Games like Facteroids
Below are 13 hand-picked alternatives to Facteroids for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Facteroids also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Per Aspera
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.
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The Crust
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.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Third-strongest match 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.
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MegaFactory Titan
Ranked #4 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Facteroids.
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
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Captain of Industry
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.
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Surviving Mars
Ranked #6 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.
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Planetbase
Ranked #7 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.
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Space Haven
Ranked #8 for Facteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Facteroids.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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Factorio
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.
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Satisfactory
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!
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Per Aspera
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.
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Dyson Sphere Program
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.
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Idle Shapes
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.
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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, Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
- Who developed Facteroids?
- Facteroids was developed by by Jan Zizka.
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