Single-player games like Forge Industry
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Forge Industry, 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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.
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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Hammerting
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forge Industry.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forge Industry.
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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MMO98
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Unicycle Pizza Time!
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Forge Industry.
Uh oh, seems like your delivery bike got stolen, but the pizzas need to keep being delivered!
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Overtime Anomaly
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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My Virtual Friend
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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Kyoto Anomaly
Single-player alternative to Forge Industry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.