Best Automation Games on Steam

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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 -69% 5.59€
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 -9% 20.99€
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 -41% 4.12€
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
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 -20% 7.80€
Rating 7.9
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 -65% 4.49€
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 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 7.8
Release 19 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 -83% 1.40€
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 6.89€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Nov 2025
The Last Caretaker Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Price -41% 17.83€
Rating 8.4
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 8.3
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 -73% 10.92€
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 -48% 2.11€
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 -70% 4.57€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Oct 2025
The Farmer Was Replaced Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Oct 2025
Little Rocket Lab Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!

Price 17.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Oct 2025
Upload Labs A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Oct 2025
IDLE BOSS RUSH Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!

Price -20% 7.80€
Rating 6.5
Release 29 Sep 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 -60% 5.64€
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
Scratch Inc. Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 17 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
Star Birds Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 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 7.1
Release 01 Sep 2025
Plan B: Terraform Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Aug 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
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% 5.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Aug 2025

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