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Games like Autonauts

2019 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 19.99 € 90 % positive Very positive, 4,785 reviews on Steam

You colonise an alien planet by teaching little robots, through simple visual scripting, to gather resources and run whole production chains. The relaxed tinkering and optimising slowly grows into a sprawling robot empire.

What defines Autonauts:

  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

The closest matches for Autonauts are Learning Factory, Star Birds and Time to Morp. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Autonauts special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Learning Factory

96 %

2025 PCPlayStationNintendo Switch 14.79 € 84 % positive Very positive, 392 reviews on Steam

  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Bright, upbeat tone
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

A relaxed factory-building sandbox where you process resources across a multi-layered map, sell goods to cats, and use their data for machine learning to found Catopia on Mars.

Star Birds

Sci-fi setting

A cheerful base-building and resource management game where you mine asteroids, build production chains and lead a colony of spacefaring birds toward new stars.

The Colonists

Sci-fi setting

A relaxed colony-building and logistics sim where you guide robot settlers as they build a settlement on a distant planet. You plan resources, production chains and buildings at a calm pace.

Microtopia

Sci-fi setting

You act as the hive mind of a robot ant colony, laying pheromone trails to build automated supply chains. Gathering resources, feeding the queen and growing the colony makes for a relaxed, optimization-focused strategy sim.

BioEden

Accessible and relaxed

A cozy management game where you play a Keeper, designing biomes for many animal species and healing a damaged planet one ecosystem at a time.

Factory Town

Puzzles and brain teasers

A relaxed factory-building game where you automate and optimize a village on procedurally generated 3D terrain using conveyors, railways and marble-run chutes to keep your residents supplied with goods.

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