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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Craftopia Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 Sep 2020
Transport INC Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!

Price -94% 0.61€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Aug 2020
Factorio Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Price -19% 26.23€
Rating 9.6
Release 14 Aug 2020
Incremental Adventures Lead your heroes in their neverending adventures! A minimalistic Idle game where combat is fully automated. It's up to you to make the most of that automation to reach extremely high numbers!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Aug 2020
shapez shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Price -96% 0.48€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Jun 2020
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Price -60% 7.80€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 May 2020
Hydroneer Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 May 2020
Mechanica Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Feb 2020
Taur Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

Price 20.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 19 Feb 2020
Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency Built from the ground-up for Virtual Reality, Budget Cuts 2 is an action-adventure stealth game where you zip, sneak, and stab your way through enemy-filled offices, trains, warehouses, and skyscrapers to take down the evil efficiency robots at TransCorp.

Price -98% 0.65€
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Dec 2019
Automation Empire Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Nov 2019
MOLEK-SYNTEZ Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Price -94% 0.66€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Nov 2019
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -98% 0.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019
Little Big Workshop Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Price -97% 0.71€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 2019
Mindustry An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Price -70% 2.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Sep 2019
Automachef Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Price -95% 0.84€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jul 2019
Dota Underlords Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Jun 2019
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 May 2019
Rise of Industry Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Price -98% 0.76€
Rating 7.1
Release 02 May 2019
Driftland: The Magic Revival After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2019
Production Line : Car factory simulation Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Price -39% 15.10€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Mar 2019
Evospace Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Price -60% 5.05€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019
ASTRONEER Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Price -72% 8.54€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019
KartKraft™ No seatbelts, no suspension, no downforce. This is pure head to head racing at 90mph...

Price -97% 0.81€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 Nov 2018
The Colonists Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Price -90% 2.33€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Oct 2018
EXAPUNKS The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Oct 2018
7 Billion Humans Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Price -93% 1.12€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Aug 2018
Gunsmith Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.

Price 17.50€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 May 2018
Human-powered spacecraft A nostalgia-infused pixel clicker in a comedy wrapper.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 May 2018
Stationeers Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 Dec 2017
Opus Magnum Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Price -48% 10.18€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Dec 2017
Card Creator Card Creator is a powerful, deep and easy to use card creation software, the best tool for games designers (amateurs or pro) and fans of card and tabletop games. Card creation made easy, fast and fun!

Price 38.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 Apr 2017
SHENZHEN I/O BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Price -69% 4.69€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016
Blueprint Tycoon Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Price -68% 0.97€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 May 2016
Plantera In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.

Price -79% 0.63€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jan 2016
SimplePlanes Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Price -71% 3.82€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Dec 2015

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