Single-player games like Factory Engineer
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Factory Engineer, 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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Survival Vacancy
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
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Hammerting
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factory Engineer.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Automation Empire
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
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Final Factory
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factory Engineer.
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
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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Techtonica
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
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Big Pharma
Single-player alternative to Factory Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Engineer.
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?