Factorio

Addicting game where you deal with the consequences of your own actions.

Love it! Perfect for co-op with hundreds of hours of gameplay.

If you have an addictive personality you have absolutely nothing to worry about. You absolutely will not lose years of your life to this game. I swear.

I started Factorio as a mere man. A fool. A weak, pathetic human who thought "I'll just play for an hour." That was 4 days ago. My body is in ruins, my mind sharper than ever. I have eliminated all inefficient thoughts. My blood pressure fluctuates in perfect sync with my main bus throughput. The factory must grow.

"it’s just a game."

WRONG.

It is a way of life. Do you think a beaver calls dam-building a game? Do you think an ant optimizes for fun? No. It is war, it is survival. And every second wasted is a lost potential space science pack.

The police came after neighbors reported "mechanical whirring" from my apartment. I explained that my copper smelting arrays required better output. They called me "unstable." Fools. They are blind to the inefficiency all around them.

I tried to return to work. My boss asked for an urgent report. I set up an automated Excel system to generate real-time charts. He said he just needed a PDF. I informed him that the conversion was in a later stage of the production chain. My coworkers tried to make small talk at lunch. They asked about my family. I replied that family unit production was currently outside my scope. I have lost all capacity for normal human interaction.

I no longer dream of love, friends, or companionship. I dream of belts. I dream of robots. I dream of perfect, fluid efficiency.

If an Amazon logistics manager saw my factory, he would fall to his knees and weep — tears of admiration, terror, and unworthiness. His entire career, his vast warehouses, his so-called "efficiency" would seem like the crude fumblings of a caveman smashing rocks together.

Now I am an optimization algorithm wrapped in human skin. A transhumanist entity, devoid of inefficiency. My heartbeat syncs with production ticks, my thoughts run in parallel processing. Emotions? Redundant. Rest? A bottleneck. The only metric that matters is output.

The factory must grow.

Crash Land on planet. make machine to make machine to make machine to make machine to make machine. die to bug. reload save and kill bug. make more machines to defend against bug. make rocket ship and maybe fly away

Real Life slips away, grass a distant memory of another man, before there was friends and birds and air and work and things to become, before there was chaos, Now there is order, ratios, routing, busses, bottlenecks, and absolute mastery of my world. Conveyor belts swim in my dreams, inserters are my only friends, the factory must grow, for nothing beyond the factory exists any longer. 10/10 would reccomend

Highly addictive and satisfying when your factory is balanced and everything clicks. Difficulty is spot on, the creatures does not attack too much to make it annoying, but gives you a challenge and you have to improve your defences to keep up with their growth. Looks simple with 2D graphics, but it's actually the most effective interface for this type of game. And it brings back the nostalgia from the 8 bit days. Satisfactory in 3D feels very clunky after playing this.

I have played for 105 hours. I have not launched a rocket. I cannot automate things properly. I cannot figure out how to balance supply. I have very little idea what I'm doing. I restart a lot.

This game is absolutely incredible and I must keep playing more. Just IN. CRED. I. BLE.

Must. Play. More.

I have worried about losing my job, health, and connection to reality, due to this game, after playing it for 3000 hours.

I don't know if that's a reason to recommend a game, or steer everyone clear of it...

This game can seem a little daunting at first, but think of is as a free-form puzzle game. The main goal is to produce research. How you do it is largely up to how you manage resource distribution and how far ahead you can think. If you're just starting out, it's hard to know what you need, but you can always just start over with better planning, or just start a new map entirely.

The expansion is perfect as well. I was already over 300 hours deep on the base game, but each new location has new problems to solve and new tools with which to do it.

If you look online, you'll see that Factorio is very much a "solved" puzzle. You can do it too!

Great game. You just naturally flow into getting pumped about solving the next issue you see coming up. Very engaging. I pirated it and played for 100hrs with biters turned off then bought a copy. The only game I've played more in my life is valheim.

I tried to play a few times back in the day before the space dlc and it was too boring/unintuitive.

I only played the original Factorio for about 30 hours for one rocket launch, then another 30 with overhaul mods. It was fun but didn't sink its teeth into me like Satisfactory or Dyson Sphere Program did.
Then a new game with Space Age was okay for about 30 hours, then I put it way again.

I decided to try again recently with a more patient strategy, unlock and work with all mechanics in the research tree, build a bit bigger, and then the game got its teeth into me. Just rushing through factories is punishing in the mid-game as there just isn't enough automation to scale to other planets, but you also don't need to build mega-scale to reach the end-game. Just patience for things to build and comfort to iterate on your designs is key.

Right now I have just 10 hours in Factorio. My factory looks like spaghetti, my trains crash more than they move, and I’ve already lost "friends and family". But that's fine, I don't need them—I have conveyor belts. Soon these 10 hours will turn into hundreds, thousands, millions... and then I'll rewrite this review from my throne of iron and circuits. Until then, please send help (and copper plates).

