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 118 Automation games compared here, a typical one runs ≈ 20k–132k copies (est.), with Satisfactory the biggest comparable game at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M. A small, self-selected sample, not the whole market.
- The Automation games gathered here span 2011 to 2026, a long track record.
- Across the Automation games gathered here the median price is $14.99, 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
- The Crust
- Plan B: Terraform
- Nova Lands
- Techtonica
- Astrometica
- FortressCraft Evolved!
- Astro Colony
- Automation Empire
- Hammerting
- Infinifactory
- Beltmatic
- Big Pharma
- InfraSpace
- Idle Research
- EXAPUNKS
- Sand:box
- Last Call BBS
- Tap Heroes
- River Town Factory
- Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
- RAILGRADE
- Tower Factory
- The Colonists
- Space industrial empire
- ShapeHero Factory
- Microtopia
- Crafting Idle Clicker
- Automachef
- A=B
- Incremental Adventures
- Outworld Station
- Kubifaktorium
- Tribe: Primitive Builder
and 58 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.