Idlings
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
The top results based on the latest update are Underground Nomads [Score: 1.2], Factoriant [Score: 1.1] and Stella Astrum [Score: 1.0] The top rated games you can find here are Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #19, shapez [SteamPeek Rating: 8.7] ranked #21 and Astro Colony [SteamPeek Rating: 6.4] ranked #17 Also don't forget to check the newest releases 2D Factory [Release date: 2026-09-30] ranked #18, Code: Terraform [Release date: 2026-09-09] ranked #35 and TowerLine [Release date: 2026-07-14] ranked #26 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Prospector: The First Contract [SteamPeek Rating: 5.7] ranked #13, Astro Colony [SteamPeek Rating: 6.4] ranked #17 and Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #19.
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Build a fractal world. Automate the automation of your automation. Put Factories in Factories in Factories.
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
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.
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Towns of Yore is a cozy and calm building-management game. Design and build your dream town on a floating island and take care of the delightful Eylanders!
Astro Colony throws you into an endless Universe of exploration, automation and survival! Build interconnected colonies, alone or with friends, and turn planets into thriving industrial hubs! Design conveyor systems and take care of your Astronauts as you expand your intergalactic empire!
Turn a wild pixel-art world into a living factory. Gather by hand, automate five industrial tiers, explore for powerful optional upgrades, and master belts, pipes, power grids, rovers, trains and nuclear energy—solo or in online co-op for up to 8 players.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Might and Mandibles is a 2D ant colony sim and real-time strategy game. Command your queen and her subjects, excavate procedural subterranean chambers, assign specialized castes, and gather surface resources while defending the nest from wandering predators and coordinated raids.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
This is a relaxed plant simulation game. The adjustment parameters can simulate the ever-changing plant growth state. Players can design their fantasy gardens with imagination and creativity.
Explore a forgotten archipelago of floating islands. Gather resources, build and automate production, and link islands into a thriving trade network, until the sky belongs to you.
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Build production lines to extract resources, craft parts, and assemble towers. Complete orders, earn rewards, unlock new machines, and grow your factory.
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Build a neural world inhabited by tiny brain goblins. Manage their nests, explore the mysterious Brain City, and discover how dopamine, GABA, memory, and focus work together in this cozy neural simulation game.
Build and defend an underground colony on Mars. Manage oxygen, heat, food, water and power, then draft individual survivors to fight raiders. Guide colonists through body-part injuries, rescue and treatment as your settlement grows.
GlowCore is a singleplayer progression game focused on resource gathering and gradual world expansion. In the center of the world lies the GlowCore. The goal is to expand the world by feeding the GlowCore with wood and other resources.
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Build a factory that makes numbers. Mine deposits across a large map, connect arithmetic machines with conveyor belts, and deliver the results to your hub. Reuse old production lines, unlock faster machines, or tackle 42 campaign missions and 25 puzzles.
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
Is your factory any good? STEADY STATE tells you. Mine mixed ore, sort it, smelt it and move it by belt, rail and drone. Then prove your site works: every order you have taken, delivered at its rate, all at once, for thirty seconds. Certify to unlock new machines, better grades unlock them sooner.
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