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Pokémon Go Adds Virtual Item That Helps Play the Game For You
Pokémon Go is testing a new virtual item designed to automate gameplay. This item will automatically throw Pokéballs to catch creatures and spin PokéStops, assisting players in their in-game activities.
Deep Crafter Launches in Early Access — Roadmap Revealed for Future Updates
Deep Crafter, an indie automation and base-building game, is launching into Steam Early Access on June 5, 2026, for PC. The game challenges players to build an automated industrial base on an alien ocean world, featuring exploration, resource gathering, technology development, factory construction, and ecological study. A roadmap reveals three major content update phases planned for the Early Access period.
Atomcraft – Beta Sign Up | Alpha Beta Gamer
Atomcraft is a pixel physics sandbox game where players manipulate chemically reactive particles to create and experiment. Players will drill for rare materials, upgrade equipment, and construct complex smelting and reaction chambers. The game also features exploration for mysterious artifacts, combat against creatures, and spacecraft repair, with beta sign-ups now available.
Algolemeth combines dungeon crawling and stunning 1-bit art
Algolemeth, an indie game developed by Medium-Rare Games, combines dungeon crawling with programming and automation mechanics, featuring a distinctive 1-bit pixel art style. Players program golems using a visual node-based system to explore dungeons and battle enemies, with music by Yuzo Koshiro. The game is available to wishlist on Steam.
Fracture Field has you build an army of drones and smash thousands of rocks
Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game released in April by Type-Ten, where players smash rocks to progress through an upgrade tree and build an army of drones. The game offers a zen-like experience with accessibility options like auto-clicking and a prestige system for permanent boosts. Despite some balancing issues and difficulty walls, the developer has been active in patching and improving the game based on player feedback.
Dominus Automa - We want you to crash our servers. PvP Stress Test signups
Independent developer Metashift Labs has opened sign-ups for the PvP Stress Test of its upcoming MMORPG, Dominus Automa. The game features automated gameplay where characters act on player-defined strategies even when offline. Sign-ups are being handled through the game's Discord server, with a Steam page already available.
Factory-cooking automation game Snacktorio arrives in June
The cooking automation game Snacktorio is set to release on June 4, 2026, for Linux and Steam Deck. Developed by the creators of APICO and Mudborne: Frog Management Sim, Snacktorio tasks players with building automated factories to cook meals for hungry monsters. The game will feature over 55 levels, modding support, and a demo that has been updated with new features and quality-of-life improvements.
AGRONOM Announced: Build Your Efficient Robotic Home on Mars
MindEdges and Skystone Games have announced AGRONOM, an automation farming game set on Mars. Players will build a Martian homestead, blending the mechanical depth of games like Satisfactory and Factorio with Eastern European traditions. The game challenges players to optimize production chains while creating a cozy, personalized settlement.
AGRONOM Announced
CyberMages has announced AGRONOM, a new science fiction automation game set in an Eastern European-inspired Martian environment. The game is slated for a "coming soon" release on Windows PC via Steam, allowing players to build a cozy Martian homestead.
Hydroneer Review | TheXboxHub
Hydroneer is a physics-based mining automation game that blends elements of cash cleaning and factory building simulators. While the game offers a rewarding experience of scaling up operations and automating processes, it is hampered by frustrating and awkward initial controls. Players must overcome a steep learning curve involving manual resource handling and imprecise item placement before the deeper mechanics and satisfying automation systems become accessible.
All Systems Go: See Your Mining Operation Come to Life as Hydroneer Launches on PS5 & Xbox Series X|S
The indie sandbox simulation game Hydroneer, along with its DLC Journey to Volcalidus, has launched on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Developed by Foulball Hangover, the game features free-form progression, automated crafting, and couch co-op. The release marks the game's expansion to consoles six years after its initial PC launch.
Fractal Foundry - Announcement Trailer - factories within factories (8k wishlists)
Fractal Foundry, a new factory-building game focused on automating fractal megastructures, has released an announcement trailer. The game allows players to design nested factories that scale into recursive systems, progressing from simple cubes to massive constructions. It emphasizes pure creativity and automation with unlimited resources and no pressure from costs or timers.
FishOmatic — Store Page and Reveal Trailer
Independent developers Radiobush and 2BitCouchGames have revealed FishOmatic, a genre-bending simulation game for PC. The game combines the cozy aesthetic of early 2000s life sims with complex robotic automation systems for fishing and resource management. A playable demo is currently in development.
Vampire Crawlers finds the perfect balance between strategy and automation, and it gives me that Survivors feeling all over again
Vampire Crawlers successfully blends strategy and automation, offering a similar satisfying experience to Vampire Survivors where the game can eventually play itself. While it shares DNA with deck-building titles like Slay the Spire, Vampire Crawlers streamlines combat, allowing players to focus on card collection and modification. The game is highly recommended, especially during the current Steam Deckbuilders Fest.
shapez 2 is a thoroughly chilled time building up a shape-cutting factory
shapez 2 has launched its 1.0 version, introducing a new Manufacture Mode for large-scale factories, advanced automation tools, achievements, and modding support via Steam Workshop. Despite some reported instability issues on Linux, the game maintains an Overwhelmingly Positive user rating on Steam for its relaxed factory-building gameplay.
This week's Epic Games freebie blends Factorio's automation with high fantasy exploration
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure is currently free on the Epic Games Store until May 7. This title blends Factorio-style automation with fantasy exploration, featuring creatures called Sparks that players can automate. The game also includes combat, quests, and procedurally generated biomes, and can be played solo or with up to three other players.
Humanoid robots will work as baggage handlers at Tokyo airport
Humanoid robots are being deployed as baggage handlers at Tokyo Haneda Airport, with Japan Airlines piloting the initiative. This move aims to address labor shortages and improve efficiency in airport operations.
Foundry: Rails & Reactors Update Out Now
Paradox Arc and Channel 3 Entertainment have released the Rails and Reactors update for the first-person factory-building game Foundry. This update introduces trains for resource transportation, a new Xeno Power Plant for late-game energy generation, construction drones, and additional automation components. Foundry is a PC title focused on building and optimizing robot factories in a voxel world.
Shapez 2 leaves early access with a new game mode all about building massive factories: 'This isn't just a…
Shapez 2 has officially left early access, introducing a new massive factory building game mode and other improvements. Developer tobspr Games has also added extra challenges to classic mode, visual enhancements, new shapes, achievements, and modding support. The game is currently available at a 20% launch discount on PC.
Farmbotic – Beta Sign Up | Alpha Beta Gamer
Farmbotic is a cooperative farming automation game that allows players to develop high-tech farms using robots and specialized hubs. The game features resource management through planting, animal raising, and cultivating mutated plants, alongside dangerous mining expeditions for resources and combat against mutated inhabitants. Up to four players can team up with full crossplay support.
