Games like Captain of Industry
If Captain of Industry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Timberborn, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and Blacksmith Master — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive gameplay, deep strategy and realistic production chains. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Captain of Industry is a strategy simulation released in 2022 that tasks players with establishing an industrial empire on a remote island. The core gameplay centers on factory automation and realistic production chains, spanning from basic metal smelting to nuclear power and space flight. Players reshape terrain using terraforming tools, manage resources through mining and agriculture, and navigate research trees covering over 100 technologies. Reviewers describe the solo experience as cozy, immersive, and relaxing, highlighting the deep strategy and addictive gameplay loop despite its challenging difficulty and massive scope. The game holds an 88% positive rating from more than 5,400 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, retailing at $34.99.
About Captain of Industry: Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Players who liked Captain of Industry also play
Steam players who put hours into Captain of Industry also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Captain of Industry.
Top pick for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Captain of Industry.
Third-strongest match for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Captain of Industry.
Ranked #4 for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Captain of Industry.
Ranked #5 for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
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!
Plan B: Terraform
WHY THIS
Shares terraforming and a relaxing mood with Captain of Industry.
Ranked #6 for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Captain of Industry.
Ranked #7 for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Captain of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Captain of Industry
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and an immersive mood with Captain of Industry.
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
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.
Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Captain of Industry.
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Captain of Industry.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Captain of Industry.
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Captain of Industry.
Reviewers of Captain of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Captain of Industry at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Captain of Industry.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Captain of Industry.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Captain of Industry.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Captain of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Captain of Industry.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Captain of Industry.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Captain of Industry.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Captain of Industry.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Captain of Industry.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Captain of Industry.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Captain of Industry
- Does Captain of Industry run on Steam Deck?
- Captain of Industry is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Captain of Industry cost?
- Captain of Industry is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Captain of Industry?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Captain of Industry are Timberborn, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Blacksmith Master.
- Who developed Captain of Industry?
- Captain of Industry was developed by MaFi Games.
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