>> best Automation games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Automation games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Automation games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Automation fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Factorio

beats 76%

212 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Satisfactory	280 players	beats 75%
03	Palworld	340 players	beats 75%
04	The Last Caretaker	21 players	beats 77%
05	Captain of Industry	19 players	beats 76%
06	StarRupture	30 players	beats 75%
07	shapez 2 - Factory	77 players	beats 74%
08	Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure	22 players	beats 75%
09	The Planet Crafter	109 players	beats 73%
10	Solarpunk™	16 players	beats 75%
11	Dyson Sphere Program	87 players	beats 72%
12	Stormworks: Build and Rescue	15 players	beats 75%
13	Project P.I.T.T.	14 players	beats 75%
14	Sandustry	14 players	beats 75%
15	Timberborn	57 players	beats 73%
16	ALL WILL FALL	4 players	beats 82%
17	Kubifaktorium	8 players	beats 77%
18	Soulmask	13 players	beats 74%
19	Desynced	13 players	beats 74%
20	Alchemy Factory	24 players	beats 73%
21	EXAPUNKS	20 players	beats 73%
22	Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game	9 players	beats 75%
23	Laysara: Summit Kingdom	8 players	beats 75%
24	The Colonists	8 players	beats 75%
25	The Crust	7 players	beats 75%
26	Kin and Quarry	7 players	beats 75%
27	How To Grow a Black Hole	5 players	beats 76%
28	Blossom: The Seed of Life	5 players	beats 76%
29	MineMogul	24 players	beats 69%
30	MoteMancer	5 players	beats 75%
31	The Last Clockwinder	5 players	beats 75%
32	Infiniclick	5 players	beats 75%
33	Returns Outlet Simulator	5 players	beats 75%
34	Go-Go Town!	5 players	beats 74%
35	SHENZHEN I/O	23 players	beats 68%
36	Magic Research	8 players	beats 71%
37	RoadCraft	16 players	beats 68%
38	Cash Cleaner Simulator	54 players	beats 66%
39	Automate It: Factory Puzzle	3 players	beats 75%
40	Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission	3 players	beats 75%
41	Junkyard Builder	3 players	beats 75%
42	Pax Autocratica	3 players	beats 75%
43	Industry Giant 4.0	3 players	beats 74%
44	Little Rocket Lab	10 players	beats 68%
45	The Signal State	5 players	beats 70%
46	Parcel Simulator	30 players	beats 65%
47	Flippant	5 players	beats 67%
48	Plan B: Terraform	22 players	beats 63%
49	Opus Magnum	53 players	beats 62%
50	Schedule I	267 players	beats 60%
51	Final Upgrade	7 players	beats 63%
52	Starvester	8 players	beats 63%
53	Assembly Planter	4 players	beats 65%
54	Orbitmine	6 players	beats 63%
55	Execute	14 players	beats 60%
56	Per Aspera	20 players	beats 58%
57	No Creeps Were Harmed TD	4 players	beats 61%
58	TIS-100	30 players	beats 58%
59	Car Manufacture	4 players	beats 59%
60	FEED THE QUEEN	14 players	beats 56%
61	Astrometica: Prologue	4 players	beats 57%
62	Hydroneer	66 players	beats 55%
63	Node Farm	4 players	beats 56%
64	The Farmer Was Replaced	67 players	beats 54%
65	Factory Town	32 players	beats 54%
66	Linkito	8 players	beats 54%
67	ASTRONEER	171 players	beats 52%
68	Human Resource Machine	39 players	beats 53%
69	Outworld Station	4 players	beats 53%
70	LORED	9 players	beats 53%
71	Ore Factory Squad ⛏️	7 players	beats 52%
72	Bombe	6 players	beats 52%
73	Rail Route	13 players	beats 52%
74	Military Incremental Complex	10 players	beats 52%
75	Fortune Mill	39 players	beats 52%
76	Mindustry	58 players	beats 51%
77	Star Birds	14 players	beats 52%
78	Astro Colony	14 players	beats 52%
