Games Library

A curated library of factory games, colony sims, city builders, and automation games — quick context and links to our guides.

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Factorio automation belts, trains, and factory sprawl
Factory games
Factorio

Hard

The automation benchmark: belts, trains, throughput puzzles, and endless factory expansion.

AutomationDeep SystemsTrains
Satisfactory 3D factory building with conveyors and vertical layouts
Factory games
Satisfactory

Beginner-friendly

A first-person factory builder focused on elegant layouts, verticality, and relaxing large-scale automation.

AutomationFirst-PersonCo-op
Dyson Sphere Program interplanetary factory automation
Factory games
Dyson Sphere Program

Medium

A planetary and interstellar factory sim about scaling production across entire solar systems.

AutomationSci-FiInterstellar
RimWorld sci-fi colony stories and survival
Colony sims
RimWorld

Hard

A colony sim story generator where survival, mood, combat, and emergent disasters shape every run.

Colony SimStory GeneratorMod-friendly
Oxygen Not Included space colony survival and systems
Colony sims
Oxygen Not Included

Hard

A dense 2D colony sim about oxygen, heat, plumbing, power, and keeping duplicants alive.

Colony SimDeep Systems2D
Against the Storm roguelite city building in a cursed forest
City builders
Against the Storm

Beginner-friendly

A roguelite city builder where short settlements, biome variety, and meta progression keep every run fresh.

City BuilderRogueliteShort Runs
Frostpunk frozen city survival and moral choices
City builders
Frostpunk

Hard

A survival city builder built around heat, scarcity, and hard moral choices in a frozen world.

City BuilderSurvivalNarrative
Timberborn beaver city building and water management
City builders
Timberborn

Beginner-friendly

A beaver city builder where drought cycles, dams, and water control shape every settlement.

City BuilderBeaversWater Management
Anno 1800 industrial-era city building and trade
City builders
Anno 1800

Medium

An industrial-era city builder built around production chains, logistics, trade routes, and expansion across regions.

City BuilderTradeHistorical
Cities: Skylines city planning and traffic management
City builders
Cities: Skylines

Beginner-friendly

A modern city builder focused on zoning, traffic flow, services, and flexible sandbox planning.

City BuilderTrafficMod-friendly
Cities: Skylines 2 modern city simulation and traffic systems
City builders
Cities: Skylines 2

Medium

A bigger, more systemic city builder with deeper simulation, larger maps, and more detailed citizen behavior.

City BuilderDeep SimulationTraffic
Manor Lords medieval gridless town growth, production chains, and tactical battles
City builders
Manor Lords

Beginner-friendly

A historically grounded medieval strategy game combining gridless city building, deep production chains, and large-scale tactical battles.

City BuilderMedievalGridless Building
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic realistic city planning and production chains
City builders
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Hard

A hardcore planned-economy city builder with brutal logistics, infrastructure, and production chain detail.

City BuilderHardcoreLogistics
Captain of Industry industrial logistics and colony management
Factory games
Captain of Industry

Hard

A dense industrial colony sim where mining, refining, logistics, and heavy machinery all interlock.

AutomationDeep SystemsIndustrial
Shapez 2 automation puzzles with conveyor factories
Factory games
Shapez 2

Beginner-friendly

A bigger and more three-dimensional sequel that scales up the clean automation puzzle formula.

AutomationPuzzleMinimalist
Foundry voxel factory building in a first-person sandbox
Factory games
Foundry

Beginner-friendly

A voxel-based first-person factory sim that mixes block building with large-scale automation.

AutomationVoxelCreative Building
Desynced autonomous colony automation with programmable bots
Factory games
Desynced

Medium

A sci-fi automation colony sim built around programmable bots, networks, and adaptable logistics.

AutomationProgrammingSci-Fi
Dwarf Fortress deep fortress management and simulation
Colony sims
Dwarf Fortress

Hard

The legendary simulation sandbox: overwhelming depth, systemic chaos, and fortress stories unlike anything else.

Colony SimStory GeneratorExtreme Depth
Farthest Frontier frontier town management and survival
Colony sims
Farthest Frontier

Medium

A frontier survival town builder centered on farming, disease, weather, and long-term self-sufficiency.

Colony SimSurvivalMedieval
Frostpunk 2 frozen city survival and political tensions
City builders
Frostpunk 2

Hard

A broader sequel that leans harder into politics, factions, resource blocs, and societal pressure.

City BuilderPolitical StrategySurvival
Anno 117: Pax Romana Roman-era city building and provincial trade
City builders
Anno 117: Pax Romana

Medium

A Roman-era Anno entry built around provincial governance, production chains, and trade between Latium and Albion.

City BuilderTradeHistorical
StarRupture first-person open-world base building and industrial automation
Factory games
StarRupture

Medium

A first-person open-world survival game about extracting resources, automating industrial machines, and fending off alien creatures solo or in 4-player co-op.

AutomationSurvivalCo-op
Whiskerwood cat-and-mouse themed cozy city building
City builders
Whiskerwood

Beginner-friendly

A cat-and-mouse themed city builder with a cozy tone, layered production chains, and a relaxed single-player pace.

City BuilderCozyWhimsical
The Wandering Village settlement built on the back of a giant wandering creature
City builders
The Wandering Village

Beginner-friendly

A city builder played on the back of a giant, wandering creature, balancing settlement needs against the health of your living home.

City BuilderSurvivalAtmospheric
Oddsparks An Automation Adventure cozy automation with Spark helpers
Factory games
Oddsparks

Beginner-friendly

A cozy automation adventure where tiny helper creatures called Sparks carry, craft, and defend your base solo or with up to 3 friends.

AutomationCozyCo-op
Astroneer colorful planet exploration, terrain tool, and modular base building
Factory games
Astroneer

Beginner-friendly

A relaxed space sandbox about terraforming planets and building automated extraction, rail, and sorting networks — though the automation tools unlock late.

AutomationCo-opExploration