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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Timberborn Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Price -30% 23.89€
Rating 9.4
Release 12 Mar 2026
AETHUS Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Price -20% 15.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Mar 2026
Docked Return home to Port Wake and rebuild your family business. Docked is a realistic, task-driven simulator where you operate heavy machinery, restore and develop the port's infrastructure, and manage day-to-day operations to help your port expand and thrive.

Price 29.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 05 Mar 2026
Desynced Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Price -58% 12.38€
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 -54% 11.50€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 Feb 2026
Car Service Together Car Service Together is a 1-4 co-op & single player simulation game where you and/or with your friends start from scratch and build your way up. Work together to successfully run your own service center. Team up, manage your business, and create the ultimate car service !

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 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 17.49€
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 -51% 3.88€
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 9.75€
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Jan 2026
Gamblers Table Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 11 Jan 2026
StarRupture StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Price -56% 8.92€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Jan 2026
Execute Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Dec 2025
Alchemy Factory Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Price -62% 6.65€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Dec 2025
MineMogul Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 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 7.2
Release 04 Dec 2025
Flotsam Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Price -40% 13.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 04 Dec 2025
Tingus Goose Tingus Goose is a delightfully absurd idle game where you plant seeds in patients, bounce babies for profit, and ascend through surreal worlds toward riches.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Dec 2025
The Perfect Tower II The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Nov 2025
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 6.7
Release 28 Nov 2025
Incredicer Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 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% 5.98€
Rating 8.2
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 6.89€
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 7.9
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 -30% 8.95€
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 8.0
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 -41% 4.60€
Rating 7.5
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 6.89€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Nov 2025
The Last Caretaker The Last Caretaker is a thoughtful take on the survival-crafting genre, where every decision you make and every action has a consequence. It offers a deep world exploration experience where step-by-step, you uncover the truth behind the reawakening of the last caretaker.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.3
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 12.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Oct 2025
Wreckreation Wreckreation is an evolving open-world driving playground built around choice. Play solo, explore on- and off road, create your own races and challenges, hang out online with friends using full cross-play. With fast updates shaped by players, this world keeps evolving.

Price -65% 14.07€
Rating 6.3
Release 28 Oct 2025
How to Train Your Cock A chill idle game that sits in your screen while you do other tasks. Watch your cock train and grow, decorate his island, and buy him some stylish hats. Is your cock the biggest among your friends? Now it can be!

Price -20% 3.19€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Oct 2025
Necesse Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Price -64% 5.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Oct 2025

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