The Best Automation Games - Page 4

Update : Techtonica added at rank #40.
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Good Company (2020)

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PC Windows

Build and manage your own tech empire in Good Company! Start from scratch and work your way up by creating new tech products, automating processes, and competing with rival companies. With both single and multiplayer modes, Good Company offers endless possibilities for building, expanding, and dominating the market. Develop your employees, design new tech products, and explore the tech tree to make your company the best in the business!


What we like:
  • Charming game with a lot of potential
  • Solid entry in the factory building genre
  • Blueprint building system is interesting
  • Market monitoring adds a new layer of strategy
What could be improved:
  • Lacks human touch in employee management
  • Limited interaction with the public
  • Not beginner-friendly

  • automation
  • management
  • tutorial
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • logic
  • economy
  • building
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • robots
  • isometric
  • stylized

32

River Town Factory (2024)

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PC Windows

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

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  • automation
  • travel
  • base-building
  • time
  • historical
  • resource-management
  • time-management
  • alternate
  • building
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • sci-fi
  • crafting

33

Bone's Cafe (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.


  • cooking
  • cooperative
  • automation
  • local
  • protagonist
  • campaign
  • 4-player
  • humor
  • management
  • resource-management
  • villain
  • relaxing
  • dark
  • building
  • factorio

34

Fhtagn Simulator (2022)

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PC Windows

In Fhtagn Simulator, you enter the chaotic world of Cthulhu and become bound to offer tribute to the great being in order to break free from their prison. This roguelike card game features mythical creatures, evil spells and relics, and an ever-changing roulette of cards. Harnessing the power of the cards while managing the roulette is key to your success. Be careful, though--if you don't collect enough spirit within the time limit, the ancient gods will punish you with game failure. Are you up for the challenge?

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What we like:
  • Unique and original gameplay
  • Interesting mix of luck and strategy
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Occult flavor and personality
  • Good value for the price
What could be improved:
  • Flat difficulty progression
  • Translation errors and ambiguous card descriptions
  • Limited content and room for more updates

  • auto-battler
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • deckbuilder
  • lovecraftian
  • rogue-like
  • protagonist
  • automation
  • gambling
  • card
  • villain
  • procedural
  • turn-based
  • replay-value
  • pixel

35

Captain of Industry (2022)

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j PC Windows

Embark on an adventure in Captain of Industry, where you transform an abandoned island into a thriving civilization. Mine, farm, and innovate your way to the stars by building rockets, trading with allies, and fending off pirates. With over 150 unique products and the ability to shape the terrain itself, your strategic decisions pave the path to success. Can you conquer the challenges and reach space?

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What we like:
  • Real-time terrain deformation
  • Wide variety of solutions for challenges
  • Handy tools like blueprinting
  • Engaging gameplay
  • Actively developed with promising potential
What could be improved:
  • Lacks clear end goals
  • Some gameplay issues need refining

  • automation
  • mining
  • transportation
  • colony
  • base-building
  • agriculture
  • moddable
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • logic
  • simulation
  • economy
  • building
  • management
  • survival

36

Technicity (2022)

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j PC Windows

A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.

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  • transportation
  • automation
  • city-building
  • modern
  • building
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • resource-management
  • open-world
  • 3d
  • economy
  • crafting
  • flight
  • realistic
  • first-person

37

InfraSpace (2023)

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infraspace Mac OS PC Windows

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.


  • transportation
  • automation
  • management
  • vr-edutainment
  • city-building
  • science
  • moddable
  • capitalism
  • space
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • building
  • modern
  • economy
  • trains

38

The Last Starship (2023)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS

Introversion Software, the indie legends behind Prison Architect, Darwinia, DEFCON and Uplink, present to you our most ambitious title ever: Pick a ship hull, kit her out with engines, life-support, sensors and railguns and start your galactic adventure in The Last Starship!


  • colony
  • space
  • mining
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • science
  • automation
  • building
  • sandbox
  • sci-fi
  • top-down
  • 2d
  • strategy
  • management
  • exploration

39

GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

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.


  • programming
  • auto-battler
  • automation
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • top-down
  • multiplayer-battle
  • robots
  • asynchronous
  • logic
  • tactical
  • multiplayer
  • pve
  • arena
  • isometric

40

Techtonica (2024)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows j

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.

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  • automation
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • management
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • colourful

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