Best Automation Games on Steam

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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Price -84% 4.84€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 May 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
RoadCraft As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Price -54% 18.74€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 May 2025
Bioprototype Bioprototype, a Roguelike & Skill Customizing Rhapsody! This is an auto-bomber with programming elements. Customize your character skills with visual programming, utilize enemy organs to finish the mutation, and construct the ultimate prototype, one can survive in the endless wave of flesh.

Price 3.55€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 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 -30% 4.14€
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 -85% 2.01€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 May 2025
Revolution Idle Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 01 May 2025
Havendock Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Price -99% 0.34€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Apr 2025
Cornerpond A chill idle-fishing desktop toy in the corner of your screen. Buy upgrades, catch rare fish, and customize your avatar at your own pace!

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Apr 2025
Nomad Idle Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becoming stronger, and exploring an unfolding storyline. A spin-off of Nomad Survival.

Price -49% 4.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 04 Apr 2025
Schedule I From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

Price -3% 19.09€
Rating 9.7
Release 24 Mar 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 -66% 4.17€
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 -72% 5.72€
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% 0.56€
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
Incremental Epic Hero 2 A mixture of incremental/idle and roleplaying game set in fantasy world filled with monsters and things to explore, where battling is constant, almost everything can be upgraded, and with wide array of various prestige mechanics to always keep things interesting and moving forward!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 02 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
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 -71% 5.77€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 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
Techtonica Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Price 28.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Nov 2024
Skill Legends Royale This is a free multiplayer PvP strategy game that incorporates rogue-like and auto chess elements, players need to equip their auto-battling heroes with the right treasures and skills to ultimately defeat all other players and become the champion.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 04 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 -50% 12.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Oct 2024
Eden Crafters Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 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% 0.78€
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 -77% 4.50€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Oct 2024
Finn Dorset's Institute For Livestock Replication An animated incremental game about cloning livestock. Make as many moon sheep as you can. Research technology, upgrade your operation and become a clone farm billionaire!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 02 Oct 2024

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