Games like Total Factory
If Total Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lifecraft, Havendock and Assembly Planter — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Total Factory: You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to ensure the automatic production of the necessary resources and their dispatch. It would seem that what could go wrong?

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Lifecraft
WHY THIS
Top pick for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Total Factory.
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Havendock
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Assembly Planter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Little Big Workshop
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Total Factory.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
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.
shapez 2 - Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Total Factory.
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.
Production Line : Car factory simulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Total Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Total Factory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Total Factory.
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 ~67% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Total Factory.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Total Factory.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Total Factory.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
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 ~67% under Total Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Total Factory.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Total Factory.
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 Total Factory.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Total Factory.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Total Factory.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Total Factory.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Total Factory.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Total Factory.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Total Factory
- How much does Total Factory cost?
- Total Factory is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Total Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Total Factory are Lifecraft, Havendock, Assembly Planter.
- Who developed Total Factory?
- Total Factory was developed by Total Craft Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Total Factory.
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