Hooded Horse and Lantto Games have announced an early access release date for Sandustry, their 2D factory-building spelunker in which every pixel has physics.

Would you play a Star Trek engineering simulator? Because SpaceChem devs Zachtronics almost made one, later reborn as philosophical puzzler U.V.S. Nirmana.

U.V.S. Nirmana on Steam

If you love the idea of building up a massive sprawling factory and taking your time doing so to chill out - shapez 2 is a safe bet.

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint, Factory 95 is a fresh retro-styled automation sim out now with Linux support.

And with a whole suite of additions too.

Went and bought it once it got out of EA. Pleasantly surprised by it being under 2GB.

Snacktorio is a little less sandbox and a little more sautee

I feel like this one is borderline, but maybe a decent baby's first automation game? Or if you just really like conveyor belts.

In an effort to be a financially responsible elevator I'm cutting back on engaging with video game Lemmy—the less cool games I get exposed to the less I am tempted to be a financially irresponsible elevator and buy something new I don't have the time to play. Actively looking for automation games to post, or even just crossposting others' posts, is part of this exposure that I am trying to limit. I've also gotten much busier and have less time for social media. Happy to hand control to someone else.

Aethus is "Satisfactory through the eyes of Diablo", in the eyes of this critic, who has now been turned into plant food.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1711226/the-factory-must-grow-shen-comix

Hey everyone! This is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff.

If you like the idea, we need help! Take a couple of minutes to find a comic that you like and post it here for the rest of us!

The title of the community is "Automation and Factory Builder Games" and the address is !automationgames@lemmy.zip. I was wondering if programming automation games would fit here too; it's not the same thing as the factory automation ones, but I realize with the name and how the audiences might overlap it might be smart to accept them. Besides, small Fediverse: I do not think splitting them out makes sense quite yet, though it might if the Fediverse and this community ever grows. However, I also know people might have subscribed and only really seen Satisfactory-type games here and only expect that, and I am happy to respect that too. So I'd like to defer to the community on this. What do you think?