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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Apple Clicker! How do you like them apples? Because we have them all! Have time in the game or click the apple to get your favorite apple.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Jul 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% 6.38€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Jul 2024
Watch Watch is a free incremental game combined with collecting wristwatches integrated into Steam inventory.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Jul 2024
Prospector: The First Contract As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 12 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 12.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Jul 2024
Tapple - Idle Clicker Welcome to Tapple, the idle clicker game where every tap brings you closer to an ever-growing collection of Tapples. Build your empire one tap at a time, discover unique Tapple drops, and AFK all you want!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Jun 2024
Go-Go Town! Thank god you’re here Mayor - you’ve got LOTS of work to do! In this city building sim, you’re responsible for the layout, logistics optimisation, population growth - all whilst navigating the everyday chaos of infrastructure, worker management and dynamic challenges to make your dream town.

Price -20% 18.39€
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 5.89€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 May 2024
Magic Research 2 Welcome to Magic Research 2, an incremental RPG from the creator of Magic Research. Learn countless spells, face powerful foes, and command a team of Wizards who can cast spells for you as you journey to find or create the Philosopher's Stone.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 May 2024
Lootun Lootun is a Semi-Idle RPG with a strong focus on Character/Skill Progression, Item Hunting, and Inventory Management. Assemble a team of adventurers and send them off to clear missions while you Craft, Upgrade and Enchant the Loot!

Price 4.39€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2024
Cookard Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 10 May 2024
Moose Miners Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.6
Release 10 May 2024
Rogue Voltage The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.

Price -25% 11.84€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 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 29.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 May 2024
Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense Endless idle tower defense game full of deep strategy and combat mechanics. Unlock and upgrade dozens of epic fantasy heroes to defeat an infinite swarm of enemy monsters. Strategize hero positions, synergies, and skills for an effective defense, then sit back and let the auto-battler do its thing!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 03 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 29.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 May 2024
Idle Heros 《IDLE HEROS》 is a special placement game, invite your friends to form a fixed team, come to participate in the battle, placement can easily obtain a variety of resources

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 May 2024
XiuzhenWorld 《XiuzhenWorld》is a 3D world where your goal is to level up from a mere mortal into an immortal at the end. Its a semi-idle game with fun immortal cultivation mechanics such as - leveling up to become stronger. - capturing monsters as pets to fight for you. - AFK(Away From Keybourd).

Price 12.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Apr 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 Planet Crafter A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Price 23.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 10 Apr 2024
Center Station Simulator Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Apr 2024
Kitchen Crisis Kitchen Crisis is a culinary defense game. You are abducted by aliens and must satisfy their appetite. If you want to live to see another day, efficiently arrange your cooking appliances, upgrade your ingredients and tools! In order to survive, make wise decisions according to everchaning recipes.

Price -20% 11.83€
Rating 7.1
Release 02 Apr 2024
Beltmatic Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2024
AutoForge A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Mar 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 -83% 4.20€
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
Sixty Four Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.2
Release 04 Mar 2024
Alpha League Alpha League is a free-to-play, hero based Auto Chess. In Alpha League, simply pick and build your favorite hero in a Roguelike fashion with 12 different combat genres, and then battle the other 7 Bots or Players to be the winner.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 22 Feb 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% 8.90€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Feb 2024
LurkBait Twitch Fishing A Twitch powered interactive cozy fishing idle game. Add as an overlay for your stream and let your viewers fish with commands, points, bits or subs. Reel in the lurkers and boost viewer engagement passively with a fun interactive game that runs itself while you focus on your content.

Price 6.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Feb 2024
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Price -29% 6.92€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 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
Grim Clicker Grim Clicker is an IDLE/RPG clicker where you will find your own strategy to explore the lost worlds. Inspired by games such as Diablo, Grim Dawn, Dark Souls, etc., the game features a complex character development, many unique items, active and passive playstyle.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Jan 2024
Palworld Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Price -11% 26.09€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Jan 2024
Factory Town Idle An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Jan 2024

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