Attrition Line
Windows · Linux
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 14.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Crafting 9%
- #5 Chocolatio
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RawEgg
Windows
Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.
Why similar: Automation 43.9%, Strategy 17%, Management 14.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #6 We Need More Steam!
93% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 38.3%, Strategy 18.5%, Management 17.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 6.6%
- #7 Potion Pipeline
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
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 34.8%, Strategy 17.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10.4%, Building 7.9%
- #8 Car Factory Tycoon
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jomica
Windows · Mac
Build cars step-by-step in a factory sim. Design vehicles, build your garage layout, hire and train workers, manage parking inventory, and sell cars through customer orders or walk-in buyers as you expand your operation.
Why similar: Automation 37.5%, Management 23.2%, Strategy 16.7%, Economy 11.2%, Building 5%
- #9 Quarter Horse Racing
91% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: GJ ARTS LLC
Windows
Spend a day at the races - Quarter Horse races.
Why similar: Racing 54.3%, Sports 27.3%, Strategy 16.6%, 2D 1%, Casual 0.8%
- #10 Chalo Chalo
90% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Tomasz Kaye
Windows
Chalo Chalo offers slow tactical racing for 3 to 8 players competing in short tournaments. It's a local multiplayer game with simple controls that is easy to pick up. Players race through procedural landscapes utilizing tactical pick-ups to outsmart their opponents.
Why similar: Racing 57.8%, Sports 25.3%, Strategy 16.9%
- #11 Scraplings
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 38.4%, Strategy 14%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #12 Open Wheel Manager 2
88% matchVery Positive73% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Paprikash GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
The ultimate racing management sim - Strategize, customize, refine to create your racing edge. Hire, research, win sponsors and attract the best drivers all while managing every aspect of your 90’s race team.
Why similar: Racing 42.2%, Management 19.8%, Sports 19.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 4.3%
- #13 Forge Industry
87% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Management 13.5%, Inventory Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.1%
- #14 Outer Factory
86% 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 33.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 13.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Strategy 9.2%
- #15 Software CEO
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Management 18.5%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Inventory Management 9.5%
- #16 Captain of Industry
84% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 41.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 11.7%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #17 Islandustry
85% 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 34.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 6.1%
- #18 Redline Rookie: A 4WD Racing Career
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Night Garage Games
Windows · Mac
A mini 4WD career racer where setup is everything — zero input once the race starts. 55 parts mapped to real physics (no fake buffs), 9 AI rivals playing by exactly your rules, an F1-style 8-round season with sponsors and paddock drama. Tune, watch, learn, win.
Why similar: Racing 57.8%, Sports 24.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Casual 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #19 BOREWORKS
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hello Egg
Windows
A chill, top down automation game about mining asteroids down to the core. Build bots. Figure out logistics. Automate yourself out of a job.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Management 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #20 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
82% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 37.1%, Management 16.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 12.6%, Crafting 10.4%
- #21 Racing Manager
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Underdog Factory
Windows
Manage your racing team: strategy, tires, staff, budget, and real-time decisions. Build the perfect crew and lead them to victory in this immersive motorsport management game.
Why similar: Racing 56.2%, Sports 25.5%, Strategy 14.7%, 2D 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #22 Live Cycling Manager 2023
81% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Xagu Studios
Windows
Live Cycling Manager 2023 is the ultimate cycling manager game. Select or create the club of your dreams and manage each and every aspect! Become the Sports Manager of a professional team and compete against another 40 teams until you reach the top.
Why similar: Racing 51%, Sports 23.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 2.9%
- #23 US Open Wheel 85-95 Manager
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tim Wheatley
Windows
Manage a racing team through the golden era of US-based open-wheel racing. Handle finances, drivers, chassis and strategy - all leading to one goal: conquering the 500.
Why similar: Racing 52.7%, Sports 24%, Strategy 13.9%, Management 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #24 plexum
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
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 40%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Management 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #25 Copacetic
79% 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: Management 20.7%, Automation 19.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Crafting 6.9%
- #26 shapez
78% 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 40.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #27 Holon
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: rynstick
Windows
Build factories inside factories. Extract shapes, automate production, and deliver increasingly complex designs to the Hub. Enter a Nest to build its machinery, reuse it as a single building, then fit smaller Nests inside larger ones to take your factory further. About this game
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Management 15.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #28 CosmoFab
77% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 44.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 6.6%
- #29 Stella Astrum
76% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Death Knight Studios LLC
Windows
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #30 Eurobi Racing
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Nyanko Gaming
Windows
Eurobi Racing is a simple and addictive time killing game. Upgrade your vehicle and power-ups to maximize high-scores, purchase new cars, and compete against others! Be prepared to run into law enforcement, wonky crash physics, and buggy sound effects.
Why similar: Racing 53.5%, Sports 26.9%, Strategy 16.4%, Casual 3.2%
- #31 Laplana
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laplana Games
Windows
Laplana is a strategy simulation game on an alien world. Domesticate different organisms and combine them to build complex biological production chains. Evolve them to unlock new abilities. Adapt to a changing environment and defend your structures against the chaos of this world.
Why similar: Automation 38%, Strategy 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.2%
- #32 MegaFactory Tycoon
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Management 13.2%, Economy 10.2%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7%
- #33 Little Big Workshop
74% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Management 20%, Strategy 18.8%, Economy 10%, Building 7.3%
- #34 Fabricatio
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Kysix Software
Windows
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Management 10%, Strategy 8.8%, Crafting 6.1%
- #35 VR Party Pack
75% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Weston Bell-Geddes
Windows
It's finally here! A social virtual reality game designed for parties! Cup pong, basketball, baseball, bowling, climbing, ping pong + so many more all in one bundle!
