Automation Hidden Gems on Steam

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Ritual of Raven Ritual of Raven is a story-based farming sim - but you don’t do the farming yourself! Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos and use your witchy skills to perform powerful rituals to stabilize the portals that are causing trouble for the village.

Price -60% 6.09€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Aug 2025
Fuel Harvest Together Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

Price -40% 8.27€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Aug 2025
Village Tale A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Price -46% 3.20€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 Jul 2025
Console Shop Simulator Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.

Price 16.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Jul 2025
Return from Core Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Price -72% 4.72€
Rating 7.2
Release 17 Jul 2025
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Jul 2025
Kaizen: A Factory Story Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Jul 2025
Not Monday Cafe Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.

Price -61% 3.47€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Jun 2025
Desk Paws Collect over 100 stylish little pets on your desktop! They can freely move along the bottom of your screen, or live in the little houses you've carefully decorated for them. Hmm... or perhaps send them on adventures to earn treats?

Price -57% 2.55€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Jun 2025
Desktop Fishing Desktop Fishing is a cozy idle game that sits in the corner of your screen. Go about your usual desk work (or don't) while your frog buddy catches fish, discovers new outfits, and unlocks fishing spots.

Price -30% 2.44€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Jun 2025
Auto Rogue A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 May 2025
Blacksmith Master Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Price -82% 3.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 May 2025
Omega Crafter Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 May 2025
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen Run a bathhouse visited by animals! Maltese's Fluffy Onsen is a relaxing simulation game that you can enjoy while doing other tasks, as it sits at the bottom of your screen. Place baths with different temperatures and rest areas to help a variety of animal friends unwind.

Price -31% 4.11€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 May 2025
Mini Settlers Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Price -98% 0.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2025
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Price -65% 4.23€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Feb 2025
Microtopia Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Price -31% 13.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Feb 2025
Blood Bar Tycoon Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!

Price -71% 5.85€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Feb 2025
Learning Factory Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Price -97% 0.53€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Jan 2025
Fruit Stand Fortune Start with nothing and spin your way to the top! Gather fruit from slot machines and sell them to buy upgrades, new fruit types, and more! Unlock cute customers! Meet a Bear Wizard! Build your fruit empire with Fruit Stand Fortune!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Jan 2025
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Price 17.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Jan 2025
Idle Colony A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Price 5.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 Dec 2024
Virtual Interactive Fireplace A cozy, retro-inspired hearth to warm your screen and your spirit.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Nov 2024
Bioweaver Bioweaver is an RPG game with the main content of treasure hunting and character building. You can use basic programming logic to deeply customize your skill sets, and you can also create organs with different attributes and functions with the special crafting system.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Nov 2024
Space Trash Scavenger Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Nov 2024
Ecosystem Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

Price -59% 8.15€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Nov 2024
Tower Factory Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Nov 2024
Lucky Hunter Lucky Hunter is a deck-building auto battler Roguelike game. Your pieces are automatically played on the board, and players will focus on building unique decks and artifacts, making the best of the synergies between pieces to defeat increasingly powerful prey.

Price -55% 2.69€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Nov 2024
Widget Inc. A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Oct 2024
Orebound Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Oct 2024
Potion Tycoon Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Price -97% 0.77€
Rating 7.0
Release 04 Oct 2024
Guardians of the Sanctree You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Price -82% 3.55€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Oct 2024
Factory Outlet Simulator Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive product manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!

Price -50% 5.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Sep 2024
Smashing Simulator Idle Incremental game about smashing with unfolding gameplay and two prestige layers.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Aug 2024
Loopstructor This is a strategy game that combines tower defense with Roguelike. Unlike traditional tower defense game, the towers in the game are vehicles that move along ‘loops’.You need to create defense loop and build battle trains to defend against enemy attacks.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 Aug 2024
KitHack Model Club Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!

Price -98% 0.56€
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Aug 2024

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