Autonauts (2019)

Developer: Denki
Publisher: Curve Games
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation
Rating: 4.5 of 5, 4,947 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 13 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

Autonauts feels like a peaceful, methodical puzzle where you build and automate a tiny colony with quirky robots, rewarding patience and clever coding.

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What players say

Players say Autonauts is a uniquely gentle automation game that teaches programming by having you record actions for bots to repeat. Some find the tutorial overly handholding and the UI confusing when not recording, while others appreciate the slow, satisfying challenge of building complex logic chains.

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