Games like Frustration Factory
If Frustration Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Suika Evolution: Shake & Merge, Spiritstead and Operation: VICUS — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Frustration Factory: Frustration Factory is an asset management action/puzzle game requiring concentration, patience and speed. Each level challenges you to carefully direct game pieces down an increasingly complex series of conveyor belts, through assembly machines, and finally shipping the finished products.
Players who liked Frustration Factory also play
Steam players who put hours into Frustration Factory also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Suika Evolution: Shake & Merge
WHY THIS
Top pick for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Frustration Factory.
Suika Evolution: Shake & Merge is a physics based fruit merging puzzle where every move matters. Combine fruits, evolve them into bigger forms, and use the Shake ability to create unexpected chain reactions in a minimalist hand drawn world.
Spiritstead
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
A city builder set in a world of magic. Build a village and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
Operation: VICUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Hey, so you're the chosen one? Welcome to your new home, your village! Build it up, develop it, take care of the needs of its inhabitants and fight the evil that haunts your village. But the most important thing is, can you solve the mystery of the village?
MineMogul
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration 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!
Star Birds
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Junkyard Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.
Happy Sheepies
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Happy Sheepies is a relaxing sheep farming game that includes some Crafting and Business Management elements with its simple Drag & Drop gameplay. Meet the needs of your sheepies, craft and sell your products, and grow your business!
Farm for your Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Frustration Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Frustration Factory at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frustration Factory.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frustration Factory.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Frustration Factory.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Frustration Factory.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Frustration Factory.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frustration Factory.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frustration Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Frustration Factory.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Frustration Factory.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Frustration Factory.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Frustration Factory.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Frustration Factory.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Frustration Factory.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Frustration Factory.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Frustration Factory.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Frustration Factory
- How much does Frustration Factory cost?
- Frustration Factory is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Frustration Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Frustration Factory are Suika Evolution: Shake & Merge, Spiritstead, Operation: VICUS.
- Who developed Frustration Factory?
- Frustration Factory was developed by Frosted Axe Studios.
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