Best Automation games on PC
Games focused on building and managing systems that perform tasks automatically, often processing resources into useful products. Players design production chains, expand infrastructure, and improve efficiency.
- Automated production and resource processing
- Building and optimizing linked systems
- Expanding infrastructure over time
Related: Base Building, Resource Management, Crafting, Simulation
256 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
ASKA
Viking survival colony sim built around managing working villagers
80% positive
12K reviews
Captain of Industry
Single-player factory simulation with dynamic terrain and complex logistics
90% positive
12K reviews
SimplePlanes
Aircraft-building sandbox with physics-based flight and piloting challenges
93% positive
11K reviews
The Farmer Was Replaced
Farming automation game where Python-like code runs a drone
96% positive
9,534 reviews
Stationeers
Technical space survival sandbox about engineering and automating a station
88% positive
9,293 reviews
The Wandering Village
Post-apocalyptic city builder set atop a wandering giant creature
92% positive
8,491 reviews
Airport CEO
Airport management sim about building terminals and keeping flights moving
83% positive
8,356 reviews
Cash Cleaner Simulator
First-person cleaning simulator about processing and organizing dirty cash
92% positive
8,041 reviews
Software Inc.
Software company management sim with free-form office building
94% positive
7,838 reviews
Opus Magnum
Open-ended automation puzzles with programmable arms and alchemical machines
97% positive
7,259 reviews
Plantera
Idle gardening game where helpers harvest while you are away
89% positive
5,927 reviews
Per Aspera
Mars terraforming strategy sim with planet-wide construction and logistics
76% positive
5,783 reviews
Turing Complete
Logic puzzle simulator about building computers from NAND gates
96% positive
5,758 reviews
SpaceChem
Programming-style puzzle game about designing factories for chemical production
92% positive
5,090 reviews
Autonauts
Colony-building simulation where you program bots to automate tasks
89% positive
4,968 reviews
Human Resource Machine
Programming puzzle game about automating an office worker's assignments
94% positive
4,702 reviews
Flotsam
Floating colony builder that turns ocean trash into homes
81% positive
4,634 reviews
SHENZHEN I/O
Programming puzzles about building circuits and coding tiny chips
95% positive
4,529 reviews
Factory Town
Village-building strategy game with conveyor belts and automated supply chains
91% positive
4,481 reviews
The Perfect Tower II
Incremental tower defense with automation, town building, and minigames
87% positive
Free
Rise of Industry
Industrial tycoon strategy built around production chains and city trade
73% positive
4,194 reviews
The Crust
Lunar colony simulator blending automation with deadline-driven Earth contracts
76% positive
4,178 reviews
TIS-100
Programming puzzles about routing data through a computer's limited nodes
97% positive
4,113 reviews
KartKraft™
Kart racing simulation focused on handling and timed laps
72% positive
4,015 reviews