Best Automation games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our automation game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify automation games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best automation games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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Airport CEO

Build and manage an international airport!

Price -71% 7.16€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Mar 2021

The Perfect Tower II

The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Feb 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 7.9
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 -86% 2.79€
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 7.0
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 -88% 3.53€
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 11.79€
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 8.8
Release 17 Sep 2020

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 -80% 1.99€
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 -2% 31.29€
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 -90% 1.00€
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 19.50€
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 4.99€
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

Necesse

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Dec 2019

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 24.99€
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 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Nov 2019

Little Big Workshop

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 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 -94% 1.15€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019

Mindustry

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Sep 2019

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 -30% 16.09€
Rating 7.4
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 -93% 1.00€
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 28.99€
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 16.99€
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 24.50€
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 -74% 7.90€
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 22.99€
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 19.50€
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 -73% 3.98€
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 8.7
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 19.50€
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 33.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 Apr 2017

SHENZHEN I/O

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Price -58% 6.17€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016

Blueprint Tycoon

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Price -75% 0.74€
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 -80% 0.59€
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 12.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Dec 2015