Casual · October 17, 2019

Autonauts (2019)

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Autonauts Fully Automated has landed! Free content update for Autonauts available now and includes: Settlement Mode - A whole new mode that challenges players to build a Metropolis with only 300 Bots! Countless new Bot scripting abilities and refinement updates as requested by players! A quick way to share code between Bots with the new-improved Bot Database! Upgraded storage transporters to help power up production! A dedicated Signs Tab to help get the most from each and every Bot! All this and much more! Travel the universe colonising uninhabited planets with the sole goal of setting worlds in motion through the power of automation. Fresh from your spaceship you must harvest stick and stone and begin your colonisation efforts. Create rudimentary crafting items from blueprints and slowly build a number of workerbots to aid in your efforts. Teach and shape their artificial intelligence with a visual programming language, then instruct them to begin the formation of your colony. Marvel as a planet you’ve shaped becomes home to a civilisation of workerbots, happy to do your bidding! Expand further with the creation of colonists; beings that require your assistance to survive. Push your workerbots further by introducing fishing, cooking, housing, and tailoring and help the colonists into a state of transcendence. Key Features: Playful Programming Teach your workerbots requisite steps to complete tasks by asking them to repeat actions utilising a visual programming language. Designed to be easy to learn but with added complexity there are numerous possibilities. Automated Automation Build an army of bots to automate just about everything in your colony, teach them what to do and expand both their brains and task possibilities with numerous upgrades and options. Various Ventures From gathering to building, cooking, fishing, tailoring, farming, animal husbandry and more - the world of Autonauts is vast with limitless opportunities to automate and colonise. Charming Creativity The world of Autonauts pops to life with a low-poly art-style married with a consistent and bright colour palette adding depth and scale, creating a relaxing and attractive play space. Autonauts combines the very best of agriculture, simulation, crafting, building, production-line and resource management titles to create a brand new experience unlike any other. Create the automated world of your dreams! The future is now!

Casual releases from 2019

30 Casual titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Simulation · 136
  • Programming · 133
  • Automation · 132
  • Indie · 122
  • Casual · 116
  • Base-Building · 93
  • Colony Sim · 85
  • Crafting · 77
  • Sandbox · 68
  • Cute · 68
  • Building · 66
  • Resource Management · 64
  • Farming Sim · 64
  • Management · 54
  • Agriculture · 46

Peer Casual titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Casual

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume4.8k Steam reviewsTop 48% in Casual
Positive rating90% positiveGenre average: 88% — this title sits in top 59%
Metacritic80/100Genre average 76 — top 39% of Casual titles
Engagement hours18 h averageTop 29% for session depth among Casual

Reception Metrics

Steam community

90%Very Positive · 4.8k reviews

4.3k positive · 478 negative

Metacritic

80/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.0/10

Curator recommendations

3.5k

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Turkish

Press Quotes

“Playful, welcoming and charming.” 4/5 – The Guardian “The simplicity of Autonauts lends itself beautifully to engaging gameplay and fun to all who play it.” 8/10 – The Digital Fix “Astonishingly complex, and wonderfully inventive” 4/5 – Video Game Chronicle

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

18h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

Achievements

26

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateOct 17, 2019
DeveloperDenki
PublisherCurve Games
Base price$3.99 -80%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksMetacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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