Games like Satisfactory
If Satisfactory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factorio, Rust and Green Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and immersive. 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 →Satisfactory is an open-world factory-building simulation developed by Coffee Stain Studios that released in 2024 at $39.99 USD. Players construct sprawling industrial complexes on an alien planet, managing resource chains, logistics networks, and power grids while exploring procedurally generated terrain. The game emphasizes factory automation, blueprint sharing, and cooperative play alongside solo play. Players describe the experience as both intense and contemplative, with progression feeling exponential and rewarding. The core hook centers on the satisfaction of optimizing production chains and the creative freedom in base-building that can become compulsive. Mod support and community content significantly extend replayability. The game runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 91 Metacritic score alongside a 98% positive rating from over 132,000 Steam reviews.
About Satisfactory: Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Players who liked Satisfactory also play
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Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and an intense mood with Satisfactory.
Top pick for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
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.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Second-strongest match for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Third-strongest match for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Satisfactory.
Ranked #4 for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Satisfactory.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Ranked #6 for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Satisfactory.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Ranked #7 for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Ranked #8 for Satisfactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Satisfactory.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Satisfactory
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares resource chain optimization and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and an intense mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
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.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Songs of Syx
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Travellers Rest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Satisfactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Satisfactory at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Priced ~75% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Satisfactory.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Satisfactory.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Satisfactory.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Satisfactory.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Satisfactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Satisfactory.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Satisfactory.
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 Satisfactory.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Satisfactory.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
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!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Coffee Stain Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Coffee Stain Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Goat Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Coffee Stain Studios, the studio behind Satisfactory. Shares Indie and Simulation with Satisfactory.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Sanctum 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Another title from Coffee Stain Studios, the studio behind Satisfactory. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Sanctum
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Satisfactory.
Another title from Coffee Stain Studios, the studio behind Satisfactory. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
Super Sanctum TD
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Satisfactory.
Another title from Coffee Stain Studios, the studio behind Satisfactory. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
Goat Simulator: Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Coffee Stain Studios, the studio behind Satisfactory. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Satisfactory.
Goat Simulator Remastered is the latest in goat simulation technology. Your favorite chaotic sandbox is back and more beautiful than ever, with updated graphics, every DLC, and more bugs that you can shake a goat at. WASD to rewrite history.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and an intense mood with Satisfactory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Satisfactory.
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.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Satisfactory.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Satisfactory.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Satisfactory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Satisfactory.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Frequently asked about Satisfactory
- Is Satisfactory verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Satisfactory is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Satisfactory cost?
- Satisfactory is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Satisfactory have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Satisfactory supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Satisfactory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Satisfactory are Factorio, Rust, Green Hell.
- Who developed Satisfactory?
- Satisfactory was developed by Coffee Stain Studios and published by Coffee Stain Publishing.
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