Single-player games like Factorio
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Factorio, 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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Factorio.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
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.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factorio.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Factorio.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Songs of Syx
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factorio.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.