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Games like Captain of Industry

2022PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive33.99 €

A factory and colony management sim where you grow a small group of survivors on an island into an industrial empire. Logistics, production chains and terrain shaping take center stage, all the way to a space program.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Tactical depth
  • Strong character progression

The closest matches for Captain of Industry are Modulus: Factory Automation, One More Island and Sweet Transit. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Captain of Industry special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Modulus: Factory Automation

89 %Match

2026PCSteam Deck playable24.50 €

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Gameplay comes before story
  • Bright, upbeat tone

A factory automation game where you design and optimize elegant production lines from modules you build yourself. Logistics puzzles and creative expression take center stage.

Flooded

Pure single-player experience

A reversed city-builder where your island keeps shrinking, forcing you to optimize production and space cleverly to escape before the water takes everything.

Sandustry

Puzzles and brain teasers

Sandustry blends mining and factory automation in a fully destructible sand-physics world. You dig deeper, build logistics chains, and uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization along the way.

Dyson Sphere Program

Puzzles and brain teasers

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Sapiens

Strong character progression

You guide a small tribe from a first-person view through millennia of progress, building settlements and industries in a living simulated world where your people work on their own.

Mashinky

Bright, upbeat tone

A train-focused transport tycoon where you plan routes, research new locomotives and grow a rail empire on procedurally generated maps. Tricky track layout and a gradual tech progression define the experience.

Train Fever

Realistic visuals

A railway business simulation starting in 1850, where you plan tracks, stations and lines and watch cities grow thanks to your transport network. The appeal lies in optimizing your network and observing the living city simulation.

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