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Automation games currently in Steam Early Access, scored by how recently and how regularly they ship updates.
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Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Mitchy Studios · Last signal 11 days ago · 91% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
TVGS · Last signal 12 days ago · 98% positive · 12k playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.
Sylv · Last signal 12 days ago · 92% positive · 3.1k playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
LevelHead · Last signal 13 days ago · 96% positive · 117 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
34/100
Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market. Automate the Network with Delivery Drones. Enjoy the Grind. Enjoy the Future. Enjoy the PROFITS.
Simple Software Solutions · Last signal 14 days ago · 98% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
40/100
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Coredumping · Last signal 16 days ago · 94% positive · 126 playing
Consistency
Irregular
50/100
In this roguelike auto battler, every enemy you face was created by another player! Modify and improve your creatures' behaviour after each battle and see how far down you can make it. Do you have what it takes to be the first to reach depths, where no one has gone before?
SiRen Games · Last signal 16 days ago · 95% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Very consistent
86/100
Darkstone Restoration brings the classic action RPG back to modern PCs with improved stability, compatibility, controls, readability, and quality-of-life improvements — while preserving the spirit of the original game.
Paul Cuisset · Last signal 19 days ago · 97% positive · 4 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Tiny Orbit · Last signal 20 days ago · 90% positive · 5 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
38/100
You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.
Sergio Garcia · Last signal 21 days ago · 90% positive · 2 playing
Consistency
Irregular
50/100
Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.
Lance Games · Last signal 26 days ago · 92% positive · 6 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
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.
MaFi Games · Last signal 27 days ago · 90% positive · 1.2k playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Build an Empire from Pallet Returns! Buy mystery pallets of customer returns, uncover hidden treasures, and fix broken electronics! Manage your own outlet store and take risks to turn someone else's returns into your pure profit!
Twisted Twice Games · Last signal 27 days ago · 95% positive · 139 playing
Consistency
Irregular
50/100
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder) · Last signal 30 days ago · 96% positive · 184 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Cyperk Software · Last signal 32 days ago · 94% positive · 1 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
35/100
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Lantto Games · Last signal 37 days ago · 97% positive · 887 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
12/100
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Mouse Hat Games · Last signal 41 days ago · 94% positive · 2 playing
Consistency
Irregular
52/100
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
LionsArt · Last signal 45 days ago · 90% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
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...
Nightmare Phoenix · Last signal 47 days ago · 88% positive · 9 playing
Consistency
Consistent
61/100
Welcome to "Land Of Idyllic Beauty" a simulation management game that combines farming, store management, supply chain management, and romance elements. Experience the beauty of the idyllic life, starting from a small plot of farmland, gradually building your agricultural and commercial empire!
Neo · Last signal 50 days ago · 85% positive · 2 playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Camshaft Software Ltd · Last signal 51 days ago · 94% positive · 411 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.
Goosix Games · Last signal 54 days ago · 86% positive · 1 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Destroy massive swarms of monsters to grind and grow stronger in this Open-World Sandbox RPG. Build automated systems that farm monster drops for you, defeat bosses, and descend deeper into an interconnected underworld.
Piokou · Last signal 2 months ago · 86% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
23/100
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!
RocketWerkz · Last signal 2 months ago · 88% positive · 317 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
35/100