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Single-player games like Facteroids

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Facteroids, 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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    Per Aspera — Steam game cover

    Per Aspera

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Crust — Steam game cover

    The Crust

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2024StrategySimulationEarly Access19.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — Steam game cover

    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MegaFactory Titan — Steam game cover

    MegaFactory Titan

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2022StrategySimulationEarly Access19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Captain of Industry — Steam game cover

    Captain of Industry

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surviving Mars — Steam game cover

    Surviving Mars

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2018StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planetbase — Steam game cover

    Planetbase

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Haven — Steam game cover

    Space Haven

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dyson Sphere Program — Steam game cover

    Dyson Sphere Program

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Idle Shapes — Steam game cover

    Idle Shapes

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ski Park Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Ski Park Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Facteroids — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Facteroids.

    Designed as a classic tycoon game, Ski Park Tycoon is a ski resort simulation PC game that will put your strategic thinking skills and creativity to the test.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →