Factorio

I'm saying nothing that hasn't been said before - don't play the game if you love your family and friends. You will stop seeing them.

This is an amazing game and worth every cent paid for it. Constant never ending content.

I've forgotten the outside world exists. All that is and all that will be is Factorio. The factory must expand

Its very addicting and pretty complex game that starts off simple but quickly grows in depth.

400 hours at this point.
One of the best value for hours to play games.

Customization for this via settings an game types are incredible. Paired with multiplayer a space age you’re looking at 1000s of hours to even scratch the surface.

Advice for new players. Play offline at your own pace with low biter settings. Get a feel for the game a the way you want to play… after a few runs start increasing what your find enjoyable. Lastly dabble in multiplayer

Always a fun brain stimulant, trying to figure out how to make it all fit and work with what ever the world the game throws at you.

This is one of the greatest games I've ever played. The possibilities are endless and with the expansion the game feels nearly endless. It takes a lot to make me play a game above and beyond initially beating it but there is just so much here that I just cant stop. The worst thing about this game is trying to put it down. This gets a solid 11/10 stars from me.

Automation, Automation, Automation ... and bugs.

What can you say about this game that hasn't already been said. Its endless hours of fun. It has unlimited play-throughs with the support for modding.

When I first got this game close to 3 years ago it started my love for genre of game. This will be something I never stop playing and will always be a weekend time burner trying to build better and faster every time.

If you do not own this game, buy it.

Normally, when I have all a game's achievements or at least all the ones I can get on that playthrough, I stop playing. 400 hours after my last achievement, I'm still playing. I've still barely scratched the surface.

biters = bad
factory expansion = good
sleep = bad

Perhaps one of the best games I've ever played. It is unlike any other games in that it doesn't feel fun or exciting, rather it fills you with a sort of satisfaction that you'd get after completing a task or solving a problem. Truly unlimited scope.

One tip I could give any new player is to NEVER rush things. Play without enemies if you need to. For example, if you need some item X, you can easily handcraft X and get on with it. But ideally, you should anticipate requiring thousands of X and build out production lines for that. Plan everything well in advance so the one thing you might need now can actually be mass produced.

If you write code, a lot of the same design principles apply here

https://www.codingblocks.net/programming/coding-lessons-from-factorio/

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the bug race.

Getting into factorio wasn't super easy, but now I am kinda addicted. There is always more to do, and always more time to spend on it.

The only other game that has ever gripped me this much was Transport Tycoon Deluxe. There's always something to do, or something that needs to be done better, or a new idea I want to try. And I can play it with friends, or with a podcast in the background. Be careful though, this game seems to steal hours/days/weeks away from me each time I fire it up. Not that I would want to spend them any other way. :D

I don't think I've ever actually finished a game before, but starting a new game and building everything again is so much fun I don't really care. Tons of entertainment value for the price. If you're the resource management and settlement building type then you would love this.

Started automating iron. Woke up 12 hours later in a spaghetti nightmare with trust issues and 10,000 conveyor belts.

Factorio is the ultimate factory-building addiction. It’s got co-op chaos, endless creativity, and just enough complexity to make new players question their intelligence—right before they fall in love forever.

✔️ Build, optimize, tear it down, rebuild it better
✔️ Co-op is pure joy (and occasional sabotage)
✔️ There’s always a better way—and it will haunt you
❌ Warning: First factory will look like a toddler made it with crayons and dreams

It’s never finished. It’s never perfect. But somehow, that’s the beauty of it. 1000+ hours later and still thinking, “What if I just redesigned the entire base again?”

Factorio is not merely a game, it's a testament to righteous engineering. You are cast down like Adam into a polluted Eden, a crash-landed soul with nothing but iron ore and the burning desire to automate. You mine. You smelt. You build. You make conveyor belts sing like choirs of angels — transporting iron plates like offerings upon an altar.

Every machine is a verse in the gospel of production. You see, the game is about creating an exponentially growing factory that produces more things to build more machines to produce more things. It’s the Divine Recursion — like the Holy Trinity of assemblers, inserters, and belts. You automate everything, until your base is a symphony of logic and movement.

"God said: Let there be inserters. And there were inserters. And they placed the copper cable with righteous speed."

