Games like uFactory
If uFactory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Automate It: Factory Puzzle, Mini Settlers and Per Aspera — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its developer responsiveness enhances enjoyment, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About uFactory: uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
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Automate It: Factory Puzzle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with uFactory.
Top pick for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Mini Settlers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with uFactory.
Second-strongest match for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with uFactory.
Third-strongest match for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Power to the People
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with uFactory.
Ranked #4 for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
shapez
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with uFactory.
Ranked #6 for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with uFactory.
Ranked #7 for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with uFactory.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for uFactory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with uFactory.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
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Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with uFactory.
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with uFactory.
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with uFactory.
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Production Inc.
WHY THIS
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
Production Inc. is a 2D puzzle game where you can make a production line to manufacture objects in any shape you want. You will be running a factory whilst trying not to go bankrupt. At the end of the week you will have to pay the debt.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with uFactory.
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
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.
Little Big Workshop
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with uFactory.
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with uFactory.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Production Line : Car factory simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with uFactory.
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Reviewers of uFactory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below uFactory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with uFactory.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with uFactory.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with uFactory.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with uFactory.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under uFactory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with uFactory.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 uFactory.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
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 uFactory.
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 uFactory.
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 uFactory.
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!
last seen online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
Look through someone else’s computer. Inspired by early “escape room” flash games.
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Frequently asked about uFactory
- Does uFactory run on Steam Deck?
- uFactory is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does uFactory cost?
- uFactory is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to uFactory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside uFactory are Automate It: Factory Puzzle, Mini Settlers, Per Aspera.
- Who developed uFactory?
- uFactory was developed by Lucid Silence Games.
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