Games like Factory Town
If Factory Town is your kind of game, the closest matches are Captain of Industry, Kubifaktorium and RAILGRADE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its colorful and fun aesthetic, flexible logistics systems and verticality in factory design. 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 →Factory Town is a solo strategy and simulation game developed by Erik Asmussen, released in 2021 at $19.99. The core experience centers on building automation systems across 3D terrain, with players constructing manufacturing chains, managing resources, and designing logistics networks that can extend vertically. Players describe the aesthetic as colorful and fun, while reviewers highlight the flexible logistics systems and the creative possibilities that verticality offers in factory design. The game is verified on Steam Deck and presents a chill, long-form experience suited to extended play sessions. Currently holding a 91% positive rating from 2390 Steam reviews.
About Factory Town: Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Players who liked Factory Town also play
Steam players who put hours into Factory Town 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.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Top pick for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Kubifaktorium
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Second-strongest match for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Third-strongest match for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factory Town.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
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!
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
shapez 2 - Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Ranked #7 for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Ranked #8 for Factory Town fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Factory Town
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Factory Town.
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factory Town.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Factory Town.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Factory Town.
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Factory Town cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Factory Town at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Factory Town on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Town.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Factory Town on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Factory Town.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Factory Town on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Town.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Factory Town on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Factory Town.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Factory Town on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Factory Town.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Factory Town on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Factory Town.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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 Factory Town.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Town.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Town.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factory Town.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factory Town.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Factory Town.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Factory Town.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factory Town.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Frequently asked about Factory Town
- Is Factory Town verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Factory Town 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 Factory Town cost?
- Factory Town is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Factory Town?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Factory Town are Captain of Industry, Kubifaktorium, RAILGRADE.
- Who developed Factory Town?
- Factory Town was developed by Erik Asmussen.
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