Games like Automation Empire
If Automation Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factory Town, RAILGRADE and Captain of Industry — 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.
Get personalized picks →Automation Empire from DOG HOGGLER, released in 2019, is a factory-building strategy game. Players design logistics networks of factories, mines, and farms, employing trains, trucks, conveyors, and robotic drones to meet production quotas, building toward efficient industrial systems. The strategy, indie, and simulation title is rated Playable on Steam Deck and priced at 29.99 USD. It holds a 65% positive rating across 1,482 Steam reviews. Development stopped in 2020, so the current build is the final state. Reviewers describe it as a minimalist automation concept that runs well on modest hardware and works as a near-idle experience. The game is single-player, with resource management and base-building across its maps.
About Automation Empire: Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Players who liked Automation Empire also play
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Factory Town
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Top pick for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
RAILGRADE
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Second-strongest match for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation Empire.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Captain of Industry
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Third-strongest match for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Voxel Tycoon
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Ranked #4 for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Production Line : Car factory simulation
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Ranked #5 for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Kubifaktorium
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Ranked #6 for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Little Big Workshop
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Ranked #7 for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automation Empire.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Foundation
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Ranked #8 for Automation Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automation Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~83% under Automation Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Empire.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Automation Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Empire.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Automation Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Automation Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automation Empire.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Automation Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Automation Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Empire.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Empire.
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
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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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Empire.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Empire.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Automation Empire
- Does Automation Empire run on Steam Deck?
- Automation Empire is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Automation Empire cost?
- Automation Empire is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Automation Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automation Empire are Factory Town, RAILGRADE, Captain of Industry.
- Who developed Automation Empire?
- Automation Empire was developed by DOG HOGGLER.
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