Single-player games like shapez
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to shapez, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Assemblands
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Build your factory from zero and produce high-tech products like drones, PC, robots and compete against thousands of players.
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Learning Factory
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
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Automate It: Factory Puzzle
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
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Flotsam
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with shapez.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Rocket League®
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with shapez.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with shapez.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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Screeps: World
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
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YORG.io
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.
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YORG.io 3
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!