Factorio
Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. In the beginning you will find yourself chopping trees, mining ores and crafting mechanical arms and transport belts by hand, but in short time you can become an industrial powerhouse, with huge solar fields, oil refining and cracking, manufacture and deployment of construction and logistic robots, all for your resource needs. However this heavy exploitation of the planet's resources does not sit nicely with the locals, so you will have to be prepared to defend yourself and your machine empire. Join forces with other players in cooperative Multiplayer, create huge factories, collaborate and delegate tasks between you and your friends. Add mods to increase your enjoyment, from small tweak and helper mods to complete game overhauls, Factorio's ground-up Modding support has allowed content creators from around the world to design interesting and innovative features. While the core gameplay is in the form of the freeplay scenario, there are a range of interesting challenges in the form of Scenarios. If you don't find any maps or scenarios you enjoy, you can create your own with the in-game Map Editor, place down entities, enemies, and terrain in any way you like, and even add your own custom script to make for interesting gameplay.
Game Discussion
Steam User 631
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.
Steam User 317
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
Steam User 276
I’m actually afraid to click "Play" anymore.
You tell yourself you'll just fix one conveyor belt, then you blink, and suddenly the sun is up, the birds are chirping, and you have to drive the kids to school in 20 minutes.
This game didn't just hook me, it consumed my soul. The factory must grow, but my sleep schedule is ruined. 10/10.
Steam User 363
I'm a retired IT guy who used to do a lot of gaming. Back then the gaming platforms with some of the best games were Nintendo 64 and Windows PCs. That's all changed for the most part and I've gone many years without playing FPS or racing games so now my hand-eye coordination is pitiful. So, with the help of my 33-year-old son, I've found that my favorite kind of game(s) are simulations, almost all of which are played with a mouse. I've played a huge number of hours in Factorio and loved every minute of it. Admittedly, I quickly found that playing in "peaceful" mode was a necessity. Factorio requires quite a bit of thought particularly early on and having to constantly battle the bugs was simply too stressful and kept me from enjoying it to its fullest. I have to give big kudos to the developers for realizing that not every potential gamer has to be constantly threatened with enemies to kill in order to enjoy a game. I now have more than a thousand hours invested in it and it's never failed to keep me entertained every time I start it up. That adds up to a whole lot of fun for very, very little cost. I can easily see myself playing for a few more thousand hours. There's always something new to learn and a new factory to be built bigger and better than the last one. I have to run now. I'm building a new train system to get my materials to a new area to start the next one. I love it!
Steam User 358
Don't buy this game... No really I mean it don't buy it. drugs might seriously be an easier addiction to break. Your life is enough. You enjoy showering and friends and touching grass... ... ... Th... The... The Factory Must Expand... ... ... The Factory Must Expand... The Factory Must Expand. The Factory Must Expand. The Factory Must Expand.
Steam User 286
This game is the definition of a game made by the developers for the developers. Every tiny little issue is fixed quickly and perfectly. I am absolutely blown away by the attention to detail and quality of the game. Also, it's the absolute pinnacle of the genre, best game that I have ever devoted 11,000+ hours to. :)
Steam User 382
They should load this game on chromebooks in school and fix the youth for a brighter future