Games like Mini Settlers
by Knight Owl Games
Factory Town and Captain of Industry play most like Mini Settlers. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its colony sim, automation and base building; 3 came out in the last year and 11 are free or under $10. The best known is Factorio, with 195,916 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Factory Town
Nov 17, 2021 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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👍 4,148Captain of Industry
May 31, 2022 · MaFi Games
Both: Automation · Base Building · 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👍 11,079The Colonists
Oct 24, 2018 · Codebyfire
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
City BuilderColony SimAutomationBuildingEconomyManagementRobotsSurvivalBase BuildingSandbox👍 1,052Havendock
Apr 22, 2025 · YYZ Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
SingleplayerStrategyCity BuilderColony SimSandboxAgricultureAutomationBuildingBase BuildingCrafting👍 1,506Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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👍 38,914Kubifaktorium
Dec 16, 2021 · Neomateria Games GmbH
Both: Automation · City Builder · Colony Sim
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
AutomationCity BuilderColony SimBuildingCraftingManagementEconomyTrainsBase BuildingRPG👍 727Factorio
Aug 14, 2020 · Wube Software LTD.
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
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👍 195,916Flotsam
Dec 4, 2025 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimSandboxCity BuilderResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,323The Crust
Sep 10 · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Automation · Colony Sim
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👍 3,753Stationeers
Dec 12, 2017 · RocketWerkz
Both: Base Building · Automation · Colony Sim
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Early AccessBase BuildingAutomationSurvivalPhysicsColony SimLogicBuildingSandboxCrafting👍 8,612Time to Morp
Mar 6, 2025 · Team HalfBeard
Both: Base Building · Automation · Colony Sim
Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!
Base BuildingAutomationColony SimCreature CollectorMultiplayerSandboxFarming SimWholesomeCozyCasual👍 179Plan B: Terraform
Aug 29, 2025 · Gaddy Games
Both: Automation · Colony Sim · Sandbox
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 ManagementTransportationSimulationColony SimSandboxTrainsBase BuildingColorfulHex Grid👍 3,567Planetbase
Oct 15, 2015 · Madruga Works
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Colony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingSpaceStrategySurvivalSimulationResource ManagementSci-fiSingleplayer👍 9,568Microtopia
Feb 18, 2025 · Cordyceps Collective
Both: Colony Sim · Automation · Sandbox
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!
Colony SimAutomationProcedural GenerationResource ManagementSandboxSci-fiRobotsFuturisticBase BuildingCity Builder👍 885Settlement Survival
Oct 24, 2022 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,712Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20, 2017 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
City BuilderColony SimResource ManagementManagementSimulationStrategySandboxBuildingBase BuildingEconomy👍 30,337
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