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by Fire Hose Games
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
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$19.99Final Upgrade
Dec 6 · TaosX
Both: Automation · Base Building · Building
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!
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementSimulationSci-fiManagementSandboxStrategy👍 437
$29.99FOUNDRY
May 2 · Channel 3 Entertainment
Both: Base Building · Automation · Building
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.
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldMultiplayerCraftingCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 3,277
$39.99Satisfactory
Sep 10 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Base Building · Automation · Building
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!
Base BuildingAutomationOpen WorldCraftingMultiplayerCo-opBuildingResource ManagementSandboxExploration👍 235,059
$29.99Automation Empire
Nov 20 · DOG HOGGLER
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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!
SimulationAutomationStrategyBase BuildingSandboxBuildingResource ManagementManagementEconomyCrafting👍 2,584
$24.99AutoForge
Mar 27 · Siege Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Base Building
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.
Early AccessAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSandboxCraftingBuildingProcedural GenerationExplorationMultiplayer👍 439
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$34.99Captain of Industry
May 31 · MaFi Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Base Building
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.
AutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSimulationStrategyEconomyManagementBuildingCity BuilderEarly Access👍 11,035
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Automation · Resource Management
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$35.00Factorio
Aug 14 · Wube Software LTD.
Both: Automation · Base Building · Resource Management
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.
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxCraftingStrategyMultiplayerSurvivalManagementOpen World👍 195,659
$16.99Return from Core
Jul 17 · 顽核社 FuncoreClub
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
AutomationSurvivalBase BuildingDating SimSandboxCraftingSingleplayerActionAdventureBuilding👍 1,621
$19.99Factory Town
Nov 17 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Automation · Base Building · Resource Management
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!
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxSimulationCraftingManagementCity BuilderColony SimEconomy👍 4,143
$14.99Hydroneer
May 8 · Foulball Hangover
Both: Base Building · Automation · Sandbox
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Base BuildingAutomationMiningSandboxCo-opMultiplayerOpen WorldBuildingFunnySimulation👍 27,144
$14.99Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox · Automation · Building
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.
SandboxCraftingAutomationOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingExplorationSurvivalAdventureSimulation👍 4,847
$19.99Autonauts
Oct 17 · Denki
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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.
AutomationProgrammingSimulationIndieCasualBase BuildingColony SimCraftingCuteSandbox👍 3,596
$19.99Nova Lands
Jun 22 · BEHEMUTT
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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!
AutomationBase BuildingSandboxAdventureOpen World Survival CraftPixel GraphicsResource ManagementSurvivalRobotsOpen World👍 2,512
$12.99FortressCraft Evolved!
Nov 9 · ProjectorGames
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Building
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.
Open World Survival CraftAutomationSandboxCraftingBuildingSurvivalIndieStrategyBase BuildingAdventure👍 2,653
$19.99Astro Colony
Jun 2 · Terad Games
Both: Base Building · Automation · Resource Management
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Base BuildingAutomationSpaceResource ManagementColony SimSimulationMultiplayerStrategyBuildingIndie👍 2,397