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Autonauts

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.

Similarity 71%
Price -89% 2.17€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019

Beltmatic

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Similarity 66%
Price 6.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2024

Autonauts vs Piratebots

Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Similarity 64%
Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Jul 2022

Nova Lands

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Similarity 64%
Price -45% 10.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Jun 2023

shapez

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!

Similarity 62%
Price -88% 1.18€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Jun 2020

Word Factori

Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Similarity 62%
Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 2023

Human Resource Machine

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Similarity 62%
Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015

United Penguin Kingdom

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Similarity 60%
Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Mar 2024

The Farmer Was Replaced

Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Similarity 60%
Price 6.89€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Feb 2023

Bitburner

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Similarity 60%
Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Dec 2021

Turing Complete

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Similarity 60%
Price 16.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 02 Oct 2021

Learning Factory

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Similarity 60%
Price -24% 11.24€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Jan 2025

Gunsmith

Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.

Similarity 60%
Price 17.50€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 May 2018

Big Pharma

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Similarity 60%
Price -31% 17.00€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2015

SpaceChem

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Similarity 60%
Price -42% 5.61€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Mar 2011

SHENZHEN I/O

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Similarity 60%
Price -58% 6.17€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016

Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Similarity 59%
Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Nov 2022

Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Similarity 58%
Price 19.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 May 2020

shapez 2

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle increasingly complex automation challenges at your own pace – you won’t have to worry about enemies.

Similarity 58%
Price -41% 14.20€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Aug 2024

The Signal State

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Similarity 58%
Price -60% 6.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Sep 2021

Main Assembly

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Similarity 57%
Price -86% 2.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Jan 2021

Automation Empire

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!

Similarity 55%
Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Nov 2019

Production Line : Car factory simulation

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Similarity 55%
Price 24.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Mar 2019

AutoForge

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Similarity 55%
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Mar 2024

Plasma

Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Similarity 55%
Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Sep 2023

FOUNDRY

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.

Similarity 55%
Price 29.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 May 2024

GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Similarity 55%
Price 14.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 May 2019

City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Similarity 55%
Price 15.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Aug 2021

Poly Bridge 2

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Similarity 54%
Price 12.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 May 2020

Little Big Workshop

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Similarity 54%
Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 2019

Poly Bridge

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Similarity 54%
Price 8.19€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Jul 2016

RAILGRADE

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Similarity 54%
Price -50% 14.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2023

Satisfactory

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Similarity 54%
Price 38.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 10 Sep 2024

Painters Guild

Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.

Similarity 54%
Price 9.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 01 Sep 2015

Bombe

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Similarity 53%
Price -30% 6.82€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jun 2023

Sand:box

"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!

Similarity 53%
Price -30% 2.09€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Nov 2023

Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?

Similarity 53%
Price 28.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Mar 2015

Factorio

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Similarity 53%
Price -2% 31.29€
Rating 9.6
Release 14 Aug 2020

Idle Spiral

This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Similarity 52%
Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Apr 2022

FortressCraft Evolved!

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Similarity 52%
Price 12.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Nov 2015

Microtopia

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!

Similarity 52%
Price -30% 13.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Feb 2025

Atrio: The Dark Wild

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

Similarity 52%
Price 16.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Jan 2023

Opus Magnum

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Similarity 52%
Price 19.50€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Dec 2017

Outpath

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Similarity 51%
Price -28% 10.62€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Oct 2023

Infinifactory

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Similarity 51%
Price 24.50€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jun 2015

River Town Factory

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Similarity 51%
Price -34% 9.76€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Feb 2024

Plan B: Terraform

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water and forests.

Similarity 51%
Price 15.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Feb 2023

Good Company

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!

Similarity 51%
Price -47% 12.14€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Jun 2022