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Single-player games like Roody:2d

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Roody:2d, 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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    Multiply Factory — Steam game cover

    Multiply Factory

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roody:2d.

    Multiply Factory is a factory building game. Build your own multiple-layer factory within a 3-D space with belts, inserters, factories and stairs. Enjoy the fantasy of manufacturing. 

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LithoBreak — Steam game cover

    LithoBreak

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Roody:2d.

    LithoBreak is a survival factory-builder grounded in real physics and engineering. Build and automate a lunar colony, explore in first-person, and survive constant orbital threats – all while you Play with Science

    2021AdventureSimulationEarly Access19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RAILGRADE — Steam game cover

    RAILGRADE

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Roody:2d.

    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!

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infindustry — Steam game cover

    Infindustry

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roody:2d.

    A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation16.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Orebound — Steam game cover

    Orebound

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Roody:2d.

    Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure12.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Icaria — Steam game cover

    Icaria

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Roody:2d.

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

    2025SimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Incremental Factory — Steam game cover

    Incremental Factory

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roody:2d.

    Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Captain of Industry — Steam game cover

    Captain of Industry

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roody:2d.

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terraria — Steam game cover

    Terraria

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Roody:2d.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infinifactory — Steam game cover

    Infinifactory

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Roody:2d.

    Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

    2015IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series — Steam game cover

    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — 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.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roody:2d.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft Legends — Steam game cover

    Minecraft Legends

    Single-player alternative to Roody:2d — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Roody:2d.

    Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →