Best Automation Steam Games on Sale

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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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
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 -96% 1.20€
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 -53% 7.09€
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 -96% 0.70€
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 -50% 10.05€
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 -98% 0.52€
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 -99% 0.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 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 -98% 0.43€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 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% 0.45€
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% 0.66€
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 -75% 0.74€
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 -26% 14.90€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Nov 2022
Astro Colony Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Price -56% 8.66€
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Nov 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 -59% 6.09€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Aug 2022
Last Call BBS Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 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% 0.34€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
Clanfolk Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Price -77% 7.13€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jul 2022
Good Company Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Price -91% 2.20€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Jun 2022
Freshly Frosted Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

Price -33% 5.51€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jun 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 -50% 8.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Dec 2021
Melvor Idle Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.

Price -70% 3.01€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Nov 2021
Factory Town Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Price -35% 12.86€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Nov 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 -40% 10.28€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
Mech Mechanic Simulator Become a Mech Mechanic to deconstruct, rebuild, paint and fix gigantic iron machines. You live in an age of enormous machines and you better get ready to get your hands dirty!

Price -99% 0.34€
Rating 6.2
Release 25 Mar 2021
Airport CEO Build and manage an international airport!

Price -96% 1.20€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Mar 2021
Main Assembly You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Jan 2021
Per Aspera Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Price -86% 4.26€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 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 -93% 0.87€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Nov 2020
Transport INC Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!

Price -85% 1.55€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Aug 2020
Factorio Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Price -20% 25.68€
Rating 9.6
Release 14 Aug 2020
shapez shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Jun 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 -98% 0.40€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Dec 2019
MOLEK-SYNTEZ Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Nov 2019
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019

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