Single-player games like Automation
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Automation, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Droning On
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
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DumbBots
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.
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Typhon: Bot vs Bot
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Command modular mechs in Typhon, a sci-fi tactical strategy game where you outthink rivals by scripting your bots with Python. Customize, adapt, and evolve your forces in real time in the hostile alien world of AEGIS IVb to dominate the battlefield.
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IT MOVES! - Build Your Own Robot
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
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Roulette Strategy Research Lab
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Build, play, and analyze roulette strategies on an American double-zero table. Create conditional betting systems, run manual or automated simulations, track detailed performance, and refine your ideas in a responsible, no-real-money research lab.
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Gearplexed
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Enjoy playing with gears? Gearplexed is a constructive problem-solving game with a variety of gear-based puzzles ranging from opening gates to building factories. Build gears to get the right amount of speed or torque to the target gears and be careful not to lock up your gear train.
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GENIUS AT WORK!
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation.
Test your intelligence and creativity! With Genius At Work you will have your construction area where you can let your imagination fly and carry out your technical projects.
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Marvellous Inc.
Single-player alternative to Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation.
Marvellous Inc. is a programming puzzle game, where you program robots to solve tasks.