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167 Automation games reviewed and scored, best first.
167 reviews
A solo-developed xianxia idle RPG about running a cultivation sect rather than levelling one hero — genuinely deep for NZD 7.39, but stalled mid-build, with unfinished equipment tiers and a support burst that faded within a year.
5.5 / 10
A relaxed, risk-free digging sim built around customising a mining mech and co-oping with up to seven friends, whose lack of any real fail state or meaningful upgrade choices leaves a genuinely divided audience split between finding it a perfect low-stakes time-waster and a repetitive, hollow sequel to a tighter original.
5.5 / 10
A Grandfather's Keepsake, A Village to Rebuild The Village Above the Well opens on a small, sincere premise: a grandfather lost the only keepsake he had left of the woman he lo
5.5 / 10
A genuine reinvention of the beloved Train Valley puzzle series into a Railroad Tycoon-style logistics management game, whose fundamental genre pivot away from its predecessors' format left a large share of the franchise's own fans feeling misled, compounded by a genuinely buggy signal system added in direct response to their complaints.
5.5 / 10
Fifteen Minutes, One Hole, One Monster Voracity launched free on Steam on August 3, 2026, from solo developer LUNDY, and the entire pitch fits in a sentence: crank a generator to p
5.5 / 10
A charming, cute-witches take on the Stacklands card-factory formula that most of its own reviewers describe honestly as exactly that — a solid, well-dressed variation rather than a genre evolution — and one whose grindy mid-game and thin narrative payoff keep it from standing entirely on its own.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle strategy MMO about building an egg-themed civilization, split almost exactly down the middle between players who find real layered depth in its economy and combat systems, and players frustrated by a slow start, progress-halting bugs, and lingering distrust of the developer's previous game.
5.5 / 10
A charming, story-driven farming sim where you never touch a hoe yourself — instead you "code" magical golem constructs to garden, mine, and forage for you, with genuinely inventive ideas undercut by a menu system that fights you at every turn.
5.4 / 10
One Printer in a Bedroom, One Factory Floor Away 3D Printer Manager, a $0.99 idle management sim from solo developer Smushii, started life on Steam in early 2026 as a scrappy, larg
5 / 10
Pocketpair's first big multiplayer survival-crafting sandbox, Mostly Positive across nearly 18,000 reviews for genuinely inventive systems — and the subject of a years-long, very well documented community grievance that the studio deprioritised it after Palworld's success, which Pocketpair itself directly apologised for in a remarkable anniversary post published essentially the same week as this review.
5 / 10
A NZ$1.43 pixel-art clicker about tapping a gold bar, buying pickaxes and mine carts across six palette-swapped regions, and running two short bonus minigames — checked a week after launch, with no prestige loop found anywhere in its own achievement list.
5 / 10
A free-to-play sci-fi idle game split almost exactly down the middle, with "AI slop" the single most repeated word in its negative reviews — and a store-page disclosure confirming AI tools were used across art, writing and UI text, rather than leaving that complaint unverified.
5 / 10
A cheap, no-frills automated-combat idle RPG from a developer who has released more than a dozen very similar games — genuinely relaxing for players who just want numbers to climb, undercut by a total lack of offline progress and a review base too thin and too non-English to lean on with confidence.
4.8 / 10
A moody, well-illustrated pixel-art mining survival game whose marketing implies Factorio-style automation and exploration depth that multiple reviewers say the actual 1-to-3-hour playtime never delivers, with a thin crafting system, screenshots reviewers call misleading, and a save-system bug that has cost at least one player real progress.
4.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic reskin of developer FreeMind's own hit Farmer's Life, swapping the horse and hand-sown fields for a legged robotic tractor and a seed-drone, and landing at a Mixed rating with its harshest reviews arriving in the week it left Early Access rather than the months before.
4.5 / 10
A free, charmingly drawn pixel-art idle clicker that most players finish in under four hours and largely enjoy for what it is, undercut by resource usage several reviewers describe as alarming for such a simple game and a DLC presentation several find pushed harder than the content underneath deserves.
4.5 / 10
A mining incremental about a mole digging endless loops for resources and artifacts, whose demo-to-full-game jump and AI-generated cutscenes have drawn specific, detailed criticism, though at least one seasoned incremental-genre reviewer still recommends its pacing.
4.5 / 10
Stacklands, in miniature, on a ruptured earth Scrap Collector borrows the well-liked card-stacking, combine-and-automate formula popularized by Stacklands and applies it to a post-
4.5 / 10
A NZ$12.49 seven-currency idle economy game whose own most-invested reviewers — median 23.7 hours played, well above its positive reviewers' 5.7 — describe a triple prestige system that resets everything for nothing, a save that "bricked itself" at 135 hours, and an achievement curve that halves at every difficulty gate.
4 / 10
A NZ$2.99 satire of Steam's own trading-card economy, where bots buy, sell and craft cards into badges to push a level counter upward — a clever premise that Steam's tiny, Mixed-rated review corpus says never grows past its opening idea.
4 / 10
A short, chill management game about smuggling gacha-collected 'cute-ware' past an anti-aesthetics regime from behind a ramen stall front, praised by its small early audience for its striking premise, calming loop, and refreshing lack of real-money monetisation.
3.5 / 10
A NZ$6.29 xianxia-themed idle herb farm from a Chinese solo developer who shipped a near-identical idle game five weeks earlier — a decorative thousand-card compendium and an auto-battling cultivator sit on top of a loop with exactly one real decision, and both patches and the developer's attention stopped inside the first week.
3 / 10
Pri Games' tower defense/idle hybrid pairs satisfying wave-clearing spectacle and a no-fail-state design with a genuinely divided Mixed reception, as a large share of its review sample finds the campaign short, the endless mode broken, and the developer gone quiet on feedback.
3 / 10
