Single-player games like Factory Town
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Factory Town, 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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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Kubifaktorium
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Automation Empire
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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InfraSpace
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
- 12
The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Factory Town.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
- 15
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Factory Town.
A futuresport FPS where you race around a skate park / dance club and nail each other with dodgeball trick shots. Singleplayer + Local Multiplayer + Online Multiplayer with 27 different objective-based game modes...or create your own!
- 18
Factory Town Idle
Single-player alternative to Factory Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Factory Town.
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!