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 950
This game is dangerous. The expansion is coming out a week after I'm going back to Uni and I'm seriously debating which of the two things I should pour time into. 10/10, would get addicted to again.
Steam User 963
I'm genuinely scared to play this game because while i am bad i have had actual relationships end over this game. I'm sorry Catherine but the factory must grow
Steam User 238
crashland on a planet
start exploiting the natural resources
pollute the area
kill and extinct the wildlife
build a trainstation on their corpses
expand to pollute and kill on a global scale
do all this while having fun
Steam User 217
I have been counting down the days to the new Space Age DLC just so I can spend another 400 hours building up a new base from scratch on the starting planet before even considering going to the newly added planets. 10/10 game - my friends are tired of me recommending it to them so i will now recommend it to you.
Steam User 182
Factorio is the most dangerous game on Steam.
This game imprisons you in a way unlike any other. This game is so good and addictive that you can't get out, you think "just a little longer" and it's suddenly 3 AM. You get stuck and you can't get out, no matter what.
You can easily spend several hundred hours on a single save, and once you have tried everything vanilla has to offer, there are about a million fantastic mods out there.
The process is as follows:
You start losing contact to your friends, to your family, your grades plummet and you get kicked from school/university, and you are fired from your job. It is now only you, your computer, and Factorio. Then you ask yourself:
"Was it worth it?"
Yes. Yes it was.
Because the factory must grow.
Steam User 235
I love this game. I have spent the last few years trying to find another automation game that ignites the same spark in me that Factorio does. I have come close, but Factorio continues to be my favorite. You might be looking at it alongside other games with fancy ray-tracing Unreal Engine graphics and wondering why Factorio should be the game you play.
Using that fancy GPU to trace those rays is well and good. But those fancy rays are not helping your factory. They'll get in your way as you try to expand your iron processing capacity. Factorio knows what you really want to use that fancy gaming computer for... pushing more iron plates. Factorio does not need fancy rays, because it has that unfiltered, uncut automation gameplay that it inject directly into your veins. No fancy rays required.
Steam User 141
The game is top tier no critiques, just wanted to show some appreciation for how amazing the developer is.
This was an Early Access game, they spent the time to fully flesh out the base game which is now amazing and pushed it to full release. Fostered an amazing modding community with built in modding support so people could extend the game.
Now 4 years later brought on the amazing modder to build a fully fleshed out expansion which actually significantly expands the game.
No fake Factorio 2 to milk money, no dlc farming every year for money.
Even with the DLC now available you can revert to any old version of the game and still play the mods if you can't afford the update or just want to play an older version.
The crazy devs honestly built a whole game from early access with an expansion without trying to rip anyone off, just focused on making a great game.
Stand up and take a bow.