79	Stationeers	15 players	beats 52%
80	Outpost: Infinity Siege	10 players	beats 52%
81	FeeBay Simulator	3 players	beats 52%
82	Learning Factory	9 players	beats 51%
83	Microcivilization	19 players	beats 51%
84	Outpath	29 players	beats 51%
85	JUNKPUNK	3 players	beats 52%
86	Carpet Cleaning Simulator	8 players	beats 51%
87	Melvor Idle	68 players	beats 51%
88	ASKA	14 players	beats 51%
89	Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder	5 players	beats 51%
90	Block Factory	4 players	beats 51%
91	All Hail the Orb	22 players	beats 51%
92	Mini Settlers	21 players	beats 51%
93	FOUNDRY	33 players	beats 51%
94	Spellbound & Shelved	20 players	beats 51%
95	Flotsam	19 players	beats 50%
96	Forage Wizard	29 players	beats 50%
97	Blueprint Tycoon	20 players	beats 50%
98	Last Call BBS	25 players	beats 50%
99	Diggin	6 players	beats 50%
100	Big Pharma	29 players	beats 50%
101	Rise of Industry	29 players	beats 50%
102	Turing Complete	18 players	beats 50%
103	Little Big Workshop	29 players	beats 50%
104	Beer Manufacture Simulator	3 players	beats 50%
105	Infinifactory	27 players	beats 50%
106	Kaizen: A Factory Story	6 players	beats 50%
107	AutoForge	5 players	beats 50%
108	Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations	7 players	beats 50%
109	Hammerting	14 players	beats 50%
110	Airport CEO	13 players	beats 50%
111	Voxel Tycoon	7 players	beats 50%
112	Black Hole Fishing	13 players	beats 50%
113	Autonauts	37 players	beats 50%
114	MOLEK-SYNTEZ	9 players	beats 50%
115	Nova Lands	37 players	beats 50%
116	Good Company	13 players	beats 50%
117	Little Incrementisle	13 players	beats 50%
118	Chipmatic	3 players	beats 50%
119	A=B	3 players	beats 49%
120	RAILGRADE	6 players	beats 49%
121	Bone's Cafe	4 players	beats 48%
122	Particul	27 players	beats 48%
123	Gamblers Table	42 players	beats 48%
124	Bots Are Stupid	6 players	beats 44%
125	Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999	4 players	beats 42%
126	Another Farm Roguelike	8 players	beats 43%
127	Berserk B.I.T.S	4 players	beats 41%
128	Space Architect	4 players	beats 41%
129	Suncraft	7 players	beats 42%
130	Production Line : Car factory simulation	12 players	beats 42%
131	Techtonica	12 players	beats 42%
132	Sintopia	10 players	beats 41%
133	Tribe: Primitive Builder	4 players	beats 38%
134	Slots & Diapers	12 players	beats 41%
135	shapez	103 players	beats 41%
136	Microtopia	6 players	beats 38%
137	7 Billion Humans	18 players	beats 40%
138	Recycling Center Simulator	25 players	beats 40%
139	Idle Colony	33 players	beats 40%
140	Atrio: The Dark Wild	7 players	beats 38%
141	Autonauts vs Piratebots	10 players	beats 39%
142	Vectorio	4 players	beats 36%
143	Crafting Idle Clicker	22 players	beats 40%
144	Moose Miners	9 players	beats 38%
145	The Magical Mixture Mill	4 players	beats 35%
146	Astrodle	6 players	beats 37%
147	Another Brick in The Mall	12 players	beats 38%
148	Beltex	4 players	beats 34%
149	Final Factory	5 players	beats 34%
150	Fantastic Contraption	6 players	beats 35%
151	Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator	6 players	beats 34%
152	Beer Factory - Prologue	5 players	beats 32%
153	Orebound	9 players	beats 34%
154	Plasma	13 players	beats 34%
155	Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)	4 players	beats 30%
156	Smack Studio	4 players	beats 29%
157	JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator	3 players	beats 27%
158	Masterplan Tycoon	11 players	beats 33%
159	Trashed	3 players	beats 26%
160	Mining Wizards	3 players	beats 25%
161	PEGGO!	3 players	beats 25%
