Games like Load Factor
If Load Factor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flightline: Airline Sim, Crazy Shipping and How Empires Work — 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 Load Factor: Build an airline from a single turboprop to a global empire. Choose your aircraft, routes, schedules, and fares across 3,100 real-world airports, then watch hub-and-spoke networks emerge from an honest demand model. Deep economic strategy. No hand-holding. Just the numbers.
Players who liked Load Factor also play
Steam players who put hours into Load Factor 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.
Flightline: Airline Sim
WHY THIS
Top pick for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Load Factor.
Flightline is an airline management sim about building an airline that has to make sense. Set routes, choose aircraft, price seats, and shape a network where passengers route themselves through real markets. Growth is not just drawing lines on a map. It is whether the whole system holds together.
Crazy Shipping
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Load Factor.
In space, no one can hear you SCHEME! A cosy space transport management game where your fleet of feline pilots deliver anything, anywhere - no questions asked!
How Empires Work
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Load Factor.
An incremental strategy game about building the machinery of empire. Develop your economy and military, and automate them into institutions of power that expand your reach across centuries of history. Grow from humble beginnings to take your place on the world stage!
Production City
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Load Factor.
Production City is a city builder focused on manufacturing, logistics, and politics. Build efficient production chains, make impactful (or questionable) decisions, and grow your city into an industrial empire!
Fast Food Architect
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Load Factor.
Build a fast-food business your way in this management and simulation game. Create your own products, organize your employees, and optimize every detail to satisfy your customers and maximize your profits.
Arcade Warlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Load Factor.
A business strategy game set in the 80s arcade boom, where your company exists on the map. Develop hit games, deploy specialist Agents, move cabinets and cash across the city, and compete for strategic locations while managing the logistics of expansion.
One More Shake
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Load Factor.
Shake a vending machine, collect cans, earn money, and build the ultimate idle vending empire through satisfying upgrades, automation, and endless progression.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Load Factor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Load Factor.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Load Factor at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Load Factor.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Load Factor.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Load Factor.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Load Factor.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Load Factor.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Load Factor.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Load Factor.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Load Factor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Load Factor.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Load Factor.
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 Load Factor.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Load Factor.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Load Factor.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Load Factor.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Load Factor.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Load Factor.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Load Factor.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Load Factor
- How much does Load Factor cost?
- Load Factor is listed on Steam at 9.89 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Load Factor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Load Factor are Flightline: Airline Sim, Crazy Shipping, How Empires Work.
- Who developed Load Factor?
- Load Factor was developed by FlyWithTom.
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 Load Factor.
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