Best Automation Steam Games on Sale

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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 -42% 10.15€
Rating 7.4
Release 18 Jan 2025
Astrometica Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Price -70% 5.86€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Dec 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
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% 0.73€
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 -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Oct 2024
Recycling Center Simulator Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

Price -77% 4.20€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 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
Satisfactory Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Price -42% 22.84€
Rating 9.6
Release 10 Sep 2024
shapez 2 Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Price -67% 9.70€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 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 -97% 0.67€
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Aug 2024
The Crust Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Price -78% 6.55€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Jul 2024
Happy Sheepies Happy Sheepies is a relaxing sheep farming game that includes some Crafting and Business Management elements with its simple Drag & Drop gameplay. Meet the needs of your sheepies, craft and sell your products, and grow your business!

Price -50% 6.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Jul 2024
Go-Go Town! Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.

Price -3% 22.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Jun 2024
Space industrial empire This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!

Price -10% 5.30€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 May 2024
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Price -55% 13.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 May 2024
FOUNDRY Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Price -23% 23.25€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 May 2024
Rusty's Retirement A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Price -60% 2.86€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Apr 2024
The Magical Mixture Mill Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.

Price -53% 9.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 Mar 2024
Outpost: Infinity Siege Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.

Price -84% 4.12€
Rating 6.6
Release 26 Mar 2024
TerraTech Worlds TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Price -78% 6.67€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Mar 2024
Rail Route In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!

Price -65% 8.86€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Feb 2024
River Town Factory If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Price -54% 6.87€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Feb 2024
Palworld Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Price -25% 21.74€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Jan 2024
Against the Storm A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Price -94% 1.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Dec 2023
Mob Factory Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

Price -37% 9.46€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Nov 2023
Outpath An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Oct 2023
Tribe: Primitive Builder Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Price -36% 12.91€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Oct 2023
Station to Station ‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!

Price -99% 0.13€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 Oct 2023
InfraSpace Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 2023
Word Factori Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Price -60% 2.35€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 2023
Nova Lands Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Price -97% 0.66€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Jun 2023
miniBONG "miniBONG" is a lightweight rogue-like game that focuses on dress-up DIY and idle gameplay, while incorporating elements of combat, character development, and strategy.. You can feel the charm of dressing up and fighting at the same time.

Price -90% 0.97€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Jun 2023
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn The round blue Mellows return to tend to the Garden once more. Grow plants, bushes, trees, animals, water features and the great magical oak tree that has been rumored to have placed its seed there. Tend to the oak tree and grow it to the sky to harvest its Golden Acorns.

Price -89% 0.58€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Apr 2023
Masterplan Tycoon Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Price -91% 1.12€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Mar 2023
Juno: New Origins Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jan 2023
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 -97% 0.63€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Dec 2022

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