Great game, very fun with a lot of different ways to play.

enjoyable and addictive game. start small until you automate it all

So this guy i worked with got me to try THE demo, and it was addictive. Your FACTORY starts small and its a lot of running around gathering to get your automation going. So about 10 hours into the demo, I decided to buy the full game. Now 30 hrs into the full game and I realized that purchasing was a MUST. There's not too many games out there that have pulled me in quite like this one. I find my mind deep diving into future planning so much so that I sometimes forget where I'm actually at, progress wise in-game. You'll constantly be looking for opportunities to GROW.

This game does not go on sale.
Buy it anyway. It's the single most well-polished game I've ever played.
If you like it, the 2024 Space Age DLC is more of the same, but different.

Said DLC came with a free update for the base game which gave hundreds of QOL features and performance upgrades to all owners of the game for free. These devs are the best in the industry, and I will follow them wherever they go next.

What a game! Im on tutorial level 5, and its taken me a few hours to get this far. Very complicated game, but fun! And not in a grind-y sorta way. I sit down to play, and 3 hours have passed...

Buy it!

I wanted a mindless factory game... This isn't it, but it's still fantastic and very fun to play

Incredible game. There is a good reason this game is often called Cracktorio. Between mod support, an expansive DLC that eclipses the base game Factorio has dominated several years of my life. Not a year goes by that I don't build a new factory. I'm over 4600 hours and I expect a couple thousand more. While there are many other factory games Factorio is the most pure and has set the bar. It's genre defining.

For those unfortunate enough to be inclined, Factorio is the hardest drug ever created.

It is the godfather of all automation games. There are many imitators, but Factorio reigns supreme.

It is a simple game. Mine resources, turn those into little vials of science that unlock more and better things. But soon, you realize that in order to progress...

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

Great game, allows for a significant degree of creativity. Like a 2D minecraft that's heavy on automation and production rather than exploration.

At the time of writing this review I have almost 1500 hours logged. I played vanilla back in the day, I played space exploration to the point of madness, and now I'm playing space age with childish wonder. I love the game.

What sets this review apart is that I run a controls department with over 40 technicians & engineers. I personally have bought the game for every employee because I believe it is a better training model for DDC/PLC programming than what we can develop. This game is something truly special, merging fun with learning. If you haven't, give it a real try. You'll find that it becomes a new game when you get bots, and you may find that trains are a game within the game. Don't think you ever have this one figured out, it is only limited by your imagination.

This game makes me want to commit acts that may be perceived as violent,(in a video game) and also try and end world hunger, simertanerously.

The belts whisper to me their secrets and i understand little of what they say

I purchased this game 34 hours ago
I have spent those hours optimize my supply chain
I have become one with the supply chain
Soon my body will be reduced to its raw materials and those materials will be used to fuel expansion

(buy this game)

No game has done to me what this game did.

The sessions turned from hours to days, with breaks for (some) sleep and necessary nutrients. Except for the basic life necessities, every minute I could spare I spent in the factory. You forget you're hungry, need sleep, you just want to optimize this one more small thing > and one more bigger thing after the small thing is now working better > and then that ties into a whole new system that now allows you to... You can see where this is going.

Factorio is one of the biggest achievements in the history of video games. Mind blowing mechanics paired with exceptional music and endless small visual details.

To say that this game is a work of art and a product of love from its developers, would be a severe understatement.

Yes, i hope it takes more time of my life away.
Be aware, your friends will start asking you if you are fine, you will start to "automatize" and make your day-to-day more efficient, and then you will understand that the actual factory that grew is the brain inside you.

Started building a factory, accidentally created a spaghetti monster made of conveyor belts and regret. My friends asked where I’ve been—I told them I am the factory now.

this game feels like having a full-time software engineering job. but the job contributes nothing to society and doesn't pay anything. and you are constantly doing hits of crack cocaine.

I highly recommend this game if you have at least a few mental disorders

one word crack this game is addicting so many factories so many mobs and me a small man with a gun and fish i always win

This game is crack. Ive gotten 4 friends to play this, and its bad for us

Just buy it and play it. Nothing more to say. Its FANTASTIC!

You either play the tutorial and never touch it again or you play it until you can't

The Factory must grow.

