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Alan's Automaton Workshop
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Finite State Automata: the Game If you're a computer science or computational mathematics major, the processes will look very familiar very quickly. And if you're a fan of "Zach-likes" (logical programming-esque games in the same style as those made by Zachtronics), you'll find…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“I'm very happy that lately I've come across different niche games that are different from the usual games of different genres. This game is one of them. Very interesting level design and game style that attracts attention. No less interesting puzzles come across on your way.…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“I love Zach-likes. A satisfying programming puzzle game works my brain like almost nothing else -- only programming is like it. Any tension in a Zach-like should come from the mechanics; in other words "how the hell do I do that?" Unfortunately, AAW is a game where I can't tell…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Alan's Automaton Workshop OST
Hello fellow engineers! It's June 23rd again, and that means it's Alan's birthday! But this year, we're celebrating this special day in a slightly different way -- by releasing the Alan's Automaton Wo
Sandbox Bugfixes and Improvements
Hello fellow engineers! We are excited and extremely grateful for everyone's submissions to the Automaton Newsletter! Your levels are really awesome - there are very challenging ones, cleverly designe
The 'Sandbox' Update
Hello fellow engineers! Sorry to have kept you all waiting for so long. Today, we are thrilled to announce that the Sandbox mode of Allen's Automaton Workshop is officially launched here, today! 🤩🏖️📦
The 'Full-Frame Diagram' Update
Hello fellow engineers! Sorry about the delayed update. The Steam Cloud sync issue on Mac took us more time than our expected. Currently the issue was solved under Steam Team's help. For engineers pla
First Anniversary of AAW!
Hello fellow engineers! Today is the first anniversary of the launch of Alan's Automaton Workshop. It has been truly an amazing, fulfilling, and very busy year for us. This is the developer, Alimen sp
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Simulation |
| Player tags | Education · Programming · Steampunk · Automation · Puzzle · Sandbox · Logic · Building · Simulation · Singleplayer · 2D · Indie (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 6 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1 Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1GB VRAM DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space