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Single-player games like Incremental Factory

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Incremental 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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    Moose Miners — Steam game cover

    Moose Miners

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Automation Empire — Steam game cover

    Automation Empire

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RAILGRADE — Steam game cover

    RAILGRADE

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

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

    Factory Town

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Captain of Industry — Steam game cover

    Captain of Industry

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

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

    Voxel Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hammerting — Steam game cover

    Hammerting

    Single-player alternative to Incremental Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Little Big Workshop — Steam game cover

    Little Big Workshop

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

    Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

    2019StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

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

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →