Best Automation Games on Steam

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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% 0.47€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2022
Idle Research Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 31 Jul 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 -98% 0.40€
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 -72% 8.56€
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 -55% 10.39€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Jun 2022
Freshly Frosted Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

Price -53% 3.84€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jun 2022
The Last Clockwinder A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Jun 2022
Captain of Industry Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Price -30% 23.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 May 2022
Trimps A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 May 2022
Idle Spiral This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Apr 2022
Dungeon Alchemist Dungeon Alchemist is mapmaking software for tabletop RPG's that enables you to make amazing, high-quality maps in seconds!

Price -20% 30.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Mar 2022
A=B A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2022
Poop Clicker Have you always wanted to be a king, but all the kingdoms are already taken? Try to be the Poop King in the Poop Clicker game! A magical unicorn, sweet corn and others will help you with this! Unlock special upgrades, but take your time, because haste makes waste!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2022
Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Jan 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 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Dec 2021
Bitburner Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 10 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 -75% 2.46€
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
JUNKPUNK JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 12 Nov 2021
Turing Complete Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Oct 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 -33% 11.46€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
Idle Monster TD An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Jun 2021
Crypto Mining Simulator Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 24 Apr 2021
Voxel Tycoon Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 15 Apr 2021
GolfTopia DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 30 Mar 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 -98% 0.39€
Rating 6.2
Release 25 Mar 2021
Vectorio Classic The original, uncompleted version of Vectorio. Claim resources, unlock new buildings, and expand your defenses as you fight back against enemy forces in the classic edition of Vectorio! Play for free now.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Mar 2021
Airport CEO Build and manage an international airport!

Price -91% 2.25€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Mar 2021
Bird You are a bird, you are free in this small place, but you can't get out, all you can do is fly around.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Feb 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 -95% 1.16€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Jan 2021
Dyson Sphere Program Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 20 Jan 2021
Pumping Simulator Pumping Simulator As an active member of a gas station in a major city around the world, you can play with up to 10 friends in a multiplayer co-op mode or single player mode to help you understand what the pumpers are going through, and maybe will make you rich.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Dec 2020
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 -97% 0.41€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Nov 2020
Space Travel Idle If you ever dreamed of exploring space at a relaxed pace, here's a journey designed for you.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Sep 2020
Stormworks: Build and Rescue Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Sep 2020

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