Single-player games like FOUNDRY
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to FOUNDRY, 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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Techtonica
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Orebound
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
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Alchemy Factory
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FOUNDRY.
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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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to FOUNDRY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.