Cracktorio is the most addicting game I think I've ever played, its a solid 10/10 for keeping you playing way longer then you should. Will stop you from thinking about anything but how you should optimize your factory by spending 3 hours optimizing copper production just so you can go from 2.4k copper plates a minute to 2.5k copper plates a minute, do you really need that extra little copper? I didn't, but I wanted it, something being un-optimized sends shivers down my spine. anyway, got to get back to my factory. Don't buy this game if you wanna be able to play anything else again.

Amazing graphics, already feeling pro, and adjustable starting. Best game ever.

This game just makes you want to keep iterating and improving and tweaking in the most fun way possible. Highly recommended.

Very interesting game that offers a great diversity of ways to handle problems. Many ways to optimize things. Both in method of optimization and goal of optimization (most output per material, faster output, pollution/power efficient output.)

No need to explain what the game is about, the trailer does a fantastic job for that.

There is a lot of reasons why this game is the gold standard of automation games.

First and simplest: no bugs. None that you will encounter unless you start combining mods anyway. Or doing some REALLY weird shit.

Second: Length. Going in blindly, you can fire up a rocket in about 60 hours. And call it a day if you want.
Or try to launch more rockets ? What about 10 ? What about 100 ? What about one every second while fully automated ? If you like it and want to, the game will bring you from 60 hours to 600. Oh and that's just Vanilla.

Third: Mods. The game has a mod store embedded IN THE GAME, one click from the main menu to install any mod. And those only expand the game tenfold.

Fourth: Customization. Don't want to fight ennemies triggered by pollution ? You don't have to. Don't want to spend hours setting up outposts when you run out of resources ? You don't have to (increase richness of ore patches). Don't like cliffs ? Remove them. etc...

Fifth: Community management. They are on hiatus at the moment, but Wube software published a Friday Factorio Facts every single Friday for seven years. And then would answer to the feedback on the forums or reddit. Most of the constructive feedback was adressed, and countless good suggestions were included in the game over the years.

Sixth: Limitless possibilities. If you decide to dive into circuit control, you can pretty much do whatever your minds desire in this game. Seen over the years: A pong game, a FFMPEG player, a self-expanding factory.

I'm addicted. The factory needs me. I even dream of expanding my factory. My addiction even forces me to play this game in class. Send help.

PS: It's very addictive.

From my experience, Factorio is the gift that keeps on giving. Compared to the amount you spend on the game, you can easily get that much time of fun or much much more if it is the type of game you like. While many people like to show of their complicated designs and optimized blueprints, for any new player I would recommend trying to make things yourself. The game has a difficulty curve that tries to match your level dynamically. As such, getting ahead of yourself may result in the biters demolishing you and your base because you expanded the factory more than you should have without the relevant preparations. This does not mean that you cannot use other's blueprints, or should not try to build fast, as that is what speedrunners do to great success. And watching others is fun and can teach you a lot saving a lot of grief early on.

Regarding the actual gameplay, I cannot recommend the tutorial levels enough to everyone. Even veteran players can find some fun there due to the easter eggs hidden on the map or the many challenges that can be done. As the tutorial is included in the free Factorio demo, anyone can play and see exactly what they are getting into before committing to the purchase. In Freeplay, the Factoriopedia accessed though the menu or clicking alt and left click on any item to see its details, how to make it, how to use it, and how to unlock it. The factoriopedia and the tech tree (I'd recommend only looking at the yellow unlockables initially to avoid being overwhelmed) show you how to progress if you are lost. There is always more to learn, but the game can be very forgiving and with very superficial knowledge of the mechanics you can beat the game. All the bells and whistles come later when you are ready for them. Also, the mods page is your friend, use the quality of life mods as needed for the convenience.

I cant stop. Even when my PC is off, the factory, it calls, I cant escape it. Every time I have to leave the game and return to the real world, I feel unsatisfied for the rest of my day. It never ends. It continues to expand, and my sanity, continues to decline. This game is more addictive than any substance that you can find. 10/10 would recommend.

If factorio is crack then the bugs are the feds kicking down your door, gunning down all your friends, crippling you for life, seizing all of your assets, drenching your pet in gasoline and burning everything you know and love to the ground while you have to watch

It's been a long time since I absolutely fell in love with a game. As I approach 30, I have a hard time finding a good game and sticking to it, but this, this game man. I lose track of time when I play this game, I just can't stop automating the next thing, it's like drugs? Cracktorio

I can't recommend this game enough! This game is worth every penny. If you have the time and you love programming and all things automation, this is for you!

It's a city builder, but without cities. The conveyor belts are fun to route and learn. The car steering controls are a little annoying, There are layers of complexity. Some of the recipes for automation are annoyingly complicated, but I've played for 20 hours and I haven't yet mastered many of the techniques and the technology tree makes me excited to play more.

With more than 500 hours on this game (played a lot offline), the thrill of the game is still there. The base game is a blast, the DLC is incredible, and the modding communities bring fresh air and new ways to play the game that can keep you occupied for hours ! The game could be 100€, it would still be massively worth buying ! Try the demo to see if it is your type of game, the first hours may seem difficult but once it clicks it's incredible ! (Play in peaceful mode if you want to enjoy a slow pace.)

