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Single-player games like Alchemy Factory

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Alchemy 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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    FOUNDRY — Steam game cover

    FOUNDRY

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

    Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation20.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MineMogul — Steam game cover

    MineMogul

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

    Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Main Sequence — Steam game cover

    Main Sequence

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

    Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Belts of Iron — Steam game cover

    Belts of Iron

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

    Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

    2026ActionStrategyIndie13.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voxel Eras — Steam game cover

    Voxel Eras

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

    Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Single-player alternative to Alchemy Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alchemy 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 →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

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

    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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    Techtonica — Steam game cover

    Techtonica

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

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dyson Sphere Program — Steam game cover

    Dyson Sphere Program

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

    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 Alchemy Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alchemy 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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    Schedule I — Steam game cover

    Schedule I

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

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →