Single-player games like Automate It: Factory Puzzle
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Automate It: Factory Puzzle, 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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ChromaFlow
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
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Nightwater
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
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Vena
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
An automation roguelike where every run fits in one sitting. Place hexagonal tiles to grow a production organism, roll dice in the shop to buy new ones, and pick perks that shape your build. Survive nine phases as the Nexus's hunger outpaces you, then break the economy and do it all differently.
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Lands of Ma'at
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Lands of Ma'at is a city-builder with automation elements which puts you in charge of building the Great Pyramid. Found and develop cities all across Ancient Egypt, manage resources and logistics, spread faith and witness one of the greatest creations in history rising right before your eyes.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
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Poly Bridge
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
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.
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Chased by Darkness
Single-player alternative to Automate It: Factory Puzzle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Automate It: Factory Puzzle.
Chased by Darkness is a 1-4 players co-op survival horror. Your mission is to face supernatural entities and banish them to the spiritual plane. Explore, fight enemies and don't let the darkness reach you.