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2017PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive9.99 €

Mindustry blends tower defense with factory building: you design conveyor networks and production chains to supply resources and ammo for defenses against enemy waves. It also offers a map editor, co-op and PvP.

Sandbox with your own goals
Building and crafting
Economy and management
Tactical depth

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The closest matches for Mindustry are Factorio, Rusted Warfare and Shapez 2: Factory. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Mindustry special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Mindustry

Best alternative overall: Factorio 96% match – Building and crafting
To play together: Space Engineers 88% match – with co-op
With more action: The Riftbreaker 87% match – with combat
Newest alternative: Shapez 2: Factory 88% match – released 2026

Best match

Factorio

96 %Match

2020PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive32.00 €

Stranded on an alien world, you grow a crude mining operation into a sprawling automated factory, endlessly optimizing belts, production chains and logistics. All the while you must defend it from native creatures angered by your spreading pollution.

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Rusted Warfare

Tactical depth

A 2D real-time strategy game with a pixel art look, recalling Total Annihilation with huge armies of tanks, ships and aircraft. It focuses on base building, resource management and cooperative or competitive skirmishes.

Shapez 2: Factory

Building and crafting

A factory-building game where you cut, stack and color shapes across multi-level production lines. The appeal lies in designing and optimizing ever larger automation setups, solo or with friends.

Dyson Sphere Program

Sandbox with your own goals

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Space Engineers

Deep systems to master

A physics-driven space sandbox where you engineer ships, stations and rovers block by block, mine asteroids and watch your creations get realistically torn apart. Its huge creative and technical freedom shines brightest with friends in co-op.

Foundry

Building and crafting

Foundry is a first-person factory-building game in an endless voxel world where you design conveyor networks and production chains. Automating ever more complex items unlocks new technology, playable solo or in co-op.

The Riftbreaker

Sci-fi setting

A blend of base building, tower defense and action shooting: you pilot a mech suit across an alien planet, expand your outpost and fend off huge waves of creatures.

Satisfactory

Building and crafting

As a FICSIT Pioneer you build sprawling automated factories in first person on an alien planet. Designing efficient production chains in a beautiful open world, solo or in co-op, is deeply satisfying.

Colony Survival

Building and crafting

A voxel colony-builder where you manage farmers, miners and guards and defend your settlement from monster attacks each night. The appeal lies in optimizing your economy and strengthening your defenses.

Empyrion: Galactic Survival

Deep systems to master

A space sandbox survival game where you build your own ships, stations and planetary bases while exploring planets and deep space. Gathering resources, defending your bases and playing solo or with friends are at the core.

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