Games like Automatica
If Automatica is your kind of game, the closest matches are JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World, JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator and HACKING INTO EREBUS — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World
WHY THIS
Top pick for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automatica.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more and solve existing bite-sized programming challenges. Play this free prologue for the upcoming full game JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator.
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automatica.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
HACKING INTO EREBUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automatica.
HACKING INTO EREBUS is a terminal-driven hacking cyberpunk thriller. Jack into a hostile network and outsmart ARIA, a surveillance system that watches your every move. Breach nodes, override defenses and pry secrets from a crew trapped in cryosleep. Fight your way into Compartment Zero.
Tungsten Moon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automatica.
Tungsten Moon is a first-person, immersive spaceflight simulator set on a fictional moon, somewhere in the universe. Stay alive by exploring over 1 million square kilometers of open-world terrain, while at the controls of your personal SkyDart spacecraft.
Uplink
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automatica.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
God is a Cube: Programming Robot Cubes
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automatica.
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Turing Complete
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Automatica.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Quantum Odyssey
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Automatica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automatica.
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, Quantum Odyssey is an open-ended puzzle game where you craft real quantum algorithms. Optimize 500+ challenges, hack other players, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automatica.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automatica.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automatica.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automatica.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automatica.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automatica.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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Frequently asked about Automatica
- What games are most similar to Automatica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automatica are JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World, JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator, HACKING INTO EREBUS.
- Who developed Automatica?
- Automatica was developed by Automatica Corp. and published by CINEMAX GAMES.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Automatica.
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