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Autonauts

Denki · Curve Games · 2019-10-17

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CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 17, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 16, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Jun 16, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Jun 16, 2022 (Xbox One), Jun 16, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 16, 2022 (Nintendo Switch)

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.

Autonauts is a Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2019, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 4966 reviews).

66
playing now
89%
positive of 5.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (499 downloads)
3.82★
PlayStation Store rating (202 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

66 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Fresh from your spaceship you must harvest stick and stone and begin your colonization 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. 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.(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

Autonauts trailer thumbnail

Autonauts - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch

≈35,050 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 66 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 66 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (536 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 29,753 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 124k–298k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,966 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$3.99-80%
GOG$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-07-26) · bundled 11×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 15 of 66 observed days · $18.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
47347320192026Week of 2019-10-01: 459 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 473 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

111352026-09-16 06:00 — 47 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 61 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 67 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 44 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 49 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 62 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 45 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 48 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 85 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 42 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 42 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 82 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 52 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 68 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 111 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 58 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 45 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 76 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 60 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 66 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 66 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 63 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 35 players2026-10-15 20:00 — 66 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.6k56Oct 2019Aug 2026Oct 2019 — avg 1,575 · peak 3,598Jan 2020 — avg 148 · peak 331Apr 2020 — avg 205 · peak 374Jul 2020 — avg 248 · peak 461Oct 2020 — avg 303 · peak 594Jan 2021 — avg 177 · peak 333Apr 2021 — avg 141 · peak 248Jul 2021 — avg 151 · peak 274Oct 2021 — avg 124 · peak 234Jan 2022 — avg 138 · peak 220Apr 2022 — avg 115 · peak 193Jul 2022 — avg 168 · peak 336Oct 2022 — avg 165 · peak 481Jan 2023 — avg 152 · peak 276Apr 2023 — avg 137 · peak 252Jul 2023 — avg 120 · peak 210Oct 2023 — avg 124 · peak 221Jan 2024 — avg 100 · peak 175Apr 2024 — avg 89 · peak 159Jul 2024 — avg 113 · peak 189Oct 2024 — avg 83 · peak 172Jan 2025 — avg 82 · peak 135Apr 2025 — avg 71 · peak 124Jul 2025 — avg 103 · peak 288Oct 2025 — avg 73 · peak 137Jan 2026 — avg 76 · peak 156Apr 2026 — avg 63 · peak 124Jul 2026 — avg 59 · peak 111Aug 2026 — avg 63 · peak 111
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$1.002019-08-162026-10-152019-08-16 — best price $19.992019-11-22 — best price $12.742020-01-05 — best price $19.622020-02-16 — best price $15.152020-04-06 — best price $17.592020-05-20 — best price $11.992020-07-07 — best price $19.992020-08-21 — best price $7.372020-09-26 — best price $9.992020-11-03 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $7.992021-02-15 — best price $6.402021-04-26 — best price $17.992021-06-14 — best price $6.962021-08-05 — best price $6.392021-10-11 — best price $14.692021-12-11 — best price $16.792022-02-28 — best price $16.792022-04-19 — best price $8.002022-06-22 — best price $9.992022-08-30 — best price $19.992022-11-14 — best price $7.502023-01-11 — best price $19.992023-04-01 — best price $17.592023-06-16 — best price $5.812023-08-06 — best price $19.992023-10-14 — best price $19.992023-12-06 — best price $19.992024-02-05 — best price $19.992024-04-11 — best price $5.992024-06-24 — best price $3.002024-09-09 — best price $3.092024-11-18 — best price $2.562025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-09-09 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $19.992026-10-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
68.1%
earned "Mummy's Special Little Autonaut"
8.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,2151%26
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1,7684%19
PS5 (PlayStation)26016%20
PS4 (PlayStation)7722%20
PS4 (PlayStation)4815%20
Switch (Nintendo)150%0
PS4 (PlayStation)944%20
Switch (Nintendo)0—0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteIndieCasualSandboxBuildingCraftingAutomationColony SimManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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