Single-player games like shapez
Below are 17 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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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
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.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with shapez.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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Beltmatic
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
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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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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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EXAPUNKS
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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Desynced
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with shapez.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Icaria
Single-player alternative to shapez — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with shapez.
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien 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!