Single-player games like Automachef
Below are 15 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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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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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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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Automachef.
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
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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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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Automachef.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Big Pharma
Single-player alternative to Automachef — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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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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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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!