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Games like Forge Industry

If Forge Industry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hammerting, Automation Empire and Factory Town — 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.

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About Forge Industry: Forge your destiny as a blacksmith! Automate your workshops, optimize your supply chain, research new materials, craft legendary weapons, and cast your place in the world.

2023StrategyIndie9.99 USDWindows · macOSby BiteMe Games
Forge Industry — Steam game cover

Players who liked Forge Industry also play

Steam players who put hours into Forge Industry 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.

  1. Hammerting

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Automation Empire

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Factory Town

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Good Company

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. InfraSpace

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Assembly Planter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. RAILGRADE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forge Industry.

    RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Little Big Workshop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Forge Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forge Industry.

    Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

    2019StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forge Industry at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Forge Industry.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Forge Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from BiteMe Games

Other recommendable Steam games by BiteMe Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. MMO98

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BiteMe Games, the studio behind Forge Industry. Shares Strategy with Forge Industry.

    An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.

    2026StrategySimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Unicycle Pizza Time!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BiteMe Games, the studio behind Forge Industry. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    Uh oh, seems like your delivery bike got stolen, but the pizzas need to keep being delivered!

    2024IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Overtime Anomaly

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BiteMe Games, the studio behind Forge Industry. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...

    2025IndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. My Virtual Friend

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BiteMe Games, the studio behind Forge Industry.

    Feeling lonely? Not anymore with My Virtual Friend, a desktop pet/idler where different characters can keep you company. Take care of them, buy them new outfits, play games with them, or just let them sit back and follow along with whatever you're doing.

    2025SimulationCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Kyoto Anomaly

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BiteMe Games, the studio behind Forge Industry. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.

    You find yourself trapped in the endless maze of Kyoto's backstreets, trying to reach the temple of Hōkan-ji before the main tourist rush. Inspect the street for anomalies, choose the right path, and reach your destination... or be trapped forever.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Forge Industry

How much does Forge Industry cost?
Forge Industry is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Forge Industry?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forge Industry are Hammerting, Automation Empire, Factory Town.
Who developed Forge Industry?
Forge Industry was developed by BiteMe 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 Forge Industry.

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