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. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Automation games on Steam.

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Flotsam The floating garbage town strategy game! Scavenge what precious garbage you can from the ocean's surface and grow your city while doing your best to survive in this colorful post-apocalyptic world.

Price -1% 22.97€
Rating 7.5
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 -96% 0.69€
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% 0.58€
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 -99% 0.31€
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 -67% 8.11€
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 12.49€
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 -73% 8.26€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019
KartKraft™ No seatbelts, no suspension, no downforce. This is pure head to head racing at 90mph...

Price 24.50€
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 -91% 2.08€
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 -96% 0.86€
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% 1.16€
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 0.99€
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 -72% 5.56€
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 -56% 6.63€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016
Blueprint Tycoon Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Price -92% 0.25€
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 -78% 0.68€
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 -66% 4.43€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Dec 2015
FortressCraft Evolved! FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Price -30% 9.15€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Nov 2015
Human Resource Machine Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Price -96% 0.71€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015