Games like Mob Factory
If Mob Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factory Town, shapez and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and relaxing. 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 Mob Factory: Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Players who liked Mob Factory also play
Steam players who put hours into Mob Factory 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.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mob Factory.
Top pick for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob 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!
shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mob Factory.
Second-strongest match for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob 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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob 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.
Techtonica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mob Factory.
Ranked #5 for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob Factory.
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Buggos
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mob Factory.
Ranked #6 for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob Factory.
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mob Factory.
Ranked #7 for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob Factory.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Little Big Workshop
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Mob Factory.
Ranked #8 for Mob Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob Factory.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mob Factory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mob 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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mob Factory.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mob 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 Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mob 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 Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob 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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mob Factory.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mob Factory.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mob Factory on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Mob Factory.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mob 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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Mob 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 Simulation with Mob 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.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mob Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob 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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob 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.
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mob Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mob Factory.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Frequently asked about Mob Factory
- Does Mob Factory run on Steam Deck?
- Mob Factory is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Mob Factory cost?
- Mob Factory is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mob Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mob Factory are Factory Town, shapez, Factorio.
- Who developed Mob Factory?
- Mob Factory was developed by LiterallyEveryone Games and published by LiterallyEveryone Games, IndieArk.
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 Mob Factory.
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