Best Automation Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated automation games.

Filters & Lists
Loading...
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 6.7
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 -80% 5.89€
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 6.6
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 6.6
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 22.99€
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 9.1
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 15.79€
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 -30% 20.99€
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 7.8
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 -58% 2.95€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Apr 2024
Laysara: Summit Kingdom Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 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

Most played automation games


22,757 players

200,803
3,238
Rating 9.7

18,028 players

358,266
22,443
Rating 9.3

16,426 players

208,770
6,439
Rating 9.6

12,596 players

225,479
6,585
Rating 9.6

8,173 players

6,101
1,382
Rating 7.9

8,156 players

5,784
1,884
Rating 7.4

7,621 players

8,237
1,340
Rating 8.4

7,330 players

52,168
2,148
Rating 9.4

4,551 players

13,146
1,392
Rating 8.8

4,404 players

6,737
417
Rating 9.1