
Mindustry
Build supply lines, keep your turrets fed and push out to take the enemy's base.
If ReFactory scratched a minimalist and replayable itch for you, keep reading. These games are worth a look next.
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Replayable
Crash on an alien planet, chop trees and mine ore by hand, then build conveyor belts, trains and robots until the whole planet works for you. Factorio turns small production puzzles into a huge, humming machine empire that constantly asks for one more tweak.
Also in City builder · Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
Build a village in the wilderness and automate everything: conveyor belts, chutes, rails, pipes and airships carry your goods from mine to market. No enemies, no starvation, just a cheerful 3D logistics puzzle you solve at your own pace while your little town grows happier and richer.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
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!
Also in City builder · Replayable
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.
Replayable, Relaxing
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
Mindustry mixes factory building with tower defense and real-time strategy. You mine, move and refine resources, feed ammo to turrets, hold your core against waves, then build armies and take enemy bases. It is worth playing for that loop of tinkering, defending and expanding.
Replayable
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Minimalist, Replayable, Relaxing
The world ended, and Widgets are all that is left to save it. Build a country-sized factory by hand, then automate it, tier by tier, until a rocket is ready. A laid-back pixel-art factory builder with no combat, no timers and plenty of numbers going up.
Replayable, Relaxing
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!
Replayable

Build supply lines, keep your turrets fed and push out to take the enemy's base.

Turn a handful of Widgets into an automated, country-spanning production line, one calm tier at a time.

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles…

Boppio is a game about obtaining materials, constructing buildings, and assembling a spaceship to return home.

Cut, paint and stack simple shapes into ever stranger patterns, at your own pace.

A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system!

Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards.

Mine asteroids, build production lines, keep your crew fed and trade with passing ships to buy back your freedom.

This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource…

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive.

Combine cube-making machines into stranger ones, automate everything, and answer the messages of something watching from below.

You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to…

Cut, paint and stamp voxel modules, then belt them across sky islands into production systems that work exactly the way you want.

Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.

Automate a medieval workshop with belts, pipes and magical contraptions, alone or with friends.

Dig for ore, wire up conveyors and let physics turn your underground factory into a glorious mess.

Link modules with tubes, run supply chains across planets and build starships at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Mine, cut, paint and recombine endless shapes into ever more clever production lines, at your own pace.

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Program drone fleets to mine, build and explore a strange planet, alone or with friends.

Turn a handful of Widgets into an automated, country-spanning production line, one calm tier at a time.

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…

Build Mana-driven production lines as a golem, farm and tame monsters, and unlock a colorful world region by region while a persistent defense…

Start by hand, build a factory of helpful bots, and let the machines do the grinding while you explore new islands.

Hyper-realistic industrial simulation: 236 materials, 357 science-based processes.

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…

Build a lunar colony Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, keep your colonists fed and…

Automate a medieval workshop with belts, pipes and magical contraptions, alone or with friends.

Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs.

Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.

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…

Set up conveyor networks, dock your stations and research new tech at your own pace, alone or with friends.

Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts.

Link modules with tubes, run supply chains across planets and build starships at your own pace, alone or with friends.

You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you.

Mine, cut, paint and recombine endless shapes into ever more clever production lines, at your own pace.