Top-Rated Free Automation Games on Steam

43 free Automation games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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Little Incrementisle - Players say: Build colonies across changing islands, assign villagers to gather and defend, and invest prestige talents between expeditions. Players like: Island Variety · Strategic Resource Management · Addictive Short Sessions ·
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Little Incrementisle is an incremental colony-building game where you land on one wild island after another. On each island, you gather resources, construct buildings, recruit villagers, and develop your colony, until you’re ready to set sail for the next one.

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Jul 13, 2026
83% 👍
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Police Chief Simulator: Prologue - Early Days - Players say: Take charge of a neglected county police station: process reports, connect case clues, restore your base, and patrol town. Players like: Station Renovation · Case Investigations · Engaging Management ·
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Free introduction to the full Police Chief Simulator game takes you to Winston Springs Police Station! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!

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Apr 20, 2026
85% 👍
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CivIdle - Players say: Build a civilization across eras by placing production buildings, researching technologies, and rebirthing for permanent bonuses. Players like: Deep Resource Planning · Long-Term Progression · Idle Background Play ·
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CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

The Perfect Tower II - Players say: Defend a lone tower through enemy waves, then spend rewards on town upgrades, linked minigames, and automation. Players like: Deep System Variety · Tower Build Options · Ongoing Unlocks ·
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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!

Bard Idle - Players say: Assemble a randomly generated fantasy party, shape it with custom ballads, and guide it through automated battles and game modes. Players like: Team-Building Variety · Hero Synergies · Idle Progression ·
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Build a unique team, where each character has a random weapon, race and class. Strong combinations of heroes, enhanced by the ballad creation system and jelly dwarfs, will capture your adventure in history!

Upload Labs - Players say: Build a node-based computer system to download, process, and upload files while researching, hacking, coding, and training AI. Players like: Addictive Progression · System Optimization · New Mechanics Unlock ·
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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

Idle Pixel Fantasy - Players say: Hire fantasy units that farm chests for gold and crystals, unlock new layers, then take on the dragon and prestige. Players like: Cute Pixel Art · Relaxing Background Play · Easy Achievements ·
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Recruit hard-working helpers and magical creatures that automatically collect gold and crystals. Unlock new levels, invest in stronger units, and work your way up to the powerful dragon boss at the top. A relaxing pixel-style idle clicker!

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Sep 22, 2025
78% 👍
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Scratch Inc. - Players say: Scratch cards for points, upgrade a growing grid, automate earnings, and prestige through successive tiers of an expanding empire. Players like: Layered Progression · Automation Unlocks · Satisfying Number Growth ·
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Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.

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Sep 17, 2025
91% 👍
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Revolution Idle - Players say: Upgrade spinning circles, grow ever-larger numbers, and use prestige resets and automation to push through deeper idle-game systems. Players like: Layered Prestige Progression · Satisfying Number Growth · Automation And Macros ·
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Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.

Fruit Stand Fortune - Players say: Run Kate the Cat’s fruit stand: spin slot machines, collect bouncing produce, sell it, and reinvest in new fruit and automation. Players like: Cute Pixel Characters · Quick, Relaxed Sessions · Rewarding Upgrade Progress ·
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Start with nothing and spin your way to the top! Gather fruit from slot machines and sell them to buy upgrades, new fruit types, and more! Unlock cute customers! Meet a Bear Wizard! Build your fruit empire with Fruit Stand Fortune!

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Jan 24, 2025
96% 👍
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Incremental Epic Hero 2 - Players say: Lead fantasy heroes through automated battles, exploring new areas and building strength with gear, skills, monster companions, and resets. Players like: Layered Progression · Class And Skill Builds · Background Auto Battles ·
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A mixture of incremental/idle and roleplaying game set in fantasy world filled with monsters and things to explore, where battling is constant, almost everything can be upgraded, and with wide array of various prestige mechanics to always keep things interesting and moving forward!

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Jan 2, 2025
73% 👍
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Skill Legends Royale - Players say: Build a hero from randomized skills and treasures, then watch it auto-battle seven rivals in an eight-player PvP match. Players like: Build Variety · Strategic Counterplay · Relaxed Auto-Battles ·
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This is a free multiplayer PvP strategy game that incorporates rogue-like and auto chess elements, players need to equip their auto-battling heroes with the right treasures and skills to ultimately defeat all other players and become the champion.

Finn Dorset's Institute For Livestock Replication - Players say: Clone moon sheep, sell their wool, and upgrade an alien farm as its landscape changes in this incremental idler. Players like: Hand-Drawn Art · Changing Farm Visuals · Absurd Humor ·
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An animated incremental game about cloning livestock. Make as many moon sheep as you can. Research technology, upgrade your operation and become a clone farm billionaire!