Why similar: Racing 53.4%, Sports 27.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Casual 3%
- #36 Swarmdustry
72% 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 35.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Inventory Management 8.9%
- #37 Bock Bock
74% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Ben Fitzpatrick
Windows
Bock Bock will let you face off against friends to decide who has the best eye for a fast chicken
Why similar: Racing 76.6%, Strategy 23.4%
- #38 Astral Enterprises
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build a ruthless corporate empire! Solve spatial factory puzzles, master complex supply chains, and manipulate dynamic markets to maximise profit. Mobilise local workforces, fund high-tech R&D, and construct colossal megaprojects to satisfy your demanding Parent Company.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Management 19.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #39 Juggernauts
75% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Simpli Gaming
Windows
Juggernauts is a fast-paced, action-packed and team-based game. You will control a futuristic hovercraft trying to be the first to find the Golden Orb. If the Golden Orb is not found within the time limit, the team with the most points wins.
Why similar: Racing 53.4%, Sports 26.8%, Strategy 16.3%, Casual 3.5%
- #40 Road Tycoon
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: REVOKO
Windows
Road Tycoon is an idle incremental racing game with custom-built tracks, prestige layers, and vehicle ascensions. Build the perfect track, let your cars race, and push your numbers into infinity.
Why similar: Racing 49.1%, Automation 26.3%, Base Building 7%, Strategy 6.4%, 2D 4.8%
- #41 Nuts Corp
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nuts Corp
Windows
A casual game about farming nuts, building processing pipelines and processing your nuts into most elaborate forms. Build a space rocket for your interplanetary sales? Fill the ocean with nut based microplastics? Make diamonds? Anything you wish, but the only ingredient is nuts.
Why similar: Automation 45.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 6.9%, Economy 6.2%
- #42 TowerLine
69% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Melih Solt
Windows · Mac
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 40.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #43 Coremine Corp
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crazy Rooster Games
Windows
Welcome to CoreMine Corp. Your job here is to set up production chains, manage your electricity, juggle contracts and stock-up while upgrading your factory. Time to prove your worth.
Why similar: Automation 34%, Inventory Management 15.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Management 7.7%
- #44 Automation Empire
70% matchMixed66% of 2,646 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 37.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Economy 8.4%
- #45 Moto Racer Collection
71% matchMixed44% of 141 reviews2014
Dev: Microids
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 18%
The complete Moto Racer series together in a single package featuring the original Moto Racer, Moto Racer 2 , Moto Racer 3 Gold Edition and Moto Racer15th Anniversary titles."
Why similar: Racing 68.6%, Sports 31.4%
- #46 One More Turret
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Automation 34%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 13.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Crafting 8.7%
- #47 SuperBike TT
71% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2015
Dev: Ghost Machine
Windows
SuperBike TT is a single-player, physics-based racing game within a multi-team and multi-bike livery for built-in replayability.
Why similar: Racing 68.5%, Sports 31.5%
- #48 Assembly Line 2
69% matchMixed66% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 49.3%, Management 19.6%, Strategy 16.7%, Crafting 6.3%, 2D 3.7%
- #49 A Dreaming Ladybug
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: LilyCompany
Windows · Mac
Shape your garden. Shape your luck. Use flowers and filters to guide ladybugs and change their colors and numbers, then hit the slots in the black moon. Cash out before your ecosystem collapses, or risk it all for a bigger payout. Unlock permanent upgrades and grow a greater garden.
Why similar: Automation 44.9%, Management 23.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 7.3%
- #50 Open Wheel Manager
69% matchMixed66% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: Paprikash GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Open Wheel Manager - is a management sim for open wheel racing fans.
Why similar: Racing 37.6%, Management 20.3%, Sports 18.3%, Economy 11.2%, Strategy 9.3%
- #51 Factorio
66% 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 46%, Base Building 18.4%, Management 8.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Strategy 6.5%
- #52 Drift GEAR Racing Free
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 234 reviews2016
Dev: Rock Crow
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Drifting experience with online leaderboard.
Why similar: Racing 73.9%, Sports 26.1%
- #53 Complex SKY
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Inventory Management 13.3%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 9.2%
- #54 Horse Racing Rally
68% matchMixed61% of 46 reviews2020
Dev: Enaayah Software Development and Services Private Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Horse Riding Rally - Free 3D Racing is the most realistic 3D Horse racing game. With lifelike horse animations, immersive graphics, addictive gameplay, and heated competition Horse Riding Rally is the must-have game for all ages. Have you got what it takes for this challenging experience?
Why similar: Racing 83%, Sports 17%
- #55 ReFactory
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 33.1%, Strategy 18%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 12.9%, Crafting 12%
- #56 Smart Tracks - Think and Run
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oficina de Games
Windows
A fun puzzle that combines the careful analysis of physics and logic with the adrenaline of rally racing. Overcome obstacles, survive deadly curves, make the best time, whether on asphalt, mud or snow, and become a legend on the tracks!
Why similar: Racing 51.1%, Sports 24.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Resource Management 3.2%, Top-Down 2.9%
- #57 Trackmania² Lagoon
67% matchMixed65% of 307 reviews2017
Dev: NadeoPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Trackmania² Lagoon has you racing on raised tracks above a tropical island filled with insane activities. It comes with a FREE Trackmania multiplayer channel, an exclusive solo campaign, a new game mode and a world of possibilities in UGC.
Why similar: Racing 71.5%, Sports 28.5%
- #58 Biofactory
67% matchNo user reviews2027
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 35.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 13.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Strategy 7.9%