Has anyone ever made a game like...

Papers, Please, or Cook, Serve, Delicious, but for factory work? Seems like it could work.

Really, nothing?

IDK why anyone would want such a niche thing. I have to imagine if you worked in a factory the last thing you'd want to do is simulate the experience in your free time but I also don't see why anyone would want this unless they worked in a factory, lol.

Sounds like something that exists by the thousands on the mobile market. Then again, that's probably true for most things...

I forgot what it's called, but I remember there being a game on the PSP in which a part of it is putting caps on pens in a pen factory.

There's also SpaceChem that sort of simulates chemical factories, but not really in an action-y way like Papers, Please and Cook, Serve, Delicious do.

@audiobusting: WTF: Work Time Fun

Yep, there's a factory minigame where you put caps on pens. I remember Jeff playing that at some point.

Lots of 3D games, no 2D I can think of.

Would it be as bloody as Prison Architect?

I too would like to experience a game like The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?

The fact that the pen cap minigame goes until you choose to end it makes me laugh for some reason.

This barely cuts the description, but may give you a small taste of what you crave:

I would totally play Modern Times: The Video Game.