u/SnooHobbies5811

Hello, I'm looking for a recommendation in the factory/automation subgenre. I loved Satisfactory, Factorio, and Foundry, but found that DSP and Techtonica didn't quite click for me. I'm not sure why to be honest. But I'm mostly curious if anyone has any underrated gems for me to try out! I'm always looking for more games in this genre

Edit: I'm also happy to try out base building games without a focus on automation, but I do want something with more clear goals. Timberborn felt too aimless to me unfortunately

I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the Paradox game, Foundry. It's honestly my second favorite factory game after Factorio so far and it's still getting plenty of updates. For those of you who may not know, it's basically Factorio in a voxel 3 dimensional, terraformable world. It usually gets compared to satisfactory since they're both 3D, but the gameplay is honestly a lot more like Factorio than Satisfactory imo(the existence of something like inserters and science packs being the two biggest things). Overall, I don't hear this game talked about nearly enough and I cannot recommend it enough to fans of the genre!