Single-player games like Modulus: Factory Automation
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Modulus: Factory Automation, 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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Dark City: Scavenge Craft Power
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
Scan dumpsters for valuable recyclable materials and restore a city trapped in darkness. Craft solar infrastructure from recovered waste, automate recycling systems, and gradually bring buildings, traffic, and an entire city back to life.
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Cog Foo
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
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Fractal Foundry
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
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Biofactory
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
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Factory Town 2: Paradise
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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!
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FACTORY I
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
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Substructure
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
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Block Factory
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.
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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The Almost Gone
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
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You Suck at Parking® - Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You Suck at Parking® is the only racing game where your goal is to stop and parking your ride is more important than your driving skills. It’s a hot race against the clock as you drift, cruise, and go airborne over 250 frustratingly fun, wild levels.