Single-player games like Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft, 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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Learning Factory
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
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The Farmer Was Replaced
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
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FOUNDRY
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
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Beltmatic
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
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Autonauts vs Piratebots
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
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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Desynced
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
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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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
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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Warnament
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
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InMind VR
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
InMind is a short scientific adventure with arcade elements designed for the Oculus VR. Submerge into the microworld and experience the miracles of the human mind.
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InCell VR
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
InCell is an action/racing VR game with a bit of strategy and science thrown into the mix. You'll take an exciting journey inside the highly unusual micro world of human cell and stop the virus advance. The game is focused on VR but you can play just fine without a set.
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InMind 2 VR
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
An adventure game about a scientific journey inside the emotions chemistry of human brain. You'll take part in the process of one teenager named John becoming an adult, and help shape John's future self, by triggering emotions in key moments of his life. The destiny is in your hands! VR isn't required.
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VRobot: VR Giant Robot Destruction Simulator
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
VRobot is an action game designed for VR about a giant robot smashing сities using unique weapons or bare hands. Multiplayer, Lightning Hammer, Transformer Sword, Tornado Gun, Tractor Beam - we got all that!
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SuperWEIRD: Automation Roguelite
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
An automation roguelite where single-use JunkDroids turn out to be surprisingly useful: automate production network, rebuild a broken world piece by piece, and stop the Goofy Goo before it consumes everything. Play solo or in coop.