Games like Action & Automation
If Action & Automation is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Risky Rocky Resort, Hordeguard: Winds of the North and Cosmic Robots — 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 Action & Automation: Fight directly as a Commander in a 2D side-scrolling action-RTS while Flux and Forge build systems that keep working—and Shade infiltrates and disrupts the enemy. Gather physical Nuts and master three asymmetric machine species.

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Steam players who put hours into Action & Automation 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.
A Risky Rocky Resort
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Top pick for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Action & Automation.
Run a luxurious resort during the day and cater to your guests’ needs in order to make the big bucks! But be wary, because at night, pirates and other invaders show up! Entertain, build, and survive, and hopefully, you’ll make it big!
Hordeguard: Winds of the North
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Second-strongest match for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.
Leap into the heart of a Viking fantasy siege where tower defense meets action combat, strategy, and co-op survival. Gather what you can, raise your defenses, fight beside your friends, and hold the line against an unending horde.
Cosmic Robots
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Third-strongest match for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
Project Tomorrow
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Ranked #4 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Action & Automation.
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
TD VOID
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Ranked #5 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.
Defend humanity against a machine Void that turns Earth's own technology into a weapon. An alien nanocluster has reached Earth. It doesn't invade with soldiers. It infects factories, military vehicles, etc. Your mission is simple: Protect the Shield Core. Survive every assault. Stop the spread.
Echo Zero
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Ranked #6 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.
Descend into a dangerous, procedurally generated sci-fi underworld. Explore, gather resources, uncover powerful wargear and upgrades, rally your droids, build and defend your base, and battle a mysterious new species on the verge of breaching the surface, either alone or in co-op.
Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
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Ranked #7 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
CATHODE
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Ranked #8 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.
Build sprawling defensive networks of high-tech turrets and logistics systems to repel massive enemy swarms! Take direct control of your turrets and utilize powerful support powers to repel the invasion!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Action & Automation.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Action & Automation.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Action & Automation.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Action & Automation.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Action & Automation
- Does Action & Automation have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Action & Automation supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Action & Automation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Action & Automation are A Risky Rocky Resort, Hordeguard: Winds of the North, Cosmic Robots.
- Who developed Action & Automation?
- Action & Automation was developed by pflovv.
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 Action & Automation.
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