Single-player games like Automachef
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Automachef, 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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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Automachef.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Dead Sector
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Run your own data center. Design server boards component by component and use your boards space wisely. Wire power and network throughout your floor to form specialized clusters, and dispatch contracts to your custom hardware. Scale from a single rack to a massive redundant, multi-cluster operation.
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What's On The Menu?
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
In What's on the Menu?, step into the shoes of a restaurant manager. From selecting ingredients and crafting menus to hiring staff and customizing your restaurant, every decision counts. Face random events, unlock new recipes, and rise through the ranks to become the ultimate restaurateur!
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Bone's Cafe
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.
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Axon Hero
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
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Omnibullet
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
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Desynced
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Automachef.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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 Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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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Moving Out
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"! Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore.
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Overcooked
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Power to the People
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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?
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Winds Of Trade
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Automachef.
Winds Of Trade is a strategy game about running an ocean trading company in the 18th and 19th centuries. Building your trading empire will not be your only goal! Ruthless pirates, shady smugglers, wartime and fierce competitors will make the way to the top a long and hard road for you!