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Games like Action & Automation

If Action & Automation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmic Robots, Project Tomorrow and Echo Zero — 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 Action & Automation: Fight directly as a Commander while your automated base keeps working. Gather physical Nuts, build modules and logistics routes, and master three asymmetric machine species in a 2D action-strategy battlefield.

ActionStrategyLinuxby pflovv
Action & Automation — Steam game cover

Players who liked Action & Automation also play

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.

  1. Cosmic Robots

    WHY THIS

    Top pick 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.

    2026ActionStrategySimulation5.09 USDSteam ↗
  2. Project Tomorrow

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match 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.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  3. Echo Zero

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match 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.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Mechs V Kaijus 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.

    Mechs V Kaijus 2 is an Hybrid Tower/Base defense, with army vs army (tug of war style) tactics. From the cockpit of a mech, to build a huge base with Reactors, Mines and all type of tower army factories and super weapons. 

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. I Missed the Apocalypse

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.

    Humanity has fallen under alien control every mind but yours. Alone and immune, you must gather resources, build robots, and fortify your base against ever-larger night assaults. Grow strong enough to strike back at the purple fortress looming over Neo Roma.

    ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. Don't Mind the Robots

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.

    Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. IRON GUARD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.

    A sci-fi roomscale VR Tower Defense game. Strategize to destroy waves of rogue robots and assist the powerful turrets with a handheld drone. Build and collect resources and help evacuate your crew from the alien planet.

    2021ActionStrategy14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Armed to the Gears

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Action & Automation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Action & Automation.

    Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Action & Automation.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Cosmic Robots, Project Tomorrow, Echo Zero.
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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