Games like Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
If Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft is your kind of game, the closest matches are Learning Factory, The Farmer Was Replaced and FOUNDRY — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and whimsical. 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 →About Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft: You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
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Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Top pick for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
The Farmer Was Replaced
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Second-strongest match for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
FOUNDRY
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Third-strongest match for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Beltmatic
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Ranked #4 for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Autonauts vs Piratebots
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Ranked #5 for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
shapez
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares visual programming with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Ranked #7 for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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while True: learn()
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Reviewers of Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
Turing Complete
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Reviewers of Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Human Resource Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Reviewers of Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Reviewers of Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares visual programming with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Reviewers of Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Luden.io
Other recommendable Steam games by Luden.io, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
while True: learn()
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
Warnament
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
InMind VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
InMind is a short scientific adventure with arcade elements designed for the Oculus VR. Submerge into the microworld and experience the miracles of the human mind.
InCell VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
InCell is an action/racing VR game with a bit of strategy and science thrown into the mix. You'll take an exciting journey inside the highly unusual micro world of human cell and stop the virus advance. The game is focused on VR but you can play just fine without a set.
InMind 2 VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
An adventure game about a scientific journey inside the emotions chemistry of human brain. You'll take part in the process of one teenager named John becoming an adult, and help shape John's future self, by triggering emotions in key moments of his life. The destiny is in your hands! VR isn't required.
VRobot: VR Giant Robot Destruction Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
VRobot is an action game designed for VR about a giant robot smashing сities using unique weapons or bare hands. Multiplayer, Lightning Hammer, Transformer Sword, Tornado Gun, Tractor Beam - we got all that!
SuperWEIRD: Automation Roguelite
WHY THIS
Another title from Luden.io, the studio behind Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
An automation roguelite where single-use JunkDroids turn out to be surprisingly useful: automate production network, rebuild a broken world piece by piece, and stop the Goofy Goo before it consumes everything. Play solo or in coop.
Frequently asked about Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
- Does Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft run on Steam Deck?
- Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft 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 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft cost?
- Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft are Learning Factory, The Farmer Was Replaced, FOUNDRY.
- Who developed Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft?
- Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft was developed by Luden.io.
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