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Single-player games like uFactory

Below are 17 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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    Vena — Steam game cover

    Vena

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.

    An automation roguelike where every run fits in one sitting. Place hexagonal tiles to grow a production organism, roll dice in the shop to buy new ones, and pick perks that shape your build. Survive nine phases as the Nexus's hunger outpaces you, then break the economy and do it all differently.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ChromaFlow — Steam game cover

    ChromaFlow

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.

    Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Circuitra — Steam game cover

    Circuitra

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with uFactory.

    Circuitra is a challenging visual logic puzzle game about building increasingly complex circuit boards. Limited inputs, tight board space and changing contract constraints force you to debug and rethink your designs in order to grow your circuit-design business.

    2027SimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crave New World — Steam game cover

    Crave New World

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with uFactory.

    Crave New World is a strategy sim about building an addictive drink. Buy compounds, rebuild the formula, collect Thirst from demand, open routes country by country, and turn consumers into addicts before Heat brings the operation down.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Automate It: Factory Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Automate It: Factory Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation12.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mini Settlers — Steam game cover

    Mini Settlers

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Per Aspera — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Power to the People — Steam game cover

    Power to the People

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Opus Magnum — Steam game cover

    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!

    2017IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
  10. 10
    Space Engineers — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prison Architect — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Production Inc. — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Little Big Workshop — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Production Line : Car factory simulation — Steam game cover

    Production Line : Car factory simulation

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factory Town — Steam game cover

    Factory Town

    Single-player alternative to uFactory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Circuit City — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022StrategyCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →