Games Like The Farmer Was Replaced

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.

Why similar: Programming 50.7% ★, Automation 25.1%, Farming Sim 9.8%, Resource Management 5.1%, Sandbox 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of programming autonomous units to perform repetitive farming and resource-gathering tasks.

You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Why similar: Programming 65.4% ★, Education 18.4%, Puzzle 5.1%, Sandbox 3.9%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on visual programming and logic puzzles that mirror the problem-solving experience of the seed game.

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!

Why similar: Programming 68.7% ★, Education 9.2%, Automation 6.6%, Logic 5.9%, Puzzle 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique programming language to control multiple workers, perfectly capturing the logic-heavy puzzle style.

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.

Why similar: Programming 65.6% ★, Education 11.3%, Automation 9.7%, Puzzle 5.8%, Logic 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic programming puzzle game that teaches assembly-like logic through simple, intuitive tasks.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 60.6% ★, Automation 18.3%, Logic 7.6%, Education 6.2%, Puzzle 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, rewarding experience in building circuits and writing code to solve complex engineering puzzles.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Why similar: Programming 77.4% ★, Logic 5.3%, Automation 5.1%, Puzzle 5%, Education 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is an essential title for those who enjoy the low-level, text-based coding challenges found in the seed game.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 55.7% ★, Education 14.7%, Logic 11.5%, Automation 9.9%, Puzzle 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep dive into computer architecture, allowing you to build a computer from scratch using logic gates.

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!

Why similar: Automation 48.9%, Resource Management 17%, Sandbox 12%, Logic 8.7%, Puzzle 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It strips away the narrative to focus entirely on the pure, satisfying logic of factory automation and resource flow.

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 42.9%, Logic 15.3%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.9%, Puzzle 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's automation mechanics with 3D visuals and more complex logistical challenges.

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.

Why similar: Programming 62.7% ★, Automation 18.9%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 5.3%, Simulation 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Zachtronics title features a hacking-themed programming language that feels very similar to the script-based automation in the seed game.

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.

Why similar: Programming 51.7% ★, Automation 16.7%, Idler 12.3%, Text-Based 9.1%, Education 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based, open-source programming game where you write actual scripts to automate hacking and resource management.

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Idler 15.9%, Education 15.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the mathematical and logistical side of automation, requiring you to route resources to solve equations.

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.

Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Automation 23.6%, Logic 13.2%, Puzzle 6.3%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game focused on modular synthesis and logic, perfect for fans of the technical side of the seed game.

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.

Why similar: Automation 61.5%, Resource Management 19.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 3.5%, Simulation 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, offering endless opportunities to optimize complex production chains.

A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Automation 15.2%, Education 14.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Puzzle 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist programming game where you define rules to transform strings, emphasizing pure logic and recursion.

A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.

Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Farming Sim 19.4%, Idler 12.1%, Logic 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that combines farming-sim elements with grid-based automation and crafting.

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Why similar: Farming 24.8% ★, Automation 23.4%, Farming Sim 18.6%, Idler 18.1%, Resource Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An idle farming game that runs in the background, allowing you to automate your farm while you work on other tasks.

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!

Why similar: Programming 53.7% ★, Automation 25%, Logic 8.2%, Puzzle 7.8%, Simulation 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant puzzle game about designing machines to perform chemical reactions, focusing on efficiency and spatial logic.

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

Why similar: Automation 57.3%, Resource Management 24.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines factory automation with tower defense, requiring efficient resource management and logical routing.

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Automation 21.4%, Education 16.3%, Sandbox 6.4%, Puzzle 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses visual programming to teach the basics of automation and resource management in a sandbox environment.

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Why similar: Programming 45.7% ★, Automation 19%, Education 11.7%, Logic 9.5%, Puzzle 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategy and optimization of factory lines, echoing the efficiency-first mindset of the seed game.

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Why similar: Programming 60% ★, Automation 14.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Logic 10.2%, Education 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: One of the most challenging logic-based automation games, requiring precise timing and pathing to solve chemical puzzles.

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.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 42.3%, Programming 34% ★, Strategy 8.3%, Logic 5.1%, Automation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: You program the AI of your robot squad and watch them execute your logic in real-time combat scenarios.

Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Automation 22.4%, Logic 11.2%, Sandbox 5.7%, Puzzle 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game where you build factories to assemble letters and words, blending automation with language.

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.

Why similar: Automation 60.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 5.8%, Strategy 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Scales up the automation experience to a galactic level, requiring massive logistical planning and efficiency.

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Why similar: Programming 46.8% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 14%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a sandbox for writing actual code to control robots and solve various engineering problems.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 62.8%, Resource Management 18.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 3.2%, Strategy 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Brings the automation genre into a first-person 3D space, emphasizing verticality and complex factory layouts.

