Single-player games like shapez 2 - Factory
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to shapez 2 - 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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shapez
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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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Traffic Architect
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Become the master of traffic with your expert infrastructure designs. Lay down streets, shape junctions, time traffic lights, design a public transport network, and watch the city come alive. It grows on its own, and every new building sends more trips onto the roads you built.
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InfraSpace
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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.
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Plan B: Terraform
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
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FluxWerks
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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!
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Epic Roller Coasters
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Epic Roller Coasters is where you will find the most unique roller coasters of the world. Try it out on three different modes: classic, shooter and race. Don't forget to call your friends to ride your favorites roller coasters with you.
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Car Manufacture
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
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puzzlez - a shapez game
Single-player alternative to shapez 2 - Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
puzzlez - a shapez game is an easy to learn, hard to master puzzle game about building shapes in compact 3D spaces. Solve handcrafted puzzles with multiple solutions, from simple production chains to complex logistical problems. Design, share, and play custom puzzles with an ever-growing community.