Single-player games like The Factory
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The 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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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Factory.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with The Factory.
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!
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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Factory.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
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Project Hospital
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Factory.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with The 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.
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Hammerting
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Factory.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The 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!
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to The Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with The Factory.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.