Games like Incremental Factory
If Incremental Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Moose Miners, Automation Empire and RAILGRADE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clean and intuitive controls, chill and contemplative. 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 Incremental Factory: 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!
Players who liked Incremental Factory also play
Steam players who put hours into Incremental 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.
Moose Miners
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, automation, indie and a chill mood with Incremental Factory.
Top pick for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental Factory.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental Factory.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Incremental Factory.
Third-strongest match for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Incremental Factory.
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!
Voxel Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Incremental Factory.
Ranked #4 for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental Factory.
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Factory Town 2: Paradise
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental Factory.
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource management and a relaxing mood with Incremental Factory.
Ranked #6 for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental 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!
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares production chains and a relaxing mood with Incremental Factory.
Ranked #7 for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental Factory.
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.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression and a relaxing mood with Incremental Factory.
Ranked #8 for Incremental Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental 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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Incremental Factory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental 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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Incremental Factory.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Incremental 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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Incremental Factory.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Incremental Factory.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Incremental 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 ~67% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental Factory.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Incremental Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Incremental Factory.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental Factory.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental Factory.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental Factory.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Incremental Factory.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental Factory.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Incremental 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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Incremental Factory.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
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Frequently asked about Incremental Factory
- Does Incremental Factory run on Steam Deck?
- Incremental 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 Incremental Factory cost?
- Incremental Factory is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Incremental Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Incremental Factory are Moose Miners, Automation Empire, RAILGRADE.
- Who developed Incremental Factory?
- Incremental Factory was developed by Significant Steak.
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