Autonauts
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 95.6h
- Value
- $0.21/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 (2048 MB) or Radeon HD 7870 (2048 MB), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 56 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, shapez ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Astro Colony ($19.99, scores 51).
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 9 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 505 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 235 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
55 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Adorable and addicting little "program robots to do tasks" game. I've played through it like six times now and never get tired of it.
great game, so fun and quick to undestand, ive spend way too many hours playing its addicting
no text programming. no drag and drop of all block programming from what ive played so far. will change review if the qol for people like me gets better later in game. cute game if ur not autistic like me
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Autonauts scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/979120/autonautsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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