162	Dream Engines: Nomad Cities	3 players	beats 25%
163	Your Big, Cute Monster Farm	3 players	beats 25%
164	Astrometica	3 players	beats 25%
165	Village Tale	3 players	beats 25%
166	Lucky Hunter	3 players	beats 25%
167	Universe Horizon	9 players	beats 31%
168	Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker	3 players	beats 24%
169	Outpath: First Journey	26 players	beats 33%
170	Magic Research 2	12 players	beats 32%
171	Modulus: Factory Automation	6 players	beats 29%
172	Space Trash Scavenger	3 players	beats 24%
173	Farlands: Tiny Harvest	7 players	beats 30%
174	Plantera 2: Golden Acorn	7 players	beats 30%
175	Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG	6 players	beats 29%
176	Idle Research	47 players	beats 33%
177	Mini Settlers: Prologue	12 players	beats 31%
178	Word Factori	13 players	beats 31%
179	Incremental Factory	8 players	beats 30%
180	Tower Factory	5 players	beats 27%
181	Screeps: World	8 players	beats 29%
182	Fracture Field	9 players	beats 30%
183	Ballatory	3 players	beats 22%
184	Ultimate Theater Simulator	3 players	beats 22%
185	Beer Factory	3 players	beats 22%
186	Tunnet	4 players	beats 25%
187	Upload Labs	112 players	beats 33%
188	Automation Empire	4 players	beats 24%
189	Factory Engineer	5 players	beats 25%
190	Mech Mechanic Simulator	5 players	beats 25%
191	Luckyest	5 players	beats 25%
192	MR FARMBOY	5 players	beats 25%
193	Revolution Idle	117 players	beats 31%
194	Wireworks	6 players	beats 26%
195	Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator Starter Edition	6 players	beats 25%
196	Planet Nomads	6 players	beats 25%
197	Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue	6 players	beats 25%
198	Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons	6 players	beats 25%
199	Lootun	10 players	beats 27%
200	Beltmatic	12 players	beats 27%
201	Gridkeeper	6 players	beats 24%
202	Profit Sea Incremental	7 players	beats 25%
203	Eden Crafters	7 players	beats 25%
204	Bioweaver	4 players	beats 21%
205	Trimps	37 players	beats 29%
206	FortressCraft Evolved!	18 players	beats 28%
207	refarm	8 players	beats 25%
208	Plantera	18 players	beats 28%
209	Paperwork	8 players	beats 25%
210	Factory Town Idle	18 players	beats 28%
211	Tiny Biomes: Cozy Idle	13 players	beats 26%
212	InfraSpace	20 players	beats 27%
213	Tap Heroes	4 players	beats 19%
214	Idle Pixel Fantasy	11 players	beats 25%
215	Idle Monster TD	6 players	beats 22%
216	Unnamed Space Idle	71 players	beats 28%
217	Havendock	12 players	beats 25%
218	Bard Idle	12 players	beats 25%
219	Microtopia: Prologue	3 players	beats 14%
220	Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game	13 players	beats 25%
221	Rusty's Retirement	65 players	beats 28%
222	Data Center	4 players	beats 17%
223	Sixty Four	21 players	beats 26%
224	Automachef	17 players	beats 26%
225	Pet Lands	15 players	beats 25%
226	Great Permutator	3 players	beats 13%
227	World Crafter TD	12 players	beats 24%
228	Mob Factory	6 players	beats 20%
229	Incremental Adventures	26 players	beats 26%
230	Pixel Starships	9 players	beats 22%
231	Incremental Epic Hero 2	16 players	beats 24%
232	SimplePlanes	9 players	beats 22%
233	Widget Inc.	26 players	beats 25%
234	Industry Idle	27 players	beats 25%
235	CivIdle	30 players	beats 25%
236	Incredicer	32 players	beats 25%
237	Grim Clicker	34 players	beats 25%
238	Idle Spiral	44 players	beats 25%
239	SpaceChem	55 players	beats 25%
240	AdVenture Capitalist	186 players	beats 25%

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