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.
Microcivilization
Pixel-art strategy clicker combining civilization growth and disaster management
79% positive
1,454 reviews
Car Manufacture
Early 20th-century factory sim about building and managing car production
66% positive
1,415 reviews
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
Idle garden-building game with helpers that harvest while you're away
94% positive
1,379 reviews
Tap Heroes
Puppet-stage idle RPG where clicks and heroes defeat bosses
73% positive
1,372 reviews
River Town Factory
Factory-building life sim mixing time travel and martial arts
89% positive
1,357 reviews
Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator Starter Edition
Cryptocurrency mining sim about building rigs and expanding a business
89% positive
Free
Better Mart Simulator
First-person supermarket management with detailed stocking and six-player co-op
89% positive
1,354 reviews
RAILGRADE
Mission-based railway strategy centered on building industrial supply chains
85% positive
1,277 reviews
Factory Town Idle
Menu-driven idle town builder centered on production and trade
91% positive
1,258 reviews
Tower Factory
Tower defense driven by conveyor-belt factories on procedurally generated maps
90% positive
1,257 reviews
Increlution
Minimalist incremental game about planning each life against time
85% positive
1,256 reviews
Regular Human Workshop
2D physics sandbox for building contraptions and manipulating human ragdolls
89% positive
1,249 reviews
The Colonists
Robot colony builder with resource chains and transport networks
86% positive
1,243 reviews
Plasma
First-person engineering sandbox for building and programming custom devices
90% positive
Free
Transport INC
Transportation management sim about connecting cities and competing with rivals
70% positive
1,084 reviews
Gunsmith
Factory management sim where conveyor lines turn materials into weapons
72% positive
1,057 reviews
Lootun
Semi-idle RPG with automated dungeon battles and team building
94% positive
1,056 reviews
Space industrial empire
Space management strategy with automated factories and planetary conquest
86% positive
1,043 reviews
Odd Realm
Fantasy colony sim with five races and underground construction
85% positive
1,023 reviews
ShapeHero Factory
Roguelite factory builder where conveyor belts create autonomous defenders
89% positive
1,015 reviews
Orebound
First-person dwarf mining and factory building in an open world
78% positive
992 reviews
Fuel Harvest Together
Co-op oil business sim about drilling, refining, and selling fuel
69% positive
986 reviews
Microtopia
Colony automation sim built around routing short-lived robot ants
88% positive
969 reviews
miniBONG
Idle roguelike RPG built around loot and character customization
80% positive
964 reviews