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Alan's Automaton Workshop

Laputa Labs · 2022-01-20

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 20, 2022 (Mac), Jan 20, 2022 (Linux)

Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 213 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 58% of 6,714 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–9.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 213 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$8.992022-01-202026-07-092022-01-20 — best price $13.492022-06-23 — best price $11.992022-08-04 — best price $11.992022-09-13 — best price $11.992022-11-22 — best price $11.992022-12-22 — best price $11.992023-03-16 — best price $11.242023-04-24 — best price $11.242023-06-29 — best price $11.242023-10-03 — best price $11.242023-11-21 — best price $11.242023-12-21 — best price $11.242024-01-15 — best price $11.242024-03-14 — best price $10.492024-06-27 — best price $10.492024-10-07 — best price $10.492024-11-14 — best price $10.492024-11-27 — best price $10.492024-12-20 — best price $10.492025-03-13 — best price $9.742025-06-26 — best price $9.742025-10-01 — best price $9.742025-10-13 — best price $9.742025-12-18 — best price $9.742026-01-29 — best price $9.742026-03-19 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DIndieLogicHorrorPuzzleSandboxBuildingEducationSteampunkAutomation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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