Single-player games like Industrial Petting
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Industrial Petting, 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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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with Industrial Petting.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Assembly Planter
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
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Starground
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
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!
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MR FARMBOY
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
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The Colonists
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
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Time to Morp
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Industrial Petting.
Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!
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Astro Colony
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Industrial Petting.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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Slime Rancher
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Industrial Petting.
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
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Metro Warp
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with Industrial Petting.
Metro Warp is a 3D puzzle game about guiding oblivious pedestrians who can only turn left. Place obstacles in front of these predictable commuters, and help them find the exits in 50 mind-melting floating worlds, where up is down and down is sideways.