Automation Hidden Gems 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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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 15.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 May 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 8.5
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 -67% 3.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 22 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 -42% 20.38€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 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
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 -60% 11.83€
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 -38% 15.38€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Apr 2026
Blossom: The Seed of Life Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

Price -68% 5.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Mar 2026
MR FARMBOY MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.

Price 7.15€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Mar 2026
Laysara: Summit Kingdom Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Price -28% 17.78€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Feb 2026
Oxygen Train Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Feb 2026
Territory: Farming and Warfare From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Feb 2026
The Last Starship The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Feb 2026
Microcivilization Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Price 18.25€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Jan 2026
Factory Planner Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.

Price -58% 3.33€
Rating 6.9
Release 19 Jan 2026
Kin and Quarry An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig. Upgrade. Repeat.

Price -71% 2.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Jan 2026
Craftlings Inspired by legendary classics from the ’90s, Craftlings will take you on a journey full of strategic decisions and test your skills in optimizing automated production chains and Craftlings’ paths. Gather, deliver, build, and fight for wealth and glory in the unique, nostalgic world of Craftlings.

Price 19.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jan 2026
Execute Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Dec 2025
CivIdle CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2025
Farlands: Tiny Harvest Tiny Harvest is a relaxing desktop game that runs while you work, study, or browse the internet. Grow space plants, upgrade your crops, ship, home, and tools, and enjoy a cozy, minimalist experience designed to keep you company throughout your day.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 21 Nov 2025
Military Incremental Complex Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Nov 2025
Xenopurge Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.

Price -53% 5.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Nov 2025
Berserk B.I.T.S Berserk B.I.T.S is an idle-rpg, auto-battler, chip-collecting game that runs on your desktop. Let your B.I.T do battle and collect items. Collect rare chips and build your deck! Customize and Level up to take down intense Virus bosses as you unravel the mysteries behind the attacks on the Net.

Price -18% 5.64€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Nov 2025
Crusaders Quest : Mini Meet Little Friends on the PC with Crusaders Quest : Mini (CQ:Mini)! You can work and study During the game, Crusader Quest's warriors fought hard and saved the Hasla continent You're leaving. You can collect the original warriors and costumes just for this game, too. Let go of your boredom

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Nov 2025
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 12.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Nov 2025
Arcane Trigger Arcane Trigger is a bullet-building roguelike where every shot is crafted before it's fired. Forge over 220 bullets, shape their effects with 150+ magical seals, and master infinite synergies in this endlessly replayable strategic shooter.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Nov 2025
Your Big, Cute Monster Farm Create a farm at the bottom of the screen and enjoy planting and harvesting with your monster companions! They handle all the work—just plan the layout, decorate, and wait for fun crop mutations. Take a break from busy life and enjoy the calm joy of farming.

Price -75% 1.95€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Nov 2025
Loafing Town A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.

Price -10% 6.20€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Nov 2025
Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons is a First Person Idle Dungeon Crawler with 6 unique races, robust combat, a grand saga spanning a continent full of unique dungeons, a classless skill system, and extensive guild management system to master as you uncover the secrets of the world of Dragaea!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Nov 2025
Ultimate Theater Simulator Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.

Price -20% 10.23€
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Oct 2025
STARIO: Haven Tower A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Price -55% 6.26€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Sep 2025
Idle Pixel Fantasy Recruit hard-working helpers and magical creatures that automatically collect gold and crystals. Unlock new levels, invest in stronger units, and work your way up to the powerful dragon boss at the top. A relaxing pixel-style idle clicker!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 22 Sep 2025
ShapeHero Factory In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.

Price 23.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Sep 2025
GodsArena Online GodsArena is a dream game created by our small independent team inspired by classic MMORPGs. Four playable classes, a wide variety of pets, dungeons, maps, and of course — fierce rivals!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 01 Sep 2025
Returns Outlet Simulator Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 2025
Whimside A creature collection game that sits at the bottom of your screen & fits easily into your routine. Whether you're working, studying, or relaxing, Whimside is always ready to offer you a cozy escape. Capture rare creatures, create new species & decorate your whimsical space!

Price 5.76€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Aug 2025

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