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

Satisfactory
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!

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.
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- #1 Satisfactory98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 273,405 reviews2024Developer: Coffee Stain StudiosPublisher: Coffee Stain PublishingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 32.9hMean: 110.9h≥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 Factorio98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 230,973 reviews2020Developer: Wube Software LTD.Platforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 45.0hMean: 191.3h≥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 Dyson Sphere Program97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 90,956 reviews2021Developer: Youthcat StudioPublisher: Gamirror GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 13.1hMean: 75.3h≥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 Schedule I93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 303,393 reviews2025Developer: TVGSPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 19.1hMean: 29.3h≥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 Mindustry85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 27,010 reviews2019Developer: AnukenDevPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.9hMean: 27.6h≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
- #6 Captain of Industry80% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 reviews2022Developer: MaFi GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 9.9hMean: 84.1h≥1hr: 81%
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 Opus Magnum78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,976 reviews2017Developer: ZachtronicsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.6hMean: 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 shapez78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,551 reviews2020Developer: Tobias SpringerPublisher: tobspr GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 2.7hMean: 14.7h≥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 Stormworks: Build and Rescue78% matchVery Positive90% of 58,785 reviews2020Developer: GeometaPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 17.3hMean: 112.9h≥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 AdVenture Capitalist77% matchVery Positive88% of 60,202 reviews2015Developer: Hyper Hippo GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 6.9hMean: 68.1h≥1hr: 80%
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
- #11 Hydroneer77% matchVery Positive86% of 28,029 reviews2020Developer: Foulball HangoverPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 6.9hMean: 22.3h≥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 Timberborn74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 40,121 reviews2026Developer: MechanistryPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 10.3hMean: 42.9h≥1hr: 85%
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 Upload Labs72% matchVery Positive92% of 7,760 reviews2025Developer: EnigmaDev StudiosPlatforms: Windows, LinuxMedian: 5.1hMean: 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 SHENZHEN I/O73% matchVery Positive95% of 4,474 reviews2016Developer: ZachtronicsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 2.0hMean: 11.5h≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
- #15 shapez 2 - Factory70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,612 reviews2026Developer: tobspr GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 7.0hMean: 29.3h≥1hr: 82%
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 The Farmer Was Replaced67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,668 reviews2025Developer: Timon HerzogPublisher: MetarootPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 2.8hMean: 11.9h≥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.
- #17 Bitburner68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,280 reviews2021Developer: Fulcrum GamesPlatforms: 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 RoadCraft66% matchMostly Positive75% of 15,838 reviews2025Developer: Saber InteractivePublisher: Focus EntertainmentPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 12.7hMean: 34.3h≥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!
- #19 Rusty's Retirement66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,610 reviews2024Developer: Mister Morris GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 22.7hMean: 54.8h≥1hr: 92%
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
- #20 Autonauts67% matchVery Positive90% of 4,938 reviews2019Developer: DenkiPublisher: Curve GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
- #21 StarRupture65% matchVery Positive81% of 12,717 reviews2026Developer: Creepy JarPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 6.7hMean: 23.8h≥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.
- #22 The Last Caretaker64% matchVery Positive86% of 11,569 reviews2025Developer: Channel37 LtdPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 18.1hMean: 33.9h≥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.
- #23 Revolution Idle64% matchVery Positive87% of 11,389 reviews2025Developer: Oni GamingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 16.5hMean: 174.0h≥1hr: 82%
Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.
- #24 Melvor Idle64% matchVery Positive90% of 15,886 reviews2021Developer: Games by MalcsPublisher: Jagex LtdPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 51.1hMean: 369.4h≥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 Factory Town64% matchVery Positive91% of 4,445 reviews2021Developer: Erik AsmussenPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 3.5hMean: 14.1h≥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!
- #26 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue62% matchVery Positive91% of 7,475 reviews2024Developer: Osaris GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
- #27 Cash Cleaner Simulator62% matchVery Positive92% of 7,668 reviews2025Developer: Mind Control GamesPublisher: Forklift InteractivePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 12.7hMean: 43.2h≥1hr: 92%
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...
- #28 SimplePlanes64% matchVery Positive93% of 10,859 reviews2015Developer: Jundroo, LLCPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 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.
- #29 Alchemy Factory62% matchVery Positive90% of 2,362 reviews2025Developer: D5 CopperheadPublisher: Gamirror GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 8.0hMean: 23.2h≥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!