The Factory must expand to meet the expanding needs of the Factory.

Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate.

Video Game Hall of Famer!

This game forces you to think outside the box, and I enjoy that. Would definitely recommend.

A fantastic game with such a reasonable price point. Wube has shown they care deeply about their game - going above and beyond with bug fixing and enhancements over the years. The Space Age DLC was essentially an entire new game on top of the existing Factorio that really elevated the same mechanics while simultaneously adding multiple different planets with their own production chains and challenges. 100% would recommend to anyone interested in games of this genre, try out the demo!

this game will consume you. it overcomes my basic biological needs such as eating ans bathroom usage.

I want Factorio's (Tm) as a delicious and healthy lunchtime cereal. Because Breakfast cereals are overrated.

Probably one of the greatest games in the automation genre ever. If i had to make one complaint it would be the steep price tag for it at least in my opinion, but given there is no in game purchases its definitely worth it.

10/10

I love how we just crash into a random alien species's home planet and, like the entitled humans we are, we drain it of its ressources, burn everything, ruin the air with pollution and commit mass genocide because the aliens dare to attack us bc of our pollution.

11/10, love this game :)

Everywhere I go,
Everyone must know,
The factory must grow.

The belts of ore coil and slither,
Production lines fill full and saturate,
And the starter mines begin to sputter and dither,
This lovely game never ceases to captivate.

Setting out to claim more ore I must,
The native wildlife protests with an angry gnash,
But little did they know, my blueprints are quite robust,
As Artillery shells fly overhead,
Their aim marks true as the Biters' nest is mash!

A satisfying clatter of components fuse together,
To assemble the final product of this wondrous game,
A deafening roar of fire as the skies part for this newest endeavor,
New lands and worlds to explore and conquer-
Challenges of plenty and threats a-many- Though the truth will always be the same;

Everywhere I go,
Everyone must know,
The factory must grow.

Great game.

I'm currently having fun with Space Age for the first time and the only thing I'd change is the fact there are no indicators outside of the UI to know which planet our platform is orbiting.

Adding the planet on the background could be a cool thing !
Since every planet as such a cool different vibe, might as well show it in space too ! :D

Factorio Review: The Game That Turns You Into an Engineer Without Realizing It
Rating: 9/10

If most games teach you how to win, Factorio teaches you how to think.

At first glance, it’s a game about building factories and fending off alien bugs. But underneath the pixelated chaos lies one of the most powerful learning experiences gaming has ever offered — one that mirrors the thinking patterns of engineers, process analysts, and systems designers.

What You Actually Learn Playing Factorio
Systems Thinking: You’ll quickly start viewing everything as interconnected — inputs, outputs, bottlenecks. You become a living flowchart.

Optimization: There’s an obsessive pleasure in reducing transport time, maximizing throughput, and shaving seconds off your production cycles.

Problem Solving: You’ll debug your base like a programmer — tracing issues to root causes and redesigning loops to eliminate inefficiencies.

Automation & Logic: With circuit networks and logic gates, Factorio sneakily teaches you programming fundamentals.

Strategic Planning: You don’t just build for today — you build for the future. Every base layout becomes a forecast model.

Resilience: The moment you think everything's perfect, aliens invade or power collapses — forcing you to adapt, rebuild, and improve.

What It Doesn’t Teach
It’s not a storytelling game. It doesn’t teach empathy, dialogue, or creative improvisation like some RPGs or simulation games. If you’re looking for a deeply emotional or narrative-driven experience — this isn’t it.

How It Compares
More educational than Minecraft, Civ, or LoL — Factorio’s lessons transfer to real-world domains like supply chain management, software architecture, or even business process redesign.

Slightly less technical than Kerbal Space Program (which is actual rocket science), but far more accessible.

More practical than Dwarf Fortress — though the complexity feels equally vast.

Final Verdict
Factorio isn’t just a game. It’s a mindset training simulator.
Whether you're a curious gamer, an aspiring engineer, or someone who just likes making things run smoother — this game will change the way you see systems, workflows, and even the real world.

9/10 – Play Factorio and you’ll come out smarter than you went in.

The game, can be confusing at first so take your time with it. So far its been a blast. I wish there was a multi player element to it though.