Free games like Automation Empire
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Automation Empire, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Ranked picks
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Magic Archery
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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The Lab
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window.
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!
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Landfall Archives
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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SuchArt: Creative Space
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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Outpath: First Journey
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. 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!
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. 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.
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Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
Free-to-play alternative to Automation Empire — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Automation Empire.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!