Games like Factorio
If Factorio is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, RimWorld and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless skill growth, engineering creativity rewarded and factory must grow. 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 →Factorio is a strategy and simulation game developed by Wube Software LTD. that tasks players with constructing automated factories within an infinite 2D world. The core systems revolve around building automation chains, optimizing belt layouts, designing circuit and logistics networks, and establishing rail-transport infrastructure, with modular clustering allowing for scalable factory layouts. Players describe the experience as contemplative, hypnotic, and intense, with reviewers highlighting how engineering creativity is rewarded and noting that no single optimal solution exists, encouraging players toward endless skill growth. The game's central drive—factory must grow—pushes players toward increasingly complex infrastructure. A robust modding community extends the game's longevity considerably. The game holds a 98% positive rating from over 114,000 Steam reviews and a Metacritic score of 90, and it is verified for Steam Deck. It is priced at $35.00.
About Factorio: 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.
Players who liked Factorio also play
Steam players who put hours into Factorio 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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and an intense mood with Factorio.
Top pick for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factorio.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Factorio.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
FOUNDRY
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Factorio.
Ranked #8 for Factorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Factorio
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and an intense mood with Factorio.
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Factorio.
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Factorio.
Reviewers of Factorio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Factorio at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Factorio.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Factorio.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Factorio.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Factorio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Factorio.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factorio.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factorio.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factorio.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Factorio.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factorio.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factorio.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
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.
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Frequently asked about Factorio
- Is Factorio verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Factorio is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Factorio cost?
- Factorio is listed on Steam at 35.00 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Factorio have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Factorio supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Factorio?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Factorio are Satisfactory, RimWorld, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.
- Who developed Factorio?
- Factorio was developed by Wube Software LTD..
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 Factorio.
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