Games like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
by CreativeForge Games
Automation Empire and Captain of Industry play most like Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its automation, resource management and building; 5 came out in the last year, 9 are free or under $10 and 2 have co-op. The best known is Satisfactory, with 235,375 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Automation Empire
Nov 20, 2019 · DOG HOGGLER
Both: Automation · Building · Resource Management
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 ManagementEconomyManagementCrafting👍 2,586Captain of Industry
May 31, 2022 · MaFi Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Management
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👍 11,079Beer Factory
Jan 10, 2024 · MyceliumGames
Both: Automation · First-Person · Resource Management
Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
SimulationAutomationFirst-PersonResource ManagementSingleplayerManagementEconomyArtificial IntelligenceCraftingPhysics👍 1,411Factorio
Aug 14, 2020 · Wube Software LTD.
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Crafting
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👍 195,916Satisfactory
Sep 10, 2024 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Automation · Crafting · 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👍 235,375AutoForge
Mar 27, 2024 · Siege Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Crafting
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👍 441Dyson Sphere Program
Jan 20, 2021 · Youthcat Studio
Both: Automation · Building · Resource Management
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.
AutomationSpaceBase BuildingBuildingResource ManagementOpen WorldSimulationSci-fiManagementSandbox👍 83,608Factory Town
Nov 17, 2021 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Crafting
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👍 4,148MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · Automation · Resource Management
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Crafting · 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👍 4,945Techtonica
Nov 7, 2024 · Fire Hose Games
Both: Automation · Building · Resource Management
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.
AutomationSimulationBuildingBase BuildingExplorationImmersive SimOnline Co-OpStrategyResource ManagementSandbox👍 3,082JUNKPUNK
Nov 12, 2021 · SCT
Both: Crafting · Automation · Building
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Early AccessSimulationAdventureCraftingAutomationBuildingExplorationImmersive SimRealisticDystopian 👍 641The Crust
Sep 10 · VEOM Studio
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Building
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👍 3,753MineMogul
Dec 4, 2025 · NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)
Both: Automation · Building · Crafting
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Early AccessAutomationBuildingPhysicsMiningStrategySimulationCraftingBase BuildingManagement👍 4,355Industry Giant 4.0
Oct 17, 2025 · Don VS Dodo
Both: Management · Resource Management · Automation
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
ManagementStrategySimulationCity BuilderResource ManagementEconomyAutomationModernBuildingRealistic👍 509Gold Mining Simulator
Oct 13, 2017 · Code Horizon
Both: Realistic · Building
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
SimulationMiningSingleplayerRealisticOpen WorldIndieDrivingSandboxEconomyBuilding👍 15,140Little Big Workshop
Oct 17, 2019 · Mirage Game Studios
Both: Management · Building · Resource Management
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
SimulationStrategyManagementBuildingResource ManagementEconomyAutomationSandboxSingleplayerCrafting👍 2,523Final Upgrade
Dec 6, 2022 · TaosX
Both: Automation · Building · Resource Management
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👍 438
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