Games like shapez 2 - Factory
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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.
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$29.99FOUNDRY
May 2 · Channel 3 Entertainment
Both: Base Building · Automation · Crafting
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
$14.99Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox · Crafting · Automation
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
$29.99Techtonica
Nov 7 · Fire Hose Games
Both: Automation · Building · Base Building
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👍 3,077
$39.99Satisfactory
Sep 10 · Coffee Stain Studios
Both: Base Building · Automation · Crafting
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
$24.99AutoForge
Mar 27 · Siege Games
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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 · Crafting
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
$14.99Tower Factory
Nov 7 · Gius Caminiti
Both: Automation · Base Building · Management
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
AutomationTower DefenseStrategyRTSRogueliteRoguelikeBase BuildingResource ManagementManagementCrafting👍 1,221
-40%$8.99Learning Factory
Jan 27 · Luden.io
Both: Automation · Base Building · Management
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.
AutomationBase BuildingCatsResource ManagementManagementEconomyEducationScienceSandboxCrafting👍 390
$19.99Car Manufacture
Aug 1 · STEREO GAMES S.A.
Both: Automation · Building · Management
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
Early AccessAutomationAutomobile SimBuildingEconomyRetroTime ManagementManagementSandboxStrategy👍 1,395
$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
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
7 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Puzzle
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
EducationProgrammingAutomationSandboxPuzzleCraftingRobotsBase BuildingStrategy2D👍 643
-42%$8.69River Town Factory
Feb 6 · iFAction Studio
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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……
AutomationBase BuildingPixel GraphicsOpen WorldSimulationSandboxTime TravelAlternate History2DIndie👍 1,277
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Automation · Base Building · Crafting
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
$5.99Space industrial empire
May 24 · 游戏养家工作室
Both: Automation · Management
This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!
AutomationSpaceIndieManagementIdlerStrategyLootCasualSingleplayerWord Game👍 1,022
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: Building · Sandbox · Management
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 64,269
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: Sandbox · Automation · Building
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$28.99Scrap Mechanic
Jul 24 · Axolot Games
Both: Building · Sandbox · Crafting
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
BuildingSandboxMultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldPhysicsCraftingBase BuildingCo-opAdventure👍 109,480
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Building
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
City BuilderAutomationTransportationSpaceResource ManagementSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementSci-fi👍 1,638
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Automation · Sandbox
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
$15.99Plan B: Terraform
Aug 29 · Gaddy Games
Both: Automation · Sandbox · Base Building
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.
AutomationResource ManagementSimulationTransportationColony SimSandboxTrainsBase BuildingColorfulHex Grid👍 3,528
$23.99ShapeHero Factory
Sep 17 · Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Both: Automation · Base Building · Building
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
AutomationBase BuildingTower DefenseRogueliteResource Management2.5DCuteStrategyBuildingSimulation👍 991
-10%$4.49Gridmax
3 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Base Building · Management · Building
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
-20%$23.99Space Engineers 2
Jan 27 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Building
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSci-fiSimulationPhysicsModdableDestructionOpen World👍 5,102
$29.99Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
May 27 · Massive Miniteam
Both: Building · Automation · Base Building
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
BuildingSingleplayerAutomationCo-opProcedural Generation3DBase BuildingOpen WorldResource ManagementLogic👍 1,867
$9.99MewnBase
Oct 30 · Cairn4
Both: Base Building · Crafting · Sandbox
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Base BuildingCraftingCuteExplorationSandboxSurvivalSpaceBuilding2DAction-Adventure👍 1,333
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · Automation · Base Building
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👍 150
-30%$20.99Desynced
Mar 5 · Stage Games Inc.
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
StrategyAutomationProgrammingBase BuildingSandboxCity BuilderRTSSci-fiMultiplayerSimulation👍 1,880
$29.99RAILGRADE
Oct 13 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Automation · Building · Management
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!
TrainsStrategySimulationResource ManagementAutomationCity BuilderModdableBuildingManagementEconomy👍 1,207
$19.99Core Keeper
Aug 27 · Pugstorm
Both: Sandbox · Crafting · Building
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Open WorldSurvivalExplorationPixel GraphicsMultiplayerSandboxCraftingBuildingCo-opBase Building👍 50,086
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Crafting · Base Building · Building
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingBuildingOpen WorldTower DefenseSandboxShooter👍 9,553
$29.99TerraTech Worlds
Mar 22 · Payload Studios
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Crafting
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Early AccessBase BuildingOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCraftingCo-opSurvivalOpen WorldBuildingMultiplayer👍 2,029
-35%$12.34Beer Factory
Jan 10 · MyceliumGames
Both: Automation · Management · Crafting
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 ManagementSingleplayerManagementArtificial IntelligenceEconomyCraftingPhysics👍 1,410
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Base Building · Management · Sandbox
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingSci-fi👍 10,267
$19.99Recycling Center Simulator
Oct 2 · Balas Games
Both: Management · Automation · Sandbox
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
SimulationFirst-PersonManagementLife SimTime ManagementAutomationImmersive SimSandboxEconomyBuilding👍 2,595
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-60%$9.99Reus 2
May 28 · Abbey Games
Both: Puzzle · Base Building · Management
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
God GamePuzzleColony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingManagementStrategyResource ManagementSandboxNature👍 2,137
