Games like ReFactory
If ReFactory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dream Engines: Nomad Cities, Kenshi and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its drones handle all logistics, atmospheric and challenging. 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 ReFactory: Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Players who liked ReFactory also play
Steam players who put hours into ReFactory also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression and an atmospheric mood with ReFactory.
Top pick for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ReFactory.
Second-strongest match for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ReFactory.
Third-strongest match for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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.
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ReFactory.
Ranked #5 for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ReFactory.
Ranked #7 for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ReFactory.
Ranked #8 for ReFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to ReFactory
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ReFactory.
Reviewers of ReFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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!
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ReFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ReFactory.
Reviewers of ReFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with ReFactory.
Reviewers of ReFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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 ReFactory.
Reviewers of ReFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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 ReFactory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
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 ~58% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ReFactory.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ReFactory.
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 ~58% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ReFactory.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ReFactory.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ReFactory.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under ReFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ReFactory.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ReFactory.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ReFactory.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ReFactory.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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More from AIVIK LLC
Other recommendable Steam games by AIVIK LLC, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sky To Fly: Faster Than Wind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ReFactory.
Another title from AIVIK LLC, the studio behind ReFactory. Shares Indie with ReFactory.
Sky to Fly: Faster Than Wind is a stunningly beautiful steampunk-themed runner about saving a sky-city from cruel pirates. Play on 20+ different levels, upgrade your ship and discover the mysteries of the malicious marauders.
Sky to Fly: Soulless Leviathan
WHY THIS
Another title from AIVIK LLC, the studio behind ReFactory. Shares Indie with ReFactory.
Sky to Fly: Soulless Leviathan is a sequel to the legendary steampunk action runner. Upon learning of the impending attack on Vetropolis, the main hero has decided to become an Agent, but the corrupt authorities want to stop him.
Sky Clash: Lords of Clans 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ReFactory.
Another title from AIVIK LLC, the studio behind ReFactory. Shares Strategy with ReFactory.
Build up your empire and hold your defense against the waves of enemy attacks! Develop your own strategy. Compete in epic Clan Wars!
Frequently asked about ReFactory
- Is ReFactory verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — ReFactory is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does ReFactory cost?
- ReFactory is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ReFactory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ReFactory are Dream Engines: Nomad Cities, Kenshi, Factorio.
- Who developed ReFactory?
- ReFactory was developed by AIVIK LLC and published by BIVAK LLC.
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