Single-player games like The Last Factory
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Last Factory, 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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Biofactory
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Factorwave
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Nightwater
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Altarnode: Roguelite Cult Colony
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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TechGuardian: Territory Defense
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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A Dungeon Is You
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Attrition Line
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Apocalypse Factory
Single-player alternative to The Last Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.