Games like Facteroids
If Facteroids is your kind of game, the closest matches are Per Aspera, The Crust and Surviving Mars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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 →About Facteroids: Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
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Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Facteroids.
Top pick for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Facteroids.
Second-strongest match for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Facteroids.
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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Facteroids.
Third-strongest match for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Facteroids.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Facteroids.
Ranked #4 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Facteroids.
Ranked #5 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
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.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Facteroids.
Ranked #6 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Facteroids.
Ranked #7 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
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.
Aven Colony
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Facteroids.
Reviewers of Facteroids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
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!
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Facteroids.
Reviewers of Facteroids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Idle Shapes
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Facteroids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Idle game with simple mechanics and addictive gameplay. Buy upgrades and use prestige system to reach the final goal. Every upgrade matters, every prestige purchase is important. No endless goals and infinite boring gameplay. Just pure fun and reachable goals.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Facteroids.
Reviewers of Facteroids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
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.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Facteroids.
Reviewers of Facteroids cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Facteroids at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Facteroids.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Facteroids.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Facteroids.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Facteroids.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Facteroids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Facteroids.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Facteroids.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
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 Facteroids.
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 Facteroids.
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 Facteroids.
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 Facteroids.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Facteroids
- How much does Facteroids cost?
- Facteroids is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Facteroids?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Facteroids are Per Aspera, The Crust, Surviving Mars.
- Who developed Facteroids?
- Facteroids was developed by by Jan Zizka.
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