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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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 8.0
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% 2.82€
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 -40% 14.39€
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 14.79€
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 -65% 7.18€
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 -81% 4.75€
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 -49% 15.31€
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% 8.78€
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 9.75€
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 -38% 9.16€
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 28.99€
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
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 -94% 1.98€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Dec 2023
Tunnet Build, debug and optimize a computer network in an underground facility.

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Dec 2023
Sand:box "Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Nov 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% 7.00€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Nov 2023
Cavalry Girls In this refreshing and exciting shooting game, lead the brave and fearless girl soldiers to fight with the enemy. Refit different types of machine armour, reasonably deploy machine soldiers with different skills, repel all kinds of enemies, and protect the Empire behind you in the gunfire.

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 Oct 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% 0.66€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Oct 2023
RAILGRADE RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Price -70% 8.69€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 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 -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 2023
Plasma Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Sep 2023
Vectorio Build. Automate. Defend.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Aug 2023
Word Factori Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Aug 2023

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