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A tricky single-player engineering puzzle about routing colored boxes through a factory with conveyors and devices, requiring complex planning in a compact experience.

Prime Mover
A difficult open-ended circuit-board logic game with a satisfying learning curve and roughly 22–24 hours of reviewer-measured playtime.
2018-05-21
- Science fiction
- Puzzle

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

Sandbox

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Modulus: Factory Automation

A single-player factory-automation puzzle about building and optimizing space-constrained production lines on sky islands, with no time pressure but notable space pressure, spanning roughly 14 hours for most reviewers.

2026-04-02

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Freshly Frosted

A chill conveyor-belt puzzle game in an adorable donut factory that starts simple, grows complex, and takes reviewers about 9 hours.

2022-06-10

Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Arcade

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Beltmatic

A casual single-player factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations, with a typical reviewer playtime of about 9 hours.

2024-03-29

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

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Manufactoria 2022

A playful, challenging constructive puzzle game about pushing robots and engineering solutions, with a lengthy ~30-hour campaign of open-ended automation problems.

2022-08-16

Puzzle
Simulator

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Factory 95

A compact single-player factory-builder where you craft PowerPoint slides in a Windows 95 interface, balancing space and Y2K worries.

2026-04-22

Simulator

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The Cat Machine

A whimsical, compact abstract logic puzzler where you build contraptions to launch cat-trains into space and keep Earth from falling out of orbit.

2015-08-12

Puzzle
Strategy
Indie

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SpaceChem

A demanding chemistry-based puzzle game about building automated factory lines, with a programming-like logic curve and a stark space-lab setting.

2011-03-02

Science fiction
Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator

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Big Pharma

A single-player pharmaceutical management sim that turns drug production into conveyor-belt logistics puzzles, centered on the moral tension between profit and public health.

2015-08-27

Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Business

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Human Resource Machine

A deceptively difficult single-player programming puzzle game with a corporate-satirical tone, where you program little office workers through logic tasks that reward optimization.

2015-10-15

Comedy
Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Educational

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Infinifactory

A deep sandbox puzzle game about building automated factories for alien overlords and optimizing your assembly lines.

2015-06-30

First person
Science fiction
Puzzle
Indie
Simulator

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Cubetory

A compact factory-builder on a tiny island where scarce resources and messy logistics create a satisfying-but-demanding optimization puzzle.

2026-04-13

Indie
Simulator