Single-player games like Total Factory
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Total Factory, 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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Lifecraft
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Havendock
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Assembly Planter
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Production Line : Car factory simulation
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Deadly Step
Single-player alternative to Total Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Total Factory.
The brave hunter went in the wake of the missing daughter. But how many amazing things from a long forgotten past will he meet? Only go forward, there is no turning back. And don’t forget death sooner than you think…