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2025PCSteam Deck playable91 % positivefree

An idle-style automation game where you wire nodes into ever larger networks to download, process and upload files. The appeal lies in optimizing your setup and unlocking new systems.

  • Strong character progression
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

The closest matches for Upload Labs are The Farmer Was Replaced, Dyson Sphere Program and Beltmatic. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Upload Labs special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Farmer Was Replaced

93 %Match

2025PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive−30 % 9.99 € 6.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Upload Labs: deep character progression, puzzles to figure out and a cosy mood to unwind.

You write code in a Python-like language to make a drone run your farm automatically. The appeal comes from optimizing routines and unlocking tech to build ever more efficient programs.

Dyson Sphere Program

Strong character progression

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Beltmatic

Gameplay comes before story

You build conveyor-belt factories that combine numbers through math operations to hit ever larger target values. A relaxed, puzzly automation game that rewards number-minded optimizers.

Imagine Earth

Bright, upbeat tone

A real-time colony-building strategy game where you settle alien planets and balance trade, economy and environmental impact. Managing each planet's ecology feels like a thoughtful planning puzzle.

Rymdkapsel

Sci-fi setting

In Rymdkapsel you build a space station from modules and set the overall direction while your minions do the legwork. It is calm and meditative, and the challenge lies in clever layout rather than fast reflexes.

Railgrade

Cosy, great for unwinding

A relaxed construction and logistics game where you plan railway networks on distant colony worlds, connect industries and optimize production chains to jump-start a struggling economy.

The Final Earth 2

Gameplay comes before story

A relaxed, vertical pixel-art city builder where you grow an exploration ship into a sprawling space colony. Gathering resources, researching tech and optimizing your city floor by floor is the core loop.

EarthX

Strong character progression

An indie management sim where you start a rocket company from scratch and grow it into an empire, developing technology, your business and even planet Earth.

Antimatter Dimensions

Strong character progression

An idle/incremental game where you build antimatter dimensions and repeatedly collapse the universe to unlock new mechanics and prestige layers. The depth comes from optimizing and discovering ever more nested systems.

Shapez

Gameplay comes before story

You build factories on an infinite map that automatically cut, rotate, paint and stack geometric shapes. It rewards clever layout design and optimization, with no combat or time pressure.

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