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Top Automation Games

60+ automation games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Simulation, Sandbox, Building, Singleplayer.

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  1. #1 Satisfactory
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
    Developer: Coffee Stain StudiosPublisher: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 32.6hMean: 110.0h≥1hr: 94%

    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!

  2. #2 Factorio
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
    Developer: Wube Software LTD.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 44.9hMean: 190.4h≥1hr: 95%

    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.

  3. #3 Dyson Sphere Program
    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
    Developer: Youthcat StudioPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.1hMean: 75.1h≥1hr: 84%

    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.

  4. #4 Schedule I
    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 299,833 reviews2025
    Developer: TVGS
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 19.0hMean: 28.9h≥1hr: 97%

    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.

  5. #5 Mindustry
    84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 26,625 reviews2019
    Developer: AnukenDev
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.9hMean: 27.5h≥1hr: 76%

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

  6. #6 Captain of Industry
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
    Developer: MaFi Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.2hMean: 84.6h≥1hr: 82%

    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.

  7. #7 Opus Magnum
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,887 reviews2017
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.7hMean: 13.3h≥1hr: 77%

    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!

  8. #8 shapez
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
    Developer: Tobias SpringerPublisher: tobspr Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.7hMean: 14.8h≥1hr: 66%

    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!

  9. #9 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 58,404 reviews2020
    Developer: Geometa
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 17.3hMean: 112.7h≥1hr: 91%

    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.

  10. #10 AdVenture Capitalist
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 60,119 reviews2015
    Developer: Hyper Hippo Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.9hMean: 68.0h≥1hr: 80%

    Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

  11. #11 Hydroneer
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 27,793 reviews2020
    Developer: Foulball Hangover
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.8hMean: 21.9h≥1hr: 85%

    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!

  12. #12 Timberborn
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
    Developer: Mechanistry
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.2hMean: 42.2h≥1hr: 84%

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

  13. #13 Upload Labs
    71% matchVery Positive92% of 7,397 reviews2025
    Developer: EnigmaDev Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 5.2hMean: 21.2h≥1hr: 79%

    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

  14. #14 SHENZHEN I/O
    73% matchVery Positive95% of 4,452 reviews2016
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.1hMean: 11.5h≥1hr: 61%

    BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

  15. #15 shapez 2 - Factory
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
    Developer: tobspr Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.0hMean: 29.5h≥1hr: 83%

    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.

  16. #16 Soulmask
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,464 reviews2026
    Developer: CampFire StudioPublisher: Qooland Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.8hMean: 68.1h≥1hr: 91%

    Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

  17. #17 Bitburner
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,237 reviews2021
    Developer: Fulcrum Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

    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.

  18. #18 The Farmer Was Replaced
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,430 reviews2025
    Developer: Timon HerzogPublisher: Metaroot
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.8hMean: 11.3h≥1hr: 75%

    Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

  19. #19 RoadCraft
    66% matchMostly Positive75% of 15,663 reviews2025
    Developer: Saber InteractivePublisher: Focus Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.6hMean: 33.9h≥1hr: 94%

    As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

  20. #20 Rusty's Retirement
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,543 reviews2024
    Developer: Mister Morris Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 23.0hMean: 54.9h≥1hr: 92%

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

  21. #21 Autonauts
    67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
    Developer: DenkiPublisher: Curve Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 13.9h≥1hr: 86%

    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.

  22. #22 StarRupture
    65% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
    Developer: Creepy Jar
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.6hMean: 22.6h≥1hr: 88%

    StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

  23. #23 The Last Caretaker
    64% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
    Developer: Channel37 Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 17.2hMean: 32.0h≥1hr: 93%

    Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

  24. #24 Melvor Idle
    64% matchVery Positive90% of 15,803 reviews2021
    Developer: Games by MalcsPublisher: Jagex Ltd
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 51.4hMean: 368.9h≥1hr: 89%

    Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.

  25. #25 Revolution Idle
    64% matchVery Positive87% of 11,167 reviews2025
    Developer: Oni Gaming
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 16.6hMean: 172.6h≥1hr: 83%

    Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.

  26. #26 Factory Town
    64% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
    Developer: Erik Asmussen
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.5hMean: 14.2h≥1hr: 76%

    Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

  27. #27 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
    63% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
    Developer: Osaris Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 3.0h≥1hr: 55%

    Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

  28. #28 Cash Cleaner Simulator
    62% matchVery Positive92% of 7,563 reviews2025
    Developer: Mind Control GamesPublisher: Forklift Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.6hMean: 41.5h≥1hr: 91%

    Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

  29. #29 SimplePlanes
    64% matchVery Positive93% of 10,848 reviews2015
    Developer: Jundroo, LLC
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.5hMean: 12.7h≥1hr: 74%

    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.

  30. #30 Alchemy Factory
    62% matchVery Positive90% of 2,293 reviews2025
    Developer: D5 CopperheadPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.0hMean: 23.1h≥1hr: 87%

    Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

  31. #31 The Perfect Tower II
    61% matchVery Positive87% of 4,306 reviews2025
    Developer: Fire Sword Studios
    Platforms: Windows

    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!

  32. #32 Infinifactory
    63% matchVery Positive95% of 2,465 reviews2015
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.7hMean: 8.8h≥1hr: 87%

    Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

  33. #33 MineMogul
    61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,767 reviews2025
    Developer: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Publisher: NoodleForge
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.2hMean: 12.7h≥1hr: 93%

    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!

