Autonauts is a cute colony-building sim with robots you program yourself

Colony building seems a lot of hard work if you have to do it yourself - which is the idea behind Autonauts.

It comes from video games industry veteran Gary Penn who has worked all over the industry in his long career (and written about it in Zzap!, if you're of that era), perhaps most notably on the early Grand Theft Auto games at DMA Design.

But it's another DMA game which comes to mind when watching the gameplay trailer below: Lemmings. Autonauts' main hook is that you can automate any process you can do yourself (harvesting resources, operating machines, building, cooking, fishing, farming) by building a bot and getting it to copy you.

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