Games like Automate It: Factory Puzzle
If Automate It: Factory Puzzle is your kind of game, the closest matches are shapez, shapez 2 - Factory and Nightwater — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its global leaderboards drive replayability, challenging and contemplative. 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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle: Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
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shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Top pick for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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!
shapez 2 - Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Second-strongest match for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Nightwater
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Ranked #4 for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Ranked #5 for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Ranked #6 for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Ranked #7 for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
Astro Colony
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Ranked #8 for Automate It: Factory Puzzle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Automate It: Factory Puzzle
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Poly Bridge
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Reviewers of Automate It: Factory Puzzle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Reviewers of Automate It: Factory Puzzle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Mindustry
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Reviewers of Automate It: Factory Puzzle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Infinifactory
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an immersive mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Reviewers of Automate It: Factory Puzzle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Reviewers of Automate It: Factory Puzzle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automate It: Factory Puzzle at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 ~60% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 ~60% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 ~60% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 ~76% under Automate It: Factory Puzzle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
Frequently asked about Automate It: Factory Puzzle
- Does Automate It: Factory Puzzle run on Steam Deck?
- Automate It: Factory Puzzle 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 Automate It: Factory Puzzle cost?
- Automate It: Factory Puzzle is listed on Steam at 12.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Automate It: Factory Puzzle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automate It: Factory Puzzle are shapez, shapez 2 - Factory, Nightwater.
- Who developed Automate It: Factory Puzzle?
- Automate It: Factory Puzzle was developed by South Blue Moon and published by Forklift Interactive.
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