The realistic ceiling for Automation games
Two honest views of what Automation games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.
The Automation games gathered on wishvane
Across the 194 Automation games compared here, the middle one runs ≈ 304k–406k copies (est.), with Satisfactory the biggest comparable game at ≈ 6.9M–11.2M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than the market figures above.
- The Automation games gathered here span 2011 to 2026, and 89 of the 194 of them shipped in the last two years.
- The biggest Automation games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Simulation and Building.
- Across the Automation games gathered here the median price is $11.99, and the biggest charge more, around $25.
- Satisfactory
- Factorio
- Dyson Sphere Program
- AdVenture Capitalist
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue
- Timberborn
- Hydroneer
- Mindustry
- RoadCraft
- shapez
- shapez 2 - Factory
- Rusty's Retirement
- Captain of Industry
- SimplePlanes
- Stationeers
- The Farmer Was Replaced
- The Wandering Village
- Opus Magnum
- Plantera
- Per Aspera
- Turing Complete
- SpaceChem
- Autonauts
- Human Resource Machine
- SHENZHEN I/O
- Factory Town
- The Perfect Tower II
- FOUNDRY
- The Crust
- Plan B: Terraform
- Nova Lands
- Techtonica
- Astrometica
- FortressCraft Evolved!
- Recycling Center Simulator
- Astro Colony
- Automation Empire
- Eden Crafters
- Hammerting
- Infinifactory
- Beltmatic
- Desynced
- InfraSpace
- Havendock
- Big Pharma
- Idle Research
- EXAPUNKS
- Return from Core
- Good Company
- Sand:box
- Sixty Four
- Last Call BBS
- Beer Factory
- Microcivilization
- Tap Heroes
- Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
- River Town Factory
- RAILGRADE
- Tower Factory
- Regular Human Workshop
and 134 more
Building a Automation game? This genre already ran your experiment. Add the games yours will be compared to and see what's realistic, before you spend months on it.