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Games like Factory Time

If Factory Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are Singularity Echoes, Game Dev Clicker Simulator and Knightfall Idle — 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.

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About Factory Time: A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindows · Linuxby Denis Zholob
Factory Time — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Factory Time 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.

  1. Singularity Echoes

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Time.

    Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Game Dev Clicker Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Factory Time.

    Start as an indie dev in this clicker and improve your resources, skills and tools to create multiple titles at once, manage several studios and become a corporation that dominates the industry.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Knightfall Idle

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Time.

    Knightfall Idle is a medieval idle RPG made by Gibber. Gather, process, trade, and fight across 10 skills while your kingdom runs in the background. Join a Fief, raid bandit camps, compete in seasonal leagues, or stay in the permanent realm. 450+ passive tree nodes. Free to play.

    2026StrategyIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  4. A Dark Cave

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Time.

    Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Authorisation Engine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Factory Time.

    Turn a payment desk into a global authorisation network in this offline incremental strategy game about capacity, compute, mandates, quantum audits, and synthetic jurisdictions.

    2026Casual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Loopbound

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Factory Time.

    A narrative incremental game where you're trapped in a time loop: survive, level up skills, and automate tasks across multiple worlds.

    2026IndieEarly Access4.95 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fablewood Chronicles

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factory Time.

    Civilization, automated. Build a nation of moveable regions that runs while you work, then come back and see who took the crown while you were gone.

    2026StrategySimulationCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Kingdom Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Factory Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Time.

    A minimalist factory / city builder. Design your workflow by harvesting resources, building equipment, outfitting your adventurers, and sending them on dangerous missions. Recover lost territory and unravel the plot that threatens to destroy your kingdom!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Time.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Simulation with Factory Time.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Factory Time.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Time.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Time.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Time.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Factory Time.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Factory Time

What games are most similar to Factory Time?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Factory Time are Singularity Echoes, Game Dev Clicker Simulator, Knightfall Idle.
Who developed Factory Time?
Factory Time was developed by Denis Zholob.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Factory Time.

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