Simple graphic, easy to run on any device. This game wins by gameplay. The richness is within the game design itself. So much fun. It feels like at work, programming.

Great game to chill and optimize to the limit and pushes you to problem solve on the difficulty with decent enemy attacks.

Literally the best game ever made, the only negative feedback people have is that it doesn't go on sale and that's only because they made a promise to their original backers - people can get tf over it tbh, that's some insane integrity.

this game does weird things to me bro... I thought I'd play it and be like "hm not for me" but omg. and if graphics are the only thing holding u back GET THE GAME ITS WORTH trust

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This game is pretty fun, I don't have too many hours in it, but I would highly recommend to anyone who is looking for a chill yet stressful experience lol

This game deserve more than 97% score. It is not just a game, it's an additive. Once you generate a new world, there're no turning back, you will play this game and losing sense of time, until you realized that time passed by really quickly. And don't be like me who tried to horde 600+ mods before playing the game, since this might take FOREVER to collect until you're satisfied. Also, if you're hesitate to buy the game because of the learning curve, don't worry, this game is worth every cent you will pay for it.

THE FACTORY MUST GROW, FOREVER

Great game, especially now with the Space Age expansion. THE FACTORY MUST EXPAND.

This game gets better the more you play it, I have only tipped my toes into mods but have seen an awesome variety. Including the wholesome and active community, I would highly recommend this game to anybody.

i dont have space exploration (yet) however, even without it the amount of content this game offers is astonishing. the game is complex however its a literal joy to just watch your factory work. this isnt including mods because factorio mods probably add 4k+ hours to the game. while it is 32euros (which in my country is a fxck ton of money) its definitely worth it.

It's a pretty good game but I can't for the life of me understand why they decided to be greedy and raise the price in adherence with inflation. I understand that it's still in active development but at this point it's grossly overpriced (I'm not even talking about the DLC because holy fuck, and ost for 7 euros each?)

Extremely well designed game. Everything has been refined, perfected, and optimized. For example, after hundreds of hours of gameplay I'm still discovering useful features (such as the ability to translate the blueprint's center with hotkeys).
Fun and rewarding and you get out of it what you put into it. You can race to the end of the game, or set yourself arbitrary goals and challenges and the game supports you (so to speak - it doesn't have many limitations). The modding support is top-notch, and there are tons of modes to add UI tweaks, difficulty changes, or drastically change the game play as you see fit.

base game was already very good but space age bring this to a whole other level

For those who like to think, optimize between defense and building.
Love the expansion with additional planets and Space Factory.
Feels complete now, with the original plot of the first game where you crash landed on a planet and you need to build yourself a rocket to get home.

Interstellar space flight be hard yo! Not just into orbit. We've been doing that since the 60's. But to actually get home, through interstellar space.

The best game I have ever played, it has given me over 500 hours of enjoyment and is a game with as much or as little stress as you have an appetite for.

The isometric view and simplified graphics compared to other games in the genre cut right to the core of the gameplay, but there's so much additional depth to learn and use. This game is amazing.

GREAT GAME!!!! if you like building and automating thing with a slight survival aspect that can suck your life away this is your game

Basic game is great and DLC Space age even exceeded my expectations! Super fun new challenges waited to be solved!

The only small thing I don't like is that there there aren't any mod categories, so even some cosmetic/accesibility mods turn off achievements :-(.

It is a true masterpiece in the genre of automation and resource management. If you enjoy the idea of building the perfect factory, optimizing production, and solving logistical challenges, this game will draw you in for dozens, if not hundreds, of hours.

Its fucking hard but its addictive like crack i only have 33hours but players with 1500 writing they dont know how that game works haha maybe i will get those house soon

Great game. Addictive and full of improvement of factory and learning.

Factorio has hijacked my brain. I cannot stop thinking about it. The factory must grow. The factory must grow. It's a game that's not for everybody, a game created with the intent to catch a certain audience. If you are that audience it is absolutely phenomenal. The problem solving, the freedom, the base building. Everything works in tandem for an absolutely beautiful experience that takes priority over all your responsibilities.

This game is mainly for people who like to build large, complex, automated systems. I thought it sounded like something I'd enjoy since I like modded Minecraft, except this game has a VERY steep learning curve.

There are 5 tutorials. The 1st one took me 5 minutes, the 2nd and 3rd took me 20 minutes, the 4th took me 3 hours, and the 5th I gave up on after 4 hours. The longer I tried to figure things out on my own, the more overwhelmed and frustrated I became, so I figured it was best to stop playing. If a dev reads this, please consider revisiting the tutorials and making them more beginner friendly.

32€ well spent. Every 1 minute in Factorio is 15 minutes in real life.
Want to expand your factory, or build a new mine, and plan for it to take 15 minutes? Once you're done with your 15 min job, 3 hours has passed in real life and it's suddenly dark outside and notice that dinner time was 2 hours ago.