Space industrial empire
Click mines and smelters into place, research new tech and grow a single production line into a fleet that conquers planets.
85% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$5.99
Games like Deep Crafter
Want something that feels replayable and atmospheric the way Deep Crafter does? Browse these games for your next favorite.
Sandustry
Sandustry is a factory game where every pixel is stuff you can mine, spill, melt, burn, or blow up. You start sifting gold from wet sand and end up plumbing steam, lava, seeds, and ice across a fully destructible planet, hunting artifacts left by an ancient civilization.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99Automation Empire
Build a planet-wide industrial network from nothing: mines, farms, factories, and the trains, trucks and drones that feed them. Automation Empire is a gentle, low-pressure factory sim about untangling bottlenecks and watching your machine hum. Seven planets, one goal: efficiency.
Also in City builder · Relaxing
65% of 2,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$29.99AutoForge
A 2D automation sandbox where the factory runs on Mana and the factory worker is a golem. Build production lines, farm, tame monsters, dig for ore and unlock the world region by region, all while a very persistent defense system tries to take your resources back. Thoughtful building, gentle pixel art, and a mystery about your missing masters.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
86% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99Nova Lands
Nova Lands is a 2D factory building game on a bright, mysterious planet. You start by hand, then build up an industry, hand the work to little helper bots and push out to new islands. Explore caves, meet creatures and people, and automate everything so you can wander instead of grind.
Also in Survival crafting · Relaxing
90% of 2,536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99Satisfactory
Satisfactory is a first-person factory builder set on a 30 square kilometre alien planet. You harvest resources, raise multi-story factories, and automate trucks and trains, with belts and pipes carrying goods and liquids. It is easy to pick up, relaxed in pace, and built around solving logistics problems, alone or with friends in co-op.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Atmospheric, Relaxing
97% of 237,556 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14,952$39.99FOUNDRY
A first-person factory builder in an infinite voxel world. Mine, automate and optimize robot production from deep underground to the sky, sell through interplanetary trade, and do it all at your own pace: nothing here wants to eat you. Play solo or build together in co-op.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
82% of 3,334 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 212$29.99Nightwater
Nightwater drops you on an island floating in a sea of starlight, where you turn sticks and stones into a working factory, manifest new biomes into existence and push through the ages toward a Lighthouse with a secret. A gentle, puzzling take on the factory game, made for unwinding rather than optimizing.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Relaxing
83% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Captain of Industry
Start with a ship, a crew and an empty island, and end with rockets and a space station. Captain of Industry is a factory builder about mining, reshaping land, farming, keeping people alive, and chaining refineries and assembly lines all the way to nuclear power.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
90% of 11,276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,888$34.99ReFactory
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$11.99MineMogul
MineMogul is a physics-based automation sandbox set deep underground. Mine ore, buy machines and wind conveyors through twisting mineshafts, where every piece of ore is a real physical object that can pile up, spill and jam. Rebuild, tinker and laugh at the mess as you turn a forgotten cave into a sprawling factory empire.
Replayable, Relaxing
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 135$14.99Terrafactor
You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
90% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Dyson Sphere Program
Dyson Sphere Program is a sci-fi factory sandbox where you turn one small workshop into a galaxy-wide industrial empire. Methodical, huge in scale, and easy to lose a night to.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
97% of 83,924 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,757$19.99
Cheaper than Deep Crafter
Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era
Build an industrial base among the stars. Gather resources, manufacture ships, research technologies, and explore unknown regions of space.
48% of 56 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$1.99
Space Architect
Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom.
72% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$1.79
Factory Town
Grow a village in the wilderness and let belts, rails and airships do the hauling while your townsfolk get happier.
90% of 4,165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 50$4.99
CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Farlight Explorers
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive.
53% of 189 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Total Factory
You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to…
50% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Industry Unbound：无界工业
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new…
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.94
Widget Inc.
Turn a handful of Widgets into an automated, country-spanning production line, one calm tier at a time.
84% of 767 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$2.49
Terra Machina
Mine ore, build factories across strange worlds, and let your machines do the heavy lifting.
86% of 22 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$5.99
Factory Planner
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards.
71% of 397 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
Hidden gems like Deep Crafter
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
FluxWerks
Build a factory inside a destructible voxel world, tunneling, managing heat and letting your nanobot swarm handle the rest.
90% of 109 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$24.99
MineMogul
Dig for ore, wire up conveyors and let physics turn your underground factory into a glorious mess.
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 135$14.99
Outworld Station
Link modules with tubes, run supply chains across planets and build starships at your own pace, alone or with friends.
83% of 866 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$18.99
Nightwater
Build a gentle automation sandbox on a floating island, at your own pace, with a quiet mystery waiting at the end.
83% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Eden Crafters
Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.
84% of 2,619 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 351$19.99
Plan B: Terraform
Turn frozen wasteland into green, living terrain by moving water, resources and people across a calm hex-grid planet.
91% of 3,655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 169$11.99
Astro Colony
Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.
80% of 2,447 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 106$19.99
Space industrial empire
Click mines and smelters into place, research new tech and grow a single production line into a fleet that conquers planets.
85% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$5.99
MegaFactory Titan
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…
77% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
AutoForge
Build Mana-driven production lines as a golem, farm and tame monsters, and unlock a colorful world region by region while a persistent defense…
86% of 445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
Nova Lands
Start by hand, build a factory of helpful bots, and let the machines do the grinding while you explore new islands.
90% of 2,536 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Newest games like Deep Crafter
Main Sequence
Mine, automate and design your own fleet, from a lone mining ship to stations spread across procedurally generated star systems.
82% of 97 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,728
Industry Unbound：无界工业
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new…
93% of 15 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.94
Terra Machina
Mine ore, build factories across strange worlds, and let your machines do the heavy lifting.
86% of 22 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$5.99
FluxWerks
Build a factory inside a destructible voxel world, tunneling, managing heat and letting your nanobot swarm handle the rest.
90% of 109 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$24.99
Realindustry
Hyper-realistic industrial simulation: 236 materials, 357 science-based processes.
71% of 59 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Brave New Wonders
A factory builder with no conveyor belts. You mine ore and crystal, smelt and craft parts, then tell mover robots what to haul in plain words and…
78% of 69 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$21.24
Nightwater
Build a gentle automation sandbox on a floating island, at your own pace, with a quiet mystery waiting at the end.
83% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
The Crust
Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…
75% of 3,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$19.19
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
Skyformer
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones.
79% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Icaria
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed.
74% of 81 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99
MegaFactory Titan
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…
77% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99