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Best Automation Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated automation games.

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Dirty Business Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.

Price -20% 12.39€
Rating 7.3
Release 22 Jul 2026
Ore Factory Squad ⛏️ Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!

Price -25% 9.74€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Jul 2026
Diggin Drill into the depths of a meteor crater in this incremental adventure. Mine ores, unlock upgrades and find the cosmic treasure that lies below! Can you uncover what happened to the Moles that came before you?

Price -30% 5.03€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Jul 2026
Go-Go Town! Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.

Price -25% 19.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jul 2026
Little Incrementisle Little Incrementisle is an incremental colony-building game where you land on one wild island after another. On each island, you gather resources, construct buildings, recruit villagers, and develop your colony, until you’re ready to set sail for the next one.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Jul 2026
Palworld Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Price -15% 24.71€
Rating 9.3
Release 09 Jul 2026
How To Grow a Black Hole How To Grow a Black Hole is about... well... how to grow a black hole. Manage your black hole, feed it to gain mass, and prevent catastrophic collapses. Compete globally or against your friends to achieve the biggest black hole. Maybe you'll be #1.

Price 4.15€
Rating 6.7
Release 23 Jun 2026
SpaceCraft The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

Price -21% 23.77€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Jun 2026
Gacha Capsule Shop Simulator - Akihabara What's it like to open a shop in Akihabara? Sourcing, displaying, hiring(Staff & Robots), setting your own prices. From a little shop to a legendary otaku shop filled with rare figures. Conquer Akihabara with your gacha business skills. (and sometimes physical means too)!

Price 12.88€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Jun 2026
Solarpunk Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Price -52% 11.14€
Rating 7.9
Release 08 Jun 2026
Slots & Diapers Absurd incremental game where you turn even liquid assets into financial glory! Spin for jackpots and hire veteran gamblers to automate the madness. Use permanent upgrades and 'mishaps' to accelerate your progress! Simple. Messy. Addictive.

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Jun 2026
Fortune Mill An incremental game where you must make $1,000,000 to escape! Throw darts, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, drop pachinko balls, and discover powerful synergies as each new game affects all the others!

Price 8.15€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Jun 2026
Astro Colony Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Price -43% 11.16€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Jun 2026
Starvester A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!

Price -10% 6.47€
Rating 6.7
Release 29 May 2026
Rock Island Lead your stone villagers to build an ever-growing tribe around a mysterious cube. Gather resources, create powerful builds, and maintain the cycle of growth as the entire system spirals into overwhelming floods of effects and numbers.

Price -52% 3.00€
Rating 6.5
Release 28 May 2026
Tabletop Game Shop Simulator Run your own tabletop game shop! Stock shelves, glue & paint minis, battle customers on game night, and grow your store into the ultimate nerd paradise.

Price -50% 6.39€
Rating 7.9
Release 28 May 2026
FEED THE QUEEN Gather food to grow your colony. Evolve and upgrade specialized worker types. Discover and combine interesting synergies. Optimize your production, customize your strategy and feed the Queen ever-increasing amounts of food!

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 25 May 2026
Food Processing Simulator Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 May 2026
Farm to Table A farming & restaurant management sim with base building elements. Grow in backyard to cook & serve! Discover new recipes by exploring ingredients on the island; gather, fish, raise animals & produce with machines. Manage resources, hire staff & grow your organic business into a 5-star restaurant!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 May 2026
Eden Crafters Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Price -22% 15.23€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 May 2026
Forage Wizard Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Price -20% 5.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 May 2026
Rogue Voltage The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.

Price -76% 3.90€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 May 2026
Legends of Wasteland Legends of Wastelands is an idle RPG where you shape your hero’s growth. Choose among six classes, master 100+ skills, and combine talents and gems for unique synergies. Idle for rewards or dive into boss fights and shifting wastelands, with pets and gear adding endless build variety.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.1
Release 29 Apr 2026
SimplePlanes 2 SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Apr 2026
shapez 2 - Factory Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Price -40% 17.39€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Apr 2026
Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith Forge your destiny and craft legends. Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith is your journey into the heart of craftsmanship. Dive into the enchanting world of a blacksmith, mine ores, create legendary weapons, arm heroes and send them on quests for loot and profit. The forge awaits!

Price -62% 4.58€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Apr 2026
All Hail the Orb All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.

Price -72% 1.96€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Apr 2026
Fracture Field Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.

Price -54% 3.24€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Apr 2026
MMO98 An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.

Price -20% 4.76€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Apr 2026
Sintopia Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Price -41% 20.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Apr 2026
Slimeward Slimeward is an idle game where players build and upgrade a village, recruit heroes, and defeat Monster 'Slime' that fell in front of the house one day,

Price -20% 2.52€
Rating 8.3
Release 14 Apr 2026
Black Hole Fishing Black Hole Fishing is an absurd incremental game about catching, breeding, and perfecting SO MANY fish. Catch a fish, optimize its traits, then stock your pond with it as you pour fish and science into an endless singularity!

Price 6.15€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Apr 2026
Orbitmine Orbit a planet, fire your laser, and mine it to the core. Upgrade your ship and conquer seasonal hazards across four unique zones. A satisfying incremental mining game set in space.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Apr 2026
ALL WILL FALL Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Price -59% 11.96€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Apr 2026
Modulus: Factory Automation Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Price -45% 13.51€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Apr 2026
Profit Sea Incremental A short incremental game about fishing, earning gold, and unlocking powerful upgrades to dominate the waters.

Price -25% 3.74€
Rating 7.4
Release 31 Mar 2026

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