Single-player games like Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Below are 16 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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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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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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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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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
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Microtopia
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Nova Lands
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation 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!