Games like Automation Farm
If Automation Farm is your kind of game, the closest matches are import robots, The Farmer Was Replaced and Farmer=nil — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Automation Farm: This is a game that simulates farm management through programming. Players need to develop their economy, upgrade technology, unlock more advanced commands and resources, and deal with various uncertain destructive events. The game simplifies the complexity and extracts the automation elements.

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import robots
WHY THIS
Top pick for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.
The Farmer Was Replaced
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
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.
Farmer=nil
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
Farmer = nil is a programming automation farm game. Write scripts for your robots, collect resources, unlock tech, and build the most efficient farm.
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
Human Resource Machine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
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.
Crypto Mining Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Automation Farm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
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 Automation Farm at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
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 ~67% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Automation Farm.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automation Farm.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Automation Farm.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Automation Farm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automation Farm.
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.
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 Automation Farm.
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 Automation Farm.
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 Automation Farm.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Automation Farm.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Automation Farm.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automation Farm.
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.
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Frequently asked about Automation Farm
- How much does Automation Farm cost?
- Automation Farm is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Automation Farm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automation Farm are import robots, The Farmer Was Replaced, Farmer=nil.
- Who developed Automation Farm?
- Automation Farm was developed by Jian Studio and published by Jian Publish.
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 Automation Farm.
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