Games like Industrial Petting
Games like Industrial Petting include Satisfactory, Factorio, Palworld, Stardew Valley, and Sandustry. We matched them by the tags players give Industrial Petting on Steam (Automation, Creature Collector, Exploration, Sandbox, and Agriculture): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Satisfactory
Shared: Automation · Crafting · Base Building

Factorio
Shared: Automation · Sandbox · Crafting

Palworld
Shared: Creature Collector · Crafting · Automation

Stardew Valley
Shared: Farming Sim · Agriculture · Sandbox

Sandustry
Shared: Automation · Sandbox · Crafting

The Last Caretaker
Shared: Automation · Crafting · Sandbox

Garden Paws
Shared: Exploration · Sandbox · Agriculture

FOUNDRY
Shared: Automation · Crafting · Base Building

Hydroneer
Shared: Automation · Sandbox · Base Building

shapez
Shared: Automation · Sandbox · Crafting

My Time at Portia
Shared: Crafting · Farming Sim · Agriculture

Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Shared: Sandbox · Building · Automation

Dyson Sphere Program
Shared: Automation · Building · Base Building

Autonauts
Shared: Automation · Sandbox · Crafting

Terraria
Shared: Sandbox · Exploration · Crafting

Slime Rancher
Shared: Exploration · Sandbox · Cute

TerraTech
Shared: Sandbox · Building · Crafting

Scrap Mechanic
Shared: Sandbox · Building · Crafting

The Forest
Shared: Crafting · Building · Exploration

shapez 2 - Factory
Shared: Automation · Building · Sandbox

The Planet Crafter
Shared: Base Building · Crafting · Building

Techtonica
Shared: Automation · Exploration · Building

MineMogul
Shared: Automation · Building · Crafting

ASTRONEER
Shared: Exploration · Sandbox · Base Building