- #30 The Perfect Tower II61% matchVery Positive87% of 4,347 reviews2025Developer: Fire Sword StudiosPlatforms: 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!
- #31 MineMogul61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,858 reviews2025Developer: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Publisher: NoodleForgePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 6.4hMean: 12.6h≥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!
- #32 Infinifactory63% matchVery Positive95% of 2,469 reviews2015Developer: ZachtronicsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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 Space industrial empire62% matchVery Positive86% of 1,038 reviews2024Developer: 游戏养家工作室Platforms: WindowsMedian: 3.2hMean: 36.8h≥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!
- #34 Stationeers62% matchVery Positive88% of 9,070 reviews2017Developer: RocketWerkzPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 9.9hMean: 84.1h≥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!
- #35 Gamblers Table61% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,457 reviews2026Developer: greenpixelsPlatforms: Windows, LinuxMedian: 12.7hMean: 20.9h≥1hr: 96%
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...
- #36 Automation Empire62% matchMixed66% of 2,638 reviews2019Developer: DOG HOGGLERPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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!
- #37 Plan B: Terraform60% matchVery Positive91% of 3,529 reviews2025Developer: Gaddy GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
- #38 Parcel Simulator60% matchVery Positive94% of 2,541 reviews2025Developer: Dansan DigitalPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 12.7hMean: 17.6h≥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!
- #39 Another Brick in The Mall62% matchVery Positive83% of 2,431 reviews2020Developer: The QuadspherePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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 Nova Lands61% matchVery Positive89% of 3,448 reviews2023Developer: BEHEMUTTPublisher: HypeTrain DigitalPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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!
- #41 EXAPUNKS61% matchVery Positive95% of 1,872 reviews2018Developer: ZachtronicsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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.
- #42 Maltese's Fluffy Onsen60% matchVery Positive95% of 2,945 reviews2025Developer: Sinkhole StudioPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 7.2hMean: 29.3h≥1hr: 79%
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.
- #43 Lootun60% matchVery Positive94% of 1,028 reviews2024Developer: ArrowSoftGamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 24.7hMean: 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 Plantera61% matchVery Positive89% of 5,905 reviews2016Developer: VaragtPPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
- #45 Scratch Inc.59% matchVery Positive91% of 1,894 reviews2025Developer: MakopazPlatforms: Windows, Mac
Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.
- #46 Fortune Mill59% matchVery Positive83% of 2,178 reviews2026Developer: Lavaflame2Platforms: Windows, MacMedian: 10.1hMean: 13.9h≥1hr: 96%
An incremental game where you must make $1,000,000 to escape! Throw darts, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, drop pachinko balls, and discover powerful synergies as each new game affects all the others!
- #47 FortressCraft Evolved!62% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,058 reviews2015Developer: ProjectorGamesPublisher: Digital TribePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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.
- #48 The Crust60% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,605 reviews2024Developer: VEOM StudioPublisher: CrytivoPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 7.0hMean: 24.1h≥1hr: 83%
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.
- #49 Eden Crafters59% matchVery Positive86% of 2,494 reviews2026Developer: Osaris GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.7hMean: 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!
- #50 Techtonica60% matchMixed65% of 3,212 reviews2024Developer: Fire Hose GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.8hMean: 17.4h≥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 Astro Colony59% matchVery Positive81% of 2,634 reviews2026Developer: Terad GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.5hMean: 16.2h≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
- #52 Turing Complete60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,269 reviews2021Developer: LevelHeadPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.5hMean: 12.3h≥1hr: 78%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
- #53 Beltmatic59% matchVery Positive94% of 2,128 reviews2024Developer: Notional GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.9hMean: 8.9h≥1hr: 80%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
- #54 Star Birds58% matchVery Positive92% of 2,915 reviews2025Developer: Toukana InteractivePlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 1.2hMean: 3.7h≥1hr: 57%
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!
- #55 Flotsam59% matchVery Positive81% of 4,433 reviews2025Developer: Pajama Llama GamesPublisher: Stray Fawn PublishingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
- #56 Outpath: First Journey59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,694 reviews2022Developer: David Moralejo SánchezPublisher: GrabTheGamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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!
- #57 Beer Factory - Prologue59% matchVery Positive85% of 2,021 reviews2023Developer: AKELPublisher: CreativeForge GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 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.
- #58 SpaceChem60% matchVery Positive92% of 5,074 reviews2011Developer: ZachtronicsPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 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!
