Hidden Automation Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated automation games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Automation games on Steam.

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Final Upgrade Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Price -94% 1.08€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Dec 2022
Another Farm Roguelike Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Nov 2022
Retro Gadgets Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Price -31% 13.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Nov 2022
Boba Simulator : Idle Shop Management Boba Tea shop simulator. Manage recipe, stock and customer satisfaction.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Nov 2022
Bone's Cafe Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2022
Fhtagn Simulator Fhtagn Simulator is a Cthulhu Roulette Deckbuilder. Set up card slots on roulette to maximize card's value. Collect evil creatures, spells, items and environment to build your deck. Your ultimate mission is to sacrifice spirit collected by cards to unseal the ancient gods that have come to earth!

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Oct 2022
Bard Idle Build a unique team, where each character has a random weapon, race and class. Strong combinations of heroes, enhanced by the ballad creation system and jelly dwarfs, will capture your adventure in history!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Sep 2022
Recipe for Disaster Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!

Price -67% 4.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Aug 2022
Autonauts vs Piratebots Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Price -99% 0.33€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
Freshly Frosted Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

Price -25% 6.20€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jun 2022
The Last Clockwinder A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Jun 2022
A=B A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2022
Poop Clicker Have you always wanted to be a king, but all the kingdoms are already taken? Try to be the Poop King in the Poop Clicker game! A magical unicorn, sweet corn and others will help you with this! Unlock special upgrades, but take your time, because haste makes waste!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2022
Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Jan 2022
Kubifaktorium Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Dec 2021
The Signal State Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Price -69% 5.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
Idle Monster TD An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Jun 2021
GolfTopia DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Mar 2021
Bird You are a bird, you are free in this small place, but you can't get out, all you can do is fly around.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Feb 2021
Pumping Simulator Pumping Simulator As an active member of a gas station in a major city around the world, you can play with up to 10 friends in a multiplayer co-op mode or single player mode to help you understand what the pumpers are going through, and maybe will make you rich.

Price -50% 2.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Dec 2020
Rover Mechanic Simulator As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Price -98% 0.35€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Nov 2020
Incremental Adventures Lead your heroes in their neverending adventures! A minimalistic Idle game where combat is fully automated. It's up to you to make the most of that automation to reach extremely high numbers!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Aug 2020
Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency Built from the ground-up for Virtual Reality, Budget Cuts 2 is an action-adventure stealth game where you zip, sneak, and stab your way through enemy-filled offices, trains, warehouses, and skyscrapers to take down the evil efficiency robots at TransCorp.

Price -99% 0.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Dec 2019
Automachef Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Price -96% 0.68€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jul 2019