Automate! is a strategy-focused indie title that launched in early access on PC, centering on construction and resource management across destructible pixel-based worlds. The game emphasizes player agency in designing production systems from the ground up, with procedural generation ensuring varied environments to optimize.
Recent activity shows the growing ecosystem around automation games. FluxWerks' updated demo showcases procedurally-generated terrain complete with dynamic features like volcanoes to work around. Meanwhile, Sandustry - another factory automation title from developer Lantto Games published by Hooded Horse - treats individual pixels as exploitable resources within its fully destructible landscapes. On the browser side, Moonforge Colony offers a lunar mining angle, tasking players with building operations, managing workers, refining ore, and progressively automating an industrial outpost through research upgrades.
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Q00P: Moonforge Colony is now playable for free in the browser. Build a lunar mining operation, manage workers and haulers, refine ore into metal, research upgrades, and automate an expanding industrial colony.
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Hooded Horse picked another good one to publish here from developer Lantto Games. Sandustry is a factory automation game where every pixel is a resource. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux .
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The FluxWerks demo features a procedurally-generated world for you to automate and reorganize to your heart's content, and that includes volcanoes.