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Games like Automate Defend Repeat

If Automate Defend Repeat is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dig or Die, Factorio and Mob Factory — 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.

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About Automate Defend Repeat: Automate, Defend, Repeat: A combination of factory management and tower defense strategy. Build a planet-dominating factory, defend it from disgruntled resource-carrying monsters, and defeat a total of 6 bosses. Once you have done that, select a New Game + modifier and do it again!

2025ActionStrategyIndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDWindowsby BigScorch
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  1. Dig or Die

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Mob Factory

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

    2023StrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Kenshi

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.

    A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. CleanFall

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.

    CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Summa Expeditionis

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.

    2024ActionStrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Automate Defend Repeat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automate Defend Repeat at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Action with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Automate Defend Repeat.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Automate Defend Repeat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate Defend Repeat.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate Defend Repeat.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Automate Defend Repeat

How much does Automate Defend Repeat cost?
Automate Defend Repeat is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Automate Defend Repeat?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automate Defend Repeat are Dig or Die, Factorio, Mob Factory.
Who developed Automate Defend Repeat?
Automate Defend Repeat was developed by BigScorch and published by Sage Games.

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