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Games like The Last Factory

If The Last Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Biofactory, Factorwave and Nightwater — 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 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.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationEarly AccessWindows · macOSby Jitkem Tienngam
The Last Factory — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Last Factory also play

Steam players who put hours into The Last Factory 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. Biofactory

    WHY THIS

    Top pick 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.

    2026StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Factorwave

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match 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.

    2026IndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Nightwater

    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.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Altarnode: Roguelite Cult Colony

    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.

    Play as an evil god in this 2D top-down survival colony-defense roguelite. Defend your cult, satisfy your altar’s growing hunger for Meat sacrifice. Kill, harvest, process meat, optimize production, and survive as long as you can.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. TechGuardian: Territory Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation1.91 USDSteam ↗
  6. A Dungeon Is You

    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.

    You died and got reincarnated as a dungeon core! Grow your dungeon, summon minions to defend you and conquer the world. A Dungeon Is You is a modern incremental dungeon management tower defense. No resets, no prestige! Long!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Attrition Line

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Factory.

    A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Apocalypse Factory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Last Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Factory.

    Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.

    2026StrategySimulationEarly Access8.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck 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 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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Last Factory

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 Biofactory, Factorwave, Nightwater.
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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