Games like Autonauts
If Autonauts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Autonauts vs Piratebots, Havendock and Assembly Planter — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its family friendly and educational, immersive and relaxing. 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 →Autonauts is a 2019 indie simulation game developed by Denki and published by Curve Games, where players establish colonies and program robots using a visual scripting system to automate construction, agriculture, and production. The game features randomly generated maps and progression systems that unlock new materials and capabilities across its massive content span. Players describe it as both immersive and relaxing, with achievement challenges providing structure throughout. Reviewers highlight the satisfaction of watching small automated workers execute increasingly complex tasks. The visual programming approach makes the core loop accessible, while the constant optimization of automated systems provides long-term engagement. Priced at $19.99, it runs on Steam Deck and holds a 90% positive rating from approximately 2,010 Steam reviews.
About Autonauts: 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.
Players who liked Autonauts also play
Steam players who put hours into Autonauts 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.
Autonauts vs Piratebots
WHY THIS
Top pick for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Havendock
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Second-strongest match for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Assembly Planter
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Third-strongest match for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
MR FARMBOY
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Ranked #4 for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Ranked #5 for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Ranked #6 for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Roboplant
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Ranked #7 for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Ranked #8 for Autonauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Autonauts
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Autonauts.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Microtopia
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Autonauts.
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Autonauts.
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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.
EXAPUNKS
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Autonauts.
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
TIS-100
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Starbase
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Autonauts.
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Autonauts.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
SHENZHEN I/O
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Autonauts.
Reviewers of Autonauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Autonauts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Autonauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Autonauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Autonauts.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Autonauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Autonauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Autonauts.
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 ~60% under Autonauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Autonauts.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Autonauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Autonauts.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Autonauts.
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 Autonauts.
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 Autonauts.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Autonauts.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Autonauts.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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!
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Frequently asked about Autonauts
- Does Autonauts run on Steam Deck?
- Autonauts is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Autonauts cost?
- Autonauts is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Autonauts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Autonauts are Autonauts vs Piratebots, Havendock, Assembly Planter.
- Who developed Autonauts?
- Autonauts was developed by Denki and published by Curve Games.
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 Autonauts.
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