Games like FOUNDRY
If FOUNDRY is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factorio, Satisfactory and Orebound — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its logistical challenges, smooth optimization with mods and total world customization. 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 →FOUNDRY is a 3D factory automation strategy game set in an infinite procedurally generated voxel world. Released in 2024 by Channel 3 Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive, it challenges players to build and optimize robot factories while managing complex production systems and researching technologies across a galactic economy. The game combines resource gathering, factory automation, and open-world building mechanics. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with reviewers highlighting intricate logistical challenges and a deep systems-management loop. Mod support enables smooth optimization and total world customization, keeping gameplay fresh across the massive environment. The game is playable on Steam Deck, available in Early Access at $20.99, and holds an 82% positive rating from over 1,800 Steam reviews.
About FOUNDRY: Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Players who liked FOUNDRY also play
Steam players who put hours into FOUNDRY 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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Top pick for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Second-strongest match for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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!
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation with FOUNDRY.
Third-strongest match for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with FOUNDRY.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Icaria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Ranked #4 for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with FOUNDRY.
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation, procedural generation and an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Ranked #5 for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Techtonica
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Ranked #6 for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Starground
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and procedural generation with FOUNDRY.
Ranked #7 for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for FOUNDRY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Reviewers of FOUNDRY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FOUNDRY cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FOUNDRY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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.
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Reviewers of FOUNDRY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FOUNDRY.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Overwatch®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FOUNDRY cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FOUNDRY at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under FOUNDRY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FOUNDRY.
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 ~52% under FOUNDRY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with FOUNDRY.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under FOUNDRY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FOUNDRY.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under FOUNDRY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FOUNDRY.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under FOUNDRY on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with FOUNDRY.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under FOUNDRY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FOUNDRY.
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?
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 FOUNDRY.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with FOUNDRY.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FOUNDRY.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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 FOUNDRY.
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 FOUNDRY.
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 FOUNDRY.
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 FOUNDRY.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and an immersive mood with FOUNDRY.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Frequently asked about FOUNDRY
- Does FOUNDRY run on Steam Deck?
- FOUNDRY 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 FOUNDRY cost?
- FOUNDRY is listed on Steam at 20.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does FOUNDRY have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — FOUNDRY supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to FOUNDRY?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FOUNDRY are Factorio, Satisfactory, Orebound.
- Who developed FOUNDRY?
- FOUNDRY was developed by Channel 3 Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive.
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