  34. #34 Space industrial empire
    62% matchVery Positive86% of 1,035 reviews2024
    Developer: 游戏养家工作室
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 36.7h≥1hr: 77%

    This is a idle game modeled on industrial building gameplay. It will be three-dimensional, complex industrial assembly line, easy, simple plane conveyor belt. At the same time to join the battleship assembly, space campaign, character development, giant construction, trade orders and other gameplay!

  35. #35 Stationeers
    62% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
    Developer: RocketWerkz
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 10.2hMean: 83.9h≥1hr: 85%

    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!

  36. #36 Gamblers Table
    61% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,335 reviews2026
    Developer: greenpixels
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 11.8hMean: 20.9h≥1hr: 95%

    Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...

  37. #37 Automation Empire
    62% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
    Developer: DOG HOGGLER
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.6hMean: 19.3h≥1hr: 85%

    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!

  38. #38 Plan B: Terraform
    60% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 reviews2025
    Developer: Gaddy Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.4hMean: 11.2h≥1hr: 81%

    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.

  39. #39 Another Brick in The Mall
    62% matchVery Positive83% of 2,429 reviews2020
    Developer: The Quadsphere
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.5hMean: 12.8h≥1hr: 87%

    Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

  40. #40 Parcel Simulator
    60% matchVery Positive94% of 2,484 reviews2025
    Developer: Dansan Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.7hMean: 17.5h≥1hr: 88%

    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!

  41. #41 Nova Lands
    61% matchVery Positive89% of 3,422 reviews2023
    Developer: BEHEMUTTPublisher: HypeTrain Digital
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.0hMean: 9.3h≥1hr: 88%

    Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

  42. #42 EXAPUNKS
    61% matchVery Positive95% of 1,867 reviews2018
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.1hMean: 11.9h≥1hr: 58%

    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.

  43. #43 Lootun
    60% matchVery Positive94% of 1,013 reviews2024
    Developer: ArrowSoftGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 22.7hMean: 89.9h≥1hr: 85%

    Lootun is a Semi-Idle RPG with a strong focus on Character/Skill Progression, Item Hunting, and Inventory Management. Assemble a team of adventurers and send them off to clear missions while you Craft, Upgrade and Enchant the Loot!

  44. #44 Maltese's Fluffy Onsen
    60% matchVery Positive95% of 2,903 reviews2025
    Developer: Sinkhole Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.0hMean: 29.2h≥1hr: 78%

    Run a bathhouse visited by animals! Maltese's Fluffy Onsen is a relaxing simulation game that you can enjoy while doing other tasks, as it sits at the bottom of your screen. Place baths with different temperatures and rest areas to help a variety of animal friends unwind.

  45. #45 Plantera
    61% matchVery Positive89% of 5,896 reviews2016
    Developer: VaragtP
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.1hMean: 14.6h≥1hr: 93%

    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.

  46. #46 FortressCraft Evolved!
    62% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
    Developer: ProjectorGamesPublisher: Digital Tribe
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.2hMean: 13.6h≥1hr: 72%

    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.

  47. #47 The Crust
    60% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
    Developer: VEOM StudioPublisher: Crytivo
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.0hMean: 23.2h≥1hr: 82%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

  48. #48 Eden Crafters
    59% matchVery Positive86% of 2,425 reviews2026
    Developer: Osaris Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 13.3h≥1hr: 79%

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

  49. #49 Scratch Inc.
    59% matchVery Positive91% of 1,726 reviews2025
    Developer: Makopaz
    Platforms: Windows, Mac

    Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.

  50. #50 Techtonica
    60% matchMixed65% of 3,202 reviews2024
    Developer: Fire Hose Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.8hMean: 17.2h≥1hr: 75%

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

  51. #51 Turing Complete
    60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,204 reviews2021
    Developer: LevelHead
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.6hMean: 12.1h≥1hr: 78%

    Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

  52. #52 Beltmatic
    59% matchVery Positive94% of 2,089 reviews2024
    Developer: Notional Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.9hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 80%

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

  53. #53 Flotsam
    59% matchVery Positive81% of 4,361 reviews2025
    Developer: Pajama Llama GamesPublisher: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.5hMean: 10.8h≥1hr: 82%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

  54. #54 Outpath: First Journey
    59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022
    Developer: David Moralejo SánchezPublisher: GrabTheGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 54mMean: 3.5h≥1hr: 46%

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

  55. #55 Star Birds
    58% matchVery Positive93% of 2,717 reviews2025
    Developer: Toukana Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.2hMean: 3.6h≥1hr: 55%

    Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

  56. #56 Beer Factory - Prologue
    59% matchVery Positive85% of 2,018 reviews2023
    Developer: AKELPublisher: CreativeForge Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 3.3h≥1hr: 49%

    Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.

  57. #57 SpaceChem
    60% matchVery Positive92% of 5,063 reviews2011
    Developer: Zachtronics
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.8hMean: 4.2h≥1hr: 66%

    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!

  58. #58 Per Aspera
    60% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,702 reviews2020
    Developer: Tlön IndustriesPublisher: Raw Fury
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.0hMean: 11.9h≥1hr: 93%

    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.

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