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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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    Cog Foo — Steam game cover

    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?

    StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Biofactory — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factory Town 2: Paradise — Steam game cover

    Factory Town 2: Paradise

    Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.

    A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Substructure — Steam game cover

    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.

    StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Block Factory — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    shapez 2 - Factory — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation23.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RAILGRADE — Steam game cover

    RAILGRADE

    Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.

    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 Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Modulus: Factory Automation.

    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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    shapez — Steam game cover

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infinifactory — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dyson Sphere Program — Steam game cover

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Almost Gone — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    You Suck at Parking® - Complete Edition — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022ActionSportsIndie3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Midnight Moments — Steam game cover

    Midnight Moments

    Single-player alternative to Modulus: Factory Automation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A small, cyberpunk diorama-building game where you create cozy rain-soaked backstreets, glowing apartment blocks, or quiet neighbourhood corners. Decorate your designs with props and place citizens, crafting stories that bring your city to life. At your own pace. No goals. Just vibes.

    CasualSingle-playerSimilar games →