Single-player games like uFactory
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to uFactory, 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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shapez
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
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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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with uFactory.
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.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Parkasaurus
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with uFactory.
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Parkitect
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
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Nebuchadnezzar
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with uFactory.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
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Big Pharma
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
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Production Inc.
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Circuit City
Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with uFactory.
A relaxing city builder set on the tiny scale of a circuit board, where your data agents and electronic components sing a unique, procedurally-generated chiptune song for you as they work.