The Best Automation Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Garlant: My Story added at rank #7.
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Factorio (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

Factorio is an absorbing factory management game. You play the role of a handy person who needs to build a rocket and craft almost anything with little more than spit and elbow grease. Automation is the key to success as you establish production chains and assembly lines to make sure all the hard work is done for you.

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What we like:
  • Complex puzzle-solving
  • Open-ended gameplay
  • Automation mechanics
  • Creative assembly lines
  • Captivating story
What could be improved:
  • Tedious combat
  • Limited environmental resources
  • Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

  • management
  • construction
  • automation
  • simulation
  • robots
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • trains
  • crafting
  • empire
  • sandbox
  • multiplayer
  • cooperative
  • resource
  • aliens

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Nova Lands (2023)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Dive into Nova Lands, where your creativity fuels an open-world adventure of base-building and automation! Master resource management, befriend or battle exotic creatures, and design a thriving industry with adorable helper bots. Unleash your inner strategist and transform untamed wilds into a flourishing empire. Embark on your journey in Nova Lands today!

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What we like:
  • Engaging base-building and automation
  • Diverse biomes with unique challenges
  • Customizable helper bot AI adds depth
  • Satisfying progression and skill tree
  • Charming pixel art and soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Late-game content a bit slow

  • management
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • resource-management
  • automation
  • resource
  • pixel
  • survival
  • base-building
  • farming
  • simulation
  • 2d
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • building

3

The Last Worker (2023)

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The Last Worker is an immersive narrative adventure centered around a lone worker’s last stand in an increasingly automated world. Kurt works for the world’s largest retailer and is forced to choose between capitalism or activism.

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  • dystopian
  • parody
  • capitalism
  • narrative
  • automation
  • narration
  • first-person
  • stealth
  • satire
  • puzzle
  • time-management
  • cyberpunk
  • robots
  • fiction
  • multiple-endings

4

Airport (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows Android Nintendo Switch

Build and manage an international airport!


  • flight
  • simulation
  • moddable
  • automation
  • management
  • capitalism
  • transportation
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • building
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • realistic
  • logic

5

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.

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

6

Linkito (2024)

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Linux Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Connect blocks to control robots, decode messages, and defuse bombs. Solve intricate mechanism-based brainteasers. Rise through the ranks of the Albatross Company to uncover their secrets, or build your own complex puzzles for the community!


  • development
  • editor
  • moddable
  • level
  • automation
  • logic
  • programming
  • sandbox
  • puzzle
  • minimalist
  • crafting
  • relaxing
  • puzzle-loving
  • 2.5d
  • simulation

7

Garlant: My Story (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

I am a Falconeye who just graduated from the academy. In pursuit of challenges, I came to the distant border of the kingdom: Garlant in the Doe region. Here I will start a new chapter of my life, and it's going to be an amazing adventure story!


  • automation
  • fishing
  • life
  • bullet-hell
  • farming
  • simulation
  • drama
  • agriculture
  • base-building
  • collector
  • creature
  • pixel
  • crafting
  • medieval
  • rogue-like

8

Crypto Mining Simulator - Ultimate Trading Strategy Tycoon (2023)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

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!

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  • mining
  • development
  • simulation
  • farming
  • idler
  • hacking
  • life
  • automation
  • programming
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • building
  • trading
  • economy
  • sandbox

9

So Much Stuff (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 5 l Nintendo Switch

Time to find ALL the stuff.


  • automation
  • hidden-object
  • casual
  • 2d
  • puzzle

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Pizzeria (2024)

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Click to eat delicious pizzas, buy powerful upgrades, and become the ultimate pizza master. Seek out exclusive drops to make your collection unique. Can you get them all? Start clicking now and rise to pizza greatness!


  • idler
  • clicker
  • memes
  • capitalism
  • automation
  • parody
  • horror
  • fiction
  • business-simulation
  • robo-horror
  • 2d
  • funny
  • corn
  • comedy

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