A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Why similar: Programming 36% ★, Automation 26%, Idler 17%, Logic 7.2%, Simulation 4.5%

Dive into the world of Sixty Four, where you transform simple machines into a thriving factory.

Why similar: Automation 39%, Idler 21.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Sandbox 6.7%, Simulation 6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, clicker-style automation game that focuses on scaling production through simple, addictive mechanics.

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Idler 22.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 7.3%, Text-Based 7%

Why You'll Like It: A pure idle-automation experience that rewards players for scaling their production and optimizing resource loops.

Build a super large island with robots in this relaxing idle farm simulation game. Assign tasks to robots to plant, raise animals and build various buildings to expand your island. Even when you're busy, the game can run quietly at the corner or bottom of the screen and keep developing your farm.

Why similar: Automation 32.7%, Farming Sim 27%, Idler 26.8%, Economy 7.1%, Simulation 4.8%

Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!

Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Farming 25.9% ★, Farming Sim 24.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 4.7%

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Programming 37.4% ★, Automation 20.9%, Education 16%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 6.2%

MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.

Why similar: Farming 28.4% ★, Automation 25.9%, Farming Sim 21.5%, Idler 17.2%, Simulation 3.6%

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Why similar: Programming 68.5% ★, Education 14.3%, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 6.7%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logic of CPU design, challenging you to build hardware components that perform specific tasks.

A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Idler 25.1%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.2%, Minimalist 7.2%

Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!

Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Idler 18%, Education 15.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7.5%

ACRES is a small strategy simulation game about growing crops for evolving market demands. Build a farm, one acre at a time, to create a prosperous enterprise. Upgrade equipment, optimize harvests, and nurture the soil against increasing time pressure. How long can you keep the farm operating?

Why similar: Automation 37.3%, Farming Sim 25.1%, Economy 9.5%, Minimalist 7.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 48.9%, Idler 23.8%, Resource Management 18.3%, Simulation 5.5%, Strategy 2.5%

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

Why similar: Programming 42.4% ★, Automation 15.9%, Education 14.1%, Logic 9%, Sandbox 5.9%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Automation 46.4%, Education 17%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9.1%, Simulation 7.7%

The ocean took it all… now take it back! In this short semi-idle island builder you’ll resurface fertile farmland - tile by tile. As you plant, harvest and expand you’ll obtain helping hands and discover what else lies below the surface.

Why similar: Farming Sim 37%, Automation 23.8%, Resource Management 17.9%, Idler 8.6%, Minimalist 6.1%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Automation 44.5%, Resource Management 17.6%, Minimalist 12%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 6%

Trade Bots is an educational simulation game featuring technical analysis and algorithmic trading. Buy or sell an unknown stock using its real, historic data based solely on patterns and technical indicators. As your profit increases, unlock upgrades that help expedite + automate gameplay with bots.

Why similar: Programming 30.9% ★, Automation 18.1%, Education 15.6%, Idler 14.5%, Sandbox 6.4%

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Programming 57.7% ★, Automation 22.2%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 7%, Logic 3.6%

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!

Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.2%, Automation 14.3%, Idler 13.3%, Artificial Intelligence 9.5%

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.

Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Automation 20.5%, Education 11.8%, Logic 7%, Sandbox 5.1%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Farming 35.1% ★, Automation 30.1%, Minimalist 11.2%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 7.8%

Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.

Why similar: Programming 42.7% ★, Automation 20.4%, Artificial Intelligence 12.8%, Minimalist 7%, Sandbox 6.2%

Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.

Why similar: Programming 43.2% ★, Automation 20%, Education 15.6%, Logic 8.6%, Sandbox 5.3%

(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Why similar: Idler 47.2%, Economy 14.4%, Resource Management 11.7%, Minimalist 11%, Strategy 6.4%

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.

Why similar: Programming 34.8% ★, Automation 28.2%, Farming Sim 19.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Simulation 4.4%

Would you like to be the world's richest farmer? In Farm Empire, you'll start your own farm from scratch, but with the right strategy, you'll soon have an entire empire.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.2%, Idler 26.9%, Automation 20.1%, Economy 7.2%, Resource Management 7.1%

Water the soil of your ranch and watch your crop grow. A relaxing logic puzzle game.

Why similar: Farming 42% ★, Farming Sim 23.4%, Logic 17.7%, Puzzle 8.3%, Minimalist 5.4%

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Logic 16%, Resource Management 14.6%, Minimalist 12.5%, Economy 8.2%

Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.4%, Automation 29.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 6.9%, Simulation 5.8%

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Programming 43.4% ★, Automation 21.6%, Education 15.9%, Logic 6%, Sandbox 4.8%

Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Why similar: Programming 76.6% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Simulation 6%

Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!

Why similar: Programming 45% ★, Education 19.4%, Automation 15.2%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 5.3%