Autonauts vs Piratebots
Released Jul 2022
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
80% positive · 527 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $3.99 $19.99 −80%
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Evaluation
Autonauts vs Piratebots launched on July 28, 2022 as a complete, self-contained game. Following launch, the developer shipped a series of hotfixes and quality-of-life patches through December 13, 2022 — the most recent being patch 141.18, which added new features and fixed bugs. After that point, there have been no further updates specific to this game. The one post from 2024 (March 1, 2024) is a publisher-wide sale announcement from Curve Games covering multiple titles, with no mention of new content for Autonauts vs Piratebots. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no announced future content, no roadmap, and no developer statement indicating ongoing development. The game shipped as a finished product with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and the post-launch activity was purely maintenance and polish work that wrapped up by December 2022.
Evidence
Game launched on July 28, 2022 as a complete, standalone title with no announced post-launch content plans.
Patch 141.18 released with feature additions and bug fixes — the last update specific to Autonauts vs Piratebots.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Headup
Achievements
29
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Grave news! Piratebots are kidnapping Autonauts and taking over our automated settlements! Only you can remove the invaders, recover your resources and resume control!
You are Captain of the Autonauts Defence Force. You receive a distress signal from a nearby planet: a Piratebot invasion! You arrive to find that Piratebots have obliterated the base camp and taken control of the working outposts and industries.
To win, you must destroy the Space Pirate Boss - “The Dread Pirate Robot” - whose heavily-defended stronghold lies on the other side of the world. Standing between you and the ultimate showdown are hundreds of scurvy Piratebots commanded by The Dread Pirate Robot’s trusted Boss Mates.
Rescue the innocent. Rebuild the settlement. Reclaim the world.
FEATURES:
Autonauts... Automate!
Automate a farming business to earn gold and fund your defence campaign. Use industrious Workerbots, your ingenuity and all the natural resources you can harness to craft the tools and machinery needed to run a bustling settlement while commanding a successful defence campaign to conquer the invading Piratebots.
Code, Command & Conquer!
Build squads of special Defencebots including Warriors, Archers and Knights, then use tactical combat programming to take on swathes of swarthy Piratebots and their Bosses.Prepare to repel boarders!
Create and command your Defencebot squads to engage in intense Boss battles with the crazy Long Bot Silver, the diabolical Botbeard and the brutal Botbarossa, culminating in a fullscale assault on the Dread Pirate Robot's formidable fortress
Pillaging Piratebot
Merciless Piratebots raiders regularly storm your growing base to vandalise and pillage. Set up vigilant guard patrols, erect mighty defensive walls and deploy armed towers to stop marauding Piratebots in their tracks.
Collect new technology from the black-hearted Piratebots to drive them from the land and free your fellow Autonauts!
You may have played Autonauts before, but never like this. It’s a whole new game of automation and strategy for novices and veterans alike!
Automate to defend! Defend to automate!
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Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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