Factorio
Released Aug 2020
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Steam $35.00
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Evaluation
Factorio launched out of Early Access on August 14, 2020, and received its major Space Age expansion on October 21, 2024, adding four new planets, space platforms, and the free Factorio 2.0 update. Following the expansion, the developer published a wrap-up post on November 22, 2024 discussing future plans.
The developer has remained highly active since then. On May 29, 2026, they announced they had been working on a major 2.1 update for approximately 8 months, describing it as "shaping up quite well." On June 26, 2026, they announced an experimental release of version 2.1. Weekly Friday Facts posts have continued through September 2026 — most recently on September 25, 2026 (Friday Facts #447, about a physical Factorio product) and September 18, 2026 (Friday Facts #446, covering ARM and frame-related development) — showing the team remains engaged and communicating regularly.
Additionally, in October 2025, the developer announced they are bringing Factorio and Space Age to Nintendo Switch 2, representing a new platform target still in progress.
All three DLC items are released, but the sustained development activity and the announced 2.1 update make clear that content and improvements continue to ship.
Evidence
Friday Facts #444 announces the experimental release of version 2.1.
Developer announces they have been working on a major 2.1 update for Factorio and Space Age for the last 8 months, describing it as shaping up well.
Content
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Developer
Publisher
Wube Software LTD.
Achievements
88
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op
About this game
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.
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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.
Discount Disclaimer: We don't have any plans to take part in a sale or to reduce the price for the foreseeable future.
What people say about Factorio
- No other game in the history of gaming handles the logistics side of management simulator so perfectly. - Reddit
- I see conveyor belts when I close my eyes. I may have been binging Factorio lately. - Notch, Mojang
- Factorio is a super duper awesome game where we use conveyor belts to shoot aliens. - Zisteau, Youtube
Last evaluated Oct 2, 2026
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