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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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 -62% 7.47€
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 -50% 2.49€
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 -56% 8.59€
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 7.2
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 -40% 2.99€
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 -35% 16.24€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 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% 0.68€
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% 4.60€
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
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 -86% 2.57€
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 10.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Sep 2024
Industry Idle Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 13 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 -44% 22.10€
Rating 9.6
Release 10 Sep 2024
Smashing Simulator Idle Incremental game about smashing with unfolding gameplay and two prestige layers.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Aug 2024
Loopstructor This is a strategy game that combines tower defense with Roguelike. Unlike traditional tower defense game, the towers in the game are vehicles that move along ‘loops’.You need to create defense loop and build battle trains to defend against enemy attacks.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 07 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% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Aug 2024
Car Manufacture Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Aug 2024
Smack Studio A sandbox fighting game with built-in creation tools to create characters and stages. Animate pixel art characters using our 3D pixel art rotation technology, then battle with up to 8 players! Use our tools to export sprites for your own projects.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Jul 2024
No Creeps Were Harmed TD Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 Jul 2024
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 7.0
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 -79% 6.29€
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 6.8
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 9.25€
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! 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 25.99€
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 9.0
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

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