Single-player games like Kaizen: A Factory Story
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Kaizen: A Factory Story, 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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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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ABI-DOS
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
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Upalu Mundi
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Upalu Mundi is a puzzle game set in a dwarven world at the dawn of railways. Lay tracks, build stations and set switches to keep goods moving and profits soaring. Read the news to see how the public reacts as you shape the future of transportation!
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The Ultra Code
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Build machines... break codes... win the war! It's 1942 and the world is engulfed in war. Meanwhile, in a country mansion in South East England, a group of expert mathematicians are fighting a war of their own, breaking an unbreakable Nazi code... Enigma!
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Retro Gadgets
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
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Train Set Code
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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EXAPUNKS
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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MOLEK-SYNTEZ
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.
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Last Call BBS
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
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Warp Factory
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
An automation puzzle game in which the player must build factories to produce various shapes and patterns, as well as to perform more dynamic tasks - featuring a system of portals that allow one to cut apart and reconnect space in paradoxical - and productive - ways.
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The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.
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U.V.S. Nirmana
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kaizen: A Factory Story.
U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.
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Add Astra
Single-player alternative to Kaizen: A Factory Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Add Astra is a math game about racing, and a racing game about math, developed by Coincidence. You’re the best arithmetech racer on Earth. But what about everywhere else?