Single-player games like ReFactory
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to ReFactory, 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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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Automation Empire
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Flotsam
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ReFactory.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sky To Fly: Faster Than Wind
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sky to Fly: Soulless Leviathan
Single-player alternative to ReFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.