Games like Automata Empire
If Automata Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scarecropia, Screeps: Arena and Industrial Annihilation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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 Automata Empire: Seize power and build an empire of fuzzy cellular automata monsters! Herd hundreds of mindless subjects to smash your rivals' castles and steal their territory in this RTS inspired by Conway's Game of Life.
Players who liked Automata Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into Automata Empire also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Scarecropia
WHY THIS
Top pick for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
Screeps: Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Automata Empire.
Second-strongest match for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
Screeps: Arena is an online asynchronous PvP strategy game for programming enthusiasts. You write real JavaScript to control your units, and they fight autonomously against other players in a 1v1 match-based arena environment.
Industrial Annihilation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Automata Empire.
The next major game in the Planetary Annihilation universe, Industrial Annihilation combines the iconic real-time strategy of the beloved Annihilation games with deep factory-building to deliver a blend of genres unlike any you’ve experienced before.
War Platform
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
play the role of the More than three big countries in the world This is a prediction simulation game for the current and future combat concepts According to the known technology of today's mankind
World of Towers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
World of Towers combines puzzles with tower defense. Design your base in order to collect all of the puzzle pieces and destroy your enemies. Create and share your own worlds on the Steam Workshop using the World of Towers World Builder
Scourge Of War - Gettysburg
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Automata Empire.
Ranked #6 for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
Welcome to Scourge of War, a real-time 3D computer game/simulation developed by NorbSoftDev, the company headed by renowned game designer Norb Timpko, designer of Mad Minute Games' acclaimed Take Command series. Scourge of War is the epitome of historical command simulations.
Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Decision Point: Battlegroup Operational Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Automata Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automata Empire.
Plans meet friction in Decision Point, a wargame where you issue NATO-standard orders, observe AI execution in real time, and adapt as the battlefield evolves. At key Decision Points, the action pauses—giving you time to reassess, redirect your forces, and outmanoeuvre the enemy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automata Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automata Empire.
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 ~44% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automata Empire.
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 ~44% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
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 ~44% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automata Empire.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automata Empire.
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 ~44% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automata Empire.
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 ~67% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automata Empire.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Automata Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automata Empire.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata 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!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Automata Empire.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
World of Warships
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automata Empire.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automata Empire.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automata Empire.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby, winner of Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2025, is ready to race! Scout featured trainees and supporters as you navigate the immersive sports life simulation through the game's in-depth training system and top-of-the-line 3D graphics!
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automata Empire.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automata Empire.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automata Empire.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Automata Empire
- How much does Automata Empire cost?
- Automata Empire is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Automata Empire have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Automata Empire supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Automata Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automata Empire are Scarecropia, Screeps: Arena, Industrial Annihilation.
- Who developed Automata Empire?
- Automata Empire was developed by Nonadecimal Creative.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Automata Empire.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.