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Single-player games like Mining Factory

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Mining 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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    Mining Copper — Steam game cover

    Mining Copper

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    Collect copper ore and pass through various smelting equipment to produce copper plates.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  2. 2
    From atom to modern — Steam game cover

    From atom to modern

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  3. 3
    Outpost Engineer — Steam game cover

    Outpost Engineer

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    Outpost engineer is a first person factory automation game set on a volcanic island. Build your base, dig into the terrain, use assembly lines to automate production. Explore, study and catalogue.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SynthetiCell BioClicker — Steam game cover

    SynthetiCell BioClicker

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    SynthetiCell BioClicker is an Idle incremental simulator where you bring to life a colony of synthetic automaton cells. Inspired by the classic 'Game of Life' by mathematician John Horton Conway (1970) about the evolution of an organism. Can you guide your colony to prosperity?

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Military Incremental Complex — Steam game cover

    Military Incremental Complex

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mining Factory.

    Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

    2025StrategySimulation7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hammerting — Steam game cover

    Hammerting

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    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 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fracture Field — Steam game cover

    Fracture Field

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mining Factory.

    Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fidget Spinner RPG — Steam game cover

    Fidget Spinner RPG

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mining Factory.

    Fidget Spinner RPG is a clicker/incremental RPG game in which you craft items and level up abilities to make a fidget spinner spin at absurd, ever increasing speeds.

    2023IndieSimulationRPG3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    邪神大陆(Evil God Land) — Steam game cover

    邪神大陆(Evil God Land)

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mining Factory.

    Abundant weapon skill system, open 3D fantasy world, clear game goals RPG defensive game, guarding the crystal and exploring the upgrade of monsters

    2021IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  10. 10
    Peach Territory — Steam game cover

    Peach Territory

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mining Factory.

    Xiao Xuan entered the peach blossom realm, fell in love with a girl, practiced and defeated the devil Nearly a thousand pictures of beautiful women, all kinds of clothes, very beautiful. Very tempting

    2022IndieSimulation8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fantasy Adventure — Steam game cover

    Fantasy Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Mining Factory.

    A hero placement type tower defense game, you can hang up to generate fragments, fight monsters to earn money, and upgrade cards

    2022StrategyCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Art Girl 2 — Steam game cover

    Art Girl 2

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    2d card game, customize skills through cards, brush monsters, brush money, brush equipment games, there are some beautiful pictures of girls

    2023StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Idle interstellar Factory 2 — Steam game cover

    Idle interstellar Factory 2

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    This is a factory game based on text and 2d drag and drop. You need to complete the process from mining resources to the final interstellar resource mining and transportation. You will continue to unlock new technologies and experience many unexpected challenges along the way.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alien Planet Survival — Steam game cover

    Alien Planet Survival

    Single-player alternative to Mining Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mining Factory.

    You drift in space, land on a random planet, collect materials, survive, develop civilization technology, conquer more planets, idle automation factory game

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →