Games like The Last Factory
If The Last Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmic Ascent, Biofactory and Scraplings — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Last Factory: Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
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Cosmic Ascent
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Factory.
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Biofactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Factory.
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Scraplings
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Factory.
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Dystopians
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Factory.
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Factorwave
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Factory.
Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.
Nightwater
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Factory.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Altarguard
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Ranked #7 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Factory.
Altarguard is a cult-like incremental tower defense game where you guard and feed a hungry Altar by sacrificing floods of critters.
TechGuardian: Territory Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Factory.
This is a sci-fi strategy game featuring a Defense Mode focused on tower defense and an Attack Mode focused on combat. The game includes over 30 different buildings and units, all of which can be upgraded through entry editing to enhance their performance and firepower.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Last Factory at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Factory.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Factory.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Factory.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Last Factory.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Factory.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Factory.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Last Factory.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under The Last Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Factory.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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 The Last Factory.
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 The Last Factory.
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?
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Factory.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Factory.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Last Factory.
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 The Last Factory.
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 The Last Factory.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about The Last Factory
- How much does The Last Factory cost?
- The Last Factory is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Last Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Last Factory are Cosmic Ascent, Biofactory, Scraplings.
- Who developed The Last Factory?
- The Last Factory was developed by Jitkem Tienngam and published by Hello World Labs.
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 The Last Factory.
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