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Oct 2, 2024
84% 👍
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Industry Idle - Players say: Build an industrial economy by placing factories, balancing resource chains, trading goods, and restarting for lasting upgrades. Players like: Factory Optimization · Relaxed Idle Play · Player Market Trading ·
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Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Watch - Players say: Click to build points and income, upgrade your earning rate, and collect Steam-inventory wristwatches that boost progress. Players like: Watch collecting · Relaxed background play · Watch designs ·
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Watch is a free incremental game combined with collecting wristwatches integrated into Steam inventory.

Tapple - Idle Clicker - Players say: Tap to collect Tapples, upgrade your clicking power, automate income, and advance through ten levels and hidden goals. Players like: Easy, Relaxed Play · Background Automation · Growing Tapple Totals ·
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Welcome to Tapple, the idle clicker game where every tap brings you closer to an ever-growing collection of Tapples. Build your empire one tap at a time, discover unique Tapple drops, and AFK all you want!

Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue - Players say: Survive an ocean planet’s giant waves by gathering resources, crafting tools, automating production, and transforming the terrain. Players like: Factory Automation · Base Building · Relaxing Atmosphere ·
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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.

Astrometica: Prologue - Players say: Stranded in space, gather materials, craft survival gear, follow signals, and build a base to explore asteroid fields. Players like: Exploration With Purpose · Atmospheric Space Setting · Base Building ·
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Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.

Cookard - Players say: Run a card-based restaurant by combining ingredients with utensils, serving customers, trading supplies, and automating kitchen tasks. Players like: Addictive Cooking Loop · Cute Art Style · Card-Stacking Concept ·
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Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.

Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG - Players say: Place fantasy heroes to stop monster waves, build skill synergies, and grow stronger through repeatable tower-defense runs. Players like: Hero Synergies · Layered Progression · Background Idling ·
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Endless Idle Tower Defense with deep strategy and RPG progression and combat mechanics. Recruit, upgrade, and position powerful fantasy heroes, discover game-changing synergies, and survive infinite monster waves. Grow stronger every run with literally millions of upgrades and endless auto battles.

Idle Heros - Players say: As gods destroy the world, assemble heroes for automated battles, earn idle resources, and improve their skills, talents, and gear. Players like: Hero Variety · Idle Resource Gains · Hero Development ·
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《IDLE HEROS》 is a special placement game, invite your friends to form a fixed team, come to participate in the battle, placement can easily obtain a variety of resources

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May 1, 2024
82% 👍
of 574
Mini Settlers: Prologue - Players say: Build island settlements, connect factories by roads, trains and ports, and balance deliveries to meet residents’ needs. Players like: Simple City Building · Resource Logistics · Relaxing Minimalist Style ·
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Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Alpha League - Players say: Choose a hero, shape its build with roguelike combat styles, then face bots or players in map-dependent auto-battler matches. Players like: Varied Hero Builds · Randomized Maps · Quick, Relaxed Matches ·
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Alpha League is a free-to-play, hero based Auto Chess. In Alpha League, simply pick and build your favorite hero in a Roguelike fashion with 12 different combat genres, and then battle the other 7 Bots or Players to be the winner.

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Feb 22, 2024
83% 👍
of 1.2k
Grim Clicker - Players say: Build a dark-fantasy warrior through branching skills and gear, then use clicks or automatic combat to push into lost worlds. Players like: Branching Skill Builds · Idle And Active Play · Steady Character Growth ·
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Grim Clicker is an IDLE/RPG clicker where you will find your own strategy to explore the lost worlds. Inspired by games such as Diablo, Grim Dawn, Dark Souls, etc., the game features a complex character development, many unique items, active and passive playstyle.

Unnamed Space Idle - Players say: Pilot an upgradeable ship through alien fleets, matching weapons to enemies while layered idle systems grow its combat power. Players like: Interconnected Upgrade Systems · Strategic Build Optimization · Steady Unlocks and Progress ·
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Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.

Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game - Players say: Vacuum piles of dust, sell the haul, upgrade industrial cleaners and robots, and unlock new locations to clean. Players like: Relaxing Dust Cleanup · Robot Automation · Easy Background Play ·
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Vacuum Warrior is a Free to Play incremental idle game. Listen to the crisp crackle of dust and debris entering your vacuum as you vacuum ridiculous amounts of dust. Upgrade your vacuums, idle gains, and robot vacuums, earn achievements, and explore numerous locations in the Vacuum Warrior universe!

