Factorio cover art

Factorio

2020 · Wube Software · ~60h to finish

Nothing threatens you for hours — and then the base you laid out at hour four becomes the thing you cannot fix at hour forty.

strategysimsurvivalPCNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 90
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty6.8PUNISHING

Sustained pressure. Progress is earned.

Price on Steam

$35.00

USD · United States · checked 1h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
9.0
Learning Curve
7.0
Puzzle
6.2
Obscurity
5.3
Grind
5.2
Punishment
3.2
Execution
1.0
Reaction
0.9
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Punishment drops 0.8 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Learning Curve drops 0.8 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.9 points off, if you use them.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 35% · ~15hStrategy

    the point where the factory you built stops fitting the factory you need

    4
  2. 50% · ~25hPunishment

    the first time the pollution cloud brings something back with it

    33
  3. 85% · ~45hPuzzle

    the throughput problem the endgame is actually made of

    28

Assists & accessibility

0/5 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Save anywhere [unsourced]
  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Enemies can be disabled entirely at world generation.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

VISION

  • Scalable UI & text [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

  • Replayable tutorials & glossary [unsourced]A campaign-length tutorial plus contextual tips you can re-open.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A factory-building game about landing on an alien planet and automating an entire supply chain from ore to rocket, while the pollution you produce attracts hostile wildlife.

Where to go from here

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