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AutoForge

2024

Should you play it?

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

What works

  • Engaging factory automation gameplay
  • Active and responsive developer
  • Unique 2d side-scrolling perspective
  • Promising roadmap and updates
  • Relaxing and addictive progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access bugs and polish issues
  • Clunky ui and inventory management
  • Limited combat depth and enemy variety
  • Lack of multiplayer and social features
  • Some pacing and progression roughness

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Farlands

  • Odd Realm

  • Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft

  • Realms of Magic

  • Voidspire Tactics

  • Backpack Hero

More violent

Games that feels like AutoForge but with more combat and destruction

  • It Lurks Below

  • The Slormancer

  • The Great Rebellion

  • Second Stellar

  • Skull Horde

  • Super Fantasy Kingdom

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with AutoForge. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with AutoForge. These titles are not in What to play next.

AutoForge: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Thrill, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026