Single-player games like Industrial Petting
Below are 11 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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Constructed
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
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Palworld
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Industrial Petting.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
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Time to Morp
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure 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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Faun Town
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation 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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Research Story
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
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Havendock
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
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Lightyear Frontier
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with Industrial Petting.
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
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Slime Rancher
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure 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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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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Metro Warp
Single-player alternative to Industrial Petting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy 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.