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Jun 29, 2023
79% 👍
of 916
Pixel Starships - Players say: Design a pixel-art starship, assign its crew and AI, then upgrade, explore, and battle other players in a persistent universe. Players like: Ship-Building Depth · Customizable Crew AI · Strategic Combat ·
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Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.

Idle Clans - Players say: Train skills, craft gear, fight bosses, and trade or team up in a multiplayer RPG that keeps progressing while you’re offline. Players like: Relaxed Idle Progress · Clan Play and Raids · Long-Term Skill Growth ·
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Idle Clans is a multiplayer idle game that combines the classic MMORPG experience with simplified gameplay and less time commitment. Features include a player-driven economy, PvE, trading, quests, crafting and opportunities to play, socialize and collaborate with other players.

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Apr 7, 2023
75% 👍
of 1.7k
Beer Factory - Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person brewery, moving ingredients through brewing and bottling while managing workers, machinery, finances, and deliveries. Players like: Hands-On Production · Factory Progress · Relaxed Pacing ·
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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.

Outpath: First Journey - Players say: Gather and craft in a first-person island-building prologue, upgrading tools, automating production, and expanding across biomes. Players like: Relaxed, Low-Pressure Pace · Satisfying Progression · Charming Visual Style ·
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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!

Antimatter Dimensions - Players say: Grow antimatter through linked dimensions, reset for permanent upgrades, and unlock increasingly complex idle and strategy systems. Players like: Unfolding Progression · Strategic Challenges · Deep Number Systems ·
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Earn antimatter through dimensions! Gain Infinite antimatter to collapse the universe!

Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission - Players say: After landing on Nova, Emilia gathers resources, builds and automates a base with helper bots, and explores connected islands. Players like: Relaxed, Simple Play · Building and Logistics · Technology Exploration ·
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Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is a prologue chapter of the main game, Nova Lands. Learn your way around the planet you've landed on, build your base, and automate it with your helpful bots!

Idle Research - Players say: Run an incremental alchemy game: research and craft flasks and tubes, manage energy production, and unlock upgrades and automation. Players like: Satisfying Progression · Steady Number Growth · Useful Automation ·
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Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.

Trimps - Players say: On a hostile planet, manage a growing population of Trimps by gathering resources, fighting, upgrading, and automating their work. Players like: Deep Progression · Flexible Automation · Strategic Choices ·
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A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Idle Spiral - Players say: Grow a mathematical spiral with upgrades and resets, then use its power in battles against other spirals and constrained challenges. Players like: Mesmerizing Spiral Growth · Engaging Spiral Battles · Offline Speed Boosts ·
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This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings - Players say: Run a small robot-powered factory: lay out rooms, coordinate production, research upgrades, and balance costs against market demand. Players like: Factory Optimization · Factory Progression · Flexible Layouts ·
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This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!

The Planet Crafter: Prologue - Players say: Survive on a barren planet by gathering resources, building terraforming machines, and gradually creating conditions for life. Players like: Visible Planet Changes · Relaxing Base Building · Steady Terraforming Progress ·
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Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Bitburner - Players say: As an unknown hacker in a dystopian world, write JavaScript to breach servers, automate income, and unlock new systems. Players like: Scripted Automation · Incremental Progression · Coding Practice ·
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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.

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Dec 10, 2021
95% 👍
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Idle Monster TD - Players say: Command elemental monsters, place them as defenses, and upgrade your team to hold back endless waves of invading robots. Players like: Monster Variety · Elemental Team Synergy · Idle Progression ·
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An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Vectorio Classic - Players say: Claim map resources, build powered defenses, research weapons, and expand your base to withstand enemy shapes and four guardians. Players like: Addictive Progression · Tower Defense Appeal · Resource Logistics ·
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The original, uncompleted version of Vectorio. Claim resources, unlock new buildings, and expand your defenses as you fight back against enemy forces in the classic edition of Vectorio! Play for free now.

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Mar 22, 2021
93% 👍
of 1.5k
Incremental Adventures - Players say: Manage heroes through automated turn-based battles, tuning upgrades and layered prestiges to push their progression ever further. Players like: Offline Progress · Layered Prestige · Flexible Automation ·
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Lead your heroes in their neverending adventures! A minimalistic Idle game where combat is fully automated. It's up to you to make the most of that automation to reach extremely high numbers!

Dota Underlords - Players say: Draft Dota heroes, build alliances, and lead an auto-battling team through tactical rounds in the city of White Spire. Players like: Strategic Team Building · Easygoing Matches · PC-Mobile Play ·
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Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.

AdVenture Capitalist - Players say: Turn a lemonade stand into an investment empire by buying upgrades, hiring managers, and resetting for stronger profits. Players like: Satisfying Number Growth · Easy Background Play · Goofy Business Humor ·
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Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!