Single-player games like Factorio
Below are 14 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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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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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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FOUNDRY
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Factorio — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.